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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock to business leaders: It’s time to raise workers’ wages
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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock told a group of business leaders Tuesday that the city needs to have “a tough conversation” about increasing wages for workers. “A good day’s work, no matter the job, should be compensated with a livable wage,” Hancock told about 600 people gathered for the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s annual State…
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Fix Our Damn Roads to sue the Greeley Stampede
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The Greeley Stampede rodeo and fair has lassoed some legal trouble over free speech. The leader of ballot initiative Fix Our Damn Roads, Jon Caldara, president of the conservative Independence Institute in Denver, said the Stampede prevented signature gatherers from asking people going in and leaving the event if they wanted to sign the petition. Caldara…
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Colorado Springs Mayor Suthers endorses Fix Our Damn Roads
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Colorado’s former attorney general and Colorado Springs’ current mayor favors using existing tax money over new taxes to fix Colorado’s roads. Jon Caldara announced Friday that John Suthers had endorsed the proposed ballot measure to force the state legislature to put $3.5 billion into transportation improvements, including widening Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 to address…
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Education-tax backers are 1st to file petition signatures for Nov. ballot
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Proponents of an education ballot measure became the first of many who will turn in petition signatures for proposals they hope will make it to Colorado’s November ballot. Backers of the “Great Schools, Thriving Communities” ballot measure turned in what they said were between 170,000 and 180,000 signatures in 61 boxes just after 2 p.m.…
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Money wins: the death of the grassroots and caucuses
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It’s rare when the far left Bernie Sanders followers and the far right friends of Gordon Klingenschmitt share a common political cause, but the recent Colorado Republican and Democrat state-wide party primary votes are sadly cause for such new agreement. Grassroots activists are now terribly outspent by the establishment middle, worsened now that unaffiliateds voted…
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Denver chamber leads sales tax hike for local scholarships
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The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and other partners will announce Wednesday they’re ready to ask city voters in November to pass a 0.08 Denver sales tax hike to help local kids get a higher education. A kickoff rally for the campaign called Prosperity Denver is set for 1 p.m. at 9th Street Park on…
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INSIGHTS: Potholes line road ahead on transportation
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This isn’t going to end well. I only need math – addition, subtraction and simple division – to understand the political equation of Colorado’s desperate need to fund transportation and the long odds to do it. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and a collection of allies across the state are asking registered voters to…
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INSIGHTS | Serving up politics with food’s a tradition
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COLORADO SPRINGS – On a rainy Saturday at the foot of Pikes Peak, hundreds of politically engaged Coloradans gathered for politics slathered in tradition to hear candidates for governor answer questions. We had a Colorado Civic Barbecue on May 19, presented by the El Pomar Foundation’s Forum for Civic Advancement, The Gazette and Colorado Politics.…
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Denver chamber-led coalition will seek sales tax for roads
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A Denver-led coalition hopes to ask voters in November for a 0.62 percent statewide sales tax to pay for transportation. Members of the coalition made the decision in a closed-door meeting at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Friday morning. Now the groups supporting the tax must collect 98,492 signatures from registered voters statewide by Aug.…
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2018 Colo. legislature: What’s next on the issues that drove the session?
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The biggest issues of the 120-day Colorado legislative session are far from done just because they’ve been voted on. Transportation is still a snowball rolling downhill toward November, and the dollars that will eventually be steered into roads, bridges and transit are hardly settled. Lawmakers created a $32 billion solution to the state’s public-pension plan,…
