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Colorado Democratic lawmakers to sponsor bill upholding women’s right to abortion in 2022 session
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The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic women legislators to act, long before a decision from the court is likely. The nation’s highest court is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.…
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‘Strong Sisters’ documentary about women in Colorado politics available for free download
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In celebration of Women’s History Month in March, the acclaimed documentary “Strong Sisters,” which tells the story of elected women in Colorado, is available to download for free through the end of March, its producers said Friday. Women have been getting elected to office in Colorado longer than anywhere else in the world, and the 75-minute…
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‘Strong Sisters’ documentary producers set discussion about women in Colorado politics
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The producers of “Strong Sisters,” a documentary that tells the story of elected women in Colorado, are sponsoring a panel discussion about the same topic at History Colorado. Written and produced by Laura Hoeppner and Meg Froelich, “Strong Sisters” is built around interviews with 76 current and former female elected officials, historians, journalists and campaign strategists.…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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The Hot Sheet, March 14, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Monday, March 14, 2016 DENVER — Coming off of our first busy weekend of county assemblies and conventions — with many more to come — here’s something new this week for all you Hot Sheet fanatics: an actual Hot Sheet. Enjoy it here in the browser, on…
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Froelich: Colorado’s ‘strong sisters,’ then and now
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In 1917, Colorado state Rep. Agnes Riddle famously challenged her colleagues over a red light district: “Why shut the gates of hell on the women of the red light district, and leave the men who put them there free to roam around in respectable society? But I myself will vote for your bill if you’ll…
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The Hot Sheet, February 3, 2016
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016 DENVER – Happy Wednesday everybody — when hope (and today, maybe even the sun) springs forth once again. “I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”…
