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Rand Paul makes main stage for GOP debate
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has qualified for the main stage for Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, media sponsor CNN announced Sunday. The low-polling contender had been in danger of dropping from the main event to the undercard debate but will join eight other GOP candidates at the primetime debate in Las Vegas. The Colorado Statesman is…
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Supreme Court to decide case of Mesa County school board candidate who ran from wrong district
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GRAND JUNCTION — Paul Pitton has been on that edge between a win and a loss many times in his 36 years of coaching football. But waiting for the Colorado Supreme Court to decide if he can hold on to the school board seat he won by a landslide in November is a tougher type…
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Salazar lights up Denver Young Democrats’ holiday crowd
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Ken Salazar, former secretary of the interior, former U.S. senator and former Colorado attorney general, on Tuesday night declined again to say whether he plans to run for governor. The featured speaker at the Denver Young Democrats’ holiday party only smiled and told The Colorado Statesman he was “focused on helping my friends get elected…
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Oil and gas ballot battle roils as lawmakers lament gridlock
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The highly contentious debate over whether Colorado cities and towns can control oil and gas drilling within their boundaries will rage on deep into 2016, regardless of how the Colorado Supreme Court rules on two city fracking-ban cases it heard oral arguments on Wednesday. And a rulemaking process by the state’s chief regulatory agency, the…
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National group Emily’s List joins effort to unseat Colorado Rep. Windholz after Planned Parenthood remarks
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Emily’s List, a national group that supports pro-choice women candidates, has placed Colorado state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, on its list of officeholders to defeat this year, the organization told The Colorado Statesman on Friday. The organization cited Windholz’s record of opposing women’s healthcare that includes access to birth control and abortion and her…
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At Planned Parenthood shooting commemoration, hope for a new chapter at Colorado Capitol
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Looking to wrestle something positive from the Black Friday shooting attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, the organization’s top regional executive said she wants to work with conservative lawmakers in Colorado to tame the escalating political rhetoric that has grown around the organization. One of the organization’s top critics at the Capitol…
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Keyser poised to jump into Senate race
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State Rep. Jon Keyser, R-Evergreen, an attorney and decorated Air Force reservist, is preparing to launch a likely-to-be well-funded campaign in a crowded but mostly lackluster primary field of Republicans hoping to challenge U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, bringing star quality and credibility to an election his backers believe will turn on national security. “Republicans have…
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Curtis: A rare opportunity to bolster the fight against cancer
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There are more than 15 million cancer survivors in America today, with many benefiting from groundbreaking scientific discoveries in the prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer. Lifesaving cancer treatments have one thing in common — they begin with basic research often funded or conducted by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer…
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Cheney warns terror threat is greatest since 9/11, calls world ‘more dangerous place’
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that the threat of an attack on U.S. soil is greater now than at any time since 9/11 while taking to task President Obama for his past insistence that terrorists are on the run. The Wyoming Republican, speaking at an event sponsored by the Centennial Institute at Colorado…
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Colorado’s winegrowers meet the challenge of high altitude farming
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Colorado’s wine industry has really grown in the last 25 years. In 1990, there were only five licensed wineries in the state, four in the Grand Valley. Today there are over 130. It is understandable most of the attention about that growth has been on the winemakers and winery owners. This month, though, I’m focusing…
