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  • U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in weekly Democratic address calls GOP tax plan ‘the opposite of what we need’

    U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in weekly Democratic address calls GOP tax plan ‘the opposite of what we need’

    U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado on Friday sounded the alarm over Republican-sponsored tax legislation steaming its way through Congress, charging the bill only helps the very wealthy at the same time it adds to everyone else’s burdens – all while exploding the national debt. “As early as next week the United States Senate may…


  • May: The Qatar ultimatum

    May: The Qatar ultimatum

    In the war against terrorism, some nations are with us, some are against us and some are both In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush drew a line in the sand. “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,” he announced. “Either you are…


  • YESTERYEAR: Legislator’s party flip infuriates local union

    Thirty Years Ago this Week in the Colorado Statesman … State Rep. Faye Fleming, D-Thornton, switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican Feb. 14, 1987, only six weeks after she took office. One of her campaign contributors, United Steel Workers Local 8031, threatened to sue her for misrepresentation. The influential union also took to the…


  • Report: Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers on White House shortlist for FBI director

    Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers is on the Trump administration’s list of 11 candidates to replaced former FBI Director James Comey, Fox News reported Friday morning. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said in a tweet Friday that he had recommended Suthers — a former federal prosecutor and Colorado’s attorney general for a decade — to the…


  • May: Faithless

    May: Faithless

    Religious freedom, the most basic liberty, is under attack in more and more lands “I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.” So said President George W. Bush in 2004. Leave for another day the debate over whether such a belief is more hopeful than realistic. What we…


  • Republican George Brauchler declares he’s running for governor of Colorado in 2018

    Republican George Brauchler, the district attorney who prosecuted the Aurora theater shooter, officially launched his campaign for governor of Colorado on Wednesday. Declaring that he will be the grassroots conservative in what could be a crowded GOP primary field, Brauchler said he intends to bring leadership to a state that has languished under what’s amounted…


  • May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea

    May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea

    It’s high time the United States deals with the most imminent nuclear threat America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president – any American president – needs to prioritize. In 2011, President Obama decided that the Muslim world should no…


  • YESTERYEAR: Mud slung and accusations hurled in GOP state chair race

    Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The John V. Christensen Award, the highest and post prestigious honor to be awarded by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), was awarded to the executive director of the Denver Technological Center, George MacKenzie Wallace. According to the DRCOG, “In October 1972, the John V. Christensen…


  • Colorado Democrats seek nominations for awards at annual fundraising dinner

    The state Democratic Party’s annual fundraising dinner is fast approaching, and the deadline to nominate party stalwarts for a slew of awards is arriving even sooner. The party is accepting nominations through Friday, Feb. 10, in four award categories, including a new honor that will be handed out for the first time this year, according…


  • Trump takes charge: Sworn in as nation’s 45th president

    Pledging to empower America’s “forgotten men and women,” Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, taking command of a deeply divided nation and ushering in an unpredictable era in Washington. His victory gives Republicans control of the White House for the first time in eight years. Looking out…


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