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Controversy abounds in candidate field for Aurora City Council
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Aurora’s race for City Council is heating up, and here we thought it would be because of the slew of liberal candidates running for the traditionally conservative body. The Aurora Sentinel’s Kara Mason has been busy muckraking on candidates running for local office this election cycle. The other day, she reported on candidate Abel Laeke…
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Aurora: RTD’s proposed cuts to city light rail line ‘premature’
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A proposal to scale back light rail service on a route exclusive to Aurora has miffed city officials who are characterizing reductions as unfair and premature. The Regional Transportation District has targeted the 10.5-mile R line, which runs through the city along Interstate 225, for reduced service due to poor ridership. But, as the city…
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Colorado casino lobby doesn’t gamble on gaming in Aurora
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If you get bit by the gambling bug and want to deposit some of your hard-earned cash in the slots or try your luck at roulette or blackjack, you’d have to leave the Denver-metro area for someplace like Blackhawk or Central City. That’s by design, as Coloradans have said no to gaming expansion on the…
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A view of Colorado’s opioid-abuse crisis from the frontline in Pueblo
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ColoradoPolitics.com and other news media have reported extensively on efforts by the 2017 legislature to tackle the rampant abuse of opioids across Colorado; notably, a pilot program authored by two Democratic state lawmakers from Pueblo was OK’d by their peers and signed into law by the governor. Senate Bill 74, sponsored by Sen. Leroy Garcia…
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What’s in it for Colorado’s Steel City? Pueblo’s Pulp asks Sen. Leroy Garcia
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For an alternative take on the General Assembly — one that’s as authentically Colorado as metro Denver’s, yet entirely different — look no further than Pueblo-based Pulp Newsmagazine’s debrief with Pueblo Democratic state Sen. Leroy Garcia. Garcia, who is assistant Democratic leader in the GOP-run upper chamber, sat recently with Pulp News Editor Kara Mason and reviewed legislative business…
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Religious, community leaders organize prayer vigil for Planned Parenthood shooting
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Several religious and faith-based organizations gathered Sunday at the Colorado Springs Christian School to pray for the victims, witnesses, first responders and Colorado Springs community in the shadow of the Nov. 27 Planned Parenthood shooting. “This was a time just to come together,” said Colorado Family Action policy director Sarah Zagorski. “This…
