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Colorado readies to decide balance of power
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Colorado was supposed to be a swing state again this year, starting at the top of the ticket. But as the results roll in from the state’s first presidential election featuring a nearly all-mail voting, the races may turn out to be tighter the further down the ballot you go. Voters will be waiting Tuesday…
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Tipton tries to link Schwartz to Clinton’s ‘coal-killing’ campaign
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Leading up to the big Club 20 weekend in Grand Junction, Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton hammered home familiar themes Thursday on a long and wide-ranging conference call with reporters in which he consistently came back to his support for Colorado’s coal industry and his Democratic opponent’s coal-mine-killing policies as a state senator during former…
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Libertarian candidate Williams qualifies for Club 20’s U.S. Senate debate
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Colorado Libertarian candidate Lily Tang Williams will share the stage at the first U.S. Senate debate on Saturday in Grand Junction between Michael Bennet, the incumbent Democrat, and El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn, his Republican challenger. It’ll be the first time in memory that a third-party or independent candidate has appeared at a debate sponsored…
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Schwartz: We must remember the value of our national parks and public lands
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On this 100th anniversary of the creation of the National Park Service, we have a great opportunity to honor and reflect on the immense value of our national parks – and public lands in general. It’s easy to take them for granted, since so many of our finest lands have been accessible for most or…
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Veterans group backs wilderness bill after Bennet adds Camp Hale
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When Garett Reppenhagen, an honorably discharged cavalry scout and a sniper with the U.S. Army First Infantry Division, returned to his home state of Colorado in 2005 after serving in Kosovo and Iraq, the wilderness advocate recovered by spending time on public lands. “When I came home I looked to the outdoors kind of instinctively…
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Politicians, business owners debate: Is Initiative 101 friend or foe of franchise model?
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Robert Cresanti, president and CEO of the International Franchise Association, calls the nationwide push for mandated minimum wages such as Colorado’s Initiative 101 an existential threat to the uniquely American and highly successful business model of franchising. “There’s the extremely corrosive, challenging and destructive business environment stuff, which falls into the $15 minimum wage [movement],…
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Western Slope Dems look down ballot in post-Bernie world
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With the official nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, longtime Democrats and progressive political activists on Colorado’s Western Slope are grappling with the impacts on down-ballot races in a post-Bernie Sanders world. Some candidates and party officials are predicting a Democratic exodus of disaffected Bernie backers to the Green Party, while…
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The Hot Sheet, July 26, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 138 | JULY 26, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS CEO and Editor-In-Chief Jared Wright DENVER – Well, none of us can say we didn’t see the rough and tumble conventions for both parties coming from miles away right? Happy Day # 2 of the Democratic National Convention … and All or Nothing Day (more encouragement for…
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Schwartz outraises Tipton for 2nd quarter but lags his cash on hand
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Democrat Gail Schwartz raised $622,960 in her first fundraising quarter, outpacing her rival, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, whose campaign raised more than $400,000. But the Cortez Republican has nearly twice as much money in the bank, according to preliminary figures. Schwartz had $549,421 on hand at the end of the second quarter, which ran from April…
