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Farm and ranch internships pass Colorado Senate, with taxpayers pitching in on pay
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A bipartisan bill passed the Colorado Senate Tuesday, and if the House agrees the state could pick up half the paycheck of farm and ranch interns. The offer is limited. If the bill can make it out of the House and get the governor’s signature by May 8, it would give the Department of Agriculture…
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Republican Olen Lund to take on incumbent Kerry Donovan in Senate District 5
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Olen Lund of Paonia was nominated Friday as the Republican who will take on Democratic incumbent Kerry Donovan of Vail in the Western Slope’s Senate District 5 in November. Lund served on the Delta County Commission from 2004 through 2012. He’s also been the chairman of the Painted Sky Resource Conservation and Development Council, a Colorado…
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Sen. Kerry Donovan solicits governor’s help on net neutrality, rural broadband
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State Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, is calling in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s help on two projects dead to Democrats and internet users, especially in rural Colorado. Donovan’s office shared a letter she the governor Thursday. She said that when Republicans members of the Federal Communications Commission repealed the Obama administration rule that all websites and traffic…
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House Democrats advance healthcare, jobs bills for rural Colorado
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House Democrats were pleased with themselves Thursday when they advanced a pair of partisan bills aimed at helping rural Colorado. Both were the work of Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, who was appointed last October to fill the vacancy left when Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush of Steamboat Springs left the legislature to run for U.S. House.…
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Bipartisanship on energy? Thank Sen. Ray Scott
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Here’s something you don’t hear often enough: Thank you, Ray Scott. The rock-ribbed Republican senator from Grand Junction is a political slugger, but he’s found a soft side to get Democrats to the table on energy issues this session. He also is as strong an advocate for oil and gas, along with coal, as you…
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Major rural broadband bill clears the Colorado Senate, heads to House
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A bill that could put up to a hundred million dollars into financing rural broadband cleared the Colorado Senate Thursday morning with changes its sponsors say will speed up the process. Senate Bill 2 would take dollars from a fund that currently pays for landlines and shifts that over five years to pay for internet…
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Senate Bill to support more farm and ranch interns in Colorado gets bipartisan push
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A Colorado Senate committee gave a 9-2 push to a bill that, if it keeps its momentum, could allow farm and ranch operations in Colorado to hire more interns, or at least do it more cheaply. Senate Bill 42, sponsored by Sen. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, to create the Agricultural Workforce Development Program came out of…
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Insights: In a web of confusion few Colorado parties are neutral on net neutrality
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Between the pendulum of fake news and alternative facts, the average citizen trusts in a leap of faith to understand anything out of Washington these days. The issue of net neutrality lays this bare. Three Republicans outvoted two Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission this month to abolish rules established in 2015 with the open…
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Colorado tilts left in local elections in the year of Trump
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Well past dark on Tuesday, Dan Thomas dropped off his ballot before the polls closed at the Denver Elections Office just across Civic Center park from his office. “It was on my desk,” he said of his ballot. “I saw it walking out, and I don’t want a black mark that says I’m a bad…
