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Colorado’s Cory Gardner travels to South Korea amid jitters over the north
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Following a barrage of ballistic missile tests by the regime of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un – who over the weekend debuted a new anti-aircraft weapon system – Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner set out on mission to South Korea this week to meet its new leadership and reinforce U.S. ties. The Republican junior senator is making the east Asia…
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Assisted suicide gets a ‘no’ — and then a ‘heck no’ — from the church
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Terminally ill patients who invoke Colorado’s new law permitting physician-assisted suicide will, of course, need a place to carry out the act. And their loved ones likely will want a funeral. To which the Catholic Church responds: Don’t expect much help from us. Not only have two of the state’s largest hospital systems, both Catholic-affiliated, opted…
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4 Colorado ex-governors + 1 current guv + 1 Lynn Bartels = a fun read
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All of Colorado’s living ex-governors and the one who’s still in office – that John Hickenlooper fella – sat in on the same panel discussion Thursday, weighing in on the heavy issue of partisanship in contemporary politics. Yes, all five of them: Dick Lamm, Roy Romer, Bill Owens, Bill Ritter and Hick himself. They of course…
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Colorado candidates will get a chance to fix errors on campaign filings
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Lynn Bartels at the Secretary of State’s Office blogs about an obscure but far-reaching campaign-finance reform signed into law this week by Gov. John Hickenlooper, giving candidates for office “… a chance to correct errors on campaign-finance reports and avoid what could be absurd fines.” As we’ve noted before, the bipartisan House Bill 1155 aims to curb the abuse…
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Colorado hemp bill’s author dismisses claims of conflict
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Legislation intended to keep federal water flowing to Colorado’s hemp crop – a growing industry in the state, if you’ll forgive the expression – has unexpectedly led to an anonymous accusation that the bill’s sponsor has a conflict of interest. So says a report in the Durango Herald. Spoiler alert: The law seems to be on the sponsor’s…
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Colorado’s most reclusive billionaire isn’t shy about supporting the GOP
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If you like pizza, chances are you have contributed in a roundabout way to the spectacular financial success of James Leprino and his homegrown family enterprise, Denver-based Leprino Foods. More to the point for those of us who dwell in the political world: You also have contributed in some small way to the success (or otherwise)…
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For Dems, Colorado’s Coffman can do no right — even when he votes their way
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In politics as in life, there’s no pleasing some folks. Take, for example, an e-missive blasted out this afternoon by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (the campaign arm of U.S. House Democrats), denouncing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman over his vote on the latest pending GOP health-care plan. The group’s email – no doubt one of…
