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Colorado National Guard hosts first State of the Guard briefing
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Leaders of the state’s citizen-soldiers mustered alongside their civilian counterparts on Friday for the first-ever Colorado National Guard “State of the Guard” briefing, an effort to not only share what the Guard does, but how its mission fits into the fabric of the community they serve. More than 125 people, including local government and civic…
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Searching for the ‘off-ramp’: Colorado officials ask if America can step back from political violence
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In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox urged the nation to seek an “off-ramp” from the path that leads to political violence. Colorado leaders told Colorado Politics they agreed with Cox in principle, but some questioned whether such a route even exists — and if it does, they…
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Q&A with Colorado lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer | Republican says she’ll be a governor who ‘knows how to govern’
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State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer says her decades of experience in government — as a county commissioner, director of a state department and state legislator — have prepared her to be a “really great governor,” and the Brighton Republican argues that’s what it’ll take to pull Colorado out of the tailspin she says it’s in. The…
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Congressional Republicans call for special session to take action on Colorado’s ‘crime crisis’
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Colorado’s Republican U.S. Representatives are asking Gov. Jared Polis to call a second special session this year to address what they call a “crime crisis.” In a joint letter sent to Polis on Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Gabe Evans, Lauren Boebert, and Jeff Crank referenced a recent incident in Weld County in which a man who…
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‘Heartbroken’: Colorado political leaders, organizations condemn assassination of Charlie Kirk
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Colorado elected officials and political groups expressed grief, outrage and resolve against political violence in reaction to the fatal shooting of conservative organizer and nonprofit leader Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University. “Today is a really hard day,” said U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Windsor Republican who described Kirk as her friend in…
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Republican state lawmaker Barb Kirkmeyer set to launch campaign for Colorado governor
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Republican state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer filed paperwork Monday to run to be Colorado’s next governor, making the Brighton lawmaker’s long-anticipated campaign official. Kirkmeyer, who lost a close race for Congress in 2022, plans to make a formal announcement Tuesday evening in Fort Lupton, her campaign said in a release. The 66-year-old dairy farmer and fourth-generation…
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Colorado’s congressional delegation vows to fight Trump’s plans to move Space Command to Alabama
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Every member of Colorado’s congressional delegation on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s announcement that Space Command will move from its headquarters in Colorado Springs to Alabama in a joint statement charging that such a move would weaken national security and “will directly harm our state and the nation.” “We are united in fighting to reverse…
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Colorado’s crowded gubernatorial primary fields take shape as race looms for open seat | TRAIL MIX
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A few months after celebrating Colorado’s sesquicentennial next summer, voters will elect the state’s 44th governor in the first open race for the seat since term-limited Democrat Jared Polis was elected eight years earlier. At last count, four Democrats and a jaw-dropping 15 Republicans had filed paperwork to run for the post, though the number…
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Head of Colorado’s guardianship office resigns amid reports of ‘toxic’ workplace, high turnover
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After almost six years and after accusations by numerous employees of a toxic work environment, the director of the state’s Office of Public Guardianship, Sophia Alvarez, has resigned. The OPG board was scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss an interim director, although the Zoom meeting link was “locked” and the public could not listen…
