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Lawmakers on the joint budget committee have reached a gridlock and on writing the budget for next fiscal year. This has forced the Colorado senate to delay the budget debate by a week.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-959680.mp3KUNC’s Bente Birkeland takes a look at what’s happening behind the scenes as part of our weekly capitol conversation series.

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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