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Caldara: Independence Institute works to build ‘Freedom Embassy’
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More than three decades after its founding, the Independence Institute has grown from a free-market think tank into what Jon Caldara, its president of 17 years, calls Colorado’s “Freedom Embassy,” bringing together the state’s disparate right-leaning organizations – including those representing wings of the movement that aren’t natural allies – into a place where he…
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At CCU, Armstrong was his very best ‘happy warrior’ and ‘servant leader’
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Conservative icon Bill Armstrong, who spent 20 years as a Colorado member of Congress and who died this month, took the reins in 2006 as president at Colorado Christian University, where he worked his celebrated brand of leadership to perhaps its best effect, according to Jeff Hunt head of the college’s Centennial Institute. “This year,…
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Bill Armstrong: ‘He will be remembered’
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On Friday night, thousands who were gathered at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver paused for a few moments to share a tribute to Bill Armstrong, the father of the modern Republican Party in Colorado, whose civic work across six decades has inspired multitudes and established Armstrong as a role model for the modern conservative.…
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YESTERYEAR: Special session looms after high court tosses immigration initiative
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Ten Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens threatened that he would be forced to call a special session on immigration matters later in the summer if the Colorado Supreme Court didn’t reverse its decision throwing out a proposed ballot measure that would deny government services to undocumented immigrants. “In…
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YESTERYEAR: Lawmakers scramble to pass United Airlines deal in special session
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Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators were working overtime in a special session called by Gov. Roy Romer to put together an incentive deal to bring “a billion-dollar shower of money” to the Denver area by luring a United Airlines maintenance center, a reservations “megacenter” and expanded flight operations by…
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‘Bachelor’ star Ben Higgins confirms he’s exploring House District 4 bid
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Denver Republican Benjamin Higgins, star of the most recent season of ABC-TV’s hit show The Bachelor, confirmed Thursday he’s considering a run for office in House District 4. “My priority is giving back to my community and serving my neighbors. Since the conclusion of The Bachelor, I have been exploring how I can best be…
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YESTERYEAR: Andrews rips Dems, ‘shadow senator’ for playing coyote to roadrunner Owens
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, excoriated Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, for “doom[ing] compromise on the year’s toughest issue” in the just-concluded special session on growth with his “belligerent, partisan and profane” words. In a stinging guest commentary, Andrews criticized the Democrats at the…
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Hillman lists lessons learned in Senate minority, transportation gets a subcommittee
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assistant Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman shared the “Lessons of a minority senator” he said he’d learned after the Democrats took the gavel in the upper chamber in January for the first time in decades. “In my days as a sportswriter,” he wrote, “this was…
