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Petition management firm used by Lamborn, Stapleton has checkered past
COLORADO SPRINGS – Questions about the validity of petitions circulated for a gubernatorial candidate and incumbent congressman have put a Colorado Springs firm in the middle of a political controversy that’s rocking the state. But this isn’t the first time officials have questioned the work of the firm hired to collect signatures to win spots…
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Appointments bill sparks heated debate in Colorado Senate
Update: the Senate passed Senate Bill 43 on a party-line vote Tuesday, 18-16, with one senator excused and Sen. Cheri Jahn, an unaffiliated senator from Wheat Ridge, voting with the Democrats. While the bill reauthorizing the Colorado Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission still awaits state Senate review, Senate Democrats and Republicans…
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Rep. Coffman fends off primary challenge in Colorado’s swing 6th District
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, held off a challenge Saturday at the GOP’s 6th Congressional District assembly from Roger Edwards, a conservative activist who criticized the five-term incumbent’s moderate positions and attempts to distance himself from President Donald Trump. Coffman’s supporters, however, cheered their candidate, who has won an unbroken string of elections…
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Hickenlooper seeks to coordinate social benefits before leaving office
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday he plans to spend part of his last months in office trying to coordinate his administration’s social benefit programs. Hickenlooper spoke mostly about job training and child welfare during a forum at the Aspen Institute public policy foundation in Washington. He said his first seven years…
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Senate gives preliminary OK to 2018-19 state budget
DENVER – The Colorado Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to House Bill 1322, the Long Appropriations Bill, working through 78 84 85 118 (oh heck, I give up!) amendments proposed to the $28.9 billion state budget into late Wednesday night. By evening’s end, the Senate managed to blow an even bigger hole in the state budget ($73 million…
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Northern Command ‘waiting for guidance’ in Colorado Springs as Trump orders troops to border
COLORADO SPRINGS – After what insiders say was a surprise announcement by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the Colorado Springs command that could send U.S. troops to the Mexican border was waiting for guidance. The U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs oversees U.S. military operations on the continent. The command on Tuesday knew Trump said…
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No council investigation of Denver Mayor Hancock on suggestive messages
DENVER – The Denver City Council, while calling Mayor Michael Hancock’s conduct “unacceptable,” says it will not formally investigate Hancock over claims that text messages he sent to a security-team member several years ago amounted to sexual harassment. KUSA-9News reports that that the council announced late Monday it had decided against a public investigation. The…
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Bennet, Tipton talk energy, broadband and healthcare at Club 20 event
GRAND JUNCTION – U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton talked Saturday about issues close to Western Colorado’s hearts and wallets. They told the spring meeting of the Club 20 Western Slope coalition what they’re doing in Washington to improve energy development, the high cost of healthcare, the slowness of rural broadband internet service…
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How EPA’s rollback of auto mileage rule would impact Colorado
The rollback of federal auto-mileage standards – expected by the Trump administration in the coming days – could erase some of the progress being made in Colorado on cutting air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, according to analyses by environmental groups. “Having this rule yanked out from under us will send Colorado backward,” said Will…
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Coffman says she’d sign bill repealing ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation
DENVER – Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican candidate for governor, told a GOP group last week she would sign a bill removing protection based on sexual orientation from Colorado’s anti-discrimination law. Her remarks drew criticism from the state’s leading LGBTQ-advocacy organization, but Coffman later said she meant she would repeal the protection only if…