Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Facing an expected $1 billion shortfall in next year's budget, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is proposing a 4.6 percent cut in education spending and charging sales tax on items including candy and soda and online purchases.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is asking state legislators for a 6 percent increase in transportation funding, one of the few bright spots in next year's budget plan.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter ordered state employees to take four more unpaid furlough days in an effort to save money.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
DENVER — Colorado authorities said they inadvertently released a sex offender from prison under a moneysaving early release initiative, prompting Republican lawmakers on Thursday to urge the state's Democratic governor to suspend the program. Gov. Bill Ritter, a former Denver district attorney, has said that no sex offenders, kidnappers or killers would be released under the program, which officials...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says his state's efforts to build a new energy economy can provide a model for addressing climate change and other challenges facing the country and world.
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
As expected by many lawyers, including me, President Obama has nominated Stephanie Villafuerte , a former AUSA, former Denver Chief Deputy D.A. and current Deputy Chief of Staff to Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, to be the U.S. Attorney for Colorado. I expect her to be confirmed easily and a popular choice. (Her focus as a state prosecutor was on domestic violence and child abuse.) Some background...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
DENVER -- Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says western states must work together on water issues if the region is to continue to grow.
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
DENVER (AP) - Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter says western states must work together on water issues if the region is to continue to grow.
Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Colorado's state budget is on track to be another $240 million short this fiscal year, according to legislative forecasts, which will force Governor Bill Ritter and the Colorado General Assembly's Joint Budget Committee to propose more cuts to the state budget on top of the most recent round of budget cuts. The Governor's office's latest forecast, in contrast, shows the state coming out $233 million...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
This is pretty remarkable : President Obama and his political team is worried that Mr. Paterson cannot recover from his dismal political standing, and have signaled to him he should not run, two senior administration officials and a New York Democratic operative with direct knowledge of the situation said Saturday. The move represents an extraordinary intervention into a state political race by the...
Think Outside the Cage (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Daily CameraThe governor was a longtime prosecutor, so we don`t believe his critics that he`s a soft-on-crime leader willing to trade public safety for a few million bucks. And Gov. Bill Ritter`s plan to cut about $19 million in costs -- to help chip away at a $320 budget shortfall -- by releasing certain prisoners early didn`t sound like a bad idea at first. Only prisoners who were six months
Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Governor Ritter's plans to balance the state budget solely through cuts to services is starting to draw some heat. There is a steady drumbeat of protest coming out of Grand Junction where the Regional Center which serves the developmentally disabled will be completely shuttered. The public heat has risen to the point that the governor's office has been offering assurances that the closing will not...
Wash Park Prophet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Colorado grocery store workers at King Soopers and Safeway represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 have received a final, best offer from their employers , that union officials claim differs little from an offer that the rank and file rejected with more than 90% voting against it. Grocery workers in Colorado have gone on strike (painfully for them, management and the community) in...
Total DUI (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
In a surprising move, Colorado’s Governor Bill Ritter plans to divert more than $1.3 million intended to fight drunken driving to help fill the state’s budget gap estimated at $318 million. A recent Denver Post article stated that the $1.3 million, which is raised by a surcharge imposed on everyone convicted of a DUI offense in [...]
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
? CO-Sen : The Denver Post does some interesting digging into how former House speaker Andrew Romanoff wound up in the Senate Democratic primary against Michael Bennet after all. Governor Bill Ritter tried to give the Lt. Gov. spot to Romanoff after Barbara O'Brien left the position in January, but the deal collapsed, leaving Romanoff to decide on the primary instead this summer. ? IL-Sen : Chicago's...
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