Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Mesa Verde remains shuttered

DENVER - Cash registers are ringing again at Grand Canyon National Park. The sound of bugling elk is competing against the clicking of tourists' camera shutters at Rocky Mountain National Park. And...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

A huge change in school funding

The billion-dollar question for Colorado voters this fall is Amendment 66, an income-tax increase for schools. The estimated $1 billion yearly increase would be the largest tax hike the state’s...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Craft brew’s allure grows

DENVER — Here’s something to chew on with your breakfast beer: When the Great American Beer Festival got its start in Denver in 1982, there were fewer craft breweries at the festival than there are...

DATE: Oct. 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

Group wants sales-tax increase for highways

DENVER – A group of civic leaders that wants a 2014 sales-tax increase for highways and transit presented the idea to the Legislature on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The meeting made clear that there’s plenty...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tipton: There must be concessions

DENVER – U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton maintained Wednesday, Oct. 9, that Democrats will have to offer concessions on the national health-care law in order for the government to reopen. He also said...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senate Democrats elect Carroll as new president

DENVER – A diminished caucus of Senate Democrats elected Aurora Sen. Morgan Carroll as the chamber’s new president Wednesday, Oct. 9. The promotion was necessary after former Senate President John...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

A fee for wildfire-prone forest homes?

DENVER — People who live in wildfire-prone areas should be charged a fee to help pay for fire safety projects, a group advising Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday, Sept. 30. The recommendation is...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Money is scarce on both sides of pot tax campaign

DENVER – Marijuana businesses pledged to lawmakers this year that they would be there to support a tax initiative in order to fund enough inspectors and regulators to keep the pot industry clean....

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tax campaign keeps low profile

DENVER – The biggest campaign you’ve never heard of is about to make itself known. The Yes on 66 campaign will ask voters in November to raise their own income taxes in order to pay for reforms and...

DATE: Oct. 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Fee for fire-prone forest homes?

DENVER - People who live in wildfire-prone areas should be charged a fee to help pay for fire safety projects, a group advising Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday, Sept. 30. The recommendation is...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Insurance exchange launches today in Colo.

DENVER – It’s Oct. 1, and Obamacare has arrived. For the majority of Coloradans, today brings no changes. But for uninsured people and small-business owners, it’s a the first day they can shop for...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colo. lawmakers take aim at ski water plan Forest Service wants to tie permitting with water rights

DENVER – A U.S. Forest Service bid to control water rights at ski areas remains a sore point with Colorado lawmakers in both Denver and Washington. A senior official from the Forest Service told...

DATE: Sept. 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

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