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COVER STORY | Kids’ mental health challenged in a culture of guns
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Dec. 14 marks nine years since Jane Dougherty told her sister hello and goodbye, but for a disturbed young man’s access to guns in Newtown, Connecticut, a New England village that was decked out for a Christmas, that was emotionally obliterating. Her older sister, Mary Sherlach, a school psychologist, was in the principal’s office that…
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COVER STORY | Bob Beauprez: Colo.’s partisan past should bend toward the middle
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COALMONT- The high country air chops like the beating of helicopter blades next to Bob Beauprez’s farmhouse in the heart of his 1,300-acre ranch in Colorado’s North Park. He doesn’t notice until a visitor points it out. “Isn’t that great?” he replied about the sound of wind energy helping power his family business in Jackson County.…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Colorado candidates notch support as primary looms
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Politicians and organizations are bestowing last-minute endorsements as candidate scramble to motivate voters in the days before the June 26 primary. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days, including some going to candidates who aren’t in contested primaries and have already won their party’s nomination: ? Former U.S. Sen. Tim…
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IN RESPONSE | State Senate GOP’s opposition to ‘red flag’ policy made no sense
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I am respectfully responding to my colleague and friend state Sen. John Cooke’s recent op-ed regarding the “red flag” legislation introduced this session. Red flag laws save lives. When a person is in crisis, loved ones and law enforcement are often the first to see signs that they pose a threat. The bi-partisan proposal we…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List picks candidates in Democratic primaries
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EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-choice Democratic women candidates, on Wednesday endorsed five legislative candidates running for open seats in Colorado’s June 26 primary election. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, called the group’s picks “at the forefront of advocacy for Colorado’s working families and their children.” “These women have used their personal experiences…
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Financier Robert Mercer gets a badge; Colo. sheriff gets a $64,000 truck
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Robert Mercer – the billionaire financier tied to both President Donald Trump and to former Trump advisor Steve Bannon – has been given a volunteer sheriff’s badge by Yuma County Sheriff Chad Day of Yuma County. That’s according to a story Monday in Bloomberg News. Yuma County got a $64,000 Dodge Ram truck and $20,000 in…
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House committee kills latest gun rights bill — with a twist
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DENVER – On Wednesday the Colorado House’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee put an end to a bill that would allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit. But the vote – a party-line 6-3 vote – came after one member of the public opposed to the bill offered an “unorthodox” proposal to let the…
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School employee gun training bill advances, draws heated opposition, fails to win over Dems
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A state Senate bill aimed at better safeguarding students by allowing county sheriffs to train school employees in gun safety passed Tuesday afternoon on a party line vote in the Senate State Affairs committee. Senate Bill 005 now heads to the chamber floor for consideration. The bill drew some 30 witnesses to Tuesday’s hearing. Testimony…
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Rolling dispatches from Loveland assembly warm-up for party convention
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Bennet energizes CD3 crowd, pitches for unity U.S. Senator Bennet, who’s running for reelection against a host of Republicans, toured the assembly sites Friday. At the packed Congressional District 3 meeting, he celebrated the high energy and enthusiasm in the room and eased in a plea for party unity come November. “I know we have…
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Littwin: What Colorado’s GOP chaos means for the RNC
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Whatever else you’re tempted to say about the bizarro Colorado GOP convention — and people are still trying to explain Darryl Glenn’s shocking Senate win — you have to admit that it has done the country a great favor. I mean, if anyone was still confused about what lies ahead for the national convention in…
