mike kopp
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Republican Cynthia Coffman announces campaign team for Colorado gubernatorial run
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Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican candidate for governor of Colorado, announced her campaign team Monday, with less than a month to go before the April 14 GOP state assembly. In addition to political and fundraising consultants with national profiles, Coffman is relying on advisors from her 2014 attorney general campaign and her time in…
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Groups sign on to Kent Thiry-backed proposals to revamp redistricting in Colorado
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A bipartisan organization pushing ballot measures to change the way Colorado draws its legislative and congressional boundaries announced the support Monday of a number of groups representing rural, minority, business and civic reform interests. Fair Districts Colorado, a group chaired by Kent Thiry, the CEO of kidney dialysis giant DaVita Inc., said it now has the…
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Colorado Republicans unveil plans to hold 2018 state assembly at Coors Event Center in Boulder
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Colorado Republicans will convene this year’s state assembly at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder on Saturday, April 14, returning to the same hall where the GOP assembled four years ago, party officials said Friday. “We looked for a venue in Colorado, but they were all booked,” said state party…
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Colorado chambers, business groups tell legislature to put the pedal down
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Dear Colorado legislature, get on the bus, but don’t step on the gas. That’s the takeaway from a letter more than 20 chambers and other business organizations sent to lawmakers Friday urging them to support an ongoing source of revenue for transportation, meaning revenue from growth that’s locked into the state budget. Transportation funding is…
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Transportation is the best place to park a budget surplus, Colorado advocates contend
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Transportation leaders think the best places to spend any surplus in revenue next year is Colorado roads and bridges. A revenue forecast delivered Wednesday suggests the state might have a previously unforeseen $106 million to spend next year. “Policymakers should leverage the dividends being paid out by this growing economy to provide relief from its chief…
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A ballot issue that mandates stagnation and recession? No thanks
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Colorado is a welcoming, pro-business state. We have one of the best performing economies in the country, even when times are tough. When the Great Recession hit almost 10 years ago, for example, we bounced back faster and stronger than the rest of the nation. That’s no accident. For decades, Colorado’s political and business leaders…
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THE PODIUM: New study on Lakewood ballot measure reveals high cost of anti-growth agenda
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Colorado has one of the strongest economies in the country, but we all know living in a growing state can be challenging. I’ll be the first to complain about traffic congestion, for example, and the first to demand more investment in our infrastructure. But as we work on these challenges, we should never pretend growth…
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Business partnership looks at bigger picture of capping Lakewood’s growth
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As Lakewood and other cities consider capping housing growth, a consortium of economic groups say there’s a bigger picture to consider, and it’s spelled out in a study released Wednesday. The REMI Partnership – made up of the Common Sense Policy Roundtable, Colorado Concern, the Colorado Association of Realtors and Denver South Economic Development Partnership…
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Common Sense Policy Roundtable hires research leader for ‘critical’ Colorado issues
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Diverse data in, the best policies out. That’s the view Chris Brown is bringing to Colorado from Washington, D.C., next month. Brown was in Denver this week looking for a house before he officially becomes the director of policy and research for the Common Sense Policy Roundtable, the right-leaning “free market” think tank. While CSPR isn’t…
