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Hickenlooper Reflects on Special Session, Civil Unions

Courtesy of the office of Gov. John Hickenlooper

More than two weeks has passed since Governor John Hickenlooper called a special legislative session on the issue of civil unions.

Now that the dust has settled, KUNC’s state capitol reporter Bente Birkeland sat down with the Governor to look back at how the civil unions bill was handled, and whether he regrets his unusual decision to call a special session.

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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