Author: Allison Sylte, 9News
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Gun store owner denies offering range passes to get signatures on Polis recall petition (VIDEO)
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The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is reviewing a number of complaints it received after a Facebook post circulated that some thought implied a Douglas County firearms store was offering two free passes to its gun range in exchange for signatures on a petition to recall Gov. Jared Polis. Josh Barton, the co-owner of Douglas…
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Pride flag flown from the Colorado Capitol for the first time
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DENVER – For the first time, a Pride flag will be flown outside the Colorado Capitol – across the street from the park where thousands of people will celebrate the LGBTQ community this weekend. The Pride flag is being flown under the administration of Jared Polis, Colorado’s first openly gay governor. It was hoisted above…
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Coors Field: A home-opener look back at how the ballpark transformed Denver (VIDEO)
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Back in the late 1980s, the area around Coors Field was known as Denver’s “skid row.” That changed thanks to an ambitious city planner in 1994. Back then, the Denver skyline was much smaller. But it’s the land around Coors Field and just north of downtown that tells the story of how the Rockies helped…
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In 1987, 2 Coloradans ran for president. Here’s what happened.
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While two Colorado Democrats — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and former Gov. John Hickenlooper — are both in Iowa meeting with voters, neither has formally said he’s entering the 2020 presidential race. That’s even though (let’s be real) folks usually don’t drive around this very important early caucus state in the dead of winter just…
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WATCH: Campaign to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in Denver says it has enough signatures to make the ballot
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The campaign to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms in Denver said Monday it has more than enough signatures to make the May municipal ballot. Kevin Matthews, the campaign director for Denver for Psilocybin, said the group has gathered more than 8,000 signatures, and planned to turn them in later Monday. The elections office has 25 days to…
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Lockheed Martin to add 550 missile jobs in Jeffco
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Jefferson County officials say Lockheed Martin Space is bringing 550 jobs to the area by relocating portions of its production for the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile program to Colorado. Lockheed Martin Space is the aerospace and defense giant’s space division. The project will be based at its headquarters in unincorporated Jefferson County near Waterton Canyon,…
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AG candidate Brauchler hit by car while riding bike
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George Brauchler, the current 18th Judicial District attorney and a hopeful for Colorado attorney general, is nursing a broken pinkie after he was hit by a car while riding his bike Tuesday morning. “At the end of the day, I’m just lucky that the injuries that I have aren’t worse,” he said. Brauchler said the…
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Denver Post staffers protest hedge-fund owner
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Denver Post employees from more than just the newsroom walked out of the newspaper’s Adams County headquarters Tuesday in protest of their hedge-fund owners. The daily newspaper’s workers say New York-based Alden Global Capital has made unprecedented cuts and censored their efforts to expose what they’ve referred to as the firm’s “vulture capitalist” practices that…
