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INSIGHTS | Colorado takes the R-word out of the books and makes it history
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Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of March 30, 2018. We don’t use that word in Colorado anymore. Not in our laws and not in the government offices that serve all the people. No one deserves to be put down by public servants. No one. It was two…
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COVER STORY | Drawing the line on gerrymandering
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Democratic and Republican leaders in Colorado have at least one thing in common: Neither side trusts each other or the courts to be fairer to Colorado voters than Colorado voters would be to themselves. That’s the idea driving amendments Y and Z on the state’s November ballot to allow independent commissions to draw electoral district…
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INSIGHTS: Colorado takes the R-word out of the books and makes it history
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We don’t use that word in Colorado anymore. Not in our laws and not in the government offices that serve all the people. No one deserves to be put down by public servants. No one. It was two Republicans who led the way on Senate Bill 96 to erase the R-word from the books and instead…
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DeGette links EPA chief’s expensive travel to cutting regulations
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DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette was home in Denver Monday, telling members of the Sierra Club that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to clean up its act and clean up the environment. The Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environment groups announced Monday they will sue…
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Insights: Common ground on guns remains slippery and muddy in Colorado
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Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without both sides shutting down. Indecision lives in gridlock. If one side didn’t insinuate the other doesn’t care about dead children, would that be so hard to do for…
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Govs. John Hickenlooper, John Kasich take another stab at health care
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Last summer Govs. John Hickenlooper and John Kasich urged Congress to take a bipartisan approach to fixing the nation’s healthcare system. Now the Colorado Democrat and Ohio Republican are trying again, according to an announcement Wednesday night from the Colorado governor’s office. The announcement promises a bipartisan group of governors will unveil a blueprint for health care,…
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SLOAN: We need a more rational response to immigration
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A legislative compromise on immigration is again in the works, and is, again, facing potential unravelling, following a week that began with a dubious legal decision and ended with altogether unhelpful comments made by the president. Immigration is a delicate issue, one which lends itself to tendentious pooling at the extremes. It is as true…
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CIRULI: Will the tax plan sell itself? Republicans had better hope so
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Just as President Trump was hoping to leave for his holiday in Palm Beach, cable commentators were questioning why he hadn’t yet signed the tax bill. Trump, ever sensitive to his TV image, staged a quick signing ceremony on December 20 before wheels up. When asked if he will spend time promoting the plan, Trump…
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Costs of living are eating Colorado’s prosperity, Bell Policy Center finds
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The Bell Policy Center in Denver released a report Friday that should give pause to lawmakers giddy over the state’s appearance of prosperity. Yes, Colorado has one of the best economies of any state in the nation, and it ranks among the nation’s best for the number of people living in prosperous communities. You…
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Andrew Fish named deputy chief of staff for the Colorado Senate Democrats
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Andrew Fish is climbing the statehouse Democrat ladder. Thursday Senate Democratic Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, announced that Fish will serve as the deputy chief of staff for the caucus. Fish was the campaign manager for Daniel Kagan’s victory in his state Senate race last year, and then served as the Senate aide to the former…
