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State may or may not be probing ballot fraud in Chaffee County
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Colorado elections watchers who have been following the zig-zagging, on-again, off-again case of the 2012 Republican Primary Chaffee County ballots completed half in blue and half in black ink may get an answer soon whether or not state officials believe the ballots are evidence of election fraud. Or they may get no answer at all.…
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Matthews, Barbour, Brazile talk 9-11, national security and election politics in the summer of Trump
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“It was 1989, and I was on the other side of the Berlin Wall,” said Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball.” He was kicking off a conversation last Thursday on national security and the 2016 race for the White House. He was invited to be celebrity moderator by the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab, along with…
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Denver 9/11 event remembers sacrifice, celebrates community
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After Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock concluded brief introductory remarks, the packed conference hall at the Hyatt Regency downtown last Thursday night went quiet and dark. Four sailors stood stiff-backed on the stage wearing ghost-white uniforms glowing with stage light. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and Gov. John Hickenlooper address the audience at…
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During visit to The CELL, Barbour takes long view on terrorism
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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, in Denver last Thursday, likened the early 21st Century fight against terrorism to the fight against infectious disease in the 19th Century. He described it as an evil we can address and minimize through decades of research and education campaigns aimed at altering mentalities and everyday public practice. The United…
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Irrepressible, towering Matthews leans into politics
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Chris Matthews, excitable liberal host of MBC’s “Hardball,” is instantly recognizable — and not just because of his impish face and floppy hair. It’s Matthews’s irrepressible manner that really signals it’s him. He is relaxed and interested and unabashed about asserting his opinion on anything and everything — his “takes,” as he refers to them,…
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Former FBI director Mueller warns of ongoing terrorism threat, plays down threats to privacy
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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller minced no words Tuesday in a two-hour public interview with television talk show host Aaron Harber about the ongoing threat of terrorist attack he said shadows the United States. He also attempted to allay concerns about national security state overreach that could trample the privacy rights of American citizens. Mueller…
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Jeffco GOP debate-watchers weather CNN marathon
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LAKEWOOD — If you were looking to gauge Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination next year, you probably couldn’t have found a better barometer than the crowd at Misfits in swing-district Jefferson County on Wednesday night. Misfits is a biker bar located next to an oil-change shop in Lakewood, in…
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Campaign launches to sell ‘aerotroplis’ plan to Denver, Adams County voters
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Local officials gathered in an airport parking lot Wednesday morning to launch a campaign to convince Denver and Adams County residents to vote in favor of a “pilot project” that would bring new manufacturing and retail business to the airport. “We’re here today to celebrate DIA as the biggest economic driver in the region,” said…
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Energy Secretary Moniz celebrates climate research in Boulder
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BOULDER — Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz toasted the work of Colorado researchers Monday in a swift one-hour roundtable on climate change with U.S. Rep. Jared Polis at the University of Colorado. “We need more of this,” Moniz told the roughly 20 gathered in a law school conference room. He said the work presented at the…
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Carson takes Springs by storm
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COLORADO SPRINGS — This Front Range city is not a subtle place. It’s a tent revival, a year-round festival of flags and crosses, host to residents of military bases and to long-established evangelical mega-churches and Christian institutional empires. It is home to mountain views so close and wide and colorful it’s hard to take them…
