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What’s in a word cloud? It’s telling when it’s the Denver mayor’s inaugural address
Words matter. And when those words are part of a Denver mayoral inaugural address, they can matter a lot in terms of the direction an administration aims to take over the next four years. That direction can change quite a bit over time. So, Colorado Politics did a word count comparison of the inaugural addresses…
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Denver Mayor Hancock’s 1st campaign ad features homelessness (VIDEO)
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s re-election campaign on March 25 began running his first advertisement – a 30-second video that highlights a time when his family was homeless. Dubbed “Blessed,” the ad (watch below) features Hancock’s 20-year-old daughter, Janae, sitting on a bench in Skyland Park, talking about how her dad’s father left the family when…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, April 8 edition
STEP BY STEP … When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Donna Lynne, Colorado’s lieutenant governor and chief operating officer, announced plans to walk the entire 26-mile length of Colfax Avenue on April 8, the stratagem echoed a pair of signature campaign exploits that propelled a couple of Colorado’s most successful politicians in decades past, as well as…
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WATCH LIVE: Gov. John Hickenlooper gives his last Colorado State of the State address
(Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as a blog on our website last Friday.) When gunfire erupted outside the state Capitol last week, before Gov. John Hickenlooper was scheduled to meet with reporters, he was too busy to pay much attention. “It had nothing to do with me,” he said of the gunfire,…
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Budget adds more cops, helps homeless
Denver would have close to 50 new police officers next year to help place more emphasis on patrolling the 16th Street Mall without sacrificing coverage in other areas, under Mayor Michael Hancock’s 2017 budget proposal submitted to the City Council on Monday, Sept. 12. Homeless residents and those in need of affordable housing would also…
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John Hickenlooper comes of age
In his new autobiography, the bumbler, wanderer, pub owner, mayor and governor has delivered an only incidentally political ‘call to action for nerds’ John Hickenlooper’s autobiography is optimistic, sincere and uplifting. It is also only incidentally about politics, which seems to capture something essential about its subject. Hickenlooper is the former Mayor of Denver…