Here are a few of the more creative proposals coming down the
pike during this General Assembly session.  Let the games begin 
To be sure, the next few months will be filled with heady
discussions of transportation and health care and higher
education and how to fix Colorado's constitution so it doesn't
resemble a pile of garbage heaped into the kitchen sink.  But
before all that, let's get to a few of the more creative
proposals coming down the pike during this year's General
Assembly session, which started this week.  Possibly topping the
list of downright novel notions (at least so far) this year is
one sure to make the state Republican Party almost happy that
Rep. Debbie Stafford went turncoat on them. Stafford, a three-
term Republican representative from Aurora, announced last
summer that the GOP had treated her so poorly that she was
becoming a Democrat.  This year, Stafford reportedly plans to
bring forth a proposal that her colleagues have already
nicknamed the "Arm the Bears" bill.  Essentially, the