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Hudson: Low morale, pay strain state workers
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Colorado WINS, the state employee labor union simulacrum created by Gov. Bill Ritter through an executive order, held its “third triennial constitutional member convention” this past weekend at the Crowne Plaza in Denver. After several years of struggle, Colorado WINS has been enjoying slow-but-steady growth in its membership. A not-so-coincidental leak of a March 2015…
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Hudson: Free-marketeers gather in Steamboat to celebrate Founding Fathers
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The Steamboat Institute, consciously conceived as a conservative counterbalance to the Aspen Institute’s annual conferences, met last weekend to examine the health of the conservative project. After travel, lodging and registration, the 350-plus delegates probably dropped a thousand dollars apiece for the privilege. If you harbor any doubts that Americans are well on their way…
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Doug Bruce has yet another in series of days in court
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Doug Bruce was in court again this week for his third hearing before District Court Judge Sheila Rappaport since April regarding alleged probation violations. This time the defendant was in charge, representing himself, as he attempted to slap down the legitimacy of the six charges in his original summons. It hasn’t quite moved into Jarndyce…
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Doug Bruce has yet another in series of days in court
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Doug Bruce was in court again this week for his third hearing before District Court Judge Sheila Rappaport since April regarding alleged probation violations. This time the defendant was in charge, representing himself, as he attempted to slap down the legitimacy of the six charges in his original summons. It hasn’t quite moved into Jarndyce…
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Hudson: Honest, humble Jimmy Carter set the bar
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I was 31 years old and living in Denver when I cast my first ballot for president in 1976. My 10-year absence from the polls wasn’t for a lack of interest but was a product of circumstance. The voting age hadn’t yet changed to 18 in 1964, so I missed the Johnson-Goldwater contest. Then in…
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Hudson: RBI honchos handicap presidential candidates
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Rick Ridder and Joanie Braden, the venerable founders of Denver’s RBI political consulting firm, addressed the Downtown Democratic Forum breakfast last Friday. Asked to handicap the pending presidential campaign, Democrat Ridder brought his experience as Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign manager, and more than 40 years consulting with candidates and campaigns across the world, including a…
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Dems pick Larimer County for ’16 state convention
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The Colorado Democratic Party’s Executive Committee approved the selection of the Budweiser Events Center in Larimer County for next year’s state convention at the committee’s meeting in Salida on Saturday. As part of an effort to reach out to Democrats across the state, the party has been attempting to schedule more meetings outside the Denver…
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Hudson: Tracking The Donald in GOP debate
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The 24 million Americans who watched last week’s initial Republican presidential primary debate were not all Republicans. A hundred Democrats, give or take, gathered at the Governor’s Park sports bar in Denver to view what they hoped would prove an embarrassing clown car competition. If it weren’t for the closed captioning on multiple flat screen…
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Hudson: Move to reverse Citizens United can be an uphill, lonely battle
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Stephen Justino of Move to Amend drew a dozen voters to the Mercury Café in Denver on Sunday for a Call to Action aimed at overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling. The 2010 decision established two legal principals: Corporations are entitled to free speech protections like those extended to persons, and spending…
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Hudson: Chamber of Americas hears discussion about Trans-Pacific trade agreement
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Last Thursday the Chamber of the Americas sponsored a luncheon tutorial to explain the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement at the Palm restaurant in Denver. Chamber director Gil Cisneros invited Tyler Rauert, a trade attorney with the Polaris Law Group in Longmont, to educate members on the TPP’s potential impacts on Colorado exporters. Rauert kicked…
