Author: Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Colorado Politics Calendar July 27-Aug. 2
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Armstrong staffer considers congressional bid, DeGette angers rural communities with wilderness act | A LOOK BACK
Forty-five years ago this week: If the lines were drawn just right, Republican Sen. Bill Armstrong stood the chance of losing his office manager, Ruth Fountain. Fountain admitted she was seriously thinking about running for Colorado’s new congressional seat in the next year. Fountain had worked on Armstrong’s Colorado House campaign, served as deputy campaign…
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Big GOP names address rumors they want to challenge Gov. Lamm | A LOOK BACK
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: With few Republican candidates announced for the gubernatorial race, the political rumor mill was in full force. Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Phil Winn, a former Colorado Republican Party chairman, felt compelled to announce that he had no plans to return to Colorado to run against…
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Lamm explains to Coloradans they already had enough tax relief; RMGO defies Owens and Tancredo | A LOOK BACK
Forty-five years ago this week: “Voting against tax relief is politically sensitive,” wrote Gov. Dick Lamm in a column in The Colorado Statesman. “But my conscience and my responsibility for Colorado’s fiscal health required a veto.” Lamm decided to personally author the opinion editorial as a way to explain to Coloradans why he felt the…
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Colorado Politics Calendar July 13-19
CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Colorado Politics Calendar July 6-12
CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Democratic Colorado rural congressman threatens to caucus with GOP to preserve PILT | A LOOK BACK
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “It’s sometimes like talking to a brick wall,” said Colorado Congressional District 3 U.S. Rep. Ray Kogovsek. Kogovsek was frustrated at the lack of support from congressional representatives from the East Coast and the Midwest for funding the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Program (PILT), which was authored by former…
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Gov. Polis asks residents not to use fireworks as wildfires burn
While Gov. Jared Polis said he will not issue a statewide fire ban, Colorado’s top political leader urged residents against using fireworks as the country heads into the July 4 weekend. “We are encouraging the people of Colorado to exercise personal responsibility and not do anything that could cause fires — from off-roading to shooting…
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3 firefighters who died fighting Snyder Mesa fire identified; one once worked as a snowmaker in Vail
Federal authorities on Monday identified the three firefighters who died responding to the Knowles Fire at the Colorado-Utah border, one of whom once worked for a resort in Vail. Across Colorado, several fires are burning, with zero containment in what had been a frantic and deadly start to the state’s wildfire season. The U.S. Department…
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Colorado Politics Calendar June 29-July 5
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…