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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Aug. 3. Luis Reyes drove up to Durango from Taos, New Mexico, on a sunny April day in 2017 to tell folks how the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which he heads, left…

Luis Reyes drove up to Durango from Taos, New Mexico, on a sunny April day in 2017 to tell folks how the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which he heads, left its interstate wholesale power provider and struck out on its own – and the room where he spoke at Durango’s Strater Hotel was packed. Kit…