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Colorado disability community mourns loss of advocate Carrie Ann Lucas
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UPDATE: a memorial service for Lucas is scheduled for Friday, March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at Faith United Church of Christ in Windsor. The family has asked that those attending wear bright colors. Carrie Ann Lucas, a disability advocate who was a familiar sight at the Colorado Capitol for years, has died after a long…
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Colorado state Senate candidate Rebecca Cranston loves on Loveland for Valentine’s Day
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Democratic Colorado Senate District 15 candidate Rebecca Cranston released her first campaign video to coincide with Loveland’s role in celebrating Valentine’s Day. Because it has love in its name, Loveland is called the Sweetheart City. Each year since 1947 love letters from all over the world have been remailed from the city in Senate District…
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Insights: Aid-in-dying another Colorado law punctuated by a question mark
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No one expects to pass a law destined to have problems, but it’s hardly uncommon for new laws to offer hollow gratification to those who opposed it. When it comes to governing life and death, these stumbles garner a longer look. Jakob Rodgers of the Colorado Springs Gazette just recently reported on the first data…
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Disabled protesters try to ring in the new year with the Gardners in Yuma
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Colorado Pols brings us word of another protest by disabled-rights activists attempting to engage Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on his home turf in Yuma – this time, at his house on New Year’s Eve. The dozen or so protesters got a frosty reception; not from the senator – who was home and stayed…
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ADAPT protesters in wheelchairs removed from Colorado U.S. Sen. Gardner’s Denver office
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Protesters at congressional offices have become old hat, but the disability rights group Denver ADAPT rewrote the script with a 58-hour sit-in that ended Thursday night as police removed about 10 people, some in wheelchairs, from Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s downtown Denver office. As Denver officers moved them out of the office lobby, protesters chanted,…
