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YESTERYEAR: James Watt blasts critics, defends Interior policies in Grand Junction
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall declared that Colorado was “back in the big leagues” as he introduced divisive Coloradan Interior Secretary James Watt at the annual Club 20 banquet in Grand Junction. Watt, who noted he carried a Navajo arrowhead to “be protected from newspaper…
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Noonan: Fate of fracking initiatives raise question about need for Raise the Bar
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Oil and gas companies are happy in Colorado right now, following Secretary of State Wayne Williams’s declaration that two anti-fracking initiatives, Nos. 75 and 78, didn’t collect enough signatures to meet the 98,000-plus threshold to get on the ballot. The industry, which had already spent over $15 million to defeat the proposed constitutional amendments, was…
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Johnson races around U.S. to qualify for presidential debates
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Most presidential hopefuls spend their Septembers in places like Ohio and Florida, hoping to win over a handful of swing voters in battleground states. But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. Johnson needs to reach…
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Donald Trump Jr. headlining Denver fundraiser
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Donald Trump, Jr., will attend a fundraiser for the campaign of his father, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Wednesday afternoon in Denver, according to an invitation to the event obtained by The Colorado Statesman. The 38-year-old businessman is the featured guest at a roundtable set for 2:30 p.m. at an undisclosed location, according to invitations…
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Poll: More voters trust Clinton on health care
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From Medicare to medical costs, more voters trust Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to do a better job on health care issues facing the United States, according to a poll out Thursday. But they’re not holding out hope for big improvements. The survey from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found that the future of…
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Trump debuts first Colorado TV ad, hits Clinton on economy
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is hitting the airwaves with $10 million in television ads set to air over the next week in nine battleground states, including Colorado, campaign officials announced Monday. The campaign said it would begin airing a new 30-second ad depicting Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s economic policies as “more of the same –…
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Trump says he’s not flip-flopping on immigration
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Republican Donald Trump insists that he’s not flip-flopping when it comes to his proposal to deport the estimated 11 million people living in the United States illegally – even though his new campaign manager now says his stance is “to be determined.” Trump said in an interview with Fox & Friends on Monday that he’s…
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Trump in Louisiana to survey floods as Manafort resigns
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Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence were in Louisiana Friday to survey the flood damage that killed at least 13 people and displaced thousands more. The visit comes amid an ongoing staff shakeup. Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. In a statement, Trump praised Manafort’s work…