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Legislative Session Half Over, Budget Work Now a Top Priority

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Lawmakers are midway through the state’s legislative session and depending on who you ask, it’s either been a bi-partisan session, or partisan.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-957311.mp3Regardless of the viewpoint both sides say it will take focus and compromise to fill a 1 billion dollar shortfall and balance the budget over the next 60 days. 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.