2016 general election
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Letter: Amendment 69 is an opportunity for change
Editor: I support ColoradoCare, or Amendment 69, because it will provide access to affordable, quality health care for all Coloradans. This matters to the families of Coloradans who die each year because they don’t have health insurance; to those declaring bankruptcy because they can’t pay medical bills; to those who pay ever higher premiums for…
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? McMullin taking page from past no-chance candidates
Spurred on by a lack of conservative presidential candidates in this year’s election, Evan McMullin decided to run as an independent to try to prevent either major party candidate from winning, and to help a “new conservative movement” take hold in the country. McMullin and his vice-presidential running mate, Mindy Finn, brought that message to…
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? Enviros to Clinton: Hickenlooper unfit for interior secretary
Eleven environmental groups are out to get Gov. John Hickenlooper, or at least to keep him from getting a hypothetical high-level cabinet position in a Hillary Clinton White House. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper‘s actions regarding oil and natural gas development make him unfit to serve as interior secretary, said environmental groups opposing his possible appointment to…
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Duplicate ballots mailed to Jeffco home
On the heels of reports of dead voters being sent ballots for years in Colorado comes a case of two ballots sent to the same person for the Nov. 8 general election. As reported by KDVR Fox 31, Jessica Olson of Evergreen said her 21-year-old daughter, Makinzy, received two mail-in ballots from the Jefferson County…
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With email dumps, WikiLeaks tests power of full transparency
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders? “Consider what would happen,” Assange wrote in 2006, if one of America’s two major parties had their emails, faxes, campaign briefings, internal polls and donor data all exposed to public scrutiny. “They would immediately…
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Colorado ‘never-Trump’ conservatives rally for Evan McMullin
Exchanges started predictably with, “who is Evan McMullin?” Saturday afternoon on Denver’s 16th Street as supporters of the independent candidate for president tried to rally excitement and educate voters on a campaign that’s a mere two months old – an infancy in the life of a presidential campaign. Serving as a primer to an in-person visit…
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? Mitchell follows grandpa’s path to oversight office
Edward Mitchell came from a poor Irish Catholic family in New York in the 1940s and did not get a high school degree, so his career choices were limited. That meant becoming either a firefighter, entering the priesthood or becoming a police officer. He chose the later and was a role model for Nick Mitchell,…