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Colorado’s Cory Gardner wants to ‘ramp up’ sanctions on China in joust with N. Korea
Demonstrating yet again that he aims to own North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un – if not in the slangier sense, then at least as an issue on Capitol Hill – Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner denounced the rogue ruler’s latest ballistic missile test and called on the Trump administration Monday to pressure China to help rein Kim in.…
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Chalkbeat taps its readership for legislative highlights on the ed beat
The state’s distinguished news service for all things education didn’t just tell its readers what its staff thought were the biggest stories – and biggest players – of the just-concluded 2017 legislative session; it asked them. And Chalkbeat Colorado’s ace correspondent Nicholas Garcia compiled the feedback and beamed out the results via the final edition of…
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Coalition tracks Colorado lawmakers’ path toward more open government
Legislation affecting public records and our access to them typically gets eclipsed by the bigger-ticket bills involving transportation, schools and the like. Understandable; the debate over government transparency is seldom sexy. Yet, it’s not just us newsfolk who benefit from efforts to open up government, and it’s not just us who lose out when government slams the door on…
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Robo-comments run amok for Coloradans who never signed on
You can add a new hashtag to the list spawned by #FakeNews: #FakeComments. Denver Fox31-TV’s Emily Allen reported over the weekend that some 7,000 Coloradans posted a comment – the same comment, in fact – to a federal government website in favor of ending the rules on “net neutrality.” Only, none of them knew about it.…
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Another vote for free trade — from the Colorado Farm Bureau
One of the state’s most prominent voices for agriculture weighed in today on the side of Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner — and free trade — following his vote Thursday in the U.S. Senate against Robert Lighthizer as the Trump administration’s U.S. trade representative. The Colorado Farm Bureau, reached for comment, provided this statement from President Don Shawcroft:…
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Colorado candidates could get a chance to fix campaign-finance oversights …
… before getting slapped with stiff fines over innocent clerical errors in the periodic disclosures they must file with the state. That’s provided the governor OKs House Bill 1155 following its adoption earlier this week by the legislature. Perhaps of even greater consequence, the legislation will make it less likely that Colorado’s strict campaign-finance rules will be gamed as they now are by…