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YESTERYEAR: Abortion, smoking debates take center stage

Jan 26, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

… Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … “Take that President Bill Clinton!” said Colorado legislative Republican leaders. With Chuck Berry presiding as Speaker of the Colorado House, the Republican majority House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee amended and then proceeded to methodically pass a contentious anti-abortion bill sponsored by state Rep.…

YESTERYEAR: Top Colorado politicians sworn into office

Jan 12, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

… Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Diana DeGette is sworn in as a new member of Congress. The newly elected DeGettehosted more than 300 of her supporters, family and closest friends at her ceremonial swearing-in as the 19th representative for the 1st Congressional District. DeGette replaced retiring Democratic Rep. Pat Schroeder, who had served…

YESTERYEAR: Colorado GOP performs autopsy on self, Legislature talks regulatory reform

Nov 24, 2016

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Colorado Politics

Twenty Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … Too much sun in the Legislature? “Five hits and you’re out,” was the name of the game sponsored by Rep. Vickie Angler (R-Littleton) and Sen. Bill Schroeder (R-Morrison), which also went by its other more legislative moniker – HB 1159. The new law outlined in Colorado…

YESTERYEAR: Colorado turns blue, kids vote their consciences and Norton talks bioterrorism

Nov 10, 2016

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Colorado Politics

… Ten Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … Colorado turned blue. At the Colorado Convention Center Hyatt, more than a thousand Democrats showed up to cheer the winning candidates. A famous trio of Democratic women took the stage, Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, House Majority Leader Rep. Alice Madden, and Democratic state party chair Pat Waak,…

No silver bullets: Jim Carpenter stresses fundamentals, agility

Nov 3, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Jim Carpenter likes to tell a story about a campaign stop more than two decades ago in a small town on the Eastern Plains. It’s no coincidence the story stars former three-term Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, a man Carpenter describes as the master of quick thinking and innovative approaches to the surprises any politician is…

YESTERYEAR: Rising star Barack Obama fills Aurora plaza for Perlmutter rally

Oct 27, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … An estimated 1,300 people crowded a plaza in Aurora to cheer Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at a rally for Democratic congressional candidate Ed Perlmutter, who was running against Republican Rick O’Donnell for the seat being vacated by GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez. “Today, you’re going…

Schwartz, Tipton spar over public lands

Oct 17, 2016

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, showing clear signs his race for CD3 has tightened in recent weeks, continues to aggressively call out former state Sen. Gail Schwartz for her comments and ads accusing Tipton of seeking to sell off federally owned public lands. Schwartz charges Tipton has sold out to coal mining and oil and gas companies…

YESTERYEAR: Hickenlooper, others launch project to grapple with climate change

Sep 15, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper was joined by Lakewood Mayor Steve Burkholder, Fort Collins Mayor Doug Hutchinson, Colorado Forum director Gail Klapper, former Colorado State University president Al Yates and others to unveil the Colorado Climate Project, aimed at developing a plan to reduce the state’s…

Denver’s new city attorney says she understands ‘the political side’

Aug 22, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

Stepping into the often highly-political position of Denver city attorney is part of what attracted Kristin Bronson to the position. Calling her “a brilliant and innovative lawyer,” Mayor Michael B. Hancock appointed Bronson as Denver’s new city attorney Thursday. Bronson will fill the position Scott Martinez vacated on May 31, after the city settled several…

The Hot Sheet, August 19, 2016

Aug 19, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 156 | AUGUST 19, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and Happy Friday. Good luck on the campaign trail as you enter your weekend … Top 3 headlines today: (1) BENNET HOLDS 16 POINT LEAD OVER DARRYL GLENN, COLORADO’S CONTRIBUTION TO MAINTAINING U.S. SENATE CONTROL NOT…