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Greeley’s KUNC will help search America’s soul on the issue of guns
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
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
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?
…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
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
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,…