As vacation season nears, the shuffle of Colorado Politics never stops. This past week political races for next year continued to take shape, and President Trump’s plans for the nation continued to raise cheers and jeers.

These are the stories our staff thinks will continue to make news in the weeks and months ahead, so catch up while you can:

5. Tax chief Barbara Bohl is heading off on an adventure

Colorado is losing its Department of Revenue chief in August, ahead of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s departure after 2018. What’s next for Barbara Bohl and why she chose to leave. (The answers were vague.)

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4. Look up to find Fowler and Boskoff

Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet with U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton of Cortez are asking Congress to name two peaks near Telluride after legendary local climbers Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff, who were killed climbing together in Tibet in 2006.

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3. Tillemann offers shakeup for CD6 primary to face Coffman

A scion to one of the best-known families in Colorado politics, Levi Tillemann, could make it very interesting in the Democratic primary dogfight to run against the seemingly unbeatable U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman next year.

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2. Leave our canyon be, Mr. President

Colorado’s congressional leaders sent a letter to President Trump telling him to leave be the Canyons of the Ancients near Cortez as his administration reviews the worthiness of large national monuments designated since 1996.

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1. And Moreno makes 3

State Sen. Dominick Moreno became the third Democratic state legislator to jump in the race to fill the seat in the 7th Congressional District next year with Sen. Andy Kerr and Rep. Brittany Pettersen. Incumbent Ed Perlmutter is running for governor, instead. A fourth lawmaker thought to be considering the race, Rep. Jessie Danielson, prefers her politics local. She said she’ll run for state Senate instead.

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