andrew romanoff
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Democrats celebrate Colorado as ‘pocket of sanity’ amid national election results
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Colorado Democrats celebrated sweeping wins across the state on Tuesday night at a hotel in downtown Denver, but the election-night watch party felt more like a wake as the national map on large-screen televisions slowly turned more and more red, depicting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton carried the state’s…
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Coffman, Carroll spar over debate schedule
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A dispute about debates between Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and his challenger, state Sen. Morgan Carroll, ramped up this week as both sides charged the other with ducking confrontations, all while framing the controversy in what has become familiar invective in the hotly contested 6th Congressional District race. As things stand, the two candidates…
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Noonan: Gender and age shifts in voter registration likely to affect tight races
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Colorado’s middle-aged citizens, the 41-60 cohort, decreased by almost 46,500 active voters from 2012 to 2016. Republicans lost 26,166 in that group and Democrats lost 20,280. Where did they go? Many moved to the 61-70 cohort. Democrats gained 31,000 active older voters, roughly 10,000 more than they lost in the 41-60 crowd. Republicans grew by…
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Romanoff: Coloradans weigh in on barriers to mental health care
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More than one million Coloradans experience a mental health or substance-use disorder each year. Only 40 percent receive treatment. What stops so many Coloradans from getting the mental health care they need? And what can we do about it? Mental Health Colorado – the state’s leading advocate for the prevention and treatment of mental illness…
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YESTERYEAR: Andrews rips Dems, ‘shadow senator’ for playing coyote to roadrunner Owens
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, excoriated Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, for “doom[ing] compromise on the year’s toughest issue” in the just-concluded special session on growth with his “belligerent, partisan and profane” words. In a stinging guest commentary, Andrews criticized the Democrats at the…
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Romanoff: Colorado could be national leader in mental health
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When you’re raised by a social worker and a prosecutor, you hear a lot about mental health. My mother spent her first year in graduate school performing social work at a state mental institution. Her father, a psychiatrist, conducted evaluations at the same facility. But eventually that hospital, like many others around the country, was…
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Coffman outraises Carroll in 4th Quarter, sits on $1 million
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, came out slightly ahead of his challenger, state Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, in fourth quarter fundraising but has more than twice as much cash in the bank, according to documents the two 6th Congressional District campaigns will file with the FEC. Coffman raised $313,219 for the quarter and…