former gov. bill owens
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Q&A with Sandra Hagen Solin | A Capitol insider talks transportation, #MeToo
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Sandra Hagen Solin is among those lobbyists who are pretty much at the top of their game at the Capitol and beyond – having recently brought the 25-year-old firm she founded and owns, Capitol Solutions, under the umbrella of the national law firm Kutak Rock to head up and build its government-relations practice. “I have the…
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Q&A with Frank McNulty | Reliving the House GOP’s shining moment
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Colorado Republicans enjoyed a bright, shining moment following the 2010 statewide election, winning control of the Colorado House of Representatives – the proverbial “peoples” chamber in the legislature – and handing the gavel to then-state Rep. Frank McNulty. Well shy of 40 years old at the time and known as a politically astute up-and-comer at…
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CIRULI: Will Colorado’s next guv keep water at the top of the agenda?
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More than a decade ago, Colorado learned that it faces a projected shortfall of more than 400,000 acre-feet of water by 2040. The amount, if stored and if conservation techniques were implemented simultaneously, would supply water to 2 million people. But during the past 10 years, the state has continued to attract people – now,…
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Holland and Hart’s Anderson to chair state’s big biz group
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Prominent and politically plugged-in Denver attorney Jon Anderson was elected 2017-18 chair today by the Board of Directors at the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry. Anderson, a partner at prestigious law firm Holland and Hart who once served as chief counsel to then-Gov. Bill Owens, long has been a go-to guy in state Republican…
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Big gun Bill Owens — the former guv — opens fire on Broomfield ballot issue
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You know the war over Broomfield’s anti-fracking proposal – or any pending ballot issue, for that matter – is heating up when a former governor steps into the fray. Republican Bill Owens, who served as Colorado’s chief exec until 2007, took to the airwaves and digital media this week with a video denouncing Question 301…
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1990s Colorado GOP chief pleads not guilty to voter fraud, faces December trial
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Onetime state GOP chair, conservative stalwart and talk-radio host Steve Curtis – charged in March with voter fraud and forgery in Weld County for allegedly casting his ex-wife’s mail-in ballot in last November’s election – will go to trial Dec. 4. The Greeley Tribune’s James Redmond reports Curtis pleaded not guilty in District Court in Greeley Wednesday to…
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How did we miss it? Former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton now aboard Trump train at HHS
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We are supposed to be on top of these things. Alas. Here we are, just now reporting that Colorado’s third woman lieutenant governor – she was the first Republican woman to have held that office – went to Washington last month to become director of intergovernmental and external affairs for the U.S. Department of Health…
