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Joe Hanel
Position: Staff reporter
Phone Number: (303), 839-1765

Pot tax won’t boost state’s general fund

DENVER — Coloradans ingest an estimated 70 tons of marijuana a year. How much they smoke or eat now that it’s legal will depend, in part, on how much it’s taxed. State ...

County clerks, secretary of state face off on election changes

DENVER – La Plata’s county clerk returned to the state Capitol this week to testify in favor of changing the way Colorado conducts its elections. On Saturday, a group with Republi...

Election measure moves forward

DENVER - Democrats advanced an election bill Monday night that would replace neighborhood polling places with mail ballots. La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican,...

Senate sends Medicaid bill to House

DENVER – The state senate voted Monday to expand government health insurance for the poor, a key part of the federal health care law known as Obamacare. Under Senate Bill 200, adu...

Dems push renewable power over Republican opposition

DENVER – Democrats pushed a renewable energy bill through the Senate on Monday night despite Republican arguments it would cost rural consumers too much money. Senate Bill 252 req...

House passes session’s final two gun bills

DENVER – Colorado’s long legislative gunfight ended Monday, when the House of Representatives approved the last two in the Democrats’ package of gun bills. The bills passed quietl...

Wildfire plane plan crashes

Senate won’t fund<br/>air tanker fleet

McLachlan, Coram vote across respective party lines

DENVER – State representatives passed an overhaul of Colorado’s elections law Friday that will make voting by mail the standard way elections are run. The House also passed bills ...

Sponsors water down mental-health gun bill

DENVER – Legislators at last began moving on the final piece of their gun violence agenda Tuesday with the first of two bills addressing people with dangerous mental problems. Spo...

Election-reform bill advances to full House

DENVER – Democrats advanced an election bill Monday night that would replace neighborhood polling places with mail ballots. La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican,...

State senate sends Medicaid expansion bill to House

DENVER – The state senate voted Monday to expand government health insurance for the poor, a key part of the federal health care law known as Obamacare. Under Senate Bill 200, adu...

Law requires officers to train for dog encounters

DENVER – Brittany Moore’s German Shepherd, Ava, was standing in the driveway with a rawhide bone in her mouth when a police officer’s bullet pierced the dog’s back. The Erie polic...