mike hesse
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YESTERYEAR: Denver grapples with economic challenges in wake of oil price plunge
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Cities across the country were facing challenges in the face of economic pressures – a recent study showed that 60 percent of 660 American cities surveyed were anticipating budget deficits in 1986 – but Denver was not demoralized, said Mayor Federico Peña in his State of the…
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Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … While the state was only in the “infancy stage” as a player in presidential politics, Colorado’s second presidential primary, in 1996, was shining a spotlight on a state that had been mostly ignored by presidential hopefuls. “Colorado got an enormous amount of attention from the…
