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Hudson: Trump’s wild ride to convention could hit historically predicted dead end
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“Close only counts in horseshoes.” The old adage is nowhere more meaningful than at national political conventions. This round, Democrats are salivating at the opportunity to run against Donald Trump in November; but, truth be told, he is becoming increasingly less likely to emerge as the Republican nominee. One minor historical fact consistently overlooked is…
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Dale Tooley autobiography tops charts, political dinners proliferate
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … I’d Rather Be in Denver — Dale Tooley’s Own Story, reached the top of the local best-seller lists just a few weeks after its release, according to both The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. The former Denver district attorney had completed his autobiography…
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Hudson: Columbine as ‘cultural script’ for next generation of shooters
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While there is satisfaction in Colorado’s hipness — the first state to retail legal marijuana, younger and healthier on average than our 49 compatriots and the No. 1 destination for migrating millennials — we tend to repress our history as the site of both the Columbine High School killings and the Aurora movie theater slaughter.…
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Hudson: Competing views of capitalism clash in liquor store and grocery aisles
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Whenever an economic turf war breaks out at the Capitol — complete with appeals for change to state law purportedly intended to provide greater consumer convenience — the public interest is rarely at stake. Rather, the purpose is almost always to make it more convenient for one set of merchandisers to capture your discretionary dollars…
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Hudson: Designed to fail: Only the members of Colorado’s Obamacare co-op cared about its survival
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Most Coloradans continue to obtain medical insurance through health plans managed by their employers, thereby avoiding direct interaction with Connect for Health, Colorado’s Obamacare health insurance exchange. They also know next to nothing about Colorado HealthOP, the nonprofit, consumer-driven co-op created under provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which was just forced to close its…
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Hudson: Have reformers made politics uglier without making them any cleaner?
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I celebrated my 70th birthday on Sept. 29 with my kids, grandkids, wife and friends. The good news is that I might not have to purchase any wine until after Christmas. At my 50th birthday, I reported the only two things I was absolutely certain had improved since 1945 were beer and sunscreen. I have…
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Hudson: Worry turns into confidence at Clinton debate-watch party
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Polly Baca, Colorado’s first female Hispanic state Senator and Democratic National committeewoman, who later served for many years as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, shoehorned 40 Clinton supporters into her downtown Denver condo for the first Democratic presidential debate of 2016. State Rep. Angela Williams, who’s running for a Denver Senate seat next…
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Hudson: Education reformers deal with shifting alliances
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In the fall of 1957 I was enrolled in Algebra I with Mr. Grzeszkiewicz at Sherwood Junior-Senior High School in Montgomery County, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. (The first 10 points on every quiz was awarded for correctly spelling Mr. G’s name on the top of your exam.) That October the Soviet Union launched Sputnik,…
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Hudson: ‘Citizen patriot’ Atkinson remembered
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Katy Lewis, later Katy Atkinson, was one of those citizen patriots who devoted virtually the whole of her adult life to political involvement. She died last week after a lengthy fight against brain cancer. When I arrived at the Capitol in 1979, Katy was just off the Sheriff Scotty congressional campaign, when Republican Ed Scott…
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Hudson: Republican debaters seem to live in a different country
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Denver Democrats assembled at the Irish Snug on East Colfax last Wednesday night to monitor round two of the Republican slugfest intended to help winnow its ample field of Presidential candidates. A handful of diehards arrived from home after viewing the four “one-percenters” who failed to qualify for the main event. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal,…
