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After Delay, State Lawmakers Reach Budget Deal

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House and Senate leaders have reached a deal on a roughly 7 billion dollar budget after weeks of tense negotiations that practically ground the state capitol to a halt.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-961783.mp3Senate Democrats were fed up with the talks and had threatened to break protocol and introduce a separate budget this week. But both sides eventually agreed to a compromise.KUNC's State Capitol reporter Bente Birkeland has more.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.