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ICYMI: Buckle up time again, Denver overuses software and pays more, Aurora open records dispute
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? Heads up, Pueblo County drivers. Or better yet, buckle up, and anyone in a truck statewide might want to heed that advice, as the Colorado State Patrol and Department of Transportation began one of those “Click It Or Ticket” enforcement campaigns. As the Gazette reported, drivers in Pueblo County had the highest non-compliance rate…
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Top Colorado National Guard officer Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards to retire
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Maj. Gen. H. Michael Edwards, Colorado’s adjutant general, will step down on March 31 upon reaching mandatory retirement age, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Thursday, Edwards has commanded the Colorado National Guard since 2007 and also serves on the governor’s cabinet as executive director of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. “For the last 43 years, our…
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El Paso County’s Jeff Hays to launch bid for state Republican chairman
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El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays likes to talk football and politics, but chances are that even the most detailed political discussion will soon start sounding like football. “Everything in my life is a football analogy,” he said with a chuckle in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman, and he wasn’t kidding.…
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PHOTOS: Obama touches down in Colorado for last Air Force commencement address
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President Barack Obama touched down in Colorado to give his final commencement speech to U.S. Air Force Academy graduates as commander in chief. The graduates are coming of age at a time of fresh global threats that seem to be pulling the United States back into conflicts with uncertain ends. When he came into office…
