Author: By Rachael Wright
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A LOOK BACK | Hefley decries Clean Air Act mandates on west
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Forty Years Ago This Week: State Sen. Joel Hefley, R-Colorado Springs, told The Colorado Statesman that new federally mandated regulations under the Clean Air Act were completely unnecessary and pointless for coal production in the west. “Mandated scrubbers of power plants in Colorado Springs are useless,” said Hefley. “Western coal, which the power plants burn…
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A LOOK BACK | GOP sues in partisan redistricting process
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Republican voters who had filed suit in Federal District Court to have congressional redistricting settled by Nov. 10 were seeking “expedited consideration” for their suit, said Ted Halaby, attorney for the Colorado GOP. Halaby said that at least 60 days were needed for “pre-clearance of any plan by the U.S.…
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A LOOK BACK | Hart vs. Buchanan election rhetoric intensifies
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: Just when no one thought the two candidates for U.S. Senate had anything in common, Democratic U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and his Republican challenger, Mary Estill Buchanan, both bemoaned the same state of…
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A LOOK BACK | Gerald Ford stumps for Colorado GOP candidates
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: Former U.S. President Gerald Ford deigned to congratulate Mary Estill Buchanan after she upended the campaign of his close personal friend Bo Callaway in a tough primary race for the Republican Senate nomination.…
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A LOOK BACK | Vietnam War becomes center of personal US Senate campaign attacks
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: Throughout the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Vietnam veteran and Veterans Administration lawyer Dean Phillips had been quite vocal in his criticisms of his opponent Sam Zakhem. The continual chiding so infuriated Zakhem…
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A LOOK BACK | Primaries should be rescheduled, says former guv hopeful
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago This Week: “It’s outrageous and disheartening,” said former City of Lakewood Mayor James “Jim” Richey in an interview with The Colorado Statesman. With the Republican U.S. Senate primary dragging on between Mary Estill Buchanan, Bo…
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A LOOK BACK | GOP guv candidate Andrews calls for pardon in booby-trap slaying
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A weekly dive into the pages of Colorado Politics’ predecessor, The Colorado Statesman, which started in 1898: Forty Years Ago: It turned to be more than just a case of election time gossip that disappointment was rife among the ranks of Polly Baca-Barragan’s congressional campaign staffers. “I’ve got bills to pay,” explained Baca-Barragan’s former press…
