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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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INSIGHTS: Legislation to shape state politics for decades barely got noticed
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The day after the legislative session ended May 9, most of the Capitol’s top brass met with reporters to size up what had happened the previous four months. They had big-ticket compromises to brag about, for sure. Putting $3 billion into transportation counts. So does fixing a $32 billion shortfall in the state public employees’…
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Bill to use toilet water for toilet flushing headed to the Colorado governor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nASBlrd3pgc Colorado’s future source of potentially significant water savings is already swirling the bowl, but not the legislation to advance it. The state Senate on Tuesday passed House Bill 1069 to allow the state Water Quality Control Commission to continue working on rules for the reuse of reclaimed water. That starts with using a lower…
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DaVita CEO Thiry on gerrymandering: ‘Democracy needs some serious oil’
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GRAND JUNCTION – Denver health-care executive Kent Thiry says he doesn’t want to crash Colorado’s two-party system, but he wants to preserve the state’s engine of democracy with some lubrication and fine-tuning. “Just like an engine needs oil and every now and then, so does our democracy need refining,” he said Saturday at the Spring Conference…
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Bennet, Tipton talk energy, broadband and healthcare at Club 20 event
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GRAND JUNCTION – U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton talked Saturday about issues close to Western Colorado’s hearts and wallets. They told the spring meeting of the Club 20 Western Slope coalition what they’re doing in Washington to improve energy development, the high cost of healthcare, the slowness of rural broadband internet service…
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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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Former Interior boss Gale Norton says Easterners don’t get Western Colorado
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GRAND JUNCTION – People in the East just don’t get the West, former U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton told the audience at Club 20’s 65th birthday party Friday night on the Western Slope. “Club 20 helped educate me about the issues that are important to Colorado and to the West,” she said. “This was especially important…
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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…