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COLUMN | Beware The Gap: The drive to Denver has never been more enraging, risky or tedious | David Ramsey
You know the feeling. You search for courage, wisdom and patience as the immense task approaches. Your heart races. Your mouth goes dry. Are you worthy to face the challenge? Yes, you are preparing to face the perils of “The Gap” and the drive from Colorado Springs to Denver. The ride to Denver never has…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | New Kansas governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition
KANSAS New governor’s budget repairs may spark GOP opposition TOPEKA, Kansas – The state’s incoming Democratic governor uses words like “decimated” to describe what’s happened to state government over the past decade and will be looking to add staff, boost spending and rethink contracts that outsourced jobs to private companies. Yet the same electorate that…
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Kansas Medicaid expansion in doubt despite governor support
TOPEKA, Kan. – Democratic and moderate Republicans lawmakers worked together last year to try to make Kansas the latest state to expand Medicaid, only to see their bipartisan effort rewarded with a veto from former conservative GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. The election this month of a governor who supports Medicaid expansion seemed to remove the…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town
Here’s a roundup of news from Colorado’s neighbor states. Iconic Dodge City moves its only polling place outside town WICHITA, Kansas – Access to the ballot box in November will be more difficult for some people in Dodge City, where Hispanics now make up 60 percent of its population and have remade an iconic Wild…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Oklahoma GOPers targeted by colleague, dark money
Republicans targeted by colleague, dark money OKLAHOMA CITY – When voters booted a dozen Oklahoma Republican legislators from office in the state primary, the common thinking was that educators angry about classroom funding were behind the ousters. But there were forces at work beyond just agitated teachers. A top GOP House leader actively participated in…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Former Kansas Republican governor endorses Democrat
Former Republican governor endorses Democrat over GOP nominee KANSAS CITY – Republicans in Kansas further splintered this week as the last moderate member of the party to hold the governor’s office endorsed a Democrat for governor over Kris Kobach, the GOP nominee. In a statement, former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves said he planned to support…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Gay Native American Democrat busts candidate mold in Kansas
KANSAS Gay Native American Democrat busts candidate mold in Kansas TOPEKA, Kansas – Democrat Sharice Davids of Kansas has added her name to her party’s increasingly diverse slate of candidates advancing to the November ballot. Davids, who would be the first gay Native American elected to Congress, narrowly won a six-way primary in her eastern…
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Kobach widens lead over governor in Kansas GOP primary
WICHITA, Kansas – Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach slightly widened his lead Tuesday over Gov. Jeff Colyer in the tight Republican race for governor after the state’s second largest county released its count of provisional ballots. The counting began Monday in the contentious Aug. 7 Republican primary. The work is expected to stretch out…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Santa Fe fiesta to drop conquistador reenactment
New Mexico Reenactment of conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe will end SANTA FE – An annual reenactment of a 17th-century Spanish conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe from Native Americans after an uprising will end amid protests that it whitewashed a dark period in New Mexico history. Organizers of the annual Fiesta de Santa Fe said they would…
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Trump faces big test in Tuesday’s Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas votes
President Donald Trump isn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but his sway with Republican voters will be put to the test in a series of votes with major implications for the midterm elections. The main event is a special congressional election in Ohio’s 12th District, where Democrats are trying to flip a seat that has belonged…