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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
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The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
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Business booster Thea Chase launches unaffiliated bid for open House District 54 seat
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Palisade Town Trustee Thea Chase announced Monday she’s running as an unaffiliated candidate for the House District 54 seat represented by Mesa County Republican Yeulin Willett, who isn’t seeking reelection. She’ll have the backing of Unite Colorado, formerly known as the Centrist Project, an organization that’s working to elect independent lawmakers. Chase, the director of the…
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Mining communities react to EPA decision on Clean Power Plan
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The announcement this week from Scott Pruitt of the Environmental Protection Agency that he would rescind the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan is, not surprisingly, welcome news to Colorado’s coal industry, as well as to the communities the industry supports. But whether the end of the Clean Power Plan will actually change anything in Colorado…
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Tipton tries to link Schwartz to Clinton’s ‘coal-killing’ campaign
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Leading up to the big Club 20 weekend in Grand Junction, Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton hammered home familiar themes Thursday on a long and wide-ranging conference call with reporters in which he consistently came back to his support for Colorado’s coal industry and his Democratic opponent’s coal-mine-killing policies as a state senator during former…
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Delta County GOP chair resigns in wake of racist social media post
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The embattled chair of the Delta County GOP resigned Thursday night, a month after a racist post on her Facebook page drew national attention and calls for her ouster. In early June, the NAACP Colorado State Conference demanded that Delta County Republican Party Chair Linda Sorenson, who also served as GOP chair of the 3rd…
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House to meet with Delta County GOP chair, expects resolution after racist post
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Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House says he expects a resolution after he meets with the embattled chair of the Delta County GOP on Monday as calls mounted for her ouster Friday in the wake of a racist post on her Facebook page. “We fully expect that the meeting on Monday will yield a resolution on the future…