emily tracy
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State legislative contests resolve into stalemate
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Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
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Gridlocked SD8 race still nasty after all these years
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While Colorado state Senate District 8 has seen some very nasty political attacks in recent years – sometimes even bitter, red-on-red Republican infighting in this mostly conservative rural region – nothing gets people more riled up in these parts than transportation funding shortfalls. Voters who have been stuck for six hours on Interstate 70 when a car with…
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Motives, timing of Hickenlooper’s ‘unusual’ climate change order questioned
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There’s no issue more partisan in Colorado than energy production, so it’s not surprising that opinions of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s draft executive order on climate change are divided right along party lines. But some observers are surprised the governor is going there at all. “We do not have a state record of governors using executive…
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The Hot Sheet, July 22, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 136 | JULY 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS CEO and Editor-In-Chief Jared Wright DENVER – Happy post Republican National Convention, er, Donald Trump Law and Order … Day. To those traveling back from Cleveland, stay safe. And keep the law and order while you’re at it. Read on for your daily briefing…
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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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The Hot Sheet, March 3, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright_@JaredWright_ Thursday, March 3, 2016 DENVER – Happy Thursday, the day when Mitt Romney ups the rhetoric against Donald Trump, and Fox News flips off a switch in hopes Marco Rubio will begin to feel the pain (or at least an absent, cold shouldered feeling). “If you believe that your…
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Baumgardner vs. White, Round 2: Brutal 2012 primary set for 2016 general ballot rehash
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A former Republican lawmaker who gave up his Senate seat to serve in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s cabinet announced Wednesday he’s running for his old office as an independent. Former state Sen. Al White, R-Hayden, is challenging state Sen. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, who unseated White’s wife, former state Sen. Jean White, in a brutal…
