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PATTY LIMERICK | Forge new bonds between urban and rural Colorado
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” William Jennings Bryan said in his famed “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896, “but destroy our farms, and…
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Sand Creek Massacre Capitol grounds memorial plan moves forward
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State officials on Friday advanced a plan to site a new memorial to the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre on the grounds of the Capitol in Denver after more than an hour of emotional testimony delivered mostly by members of regional Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. The proposal won unanimous support from the 12-member Capitol Building Advisory…
