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Capitol Conversation: Next Year's Budget a Big Hit at the Statehouse

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Next year's proposed state budget cleared the Colorado House with near unanimous support. The Senate is schedule to take up the budget bill this week. KUNC’s Bente Birkeland speaks with fellow statehouse reporters as part of our capitol conversation series about why this budget is so well-liked, and what makes it unusual.

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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