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Tips for avoiding parking stress at the National Western Stock Show
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Newsflash: Parking at the National Western Stock Show grounds remains challenging. In talking to attendees and reviewing feedback on social media, frustration mounted last weekend for the record-setting crowds at the 117th year of the Stock Show. The free parking at the Denver Coliseum filled up and was closed well before the 2 p.m. Sunday…
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Denver City Council cleans up election schedule, celebrates start of National Western Stock Show early
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With a change to when the City of Denver holds its municipal election, City Council tied up loose ends left over from the process. The bill comes as 25 candidates vie to be the next mayor. The bill, referred to as the “fair elections cleanup bill” by Andy Szekeres, the city’s campaign finance administrator, was…
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Western Stock Show Association brings on J.J. Ament to board
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The National Western Stock Show board of directors tabbed Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce CEO J.J. Ament to join the board of The Western Stock Show Association. The Chamber and the Stock Show go back to the event’s inaugural year in 1906, when chamber officials co-founded it. The chamber bills itself as the oldest business and…
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Stock show officials formulating plan for new events center after voters reject bond measure
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The old cowboy saying that when you get bucked off the bronco, you’ve got to get back on and try again applies to Denver and the National Western Center Authority when it comes to getting a shiny new arena. In November, voters rejected a $190 million bond measure that would have helped pay for a…
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National Western Stock Show parade canceled
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With weather forecasts calling for snow and “dangerously low temperatures,” National Western Stock Show officials canceled the downtown parade and an event planned at McGregor Square on Thursday. “We will not risk animal safety with slick streets,” President and CEO Paul Andrews said Tuesday. “Being right isn’t always popular; and being popular isn’t always right. We…
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Businessman, rancher Tointon named National Western’s Citizen of the West
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Business leader, rancher and philanthropist Robert G. Tointon will be honored as the next Citizen of the West at January’s National Western Stock Show in Denver. A cattle rancher in Walden who hails from Greeley, Tointon is the chairman and former president and CEO of Phelps-Tointon Inc. He was CEO for 14 at Hensel Phelps…
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PATTY LIMERICK | Forge new bonds between urban and rural Colorado
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” William Jennings Bryan said in his famed “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896, “but destroy our farms, and…
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Capitol M: Behind the Scenes at the Colorado General Assembly 1/26/18
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This week’s face in the crowd: literally…as I was watching the junior livestock auction at last week’s National Western Stock Show, I noticed a familiar face bidding on one of the champion lambs. It was former Democratic Speaker of the House Terrance Carroll of Denver. When I pointed out (via Twitter) that I’d seen him raise…
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Independence Institute set to announce which Coloradan will be named Californian of the Year
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Awards season is upon us, and the conservative jesters at Colorado’s right-leaning Independence Institute are bestowing the inaugural “Californian of the Year” award Wednesday on the lucky Coloradan who has “done the most to turn us into California,” in the words of the think tank’s president, Jon Caldara. While the award has been generating some…
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Denver’s everyman mayor: Michael Hancock’s big agenda
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Michael Hancock is a mayor on a mission. It’s the Friday before the election, and Hancock is promoting a once-in-a-decade, $937 million bond package filled with hundreds of projects to maintain and improve Denver’s transportation, public safety and cultural infrastructure. After a stop at a Spanish-language radio station to pitch the ballot questions, he tours…
