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Capitol Conversation: Budget Compromise Winners and Losers

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Legislative leaders from both parties and Governor John Hickenlooper have reached what’s been called an historic agreement on how to balance the state’s budget. All sides say they had to make some sacrifices.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-962330.mp3KUNC’s Bente Birkeland takes a look behind the scenes as part of capitol conversation.

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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