Author: Lisa Walton
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The Greeley Tribune: Oil and gas industry reps need to work on being better neighbors
We would like to see a little more self-awareness among oil and gas operators. The fact it’s not there is perhaps our only explanation for the industry’s attitude for pushing back on pipeline regulations. That attitude, in fact, is what worries us the most. At a recent meeting with Weld County commissioners, local landowners accused…
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Panelists differ on tax plan’s winners and losers at Colorado Springs forum
The day after House Republicans unveiled their plan for overhauling taxes, four panelists debated what it would do – and what it wouldn’t – at the Pikes Peak Center’s Studio Bee in Colorado Springs. The public forum, sponsored by The Gazette, Colorado Politics and AARP, featured Tatiana Bailey, the director of the University of Colorado…
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In ‘Me Too’ post, Colorado Senate candidate says opponent tried to get her to quit the race
A Colorado Senate candidate, a human-trafficking survivor, says a former acquaintance and her Democratic opponent tried to shame her out of the race. In a Facebook post last week, Rebecca Cranston, a candidate for Senate District 15 in Larimer County, went public with her story, after her primary opponent, Ralph Trenary, forwarded an e-mail he had received…
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The Coloradoan: A cautious yes on Fort Collins broadband
We encourage Fort Collins voters to approve Ballot Question 2B and allow the city to establish its own fiber optic gigabit internet service. Not because municipal broadband would fill a major gap in broadband access. Opponents estimate 98 percent of city residents have some sort of broadband access, cellphones included. Not because the city has…
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Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod featured in Marie Claire’s "Power Issue"
Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod is one of dozens of women featured in Marie Claire magazine’s November 2017 “Power Issue.” In the monthly fashion magazine, Herod, 35, talks about maintaining a work-life balance and doing what she loves. Herod, the state’s first openly gay African-American woman to serve in the legislature, took to social media this…
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Colorado early childhood educators say they need respect, assistance
Preschoolers at Young Scholars Academy weren’t sure who Reggie Bicha was, but they figured out one thing: he’s a good reader. “That’s a funny book,” squealed a 4-year-old in the advanced pre-kindergarten program. Bicha, executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services, high-fived the 20 students who had listened, answered questions and giggled along…
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The Aurora Sentinel: YES WE CAN — nothing is more American than stemming our gun-violence scourge
Despite what lobbyists for gun rights and the gun industry profess, the United States can reduce gun violence of all kinds. There would be no greater tribute to those killed and maimed in Las Vegas, Aurora, Orlando, Sandy Hook Elementary School and across the country every day than to finally act as a nation to…
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The Colorado Springs Gazette: Dear Christian baker, let’s celebrate Satan
Put Satan on a birthday cake. Do it now. Add an upside-down cross. Confrontational cake requests could improve our understanding of civil liberties, as defined by the U.S. Constitution. Consider the case of Jack Phillips, a well-known cake artist and founder of Masterpiece Cake Shop in Lakewood. Phillips declined to design a cake celebrating a…
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Children and pregnant women will suffer if Congress fails to act on CHIP
Colorado’s U.S. senators joined on as co-sponsors to a bill that would set aside more than $15 billion a year to resume funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Sens. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, and Cory Gardner, a Republican, are a bipartisan example for their colleagues. The New York Times reported that two states…
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GOP TABOR bullies not only scuttle tax fix, they jeopardize entire state
Obstructionist Republican lawmakers playing partisan brinkmanship at the state Capitol this week kicked political sand into the faces of everyone who lives in the metro area. Gov. John Hickenlooper called the Legislature back for an extraordinary session this week to fix an embarrassing and critical mistake written inadvertently into a state spending bill earlier this…