I have to admit I’m not really that into gadgets. I hate my iPhone and could care less about the iPad (I do love my iPod, however – gotta have music for the treadmill). Hooking up computer equipment and making things work has never been something I cared to learn. But for all my dispassion [...]
Lawmaker working to patch hole in “1 percent for art” statute
Strengthening public art’s wings By Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic THE DENVER POST - Posted: 01/31/2010 01:00:00 AM MST The budget was set, the artist chosen and renderings completed. But Donald Lipski’s planned $540,000 sculpture was nowhere to be seen when the $120 million Auraria Science Building addition opened earlier this month. The [...]
PERA reform bill passes first test at capitol
1/29/2010 By Marianne Goodland THE COLORADO STATESMANThe Senate Finance Committee Tuesday voted 6-2 to approve Senate Bill 1, the reform plan for the Public Employees’ Retirement Association. The vote came at the end of a five-and-a-half hour hearing that included testimony from dozens of PERA members, both retirees and current state and school employees.
A Very Full Week
Here’s a post that doesn’t parse through policy issues or seek to educate about the decisions I’m asked to make each day. Instead, I thought I’d just give a quick run-down of what the week has been like. With no holiday this week, it’s been four days of steady work at the Capitol, and numerous important [...]
Ending the Sales Tax Exemption for Candy and Soda
On Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, a dozen new bills were introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives to suspend or eliminate various tax credits and exemptions. These bills implement Gov. Ritter’s proposal to balance the state budget in part by increasing tax revenues. We’re going to be making plenty of cuts, some of them drastic, [...]
