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Heidi Ganahl, Brian Watson join Leadership Program of the Rockies board
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CU Regent Heidi Ganahl, founder and CEO of the Camp Bow Wow pet care company, and Northstar Commercial Partners founder and CEO Brian Watson have joined the board of Leadership Program of the Rockies, the organization announced Monday. Both entrepreneurs are graduates of the program, which has been developing and training conservative leaders in Colorado since 1989.…
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YESTERYEAR: Youth government mimics real life, politicos undergo reapportionment drama, Hick faces Denver election woes
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … When the cat’s away … While Colorado legislators were recessed, in their place, the Annual Youth in Government Program took over the House, Senate, judiciary and governor’s seats to get a hands on lesson in government affairs. Entering its 48th year, the youth program – sponsored…
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Hillman: Embracing Obamacare caused Colorado budget crunch
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The newest dubious justification for weakening Colorado’s limits on government spending is “our aging population.” The spending lobby seeks to frighten senior citizens by telling them that the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in our state constitution “hampers the ability to fund key programs.” Parents are told that public schools are in a squeeze because state…
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Brophy and Hillman: HB 1337 vital to eastern Colorado
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Editor: Local ground water management districts protect the underground water rights of farmers and other residents of rural Colorado. House Bill 1337, now under consideration at the state Capitol, will ensure that water speculators cannot play deceptive games in court in order to exhaust the limited legal budgets of these districts. HB 1337 will clarify…
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Hillman lists lessons learned in Senate minority, transportation gets a subcommittee
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Assistant Senate Minority Leader Mark Hillman shared the “Lessons of a minority senator” he said he’d learned after the Democrats took the gavel in the upper chamber in January for the first time in decades. “In my days as a sportswriter,” he wrote, “this was…
