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AP to journalists: Don’t base political stories just on polls
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NEW YORK – The Associated Press has updated its guidelines in the wake of the 2016 election to tell its journalists not to use public opinion polls as the sole subject in a political campaign story. The news organization said Tuesday that it is including a chapter on polls in its influential Stylebook for the…
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Colorado’s Independence Institute isn’t shy about its NRA tie
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Denver Public Schools may have decided to trade weapons for plowshares – it announced last week it would turn down National Rifle Association grants for assorted school programs in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school massacre – but the Second Amendment-friendly, Denver-based Independence Institute is sticking to its guns. As the Associated Press reported over the…
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Forest Service releases draft of plan to manage Colorado’s Hanging Lake
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS – The U.S. Forest Service has released a tentative plan to manage crowds at the popular and overused Hanging Lake Trail area in Glenwood Canyon. The Post Independent reported Tuesday that the plan is still subject to a formal objection process. It comes after an environmental assessment last year concluded that a management plan limiting…
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Transportation worker hit by vehicle in southwest Colorado dies
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PAGOSA SPRINGS – A Colorado Department of Transportation worker who was hit by a vehicle while he was fixing potholes on a highway in the southwestern part of the state has died. Nolan Olson was hit on U.S. Highway 160 in Pagosa Springs on Feb. 2 and died at a suburban Denver hospital Sunday. The…
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Doug Lamborn: Republican tax legislation ‘puts a stake through the heart of Obamacare’
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn cheered word Friday that congressional Republicans had secured enough votes to pass a massive overhaul of the nation’s tax laws that President Donald Trump has said he hopes to sign before the end of the year but that Democrats say favors corporations and the wealthy without much helping everyone else. “The…
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Rep. Lori Saine spends night in jail, could face more time over gun at the airport
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Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine’s passion for gun rights and how a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol in carry-on bag at Denver’s airport could land her behind bars – again. Denver police spokesman Gregory Zimmerman said Wednesday the Weld County Republican “knowingly brought the handgun to the checkpoint.” Knowingly? Police aren’t elaborating. Saine spent the night…
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Colorado’s Rep. Doug Lamborn tweets blistering criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs tweeted a scathing criticism Wednesday of the president’s remarks about the weekend’s racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia – the Republican congressman’s strongest statement yet on the topic. “The KKK, Neo-Nazis, and White Supremacists and Nationalists are abhorrent,” Lamborn posted to Facebook and Twitter. “Statements that provide even…
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Despite Supreme Court ruling, only one Colorado juvenile has been freed
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In light of Supreme Court decisions banning life without parole for juvenile offenders, dozens of Colorado prisoners who committed crimes as minors could be eligible for release, but only one has been freed. It’s been more than a year since the U.S. Supreme Court made retroactive its 2012 ban on such sentences. Many states are…
