Partisan Spending Rift Divides Colorado Lawmakers, Governor

DENVER (AP) – With Colorado’s legislative session due to start next week, the main agenda item for Gov. John Hickenlooper seems dead on arrival, a sign that the state’s partisan divides and unorthodox spending limits will continue to paralyze it in 2016.
Partisan sniping over Hickenlooper’s proposal to shuffle money around in the state budget to avoid having to refund it to taxpayers is setting the stage for a long standoff over balancing the books. And it underscores how