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INSIGHTS | Old political games face the two-minute warning
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As we barrel toward Election Day, it’s clear political operatives need new playbooks. The political wishbone and wing-T formations of the past aren’t scoring with voters against the spread offenses and run-pass options they respond to these days. The old trick plays are either ineffective or already dead. The fortunes of Tom Tancredo in Colorado…
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INSIGHTS | Denver law school pays up big-time over gender pay
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Everyone at the University of Denver should have known better. The school’s prestigious Sturm College of Law was accused of under-paying women. The plaintiffs were eight law professors. The private university, founded in 1864, has a boldly progressive reputation. Let all that sink in. If it can happen among the talented legal minds, brown-bricked temples…
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INSIGHTS | Cuffing reporter renders poor verdict on Denver
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Denver cops messed with the wrong lady. I’ve known her well for 16 years, and you better know what you’re doing if you slap handcuffs on Susan Greene. “Act like a lady,” both officers scolded the longtime Denver journalist, practically lifting her by her arms pulled high behind her back in handcuffs. “Stop resisting,” one…
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INSIGHTS | Walker Stapleton, from his wife’s point of view
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At a campaign event at the Republican Party’s Victory Office in Greenwood Village a few weeks ago, Walker Stapleton literally hugged two of his three kids around him as he told the packed house about a Colorado future he wants to create for his kids and theirs when he’s elected governor. His wife, Jenna, stood…
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INSIGHTS | Denver’s dwindling parking is in a free fall
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“Anywhere but downtown,” I emailed to an excellent source about meeting up in Denver for lunch. “The parking is ridiculous.” The gears of growth in our state’s largest city are grinding on the nerves of those who try to go there to do business on a daily basis. I live in Jefferson County, where the…
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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer, before and after the Fourth of July, the weeds were…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado’s college paradox comes down to money
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If you’re proud of Colorado’s world-class universities, thank a donor or a tapped-out parent. The Colorado legislature? Eh, only if you’ve got any gratitude to spare, because the General Assembly has other priorities. Colorado enjoys one of the highest reputations for higher learning, and one of the most educated populations of any state (because of…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado beat the Russians at its election games
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When Wayne Williams took office in 2015, secretaries of state didn’t talk much about hackers or, if at all, Russians. Now those topics dominate discussions among the sharpest minds and deepest worriers about the security of our elections. Colorado became a tough nut to crack for election meddlers even before the current concerns about the…
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INSIGHTS | Left won’t take Gardner at his word on support for parks
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Environmentalists are hitting U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner where it hurts him most: On Colorado’s great outdoors. Part of the charm and, I’d argue, success of the Republican farm boy from small-town Yuma is his affability, and the inability of the left to get his goat. But his camp has fought back against the suggestion that…
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INSIGHTS | Pot foe says kids provided a reason to pass CBD bill
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To say Colorado state Rep. Lois Landgraf loves pot is like setting up a punch line. The Republican from Fountain, however, thinks sick kids are no laughing matter. “I’ve always been against marijuana, but this isn’t that,” she said over the phone one evening about a pot-related bill she fought for last legislative session. She…
