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HUD chief Ben Carson tours Aurora complex, touts partnerships to ease housing crisis
After meeting with an older couple who sang the praises of their new, affordable rental unit, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson surveyed the view from the fourth-floor deck of the Aurora apartment complex – Pikes Peak barely visible through a slight haze that clung to the foothills – and then paused for…
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson plans visit to Aurora affordable housing complex
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is scheduled to tour an affordable housing site in Aurora Monday afternoon with U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and the city’s new mayor, Bob LeGare. The officials plan to visit the $53 million Village at Westerly Creek complex on East Kentucky Avenue and talk about Aurora’s Opportunity…
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TRAIL MIX | Positive polls like Jason Crow’s are often shrouded in mystery
Jason Crow’s campaign is touting the results of a poll showing the Democrat with a slim lead over five-term Republican Mike Coffman in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District. The survey, commissioned by the Crow campaign, found the first-time candidate had the support of 47 percent of the district’s likely general election voters, edging out Coffman’s…
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Crow sets 6th CD record, tops $1 million in quarterly fundraising
Democrat Jason Crow plans to report raising more than $1 million for the just-completed second fundraising quarter of the year, more than any candidate in the battleground 6th Congressional District has raised for the same period in previous elections, including five-term Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman. Crow, who isn’t taking contributions from corporate political…
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Coffman asks Trump to put a general in charge of reuniting families
Rep. Mike Coffman wants President Trump to put a general in charge of reuniting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Coffman, a veteran, has been critical of Trump before. He called the administration’s zero-tolerance border policy that separated immigrant families “a human rights mess.” Coffman is one of the handful of Colorado politicians who have…
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PRIMARY 2018: Colorado’s winners and losers
Winners Jared Polis and Walker Stapleton: Presumed frontrunners from the beginning lived up to their billing, turning back the largest field of primary challengers in either party since at least World War II. And they both played to their bases, the hard left and hard right. Both survived runs at their integrity in negative ads,…
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PRIMARY 2018: DeGette, Crow, Neguse win congressional primaries
With decisive votes, Coloradans set the table in the June primary that ended Tuesday for seven fall congressional elections, settling most key races not long after voting ended by wide margins. Less than an hour after the 7 p.m. voting deadline, three of the state’s most interesting congressional races were already decided, and a fourth…
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Crow leads 6th CD field in pre-primary fundraising, but Coffman has more in the bank
Democrat Jason Crow pulled in nearly $370,000 for the pre-primary fundraising period just ended, outraising U.S. Rep Mike Coffman, the Republican he hopes to unseat, by about 10 percent since April 1. But Coffman finished the period with around $400,000 more on hand than his challenger as total fundraising in the battleground 6th Congressional District…
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Q&A w/Kristin Strohm | Republican rainmaker and agent of change
So, what is to be done about the unholy alliance between money and politics? Policy wonks and editorialists wring their hands over that perennial talking point, but streetwise insiders say the answer’s simple: Get yourself a good fundraiser. And Colorado’s center-right political realm has found just that in the Starboard Group and its president, Kristin…
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Tillemann-founded engine firm is racking up back taxes
Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Levi Tillemann made a name for himself by designing the high-efficiency IRIS Engine. He and his younger brother Corban were written up in National Geographic magazine in 2010 and were roundly praised for the innovation. But since 2011 the company, IRIS Engines, has racked up a $255,495 in taxes and fines…