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Colorado’s Cory Gardner draws line at proposed Energy Department cuts
In advance of a pending Trump administration 2018 budget proposal to slash U.S. Department of Energy research programs, Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner joined fellow Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and four other GOP members of the Senate in a letter to President Trump urging him to stay the course on the funding.…
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Centennial claims ‘victory’ in Denver’s decision to dump 4/20 rally
The conservative Centennial Institute blasted out the email equivalent of a high-five following news over the weekend that the organizer of the annual 4/20 rally in downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park will be denied an event permit for the next three years. The Colorado Christian University-affiliated thank tank and advocacy group’s director, Jeff Hunt, not only welcomed…
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Colorado stakeholders back Sen. Cory Gardner’s call for BLM to go west
…And Horace Greeley himself, were he still with the living, no doubt would be on board. Gardner’s Washington office in fact sent us media types a press release today identifying those stakeholders (Greeley wasn’t included). All of which probably belongs in our “Cory Gardner” file’s not-surprising-but-still-noteworthy subfolder. As has been widely reported, the Republican junior senator from Colorado…
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Public funding for political campaigns? It could happen in Denver
You say it’s already taxing enough just listening to them, not to mention carting their campaign mailers to the recycle bin? OK, but maybe there’s more to it than that, so read on. What single-payer is to the national health-care debate, publicly funded campaigns long have been to the movement for campaign-finance reform – a…
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Don’t care for your boss? Buy him out! … And now, the state will help
Colorado could see more success stories like Fort Collins’s New Belgium Brewing Co. – a 100 percent-employee-owned dynamo in our state’s booming craft-brew trade – with Gov. John Hickenlooper signing into law this week a bill to assist employee buyouts. The bipartisan House Bill 1214 – sponsored in the House by Denver Democratic state Rep. James Coleman, and in the upper chamber by…
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Strange bedfellows Coffman, DeGette fight feds’ marijuana meddling
It’s a marriage made over marijuana; specifically, Colorado voters’ decision to legalize it in 2012, and the federal government’s seeming inability to accept it. Colorado U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman, the Aurora Republican, and Diana DeGette, the Denver Democrat, are again joining forces to push back at Donald Trump over pot just as they did against Barack Obama, reports Denverite’s…
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Signatures, and message, delivered to Denver City Hall: End 4/20 rally
Results are in from the Centennial Institute‘s petition drive to stick a fork in the annual 4/20 pot fest that takes over downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park every April 20, reports Denverite’s Adrian Garcia. Jeff Hunt, the director of the conservative Christian think tank based at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, dropped off more than 4,000 signatures today at Denver…
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A special session for wind power? So says Independence’s Amy Cooke
Citing unnamed sources, the Independence Institute’s Amy Oliver Cooke asserts in a blog post that Gov. John Hickenlooper has an ulterior motive in talking up a possible special session: He wants to promote wind power on a massive scale. And he wants to throw the keys to behemoth public utility Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest power provider. According…