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STATESMAN ARCHIVES | Farber demonstrates second-to-none mastery of politics
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Editor’s note: This story is a reprint of a profile of Steve Farber by reporter Ernest Luning that ran in The Colorado Statesman (the precursor to Colorado Politics) in December 2015. A television screen filled with images of protesters and vigils and presidential candidates competes for space on one of Denver attorney Steve Farber’s office…
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Clash building over plan to de-Bruce education
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An education group, with the support so far of Front Range Democratic lawmakers, is planning to ask voters this November to allow the state to keep more tax money for public schools. It’s a proposal that anti-tax groups would vigorously oppose. Lisa Weil, executive director of Great Education Colorado, said her group is still in…
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Boom-time auto dealers will press lawmakers to streamline tax regime
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Tim Jackson, president and CEO of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, will be pushing lawmakers next year to simplify the patchwork tax regime in Colorado that he said places an enormous burden on businesses in the state. “Colorado has the most complicated structure,” he said Thursday at an event hosted by the free-enterprise and business-promotion…
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Bipartisan ‘odd couple’ pushes for greater access to public records
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Democratic lawmakers have teamed with the libertarian Independence Institute to craft 2016 legislation that would lower a major hurdle for Coloradans seeking access to public records. In an unusual pairing of players from opposite sides of the political spectrum, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, and state Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, are working with liberty-politics…
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Noonan: Buildings can make us stupid, or not, depending
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Energy-tight buildings reduce our thinking capacity unless they’re properly ventilated, according to a Harvard University and Syracuse University double-blind study conducted recently. Who knew? After spending decades making our buildings more energy efficient, it turns out that the CO2 and volatile organic compounds trapped in these “tight” buildings can make us dumb. The Harvard School…
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Lamm vows young generation will bury segregation
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Fifty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver attorney Richard Lamm, the vice president of the Young Democrats of Colorado, wrote a series of columns about the thinking of the young generation, tackling subjects that included civil rights, conservation and the national debt. “It will surprise no one to say that my…
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Suthers, Ritchie among citizenship honorees
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Gov. John Hickenlooper last week awarded the inaugural Colorado Governor’s Citizenship medals to five individuals and organizations to recognize “meritorious contributions to strengthen Colorado communities and develop new opportunities for Coloradans throughout the state,” his office announced. Recipients of the medals, bestowed by Hickenlooper at a ceremony last Thursday at the Governor’s Residence, included Colorado…
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Hadley gets facts wrong on ColoradoCare
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Editor: In a guest commentary by Hadley Heath Manning published by The Colorado Statesman earlier this month, she states: “According to the state government, a single-payer healthcare system would cost about $25 billion annually, effectively doubling the state budget, and increasing payroll taxes by 10 percent.” First: She writes that this is “a single-payer healthcare…
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Republicans elect Leing national committeeman, emphasis on man
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CENTENNIAL — Colorado Republicans on Saturday elected former congressional candidate George Leing as Republican national committeeman. That’s national committeeman, not woman, an emphasis made clear at a tense and sometimes raucous special meeting of the GOP State Central Committee that saw an unsuccessful attempt by some Republicans to nominate a Denver party officer who happens…
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Millennial crowd mostly chomps cigars, disses candidates at Denver GOP debate watch party
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At a Republican presidential debate watch party held at Capitol Cigars on Tuesday, the crowd started out thin and skeptical and, even though the bourbon flowed copiously and the crowd grew over the course of the debate, the attitude toward the candidates never much improved. “The media would do better just giving us public service…
