Author: David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics
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CD3 PRIMARY PREVIEW | Health care shapes up as top issue in CD3 primary race
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With some of the highest health care and health-insurance costs in the state, Colorado’s massive 3rd Congressional District could be won or lost in the bitter debate over which candidate has the best health plan for emerging from the COVID-19 crisis. Incumbent five-term U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, a Cortez Republican, faces a surprisingly spirited primary…
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Colorado’s top public health official isolated since husband’s positive test
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EDWARDS – Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Colorado’s top public health official, has been isolated with her family at her home in the COVID-19 hot spot of Eagle County since March 13, after her husband tested positive for the virus. Ryan says her own COVID-19 test was negative. Ryan, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Public…
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Infected with COVID-19 himself, Vail mayor mourns loss of ski town’s first death
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VAIL – Vail Mayor Dave Chapin has revealed that he has contracted the COVID-19 virus and is in isolation to prevent further spread in his hard-hit ski town. On Saturday morning, the disease claimed its first Eagle County victim – longtime après-ski musician and Realtor Rod Powell. Powell, 64, has underlying health conditions and had been on a…
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COVER STORY | Is the Polis energy plan do-able?
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Both as a candidate and as Colorado’s new governor, Jared Polis pushed the goal of producing 100 percent of Colorado’s power from renewable sources by 2040. That commitment, he said in his State of the State address Jan. 10, “is not just about climate change. It’s about saving money for consumers with cheaper energy, and…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | High health insurance prices mean ill winds in Colorado’s high country
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Nov. 1. EAGLE — This is the time of year that businesswoman Janet Jordan dreads: Open enrollment on the individual and small-group health-insurance markets and the inevitably of rising prices on Colorado’s…
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Xcel aims to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2050
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Xcel Energy’s Comanche coal-fired power plant, just southeast of Pueblo, has been a source of costly problems for the utility and its customers. The Pueblo Chieftain/file Xcel Energy officials in Denver on Tuesday unveiled what the eight-state electric utility is calling “the most ambitious [carbon reduction plans] announced to date within the electric power industry.”…
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COVER STORY | High health insurance prices mean ill winds in Colorado’s high country
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EAGLE — This is the time of year that businesswoman Janet Jordan dreads: Open enrollment on the individual and small-group health-insurance markets and the inevitably of rising prices on Colorado’s Obamacare insurance exchange. “Every year when I go through this, I have employees expressing anger and upset and spouses expressing anger and upset,” Jordan said.…
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COVER STORY | Energy debate heats up the Colorado election
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As Coloradans fill out their ballots, choosing their next governor and sorting through a stack of measures, one issue stands tall among many: Energy. Will Colorado continue its robust development of its bountiful oil and gas resources, or pull the plug near homes and schools? Will the state set ambitious goals to swerve to wind…
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Zero emission vehicles in Colorado: Debate revs up auto industry, enviros
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Colorado air-quality regulators have launched a rulemaking process that could make Colorado the 11th state in the nation to adopt California’s standard for zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) mandating the sale of electric vehicles. But auto manufacturers say Colorado is already on track without the costly new standard and should keep doing things “the Colorado way.”…
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Colo. left out of Justice Dept. meeting on social-media political bias
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Colorado so far does not have a seat at the table for a politically-fraught Sept. 25 meeting between U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a bipartisan group of 24 state attorneys general to discuss consumer-protection and antitrust complaints against social media companies. Sessions first invited just Republican attorneys general to the meeting, which will include…
