Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Hickenlooper calls for cuts

DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper turned in his first budget to the Legislature on Tuesday, calling for further cuts to education and another suspension of tax breaks for senior citizens.K-12 schools...

DATE: Nov. 3, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

State sends Prop. 103 down in flames

DENVER — Proposition 103, a state senator’s improbable campaign to convince voters to raise taxes for education, failed Tuesday night by nearly a 2-to-1 margin.Backers conceded defeat an hour after...

DATE: Nov. 2, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Judge will draw political lines

DENVER — A two-week-long legal chess match over Colorado’s congressional districts came down to one move Monday.A Denver judge will draw seven new districts for Colorado, and closing arguments...

DATE: Nov. 1, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Prop 103 fight heads to vote

DENVER — Supporters of a proposed tax increase for schools made a last-minute show of unity Thursday, five days before voting closes on Proposition 103.State Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, touted...

DATE: Oct. 29, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Plan splits Cortez, Durango

DENVER — Keep Telluride and give us Cortez, several Southwest Colorado residents told the state Supreme Court on Monday.A group of 150 residents and the Western Slope lobbying group Club 20 filed a...

DATE: Oct. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

EPA chief eyes coal plants

DENVER — Regulators will continue to push for clean-ups at coal power plants in the Four Corners despite a rough economy, the Obama administration’s top environmental official said Monday.Lisa...

DATE: Oct. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Obama pitches student loan relief program in Denver

DENVER — President Barack Obama returned to Colorado for the second time in a month Wednesday to unveil a student loan relief program.It was Obama’s second visit to a Denver school since late...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Trial draws lines for politics

DENVER — As a two-week trial to draw Colorado’s new Congressional districts drew near to a close Friday, a Democratic political operator pulled back the curtain on the partisan calculations behind...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Watts pleads guilty to assault

DENVER — A Towaoc man pleaded guilty Friday to assault in a case where prosecutors say one of the victims was a witness in a murder case.Benny Pargin Watts, 24, faces a likely sentence of 21 months...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Judge buries uranium

DENVER — A federal judge has overturned all the uranium mining leases the federal government issued in Southwest Colorado.The decision throws out 31 leases to six companies, including the firm that...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Gov. ends Homeland Security

DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper has disbanded the state Office of Homeland Security after years of troubles with keeping track of grant money.In a Wednesday executive order, Hickenlooper reassigned...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

Prop 103 nudges governor

DENVER — Proposition 103, the proposed sales and income tax increase for schools, has put a pair of Democrats in an awkward position.Gov. John Hickenlooper and congressional candidate Sal Pace have...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Local News

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