peter groff
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A LOOK BACK | Coors Brewery future questioned during years-long strike
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Forty Years Ago This Week: A four-year AFL-CIO directed strike against Coors Brewery that had resulted in stagnant sales led Bill Coors to write in a company-wide publication, “Due to organized labor, a number of beer consumers dislike us enough to discontinue buying our beer.” Colorado labor leaders had called for the strike after being…
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Q&A w/Peter Groff: The former Senate president who went to Washington still misses the Broncos
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Even all these years after Peter Groff left the Colorado General Assembly, and Colorado, for bigger things in the nation’s capital, he needs no re-introduction. But just for the record: He served as the 47th president of the Colorado State Senate and was the first African-American in Colorado to hold that post. He was only…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado GOP performs autopsy on self, Legislature talks regulatory reform
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Twenty Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … Too much sun in the Legislature? “Five hits and you’re out,” was the name of the game sponsored by Rep. Vickie Angler (R-Littleton) and Sen. Bill Schroeder (R-Morrison), which also went by its other more legislative moniker – HB 1159. The new law outlined in Colorado…
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YESTERYEAR: Owens calls special session on redistricting, growth
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens had announced a special legislative session to tackle congressional redistricting and urban growth, calling for it to start in a little over two months, on Sept. 20, and already the parties were going to their corners. “The last time we had a special…
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Groff: Treating teachers like professionals
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It is amazing what treating teachers like professionals can do for teacher retention and student achievement. Rather than force teachers to take a vow of poverty and treat them all the same, regardless of how effective they are in the classroom, in recent years the Douglas County School Board has transformed its treatment of teachers,…
