election 2016
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Hartley: Anyone can win with fresh-faced campaign talent
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It was around 6 p.m. on June 28, 2016, the night of the Democratic Primary, and our lead was holding – which was unbelievable. I had thought it almost impossible a month before. We were going to win! Jack Kroll, then the 27-year-old employee of the University of Colorado admissions department, was about to pull off…
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Jensen: Don’t be so quick to laugh at Trump’s wiretap claims
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Trump said, “wiretap.” The national media laughed, headlines blazed, “without evidence,” and CNN flatly denied it could have happened. Then, some former intelligence agents explained to any journalist willing to listen that while “wiretap” is the wrong word, it did happen. They know this through friendships and contacts they have maintained in the various intelligence…
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Athanasopoulos: Why we must delay Proposition 108
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Our election process is being hijacked by big money interests, and if we don’t take a stand today, tomorrow will be too late. To save our electoral process, the Colorado General Assembly must pass a bill this session delaying the implementation of Proposition 108. Proposition 108 was passed by the voters last November but it…
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Not everything is rosy with jobs in Colorado
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For Colorado residents hunting for jobs that pay enough to live on, reports of the state’s low unemployment rate and rapid population growth can be very disheartening. It seems everyone else has a job except you, often a depressing thought. However, a recent study digs deeper into the numbers and finds that job hunters’ perceptions…
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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Primary election measures signed by Hickenlooper
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Proposition 107, a measure calling for presidential primary elections to be held every four years, and Proposition 108, a measure allowing unaffiliated voter participation in primary elections, on Tuesday, Dec. 27. Proposition 107 was approved by 64 percent of state voters in the Nov. 8 general election. The measure allows unaffiliated…
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Nicolais: North Carolina to skew checks and balances? Does it even matter?
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The political drama unfolding in North Carolina recently trumped even the transition of the new president-elect for many political junkies. An acrimonious gubernatorial election between incumbent Republican Patrick McCrory and Democrat Roy Cooper led to a nearly month-long standoff as Cooper won with a razor-thin margin. Now that acrimony has spilled into sweeping new laws…
