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Hick signs safeguards against forged signatures on Colorado candidates’ petitions
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Remember Republican rising star Jon Keyser’s highly touted but short-lived bid for the U.S. Senate last year? His ambitions imploded en route to last June’s GOP primary amid findings that a worker had forged signatures to land him a spot on the primary ballot. In the end, paid petition circulator Maureen Marie Moss, 45, was sentenced to four years probation on…
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Governor chided for mulling ‘blackmail tactics’ to keep insurer on board Obamacare
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Actually, the pro-GOP advocacy group Compass Colorado used even stronger language in a shot at Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper this week over his proposed use of carrot and stick on insurers to keep the state’s health insurance exchange viable. The governor himself put a more pragmatic spin on it. At issue is the governor’s acknowledgment Wednesday on Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
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The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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Colorado’s Justice Eid gets Trump team’s nod for Gorsuch’s old job
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As anticipated, Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid has been nominated by the Trump administration to serve on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Eid previously had landed on the president’s list of prospects for an opening on the U.S. Supreme Court. That job ultimately went to the 10th Circuit’s Neil Gorsuch, of Colorado,…
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Not much of an apology from Aurora school board member who drew fire
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Remember the Aurora Public Schools board member who raised eyebrows last month with her remarks about immigrants – of which there are many in the school district and surrounding city? The member, Cathy Wildman, followed up this week with an explanation of sorts. Chalkbeat Colorado’s Yesenia Robles reports that at a board meeting Tuesday, Wildman, “offered a lengthy, emotional response that…
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Voice of small biz in Colorado tips hat to Hick for signing business-friendly bills
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We noted last month after the 2017 session was gaveled to a close that the National Federation of Independent Business in Colorado had given lawmakers a B- overall for their work. While the grade wasn’t too shabby, as we also noted, longtime NFIB state Director Tony Gagliardi didn’t hold back criticism of the legislature for…
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If the Colorado Film Office was playing fast and loose, just imagine …
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… what other state agencies might have a similarly freewheeling approach with the public’s checkbook. So surmises conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics. ColoradoPolitics.com’s Peter Marcus reported earlier this week on a state audit that found none of the $1.9 million in incentives awarded to film projects shot in Colorado had met all the criteria for…
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Denver’s pols have a bone to pick with President Trump’s budget
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… But of course, that comes as no surprise. Sure, the depth and breadth of the cuts in federal funding proposed by the White House have sweeping implications for urban centers like the Mile High City. Then again, it’s not like Denver’s Democratically inclined political establishment has had many kind words for The Republican Donald since his unexpected elevation to the…