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YESTERYEAR: Mud slung and accusations hurled in GOP state chair race

Mar 16, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The John V. Christensen Award, the highest and post prestigious honor to be awarded by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), was awarded to the executive director of the Denver Technological Center, George MacKenzie Wallace. According to the DRCOG, “In October 1972, the John V. Christensen…

Zenzinger: transportation measure "long time coming"

Jan 20, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Any legislation that addresses the state’s transportation needs should take the entire state of Colorado into account and is “a long time coming,” freshman state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, D-Arvada, said in an interview with the Transit Alliance. The Denver-based group is a public-advocacy organization that started in 1997 and works to help citizens to “lead…

Union Station loans to be refinanced

Jan 4, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

A refinancing plan for the remainder of two federal loans used to build the Denver Union Station project will pay off the loans early and allow the City and County of Denver to dissolve a revenue-raising authority, along with a drop in property taxes for some businesses in the area. The Denver City Council Finance…

Woods, Zenzinger pitch the middle as problem solvers in state Senate rematch

Aug 14, 2016

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John Tomasic

The maps on the wall at Democrat Rachel Zenzinger’s state Senate District 19 campaign headquarters in Arvada are a web of lines outlining voter precincts, each precinct speckled with marker colors. Some precincts are predominantly Republican, some predominantly Democratic, and there are numbers written onto each of them. “479-480” reads one of them, another “412-410.”…