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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…
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Joe Garcia — remember him? — is Hancock’s pick to lead National Western authority
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Just when we thought he was out, they pulled him back in. Joe Garcia stepped down as Colorado’s lieutenant governor last year, but now he’s Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s pick to oversee reconstruction of the National Western Complex. “Standing up the work of the Authority Board marks another important milestone in the future of the…
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Lawmakers laud the Colorado State Fair on opening night in Pueblo, but tax support grows thin
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State lawmakers were out in force at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo Friday night. The celebration of Colorado’s farming, ranching and funnel cakes started Friday and runs thorugh Sept. 4. After the rodeo Friday night, Joe Diffie sang, “If the Devil Danced in Empty Pants.” If the devil got tired of dancing, there was…
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YESTERYEAR: Legislature’s Dem minority presses hot-button Medicaid funding issue
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… Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Democrat state legislators were making their opinions known on what they contended was a poor handling of Medicaid funding by the Republican majority. The minority party in both chambers had kicked off the 1997 legislative session clashing early and often with GOP leadership over Medicaid. One Senate…