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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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Amendment 71 claims first known victim; bar raised too high for growth limits measure
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The backer of a proposed new home construction limitation amendment to the Colorado constitution plans to resubmit the measure as a proposition for the 2018 general election ballot instead of an amendment. Daniel Hayes of Golden, who authored the City of Golden’s growth limitation measure 21 years ago, said he decided to make the change…
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Letter: You may not count on my support for ‘Raise the Bar’ initiative
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Editor: “Raise The Bar” is a newly packaged campaign designed to serve some elected officials who want to insulate their influence at the legislature from contrary intentions of a majority of voters. They wish to make it difficult for ballot questions immune from overturn by the legislature to reach the ballot. Initiative 96 resembles a…
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The Hot Sheet, March 4, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Friday, March 4, 2016 DENVER – Good morning, and happy Friday. Did you watch the debate last night? Allow me to put it in a nutshell for you: Cruz: “Donald, please, I know it’s hard not to interrupt. Breathe, breathe, breathe. You can do it, breathe, I know…
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Colorado’s Western Slope counties back Sanders
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Colorado’s Western Slope has been bone dry of late, but on Super Tuesday the state’s mountain counties were really feeling the Bern as big crowds of Democrats turned out for Bernie Sanders. From the ski towns in Summit and Eagle counties west to the mining and drilling towns of Mesa and Garfield counties, the Vermont…
