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Capitol Conversation

KUNC | By Bente Birkeland

Published February 11, 2011 at 11:50 AM MST

Several high profile bills have died with barely a whimper at the state legislature. Sponsors are pulling controversial measures before they even get a hearing.

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KUNC’s State Capitol reporter Bente Birkeland takes a look at what’s behind this as part of our capitol conversation series.

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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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