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Wheat Ridge council’s Monica Duran to seek Colorado state House seat
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More 2018 races are taking shape in metro Denver’s Jefferson County. Colorado Pols informs us Wheat Ridge City Council member Monica Duran will seek the state House District 24 seat being vacated by Wheat Ridge Democratic Rep. Jessie Danielson. Danielson recently announced she will run for the state Senate District 20 seat that Arvada Democratic Sen. Cheri Jahn will…
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A boost for the ‘heart and soul’ of southern Colorado’s Steel City
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Resilient Pueblo has seen good times and bad as well as everything in between. Throughout it all, the city’s fortunes have hinged significantly on its fabled steel mill, the onetime Colorado Fuel & Iron company that today is known as Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel. What was good for the mill almost always has been good for the…
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Backlash at transportation tax proposal spawns a ballot drive of its own
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Hey, how about a ballot issue to upgrade the state’s woefully bottlenecked, backlogged and aging highway network – without raising taxes? You want it? You got it: The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute in Denver announced it filed a ballot proposal with the state today that would require the General Assembly to issue $2.5 billion in bonds to fund a raft of highway projects statewide…
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Democrats, GOP remember Dr. King
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Along with taking a one-day break from their just-begun legislative session at the state Capitol, Democratic and Republican leaders in the Colorado Senate and House marked the Monday, Jan. 16, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday with words of respect and remembrance in separate statements. “Today, we join the nation in remembering the late Reverend…