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Labor veteran Ellen Golombek moves on, draws praise from Hick

Sep 28, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Ellen Golombek will be leaving her role as executive director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment at the end of October, the office of Gov. John Hickenlooper announced. The office issued a statement from Hickenlooper today crediting Golombek with having “transformed” the labor department since taking the helm in 2011. The statement said…
Colorado Supreme Court to take up state’s first-ever fight over embryos

Sep 7, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Who owns embryos after a divorce? The answer isn’t simple. Sometime in the next year, the Colorado Supreme Court is taking up the first-ever challenge to a long-standing state law that keeps embryos from being implanted once a couple is divorced. Mandy and Drake Rooks have three children, the result of in-vitro fertilization. Mandy Rooks…
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner: Obamacare backers ‘finally’ admit health care law needs bipartisan fix

Jul 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Colorado Republican, said Friday that Democrats are “finally” admitting they need to work across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions to the nation’s health care system, adding that the failure by GOP senators to overturn the Affordable Care Act won’t stop efforts to replace the legislation, known as Obamacare. “It’s…
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet rakes Republican health care plan over the coals: ‘This process is a disgrace’

Jul 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Hours before the Senate narrowly voted down Republican health care legislation known as the “skinny” Obamacare repeal, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, excoriated the majority party for rushing votes Thursday on variants of bills that no one but their authors had seen. In a lengthy address on the Senate floor, his voice rising…
EMILY’s List targets Colorado Republicans Mike Coffman, Scott Tipton in 2018 election

Jul 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

EMILY’s List, a national group that recruits and helps fund Democratic women candidates, put two Colorado Republicans “on notice” Thursday, naming U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman and Scott Tipton to its list of top GOP targets in next year’s election. The group charged that Coffman and Tipton have poor records on issues important to women –…
Ex-Colorado GOP chief Steve House calls for cutting off donations to Senate Republicans’ campaign group

Jul 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Former Colorado Republican Party Chairman Steve House said Wednesday that donors should stop contributing to the campaign committee dedicated to electing Senate Republicans until GOP lawmakers get it together to fix the nation’s health care system. “We asked them to defund Planned Parenthood. We asked them to defund Obamacare. They did neither. It is time…
Protesters clad in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ outfits turn out to welcome Mike Pence to Colorado Springs

Jun 24, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Protesters cloaked in red robes and wearing white bonnets like characters in the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” greeted Vice President Mike Pence on Friday when he spoke at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. The 1985 Margaret Atwood novel depicts a dystopian society under fundamentalist rule where women are treated…
Religious liberty executive order signed by Trump perplexes both sides in Colorado

May 4, 2017

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Joey Bunch

President Trump signed an executive order on religious liberty Thursday, but the long-awaited decree was perplexing to advocates on both sides of the issue in Colorado, but not for two Colorado pastors who witnessed the signing in the Rose Garden. The order, however, did little to decide the most contentious issues around religious liberty. It says nothing…
Planned Parenthood, Democratic pollsters say Coffman tempts political fate on defunding

May 2, 2017

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Joey Bunch

A Democratic polling firm and Planned Parenthood have a message for Rep. Mike Coffman: 58 percent of the voters in the 6th Congressional District don’t want him to cut funds for Planned Parenthood. Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning firm based in North Carolina that tends to find what Democrats like to hear, released surveys from…
Spicer mum on Bennet-Gardner proposal to arrest ‘naughty’ senators if government shuts down

Apr 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer this week declined to weigh in on proposals to punish members of Congress if they can’t avert a potential government shutdown at the end of April, saying he doesn’t want to get into which lawmakers are “going to be naughty and nice.” In his daily press briefing on Thursday, Spicer brushed aside a question…