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Biden travels to Colorado to designate Camp Hale as national monument
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President Biden arrives in Colorado ahead of Camp Hale visit9News President Joe Biden will travel to Colorado on Wednesday to establish Colorado’s Camp Hale as a national monument, acquiescing to a years-long request from the state’s political leaders. The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument is the first entirely new monument designation since Biden took office. The…
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Biden to designate Colorado’s Camp Hale as national monument, report says
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President Joe Biden is set to make Camp Hale an official national monument next week during a trip to Colorado. The Los Angeles Times reported the development on Thursday, saying Biden and Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet will host an event on Wednesday for the official designation. Camp Hale will be the first entirely new monument…
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Dozens of state leaders urge Biden to preserve Colorado’s public lands
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Dozens of state politicians and local leaders wrote to President Joe Biden, urging him to use his executive powers to protect Colorado’s public lands by designating Camp Hale and a surrounding mountain range as a national historic monument. Camp Hale and the Tenmile Range are where the 10th Mountain Division trained for mountain and winter…
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CNN cites Polis among Democrats who refuse to challenge Biden
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made it to CNN’s list of potential primary challengers to President Joe Biden — though Polis and the other Democrats ruled out running against their party’s leader, according to the article published on Monday. The article said some have talked about Polis as a potential contender in the Democratic primary for…
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Biden taps 5 Coloradans to serve on national wildfire mitigation commission
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The Biden administration tapped five Coloradans to serve on a commission charged with developing strategies to tackle the national wildfire crisis. Dan Gibbs, Jim Hubbard, Madelene McDonald, Scott Miller and Mike Morgan were selected to be five of the 36 non-federal members of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, the departments of the Interior,…
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Polis applauds Biden’s call to suspend federal gas tax: ‘I would dare anyone to oppose’
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Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday applauded President Joe Biden for urging the U.S. Congress to suspend the federal gas tax to fight record-high gas prices. Biden’s administration announced the call-to-action Wednesday, requesting that Congress suspend the federal gas tax for three months, through September. He also called on states to take similar action, such as…
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Colorado delegation urges Biden to consider national security, cost in Space Command basing decision
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Keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs. That was the message Colorado’s congressional delegation made loud and clear in a letter delivered to President Joe Biden Tuesday. “We remain deeply troubled that the decision to relocate USSPACECOM undermined the two most important factors for any critical basing decision: protecting national security and minimizing cost,” the…
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Colorado criminal justice leaders urge Biden to end federal death penalty
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Several Colorado criminal justice leaders signed a nationwide bipartisan letter Monday, asking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to immediately take action to end the federal death penalty in the U.S. The letter was signed by nearly 100 leaders, including Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser, District Attorneys Michael Dougherty and Beth McCann, former District Attorney…