Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Legislators take it slow on marijuana spending

DENVER – Legislators proceeded cautiously Tuesday when deciding how to spend marijuana tax money, the state’s biggest and most volatile new source of revenue. Gov. John Hickenlooper has asked for...

DATE: April 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Partisans gather Saturday to choose candidates

DENVER – Democrats and Republicans gather Saturday to choose their top candidates for the November election. For Democrats, the state assembly in Denver will be a coronation of incumbent Sen. Mark...

DATE: April 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Internet bills sail through House

DENVER – Bills to boost rural broadband and rewrite Colorado’s telecommunications laws sailed through the House on Wednesday after four years of failed efforts. The bills would rewrite Colorado’s...

DATE: April 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Legislature makes its move on developing a water plan

DENVER – No one is trying to keep it a secret, but legislators are worried that few people have heard of the Colorado Water Plan. Gov. John Hickenlooper has directed his administration to prepare...

DATE: April 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senators boost Fort Lewis, firefighting fleet

DENVER – Senate Republicans gave an extra boost to Fort Lewis College on Thursday, amending the state budget to speed up funding the college needs to rebuild its science and engineering building....

DATE: April 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Eminent domain for pipelines is killed

DENVER – A bill allowing companies to use eminent domain for oil pipelines died Wednesday after sponsors heard an outcry from industry opponents. Until recent weeks, most opponents of the bill were...

DATE: April 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bill would allow Legislature staff to testify via video link

DENVER - Colorado became a state in 1876, the same year the telephone was invented. But 138 years later, the only way citizens can testify to their Legislature is in person, at the state Capitol in...

DATE: April 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Deal clears way for FLC projects

DENVER - State representatives struck a deal last week that should give Fort Lewis and other colleges money they expected for construction projects by September. For the Durango college, it means...

DATE: April 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - Education

Deal clears way for construction at FLC

DENVER – State representatives struck a deal last week that should give Fort Lewis and other colleges money they expected for construction projects by September. For the Durango college, it means...

DATE: March 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education

Wolf Creek decision delayed

Forest Service officials are delaying a decision on a land swap for the Village at Wolf Creek. Dan Dallas, supervisor of Rio Grande National Forest, said he needs to see additional analysis on the...

DATE: March 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business

Colorado’s childhood poverty rate climbing

DENVER – More Colorado children are living in poverty today than during the worst years of the Great Recession. That’s the finding of the annual Kids Count report, which revealed Monday that...

DATE: March 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senator sets sights on firefighting planes

CENTENNIAL – Wayne Coulson’s C-130 used to fly with Air Force One, dragging a communication cable through the ocean so the president could to nuclear submarines. On Wednesday, it lined up next to a...

DATE: March 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

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