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Free public tours at Colorado governor’s mansion begin Thursday

Dec 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Beginning Thursday, the Boettcher Mansion, also known as home to Colorado’s First Family, will be open for free public tours. The mansion, located at 400 East 8th Avenue, Denver, has been decorated for holidays by the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. Tours will be available from Thursday through Sunday, December 7…
Eid’s move up leaves an empty chair on the Colorado Supreme Court

Nov 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It’s like a game of musical chairs – except, at the end, there’s one too many seats instead of too few. As our Ernest Luning reported earlier, the U.S. Senate voted 56-41 on Thursday to confirm Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, filling the vacancy created by Justice Neil Gorsuch’s…
Brauchler sounds a (whole) lot like Stapleton in his opposition to Polis

Sep 29, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Great minds think alike, and so do George Brauchler and Walker Stapleton. A careful reader pointed out to Colorado Politics on Friday that comments made by Brauchler, a Republican candidate for governor, sounded almost identical to those made by Stapleton about Jared Polis. Polis is a congressman and Democratic candidate for governor who has spent…
Staff picks: The top five stories this week in Colorado Politics

Aug 21, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

National news, from white nationalists to Trump to town halls, ran deep through Colorado politics this past week. Here are the stories that the staff of Colorado Politics, home to the state’s deepest coverage of the topics, thinks you should keep in mind as the issues play out. 5. Armstrong’s company under fire A…
Staff picks: This week’s top 5 stories in Colorado Politics (Aug. 13, 2017 edition)

Aug 13, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

It’s been a busy week in Colorado Politics, with campaign cash, coal’s slow-motion collapse and the ever-evolving candidacy of Ed Perlmutter in the headlines. Our staff re-evaluated the week, and here are the stories we think you should keep in mind in the days and weeks ahead: 5. Coal communities need a new engine,…
Levi Tillemann will kick off congressional run at Ethiopian restaurant in Aurora Sunday

Jul 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Billed by his campaign Thursday as an “Obama alum,” Levi Tillemann said he would formally kickoff his campaign Sunday at 6 p.m. at Megenagna Ethiopian Restaurant in Aurora. The event is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. “This isn’t about me” Tillemann said in a statement Thursday. “This is about the future of our communities,…
Lynn Bartels brings us the play-by-play from the political wedding of the year

Jul 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

ColoradoPolitics.com’s Ernest Luning gave us all the details on the nuptials Saturday of Democratic star couple Brittany Pettersen and Ian Silverii at the Colorado governor’s mansion. And political-junkie-and-journalist-at-heart Lynn Bartels – off duty from her weekday job at the Secretary of State’s Office – brought us the mood of the moment via Twitter. Darned near…
@RepMikeCoffman gets some real Twitter love for pushing back at Trump

Jun 30, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Colorado Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman got a big attaboy for taking on President Trump via Twitter Thursday – but the praise didn’t come from one of the usual stuffy and self-important politicos or pundits inside the Beltway. You’ll recall ColoradoPolitics.com’s Ernest Luning reported here that Coffman and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner had rebuked the president…
Mike Coffman challenger Jason Crow talks about the battle in front of him

May 17, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Denver attorney and decorated combat veteran Jason Crow says he decided to run for Congress soon after the November election, when it was clear to him that the world had changed overnight. “After the election, my wife and I, like many people, were trying to figure out what our world looked like and how we…
Construction litigation reform roller-coaster concludes with unthought-of unanimous votes

May 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

It was almost anticlimactic when the bipartisan construction defects litigation reform bill passed unanimously in the Senate on May 4, sending the much-anticipated legislation to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk. While there had been plenty of drama surrounding the measure throughout most of April, after the governor, House sponsors and prominent stakeholders announced a deal had…