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Webb: Economic growth and environmentalism have a symbiotic relationship with good policy
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Environmental groups across the country are celebrating a recent victory — President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. This political decision was at best an ideological choice, with very real, and perhaps unintended economic consequences. At worse, it may have driven a stake in the growing wedge between labor groups and environmental organizations.…
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Lamborn expresses sympathy as Dems call Planned Parenthood attack terrorism
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn over the weekend declined to comment on the growing political firestorm over Friday’s shooting that killed three and wounded nine at a Planned Parenthood clinic in his hometown. Lamborn, a Colorado Springs Republican who has represented the 5th Congressional District since 2007, on Friday called for prayers for the family and…
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Clinton organizes for caucuses, raises money in Colorado swing
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BOULDER – Flanked by a power lineup of some of Colorado’s most influential Democrats, including former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis and state House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, Hillary Clinton made her first official campaign stop in this college town on Tuesday since announcing her current run for the White House. Speaking…
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Colorado’s five living governors celebrate historic residence
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Gov. John Hickenlooper welcomed his four predecessors and supporters of a fund to maintain the governor’s residence into the stately Boettcher Mansion on Friday night. “It really does add real value and promise to the institution of the governor of Colorado,” Hickenlooper told some 200 gathered at a fundraiser for the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund…
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Israeli consul general says innovation key in trade pact with Colorado
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David Siegel, the Israeli consul general for the southwestern United States, met with Gov. John Hickenlooper and key members of his economic development staff last week to finalize a research and development agreement that Siegel said had the potential to develop into a hugely beneficial relationship between Israel and Colorado. “We’re filling it with content…
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Clinton organizes for caucuses, raises money in Colorado swing
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BOULDER — Flanked by a power lineup of some of Colorado’s most influential Democrats, including former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis and state House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, Hillary Clinton made her first official campaign stop in this college town on Tuesday since announcing her current run for the White House. Speaking…
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Colorado’s five living governors celebrate historic residence
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Gov. John Hickenlooper welcomed his four predecessors and supporters of a fund to maintain the governor’s residence into the stately Boettcher Mansion on Friday night. “It really does add real value and promise to the institution of the governor of Colorado,” Hickenlooper told some 200 gathered at a fundraiser for the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund…
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Israeli consul general says innovation key in trade pact with Colorado
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David Siegel, the Israeli consul general for the southwestern United States, met with Gov. John Hickenlooper and key members of his economic development staff last week to finalize a research and development agreement that Siegel said had the potential to develop into a hugely beneficial relationship between Israel and Colorado. “We’re filling it with content…
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Hudson: Columbine as ‘cultural script’ for next generation of shooters
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While there is satisfaction in Colorado’s hipness — the first state to retail legal marijuana, younger and healthier on average than our 49 compatriots and the No. 1 destination for migrating millennials — we tend to repress our history as the site of both the Columbine High School killings and the Aurora movie theater slaughter.…
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Ferraro touts advances by women on national stage
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro was the main draw at a fundraiser for Sen. Gary Hart at the Executive Tower Inn. She was helping him retire the $3 million debt left over from his presidential run a year earlier, when he gave Democratic presidential…