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Impasse Delays State Budget

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The powerful Joint Budget Committee met in an undisclosed location yesterday to hammer out an agreement as legislative leaders have reached an impasse on budget negotiations. Now the Democratic Senate president is threatening to introduce a separate budget.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-961535.mp3KUNC'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.
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