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Greeley’s KUNC will help search America’s soul on the issue of guns
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Purple Colorado is a battleground for a lot of hot-button issues. And one of the state’s most prominent public radio news teams is now going to apply its experience covering those issues to a new, national media endeavor that aims to get to the bottom of the country’s endlessly debated relationship with guns. Reports the…
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Greeley’s Mayor Tom Norton is outgoing in more ways than one
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Thanks to the Greeley Tribune’s Tyler Silvy for his solid profile of veteran Colorado politico Tom Norton, who is stepping down after four terms as Greeley mayor – and decades of high-profile public service. The Republican Norton, now 77, has been sort of a marathon man on Colorado’s political scene, having served as Senate president…
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Candidate’s failure to disclose felony throws Greeley race into limbo
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The Greeley Tribune Editorial Board is plenty put out with one of the city’s new at-large council member, whose criminal history only recently came to light. Eddie Mirick failed to disclose that he had been convicted of a felony in 1978, and the city code bars felons from running for office. He was elected last…
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Jared Polis: politician, multimillionaire — kingmaker?
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…Well, perhaps, in Greeley. As the Greeley Tribune reports, the five-term Colorado congressman and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful from Boulder has chipped in $1,500 to the campaigns of three Greeley City Council candidates, at $500 each: Polis’ donations went to at-large candidate Stacy Suniga, Ward 3 candidate William Vetesy and Ward 2 candidate Lavonna Longwell. Municipal…
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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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Educators in the line of fire train to open fire, if needed, at a course in Greeley
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Not long ago we took note of an independent effort to pick up where the 2017 legislature stopped short – training Colorado’s K-12 educators in the use of firearms to defend their campuses. A GOP bill passed by the state Senate would have provided the training to designated faculty and staff with concealed-weapons permits; as anticipated,…
