Author: Special to Colorado Politics
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Measure to bring ranked-choice voting to Colorado has election officials worried about cost
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Proposition 131, a Colorado ballot measure which seeks to radically transform the way voters cast their ballots, looks to carry a hefty price tag if approved by voters on Tuesday. According to the Colorado Blue Book, state spending will increase by $100,000 in the first year of implementation, and by $6 million annually in subsequent…
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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 | Legislature works to define contraband, eliminate loopholes
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Forty Years Ago This Week: Rep. Jerry Kopel, D-Denver, and the Statutory Revision Committee were in the process of addressing what items were to be considered contraband to smuggle into a state penitentiary. While it was a crime to smuggle contraband into the penitentiary, not everything that could be smuggled in would be considered contraband.…
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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 | Coors Brewery future questioned during years-long strike
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Forty Years Ago This Week: A four-year AFL-CIO directed strike against Coors Brewery that had resulted in stagnant sales led Bill Coors to write in a company-wide publication, “Due to organized labor, a number of beer consumers dislike us enough to discontinue buying our beer.” Colorado labor leaders had called for the strike after being…
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A LOOK BACK | DNC launches new tech programs, seeking to beat GOP at own game
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Forty Years Ago This Week: After one too many election cycles of losing to the better prepared, better organized Republican Party, Democratic Party leaders said they were beginning to hone in on improved campaign methodology, consisting in part of direct mail fundraising, campaign schools and candidate recruitment. The newest program, said Ann Lewis, political director…
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Jury trials in Denver on hold until 2021 due to coronavirus concerns
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Jury trials in Denver have been put on hold until early January, following a spike in coronavirus cases and a return for the city to Safer at Home level 3. On Friday, 2nd Judicial District Chief Judge Michael Martinez put a hold on juror summonses for trials until Jan. 4, 2021. “The decision to suspend…
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Boulder County issues order closing civil courts to address case backlog
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There’s such an enormous backlog of criminal trials in Colorado because of pandemic delays, civil trials in some jurisdictions will go dark until next summer as judges and attorneys scramble to keep up. The coronavirus surge has changed so quickly, a Boulder County District judge recently wrote one order to postpone all civil trials in…
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VOICES OF THE VOTERS: THE SHIFTING SUBURBS | Democrats, unaffiliateds on the rise in counties ringing Denver
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Editor’s Note: This story is part of an occasional series to capture views among Coloradans. When Democrat Dani Newsum moved with her family from Denver’s Park Hill to what is now Centennial in 1994, she found herself living in a part of Arapahoe County that was represented in Congress by a Republican and would be…
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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…
