Author: Adam McCoy
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Colorado senators support extending nation’s main conservation program
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There’s bipartisan support for a bill that would permanently reinstitute a longstanding conservation measure, protecting the nation’s parks and wildlife refuges from development. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are co-sponsors of a piece of legislation introduced earlier this month by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) that would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water…
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Sean Spicer ‘needs to go’ says Rep. Mike Coffman at town hall
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Showing no partisan love for embattled White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told the sometimes angry, confrontational audience in his first Trump-era town hall meeting Wednesday night that Spicer should step down. “He needs to go,” Coffman said of Spicer. The comment arrived like a crescendo in the nearly two-hour long town…
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Paramedic state senator may succeed this year with in-home care bill
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First responders could start providing in-home medical care, closing a health care access gap in Colorado’s underserved communities and addressing an antiquated emergency care system, under a proposed measure moving through the state Legislature. Senate Bill 69, which just passed the state Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support Monday, would establish a Community Paramedic Program, training…
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Athanasopoulos GOP’s clear choice to unseat Perlmutter
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Colorado Republicans are banking on a political newcomer this fall to steal a long-held Democratic congressional seat. Landing a decisive victory Thursday night during a district assembly in Arvada, party delegates nominated former Army officer George Athanasopoulos as their candidate to challenge four-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter for Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Athanasopoulos ran…
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Williams campaigning on her record, aims to win Senate District 33 seat
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In its history, the Colorado General Assembly has had an intimate number of black women serve in its chambers. Rep. Angela Williams, D-Denver, is one of them, and a sense of reverent accomplishment shows through when the Denver legislator tells her story. Williams is proud to be included among this small, accomplished list of historic minority…
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Pot industry group blazing new trail for Colorado marijuana businesses
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Activist versus Entrepreneur: The activist has harped on the social aspects of recreational marijuana since its legalization in the state, while the entrepreneur in the burgeoning Colorado cannabis market has effectively remained mute. This has, in effect, allowed fear to fuel unfair market regulations. This, according to members of the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce,…
