Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Senate passes in-state tuition bill

DENVER - A proposal to let illegal immigrant students pay in-state tuition at Colorado colleges got its first-ever Republican votes in the state Senate on Friday after a decade of failures for the...

DATE: Feb. 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: State Nation World

House OKs sex-ed bill

DENVER - Sex-education programs in schools would include information geared to gay and lesbian youths, sex-assault victims and the disabled under a bill that won preliminary approval in the House...

DATE: Feb. 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

House passes 4 gun-control bills

DENVER - The Colorado House passed four gun-control bills Monday after a debate that has drawn attention from the White House.Vice President Joe Biden called four Colorado House Democrats,...

DATE: Feb. 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hick defends gulp of frack fluid

DENVER - Gov. John Hickenlooper said media outlets took him out of context when he told a U.S. Senate committee this week that he drank hydraulic fracturing fluid.The comments struck a nerve with...

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

Democrats move on gun bills

DENVER - Democrats moved to ban concealed weapons from most areas of college campuses Wednesday as they marched ahead with their gun control bills.House Bill 1226 passed the House Education...

DATE: Feb. 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

First test for gun bills

DENVER - Democrats will see the first test of their gun-control bills today and later this week.The House Judiciary Committee will hear bills this morning to prohibit the sale of ammunition...

DATE: Feb. 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

First test for gun bills

DENVER - Democrats will see the first test of their gun-control bills today and later this week.The House Judiciary Committee will hear bills this morning to prohibit the sale of ammunition...

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

Democrats' sex ed bill advances

DENVER - Many Colorado students would get a revamp sex education program under a bill that House Democrats advanced Thursday.Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, said that with 15 Colorado teenagers...

DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Roberts helps pass civil union bill

DENVER - Thoughts of loves, loss and faith hung over the Colorado Senate on Friday when the chamber approved civil unions for gays and lesbians.Sen. Ellen Roberts of Durango was the only one of 15...

DATE: Feb. 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

2nd GOP gun idea shot down

DENVER - For the second time this week, Senate Democrats killed a Republican bill that attempted to increase the use of concealed weapons as a solution to gun violence.This time, the casualty was...

DATE: Feb. 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Decade of drought?

DENVER - Put on your hoop skirts and tune in Elvis on the transistor radio, because it's starting to look a lot like the 1950s.Unfortunately, this won't be the nostalgic 1950s of big cars and pop...

DATE: Feb. 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Democrats roll out gun control bills

DENVER - Democrats unveiled a package of eight gun control bills Tuesday, including background checks for private sales and liability for assault weapon manufacturers.The proposal sets the stage...

DATE: Feb. 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

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