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Aurora police brutality victim faces ‘long road’ to recovery, attorney says
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Attorneys for Kyle Vinson said he remained hospitalized and faced “a long road” to recovery a day after the Aurora Police Department released a video of his alleged assault at the hands of officers. Aurora officers John Haubert and Francine Martinez were on leave from the department as prosecutors mull formal charges. Haubert turned himself…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Coffman moves on from Congress and Trump
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Nov. 17. Vietnam-era Navy veteran Patrick Flesher from Buena Vista lit up with excitement when he recognized U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the lobby of the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center in…
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Colorado senators pressure VA to improve veteran health care
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WASHINGTON — Colorado’s U.S. senators are demanding that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs take action to reduce wait times at the agency’s health care facilities in the state after Congress held a hearing on medical treatment for veterans. Senators Cory Gardner, a Republican, and Michael Bennet, a Democrat, asked in a letter for a…
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Farm bill passes Congress despite 3 ‘no’ votes from Colorado Republicans
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A long-awaited, $867 billion farm bill is on its way to President Trump’s desk with overwhelming bipartisan support — despite “no” votes from three Colorado Republican congressmen. The U.S. House on Wednesday voted 369-47 to approve the farm bill and send it to the president for signing after the Senate approved the compromise version on…
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With changeover in Congress, are lean times ahead for the military?
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Departing GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, who lost his seat in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District in November in a tide that swept Democrats into state office, puts it bluntly: “We can count on the fact that the defense budget is going to be cut.” It may sound like sour grapes coming from a defeated incumbent,…
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COVER STORY | Coffman moves on from Congress and Trump
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Vietnam-era Navy veteran Patrick Flesher from Buena Vista lit up with excitement when he recognized U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the lobby of the new Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Aurora. “I thought you’d be taller,” said Flesher, squeezing and shaking his fellow veterans hand. “You look bigger on TV.” It helps to have a…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Even after blue wave, Colorado retains its purple hue
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Team Blue “ran the table” in last Tuesday’s Colorado state elections. It’s been “four score and two” years since Democrats won all four statewide elected positions in the state back in 1936 – governor, treasurer, attorney general, and secretary of state – and won majorities in both houses of the state legislature. What accounts for…
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SLOAN | Colorado voters embraced GOP’s ideas; its candidates, not so much
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Election night has come and gone with the usual mix of elation or misery, allocated on the basis of whose ox has just been gored. Now come the seemingly inexhaustible homiletic exercises in post-mortem analysis. In that spirit, a few thoughts: The risk of course is that they will have to own the results of…
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ELECTION 2018 | Crow beats Coffman in key race for control of Congress
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Voters in Denver’s suburbs just did something that doesn’t happen very often in Colorado in an election – unseat a congressional incumbent. Members of either major party have only managed to pull it off three times in the last 30 years, but Democratic attorney Jason Crow ended Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s three decades in…
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Republicans fear Trump has conceded the House as he fights for Senate wins
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By Robert Donachie, Washington Examiner As President Donald Trump makes his way across the country to stump for Republican candidates in tight Senate races, Republican aides worry that the House of Representatives is being left behind. In the final days before the midterm elections, Trump is traveling to West Virginia, Indiana, Montana, Florida, Georgia, Ohio,…
