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COVER STORY 2 | Women ranchers at the Colorado statehouse
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As women ranchers form alliances around the state and the West and gain influence, two are also serving in the Colorado General Assembly, and one is now leading the Senate’s Agriculture Committee. Here’s a look: Rep. Kimmi Lewis Lewis, a Republican, is in her second term representing House District 64. She lives in Kim, in…
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ELECTION 2018 | Blue wave gives Polis a Democratic-controlled state Senate
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Colorado’s blue wave didn’t just put Democrat Jared Polis into the governor’s mansion. It also gave him a Democratic-controlled state Senate for his first term in office. As of now, Republicans have a narrow advantage in the state Senate. Come 2019, the Democrats will have control over both chambers of the General Assembly to go…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | EMILY’s List gets behind Democratic legislative candidates
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EMILY’s List, a national group that backs pro-abortion-rights Democratic women candidates, has endorsed 14 Colorado legislative candidates, including a half dozen running for seats that could determine which party has the majority in the state Senate. The group’s president, Stephanie Schriock, said the group’s picks “have the backbones and experience to fight for Colorado’s women…
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Senate Democrats wants audit of Stapleton-run Payback program
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Monday it was House Democrats calling on Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton to answer for the tardiness they perceived in his work as state treasurer. Now three Senate Democrats are asking the Legislative Audit Committee to take a closer look at the “Great Colorado Payback,” run by the treasurer’s office. The program urges people to…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Support for candidates piles up as primary ballots drop
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Candidates in the June 26 primary election continue to receive endorsements from politicians and organizations even as ballots arrive in voters’ mailboxes this week and the campaigns near the finish line. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days: ? Citing his “proven record of leadership on our Second Amendment freedoms,”…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Lundberg backs Watson in GOP treasurer’s race
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The recent slew of endorsements has slowed a bit recently, perhaps because the Legislature’s waning days have drawn the focus of Colorado’s political world, perhaps because few bigwigs remain who have not bestowed their blessings during this long political season. Still, some candidates learned in the last week that they won the support of notables,…
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Strike 4 for Colorado paid family leave measure
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Over the last five years, Colorado lawmakers have tried four times to pass a bill creating a system for providing paid leave for workers taking time off to tend to family needs. And now, for the fourth time, they have failed in the attempt. The Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports that House Bill 1001…
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Rep. Chris Hansen takes Colorado’s net neutrality debate national
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State Rep. Chris Hansen, a Democrat from Denver, has been making the case for Colorado to do what it can to protect consumers as the Trump administration rolls back net neutrality rules. Thursday he made the case in Washington via an op-ed in The Hill newspaper. Hansen responded to a piece last Monday in the…
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For consumers’ sake, let’s keep ‘net neutrality’ in place in Colorado
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On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission put our democracy and our economy at risk. That’s when the FCC voted to deregulate the internet and repeal the 2015 Net Neutrality rules. Net neutrality states that no internet service provider can block your access to any website or service for politically or financially motivated reasons.…
