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HUD chief Ben Carson tours Aurora complex, touts partnerships to ease housing crisis

Jul 31, 2018

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Ernest Luning

After meeting with an older couple who sang the praises of their new, affordable rental unit, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson surveyed the view from the fourth-floor deck of the Aurora apartment complex – Pikes Peak barely visible through a slight haze that clung to the foothills – and then paused for…
HUD Secretary Ben Carson plans visit to Aurora affordable housing complex

Jul 28, 2018

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is scheduled to tour an affordable housing site in Aurora Monday afternoon with U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and the city’s new mayor, Bob LeGare. The officials plan to visit the $53 million Village at Westerly Creek complex on East Kentucky Avenue and talk about Aurora’s Opportunity…
Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election (March 4)

Mar 4, 2018

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Ernest Luning

STRIKE UP THE BAND … It is, after all, March Fourth. The celebration started a few days early in Colorado, when John Philip Sousa IV, the grandson of the composer and marching band icon, was on hand to endorse a pair of longshot Republican candidates – Greg Lopez, the former Parker mayor running for governor,…
HUD’s Ben Carson drops in on Colorado’s homeless coalition

Oct 25, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

We took note the other day of U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson’s two-day stopover in Denver this week to address a meeting of mortgage bankers and, per the protocols of his job, to tour publicly assisted housing in the area. Included was a visit to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless,…
Republican George Brauchler wins Western Conservative Summit’s Colorado gubernatorial straw poll

Jul 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyJ5CRU8U4 Republican George Brauchler won the Western Conservative Summit’s straw poll for next year’s gubernatorial election in Colorado with nearly twice the vote of his nearest competitor, organizers announced Sunday. Brauchler, the 18th Judicial District attorney, led the vote with 39 percent of the vote in the highly unscientific poll. Entrepreneur and former state lawmaker…
‘The face of the Trump campaign in Colorado’: Weston Imer talks about life as one of the president’s most visible supporters

Jul 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

When people think of the Trump campaign in Colorado, they might think of Weston Imer. And he has this on good authority. “Eric Trump told me that I am the kid of the Trump campaign, I am the face of the Trump campaign in Colorado,” the 13-year-old Imer told Colorado Politics. “And they wanted me…
Western Conservative Summit draw stars, but none from the White House

Jul 18, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

They’ve all been to the Western Conservative Summit before: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, to name a few of the Trump administration in Denver. But this year one of the nation’s largest gathering of conservative advocates and experts, held annually in Denver, has only President Trump’s lawyer…
#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action

Jun 8, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
Jensen: In defense of Ben Carson’s appointment to HUD

Dec 12, 2016

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Rick Jensen

How do we know Dr. Ben Carson is unqualified to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Because House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said so, calling him “disturbingly unqualified.” “There is no evidence that Dr. Carson brings the necessary credentials to hold a position with such immense responsibilities and impact on families and communities across…
Colorado Democrats criticize Trump adviser appointments

Dec 5, 2016

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Tom Ramstack

Colorado’s Democratic Party delegation to Congress is joining critics of President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for his top advisers and Cabinet members. “So far, the news and rumors have been disquieting – especially for people across the country who have been engaged in promoting civil rights, a cleaner environment, sustainable energy and better health care,” Rep. Diana…