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Trump signs farm bill legalizing hemp, proposes work rules on food stamps
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President Donald Trump signed the 2018 farm bill Thursday, praising those who got the bill to his desk before Congress adjourned for the holidays. But what he and other Republicans couldn’t get in the farm bill — modifications to work requirements for people who get food stamps — he’s now attempting to get through rulemaking. …
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INSIGHTS | Washington runs hot & cold on climate, fires
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You can’t say the Trump administration has no plan to combat the ravages of climate change. Pick up a rake and head to the forest, President Trump seemed to suggest after viewing the ravages of the California wildfire. In a burned-down community called Paradise, the president said, “Pleasure, what a name.” It feels like much…
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Colorado’s Gardner, Bennet try to save rural funding
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As President Trump calls for cuts to throttle the soaring deficit on government spending, Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet are making moves to shelter rural funding. Gardner, a Republican, and Bennet, a Democrat, signed a letter to Senate leadership Wednesday to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act. Gardner, Bennet and other…
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INSIGHTS | What this election meant in the scope of time
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Colorado is going to change because of the way people cast their ballots this year. That’s true, perhaps, every election, but this one more than most. Yet it won’t be as awful or everlasting a thing as most giddy or depressed partisans will have you believe in the days and weeks ahead, especially those asking…
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Bennet smacks down Trump’s credit-taking on the economy
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is old school when it comes to dollars and business sense, and Wednesday he lectured President Trump on economics from the floor of the U.S. Senate. Bennet was a lawyer with a keen business mind until he made his fortune working deals for Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz`(owner of Colorado Politics), before…
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First big-name Colorado Republican calls on Trump to resign
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The man who finished second in the Republican primary for governor in June is calling on President Donald Trump to resign in the wake of a guilty plea Tuesday by his former lawyer. “Given the convictions and guilty pleas yesterday, it’s time for all Republicans to come together and call on President Trump to resign,”…
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ProgressNow indicts Colo. Republicans after Manafort, Cohen news
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Denver’s liberal swashbuckler Ian Silverii spoke of history, and he took no Colorado political prisoners Tuesday after the news broke that two associates of President Trump were at the mercy of the legal system. Paul Manafort, Trump’s one-time chairman, was found guilty of eight felony bank and tax crimes, while the president’s former attorney and…
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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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Hickenlooper opposes Trump Title X plan aimed at abortion funding
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is urging the Trump administration to scrap its rules aimed at putting more distance between federal dollars and abortions. In May the Trump administration unveiled regulations on health care providers in the federal Title X Family Planning Program. Hickenlooper joins a list of Democratic governors resisting the proposal, characterizing it as…
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Stapleton to ag community: I’ll stand up for you with Trump administration
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State treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton hosted a roundtable Thursday for representatives of the agriculture community on trade and tariffs – a session that was closed to reporters. The forum, hosted at the Colorado Farm Bureau’s headquarters in Centennial, included Stapleton and three Republican members of the General Assembly: his lieutenant governor running…
