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Conservative communications maven Jonathan Lockwood shakes up Oregon statehouse with pugnacious approach
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After cutting a provocative path though Colorado’s political scene for half a decade, conservative spinmeister Jonathan Lockwood pulled up stakes and decamped for a strange land with strange customs, a place unaccustomed to his rapid-fire, unrelenting attacks on liberals and his take-no-prisoners approach to making a point – a place called Oregon. Unlike swing-state Colorado,…
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Senate kills Williams bill to allow Wal-Mart to sell full-strength liquor
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The Colorado Senate on Monday narrowly voted down a bill that would have allowed Wal-Mart to sell full-strength beer, wine and liquor by clearing up a statute passed last year. This as the state begins expanding the number of liquor licenses grocery and big box stores can acquire over the next 20 years. Described by backers…
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Hudson: Colorado hops invasion creates jobs along the Appalachians
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Asheville, North Carolina, straddles several valleys at the southern tail of the planet’s oldest mountain range. Nearly 500 million years ago, the Appalachians rose to heights that compare with the Rockies today, but they have eroded to a high point of just 6,700 feet a few miles away in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Straddling…
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Hullinghorst on supermarket beer debate: ‘I’m with the little guys’
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The two top Democrats at the Capitol agree: They want to keep full-strength beer out of the supermarkets and on the shelves of small liquor stores. “I think it’s sort of the big guys versus the little guys right now — and of course I’m a Democrat, so I’m for the little guy,” said Speaker…
