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Cannabis infused beer merges two booming, billion dollar industries
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Fusing two booming Colorado industries, Mason “Dude” Hembree plans to launch a line of cannabis-infused beers – yes, cannabis-infused beers. The brews, coined George Washington’s Secret Stash will launch early next year. Under his brewery Dad and Dudes Breweria, he’ll untap the beer, made with extract from cannabis sativa stalk and stem, at the Great…
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Woods, Zenzinger pitch the middle as problem solvers in state Senate rematch
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The maps on the wall at Democrat Rachel Zenzinger’s state Senate District 19 campaign headquarters in Arvada are a web of lines outlining voter precincts, each precinct speckled with marker colors. Some precincts are predominantly Republican, some predominantly Democratic, and there are numbers written onto each of them. “479-480” reads one of them, another “412-410.”…
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Trump to massive crowd at Denver rally: ‘We have to win this state’
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump filled a converted Air Force hanger on Friday in Denver for an hour-long speech that didn’t disappoint an avid crowd, including Republican elected officials, GOP candidates and Trump supporters who say they are counting on the billionaire to shake up a corrupt system and get the country back on track.…
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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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Noonan: Republican senators lay off contentious bills to hold the chamber
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Nine state senators are up for re-election and nine Senate seats are up for grabs in November. Seven of those seats have fewer than 9,000 votes separating the parties in registration numbers, while two seats have under 800. The Senate is 18-17 to the Republicans, all of which explains why the Senate was a more…
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With much grumbling, Senate votes overwhelmingly for state budget
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Democrats and Republicans in the Senate want you to know they don’t love this year’s $27 billion budget, but they voted for it in a landslide. “The bottom line is, I’m going to vote yes on this budget because of the great work of the Joint Budget Committee members (who drafted it). I’m proud of…
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Small Business Day attendees at Capitol celebrate victories, gird against defeats
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Colorado legislative leaders and top business owners mingled on St. Patrick’s Day with about 100 attendees at Small Business Day events at the Capitol sponsored by the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business. Group members and guests spoke with enthusiasm about benefits the small business community brings to the state economy and…
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Delicious Ag Day at the Capitol a favorite this year, like every year (video)
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On Agriculture Day at the Capitol, everyone falls in line. Lawmakers, aides, lobbyists and hungry Cap Hill lunchers had March 16 marked on their calendars since the beginning of the session — because Colorado Ag Day is the day that the main floor of the building is stocked with some of the best food the…
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The Hot Sheet, February 23, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Tuesday, February 23, 2016 DENVER – Good morning, and welcome to The Hot Sheet, Colorado’s premier daily political newsletter. We are now exactly one week away from Super Tuesday (what?! you say … yep, February – the short-straw month, remember?), and today the Republican presidential candidates will square off in…
