christian reece
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Polis’ plan to skip Club 20 debate kicks up a fuss on the Western Slope
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A gubernatorial candidate hasn’t bypassed the Club 20 debate for decades, if ever, and folks on the Western Slope aren’t taking Jared Polis’ decision lightly. Monday Colorado Politics reported the debates that Polis, the Democratic nominee, and Republican Walker Stapleton were willing to do between now and Election Day. Polis is sending Lt. Gov. Donna…
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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…
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COVER STORY | Grand Junction shines as D.C. eyes new home for BLM
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Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly caught up to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the House floor. Gardner had Colorado business to discuss with his old friend, the former senator from Montana who now leads the U.S. Department of the Interior, which administers…
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Club 20 honors those who serve Western Colorado
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GRAND JUNCTION – Club 20 turns 65 this year as a coalition of civic and business leaders standing up for the counties on the Western side of Colorado at the state and national levels. Friday night at its annual spring meeting in Grand Junction, Club 20 recognized individuals who have done the same. Among the honorees…
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Colorado coalition has 4 ballot issues to hike sales tax for transportation
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And they’re back. Colorado Politics told you a couple of weeks ago that this was coming: a basket of proposals to pay for jammed highways, transit and other long-neglected transportation needs in Colorado. Here are the offers: a sales tax by 0.5 percent, 0.62 percent or 1 percent, and then a fourth possibility would ask for…
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Q&A with Christian Reece: She cranks up the volume for the ‘Voice of the Western Slope’
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The West Slope’s diverse economy and people are scattered across a vast region that dwarfs Colorado’s population center along the Front Range. So, it’s hard to imagine any one person or entity speaking for West Slope interests. Yet, if anything comes close to a unifying voice, it’s CLUB 20, the venerable advocacy arm of that…
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Colorado’s legislature will be hearing ‘rural voices’ by the dozens this week
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The other Colorado – the one that raises our corn and potatoes and beef and pork; the one that hosts a lot of our oil and gas exploration as well as our wind and solar farms; the one that comprises most of Colorado’s territory if not its population – will converge on the Capitol Thursday…
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Coalition releases data to demonstrate impact of immigrants, need for policy reform
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A national organization of business and civic leaders released troves of data Tuesday to back up its contention that it’s long past time to fix the country’s immigration system. Research compiled by New American Economy details the foreign-born population, spending power, taxes paid, home ownership and other measures for every congressional district in the country…
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Rural districts make two-day pitch at Capitol, draw talk, smiles, no promises
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Leaders from advocacy groups Club 20, Action 22 and Progressive 15 told The Colorado Statesman they thought the trip helped focus the legislative conversation on the needs of the counties they represent — the 59 counties that often feel slighted by the five urban and suburban counties that dot the I-25 “metro corridor,” from Pueblo…
