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Governor Hickenlooper Weighs in on Budget

KUNC | By Bente Birkeland
Published April 13, 2012 at 7:25 AM MDT
Gov. John Hickenlooper
State of Colorado
Gov. John Hickenlooper

As the proposed $19-billion state budget for next year moves through the legislature, KUNC’s State Capitol Reporter Bente Birkeland speaks with Governor John Hickenlooper about the plan and some of the other bills still alive at the capitol.
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Politics John HickenlooperColorado LegislatureColorado BudgetMorning Edition
Bente Birkeland
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.
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