lt. gov. donna lynne
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Ballot returns jump by 150,000; Hickenlooper votes, weighs in on contentious election
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The trickle of ballots being collected by county clerks across Colorado is picking up momentum. Since Friday, another 150,000 ballots have been turned in, according to the latest numbers from the Secretary of State’s Office. As of Monday morning, 618,942 ballots have been received by the clerks in Colorado’s 64 counties. The gap in numbers…
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EXCLUSIVE: Q&A with Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne as Dems’ state assembly begins
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Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne showed up outside the 1stBank Center in Broomfield Saturday morning, site of the Democrats’ state assembly, with her mind unchanged about her route to the ballot. She’s still awaiting word on her petitions to become one of who-knows-how-many Democratic candidates for governor. Lynne has served as lieutenant governor since 2016, when…
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Q&A with Scott Wasserman: ‘The best politics are centered around policy debates, not culture wars’
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The Bell Policy Center is by many accounts the brain trust of Colorado’s center-left. Meet the brain-truster in chief, Scott Wasserman. Going on two years now as the think tank’s president, Wasserman helms an operation that provides a knowledge base and idea incubator for many of the state’s leading Democratic policy makers. But Wasserman doesn’t…
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Lt. Gov. Lynne signs marijuana tax fix into Colorado law
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The bill to fix the mistake made in the 2017 omnibus bill for rural Colorado has now made it into law. Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne signed Senate Bill 88 into law Thursday afternoon. The measure restores the ability of 14 special districts to collect retail marijuana taxes, an authority they lost last year. Lynne signed…
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Colorado ag officials searching for new state fair manager
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Not many folks are thinking of corn dogs, champion steers and riding the Ferris wheel this time of year, but preparations for the 2018 Colorado State Fair are already well underway. The Colorado Department of Agriculture has launched a national search for a new fair division director. The department reports Sarah Cummings, the fair’s general…
