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Plastics and career development entrepreneur Noel Ginsburg, a Democratic candidate for governor, has a dream

Jan 8, 2018

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Ernest Luning

When Noel Ginsburg was 5 years old, he began spending time working the manufacturing line at his father’s pickle business in Arvada and says he fell in love with it. By the time he was in college at the University of Denver in the late 1970s, his father had sold the business he’d thought might…
Hickenlooper’s health plan lauded in hard-hit Colorado mountain counties

Sep 6, 2017

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

Eagle County Commissioner Jill Ryan spent more than a decade working for the Colorado Department of Public Health before entering politics, but the job change hasn’t meant much of subject change as she continues to focus intensely on runaway healthcare and insurance costs in the mountain-resort communities she represents. “People on the individual market have…
House Speaker Crisanta Duran endorses Democrat Robert Rodriguez in Senate District 32 primary

Jul 31, 2017

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Ernest Luning

House Speaker Crisanta Duran on Monday endorsed fellow Denver Democrat Robert Rodriguez in the five-way primary for term-limited state Sen. Irene Aguilar’s Senate District 32 seat. “For over 10 years, I’ve known Robert as a tireless volunteer for progressive causes, always putting the needs of others above his own,” Duran said in a statement. “Now more…
Denver Democrat Robert Rodriguez announces run for term-limited Irene Aguilar’s Senate District 32 seat

Jun 19, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Robert Rodriguez, a former official with the Denver Democratic Party, plans to launch his campaign this week for the Senate District 32 seat held by term-limited state Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, with her endorsement. “I believe in the right to a living wage and access to healthcare,” Rodriguez, 48, said in a statement. “I believe…
YESTERYEAR: Astronaut turned would-be Colorado congressman memorialized

May 25, 2017

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Rachael Wright

Twenty Years Ago this Week in The Colorado Statesman … A statue of Jack Swigert, Apollo 13 astronaut, was unveiled in Washington D.C., memorializing the fallen Coloradan in Statuary Hall. Swigert died from cancer in 1982 just days before he was to be sworn in as Colorado’s first elected Congressman from the newly created 6th…
YESTERYEAR: General Assembly toys with corporate, military law

Mar 2, 2017

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Rachael Wright

…Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The Colorado General Assembly seemed to have lawmakers’ heads stuck in the corporate law section of the Colorado Revised Statutes. At the start of the 1997 legislative session, the Colorado Bar Association pushed two measures in the Legislature that would have far-reaching impact in corporate law,…
YESTERYEAR: Mizel Museum brings Jews and Muslims together, General Assembly bills focus on women

Dec 29, 2016

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Rachael Wright

Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … The Mizel Museum celebrated the opening of a new exhibit: Muslim Nations, The Statesman reported, a subsection of its Bridges of Understanding exhibit which highlighted the similarities between the two religions while appreciating their differences along with the many other ethnic and religious groups practicing in…
YESTERYEAR: Hart, Strickland discuss terrorism in wake of 9/11 attacks

Oct 20, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Tom Strickland discussed the changing face of terrorism at a forum sponsored by the Colorado Young Democrats on the Auraria campus. “The events of Sept. 11, in my judgment, completely blurred the line between war…