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The Colorado Lottery’s mega-bad idea | Sondermann

Dec 1, 2025

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Eric Sonderemann

There are plenty of lousy, miserable, misguided whims out there. Then, every so often, you come across a notion so wrong-headed that it qualifies as phenomenally bad. Or, in words the marketing whizzes at the Colorado Lottery might understand, let’s call this a mega-bad idea. The proposal in question, recently adopted by the Lottery Commission,…
Trump nominates former New Mexico lawmaker to lead Bureau of Land Management | OUT WEST ROUNDUP

Nov 16, 2025

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The Associated Press

MONTANA Trump nominates BLM chief BILLINGS — President Donald Trump nominated a former lawmaker from New Mexico on Nov. 5 to oversee the management of vast public lands that are playing a central role in Republican attempts to ramp up fossil fuel production. The nominee for the Bureau of Land Management, former U.S. Rep. Steve…
Colorado Lottery reaches $4 billion in proceeds

Jan 24, 2023

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Abbey Soukup

The Colorado Lottery reached $4 billion in proceeds Tuesday, on the same day the organization celebrated its 40th anniversary of its first scratch ticket. Since its establishment in 1983, the Colorado Lottery has brought funding to many of the state’s greatest assets – the great outdoors and public schools – through games such as Scratch, Mega Millions,…
Colorado Lottery names new director

Jun 21, 2018

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Mark Harden special to Colorado Politics

Tom Seaver has been named director of the Colorado Lottery. Michael Hartman – executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue, which oversees the Lottery, made the announcement Thursday. “Seaver brings more than 30 years of lottery industry experience as a leader, high-level manager and consultant with state and international lotteries and to lottery vendors,…
Gov. John Hickenlooper names Michael Hartman to head Colorado Department of Revenue

Jul 12, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday announced that Michael S. Hartman will be taking over as executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue at the end of the month. He’s replacing Barbara Brohl, who said last month she would be stepping down after six years in the position. Hartman is senior vice president at Mutual…
Barbara Brohl to step down as Department of Revenue chief this summer

May 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday announced that Colorado Department of Revenue Executive Director Barbara Brohl is stepping down from the position she has held for nearly six years. During her tenure, Brohl helped put in place the world’s first regulatory system for the recreational marijuana industry created by Colorado voters with a 2012 constitutional amendment.…
Stiffler: Pot revenue no panacea for state budget

Jul 28, 2016

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Chris Stiffler

If you found a $20 bill while walking down the street, would you then decide to quit your job? Most likely, you’d just consider yourself mildly more fortunate than you were before finding the twenty. Sure, you’d have lunch paid for that day, but you’d still understand that you would need to keep getting up…
DelGrosso: Theme of session is ‘missed opportunities’

Jun 23, 2016

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Brian DelGrosso

From the start of the session, House Republicans identified increasing funding for education and transportation and addressing Colorado’s affordable housing shortage as our top priorities. Unfortunately, our Democrat colleagues did not share our same priorities and instead focused on passing a partisan agenda that penalized, over-regulated, even publicly shamed Colorado’s job creators. Democrats rejected our…