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Q&A with Sean Paige: A career at the crossroads of politics, policy and the news media
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Longtime Colorado Senate GOP communications chief Sean Paige, on a segment of KBDI-Channel 12’s “Devil’s Advocate with Jon Caldara.” (Photo via YouTube) Sean Paige has dished it out as well as taken it, repeatedly, in a lengthy career at the intersection of the media, politics and policy. As an editorialist for the working press, he…
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FEEDBACK | Teachers, guns & money — and more
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More money into the system – or better pay for the best teachers? The recent opinion piece from Colorado teacher Jill Cullis shed some light on the problems facing Colorado’s schools. Recent increases in funding, with the bulk of those dollars not going to teachers’ salaries, is the real problem. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we should…
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Meet Ariana Busby — the Colorado Senate Republicans’ new boss
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…Not the boss who makes the headlines (whether for better or for worse) and brings down the gavel on state Senate proceedings. He’s just the chamber’s president. No, we’re talking about the person who lines up strategy and policy, safeguards caucus interests, watches the Senate president’s back and generally makes things happen from just off…
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A special session for wind power? So says Independence’s Amy Cooke
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Citing unnamed sources, the Independence Institute’s Amy Oliver Cooke asserts in a blog post that Gov. John Hickenlooper has an ulterior motive in talking up a possible special session: He wants to promote wind power on a massive scale. And he wants to throw the keys to behemoth public utility Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest power provider. According…
