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Trump nominates new U.S. attorney for Colorado

Jun 20, 2018

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Ernest Luning

President Donald Trump has nominated Jason Dunn to serve as Colorado’s U.S. attorney in a long-anticipated move, the White House announced Wednesday. Dunn is a former deputy state attorney general and assistant solicitor general under former Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (now Colorado Springs’ mayor) and a shareholder at the powerful Denver law firm Brownstein…
Democrat Michael Dougherty kicks off campaign for Boulder County district attorney

Feb 27, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Days after learning he’d been appointed to the office and just a week before precinct caucuses, Democrat Michael Dougherty, a former candidate for attorney general, declared Tuesday he’s running for Boulder County district attorney. Gov. John Hickenlooper last week named Dougherty to replace Stan Garnett, who is stepping down after 10 years in office to…
Michael Dougherty appointed to replace Stan Garnett as Boulder district attorney

Feb 22, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday appointed veteran prosecutor Michael Dougherty, a former Democratic candidate for attorney general, to replace Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett, who is stepping down at the end of the month to take a job with a law firm. At the same time, state Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, the other finalist…
Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 11 edition

Feb 11, 2018

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Ernest Luning

I’LL SEE YOUR BERNIE AND RAISE A JOYCE FOSTER … The battle of the bold-faced names is on in the House District 9 Democratic primary, where three-term incumbent state Rep. Paul Rosenthal is facing two candidates seeking to dislodge him from the southeast Denver seat. Less than a week had passed since Bernie Sanders –…
Republican George Brauchler declares he’s running for governor of Colorado in 2018

Apr 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Republican George Brauchler, the district attorney who prosecuted the Aurora theater shooter, officially launched his campaign for governor of Colorado on Wednesday. Declaring that he will be the grassroots conservative in what could be a crowded GOP primary field, Brauchler said he intends to bring leadership to a state that has languished under what’s amounted…
YESTERYEAR: Colorado looks to solve the ‘brown cloud’ and prison reform problems

Mar 9, 2017

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Rachael Wright

Thirty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … According to Don Barbarick, state meteorologist with the Colorado Department of Health’s air pollution division, the Town of Parker was a relative “fail-safe area” for Denver’s “brown cloud,” the notorious billow of smog that settled across Denver’s skyline. Parker was deemed safe because of its elevation,…
PHOTOS: Ytterberg reflects on tenure as Jeffco GOP chair, looks toward future under Trump administration

Feb 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

On his last day as chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party, Don Ytterberg had a few things to say. After welcoming several hundred members of the county GOP’s central committee – along with family, friends and a handful of Republican candidates – to the party’s biennial reorganization meeting on Feb. 4, at Green Mountain…
Intruder alert: How an outsider’s political game was rebuffed in Colorado

Jan 24, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

While most eyes last fall were on the flamboyant billionaire who ran for and ultimately won the presidency, another billionaire – just as politically engaged but far more obscure – was discreetly pouring money into the race for Colorado’s First Judicial District attorney. Yup, a little ol’ DA’s race in Jefferson and Gilpin counties, just west of Denver. It’s a…
? Nicolais: Soros drops $100k in lies on Jeffco DA race

Oct 14, 2016

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Mario Nicolais

George Soros wants to buy a district attorney in Jefferson County. At the end of September, he penned a check for $100,000 for just that purpose. And the downright deceitful mailers he is running against current DA Pete Weir prove he’ll say anything to get his money’s worth. To put Soros $100,000 into perspective, Weir…
Petition circulator says she forged signatures, group calls for expanded probe

Jun 10, 2016

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Ernest Luning

The woman arrested in Denver Wednesday on 34 felony charges admitted she forged signatures on nominating petitions submitted for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser in an interview with a Denver TV station Wednesday. “I have forged signatures, yes,” Maureen Moss, 45, told 9News reporter Whitney Wild in a jailhouse interview. Meanwhile, the left-leaning organization…