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Colorado’s crowded gubernatorial primary fields take shape as race looms for open seat | TRAIL MIX
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A few months after celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial next summer, voters will elect the state’s 44th governor in the first open race for the seat since term-limited Democrat Jared Polis was elected eight years earlier. At last count, four Democrats and a jaw-dropping 15 Republicans had filed paperwork to run for the post, though the number…
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Q&A with Monica Márquez | Colorado’s new chief justice outlines judicial initiatives, path to top job
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In late 2020, the seven justices of the Colorado Supreme Court decided on a new method of selecting the judicial branch’s top officer: The chief justice role would rotate among the members every three years. The court announced Justice Brian D. Boatright would be the first chief under the new system, with Justice Monica M.…
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Why grand jury probes – such as Denver’s LoDo shooting investigation – are highly unusual
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Highly rare in Colorado, Tuesday’s decision by Denver District Attorney Beth McCann marks only the third time in three decades that a Denver grand jury investigation into an officer-involved shooting has been convened. Denver’s two previous grand jury investigations, one in 1992 and the other in 2004, involved single officers who each shot and killed…
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Q&A with Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg | At the end of 16 years of public service
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State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, is the only one of 100 lawmakers in the 2022 session who has served for a full 16 years: four consecutive two-year terms in the House followed by two consecutive four-year terms in the Senate. First elected in 2006 to the House and in 2014 to the Senate, his district…
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Chasing progress: Colorado Hispanic high school graduation rate shows marked upswing
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When Rosa Beltran was going through high school in the late 1990s in a small town in southern Colorado, she never expected to graduate. “My parents were very concerned about just working and trying to put food on the table. I don’t think I ever had that support from the school, either,” Beltran said about…
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El Paso County judge set to retire, leaving open seat on bench
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The search is on to fill the seat of an El Paso County judge set to retire, the Fourth Judicial District Nominating Commission announced Monday. County judge Doug Miles, who served 11 years on the bench, is set to retire on Feb. 27, prompting a search for a new judge to fill his seat, the…
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HUDSON | More than one guv has hidden behind the ‘blue ribbon ruse’
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Voters can sense there are numerous hustlers masquerading as candidates, lobbyists and policy advocates. Divining the genuine agendas behind their smokescreens makes political involvement challenging work. It is also why many voters settle for mailing a check to membership organizations that ostensibly share their priorities; whether those are concern for the environment, the provision of…
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HUDSON | Is the California boogeyman really so scary for Colorado?
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“All the leaves are brown and the sky is grayI’ve been for a walk on a winter’s dayI’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A.California Dreamin’ on such a winter’s day” It’s been more than half a century since the Mamas and Papas vaulted to the top of the music charts with their…
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Hickenlooper names 32 civic and business leaders as Governor’s Fellows
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The Quarterly Forum inducted 32 executives and community leaders on Friday who will make up the next class of Colorado Governor’s Fellows from across the state. The nonpartisan fellowship started in 2016 under Gov. John Hickenlooper with endorsements from former Govs. Bill Ritter and Bill Owens. The idea is to train leaders and cultivate their ideas…
