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Pueblo Republican Tamra Axworthy says she’s done contesting ‘rigged’ statehouse vacancy election

Dec 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Pueblo Republican Tamra Axworthy said Tuesday she’s done contesting the legislative vacancy election won last month by Judy Reyher and probably won’t challenge Reyher in a primary – even while charging Reyher was “selected under a cloud of suspicion” and ripping the former Otero County GOP chair for “embarrass[ing] our party with racially charged offensive remarks.”…
Denver, Weld Central schools seek to mend relationship after racial incident

Sep 28, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

How do you repair relationships fractured over conflicts on race and racism (especially considering the divisive nature of our political discourse)? Denver and Weld County school officials are probing that question following an incident at a weekend high school football game where a confederate flag appeared and racial slurs flew, the Denver Post reports. During…
Republican Sen. Cory Gardner demands Trump ‘lay blame on white nationalists and on hatred’

Aug 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, turned up the heat on President Donald Trump Sunday, demanding the president explicitly condemn white supremacists and white nationalists for the violence that left one dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Va., this weekend. “This is not a time for vagaries, this isn’t a time for innuendo or…
Republican Cory Gardner reprimands Trump for Charlottesville remarks: ‘Call evil by its name’

Aug 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, called out President Donald Trump on Saturday for failing to blame white supremacists for escalating violence in Virginia that has claimed at least one life. “Mr. President – we must call evil by its name,” Gardner said in a tweet. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic…
Colorado senators Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner denounce violent white nationalist rally in Virginia

Aug 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s two U.S. senators, Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner, condemned the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, calling it “deeply disturbing” and “contrary to all we stand for as a country.” Politicians across the country and on both sides of the aisle denounced the “Unite the Right” rally, organized by a…
Sand Creek Massacre Capitol grounds memorial plan moves forward

Aug 23, 2016

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John Tomasic

State officials on Friday advanced a plan to site a new memorial to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre on the grounds of the Capitol in Denver after more than an hour of emotional testimony delivered mostly by members of regional Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The proposal won unanimous support from the 12-member Capitol Building Advisory…

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Pueblo Republican Tamra Axworthy says she’s done contesting ‘rigged’ statehouse vacancy election

Denver, Weld Central schools seek to mend relationship after racial incident

Republican Sen. Cory Gardner demands Trump ‘lay blame on white nationalists and on hatred’

Republican Cory Gardner reprimands Trump for Charlottesville remarks: ‘Call evil by its name’

Colorado senators Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner denounce violent white nationalist rally in Virginia

Sand Creek Massacre Capitol grounds memorial plan moves forward