larimer county Archives

YESTERYEAR: Mud slung and accusations hurled in GOP state chair race

Mar 16, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The John V. Christensen Award, the highest and post prestigious honor to be awarded by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), was awarded to the executive director of the Denver Technological Center, George MacKenzie Wallace. According to the DRCOG, “In October 1972, the John V. Christensen…

Larimer Commissioner Lew Gaiter throws hat in ring for Republican gubernatorial nod

Mar 8, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Larimer County Commissioner Lew Gaiter joined the race for the Republican nomination for governor of Colorado this week, saying he wants to mend all manner of divisions – particularly between rural and urban dwellers – and to make sure the entire state is enjoying the economic recovery. “Our great country has been hit with a…

PHOTOS: Ytterberg reflects on tenure as Jeffco GOP chair, looks toward future under Trump administration

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

On his last day as chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Don Ytterberg had a few things to say. After welcoming several hundred members of the county GOP’s central committee – along with family, friends and a handful of Republican candidates – to the party’s biennial reorganization meeting on Feb. 4, at Green Mountain…

Growth limitation measure rejected by title board

Dec 8, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

A proposed growth limitation constitutional amendment to submit to Colorado voters in 2018 was found to not meet the state’s single-subject requirement by the Secretary of State‘s title review board Wednesday, Dec. 7. The backer of the proposed ballot measure, Daniel Hayes of Golden, has seven days to file a motion for a rehearing and…