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Colorado congressman regrets vow to ‘stop redistricting’ in campaign pitch
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U.S. Rep. Ken Buck said a campaign solicitation sent to his political supporters earlier this week, which told them that he needs their money in order to stop the current redistricting cycle, sent the wrong message. “This is serious, and a lot is at stake. We still need $3,102 to have the resources to stop…
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Colorado’s next legislative map will count prisoners at their homes, not where they’re jailed
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Colorado’s legislative redistricting commissioners voted Friday to reallocate prisoners for the next decade’s state House and Senate districts, meaning they’ll be counted at their home residence and not where they were jailed during the census. Colorado’s congressional redistricting commissioners voted Thursday to not reallocate state prisoners in the drawing of the next decade’s congressional map. …
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Colorado’s student enrollment plunged during the pandemic — especially among kindergarten and younger grades — stoking fears
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Fifteen hundred dollars a month was a small price for Candida Ring to pay to escape the virtual schooling the pandemic had her family stuck in, due to her daughter’s medical fragility. “It was not set up for children of that age,” Ring said of her school district’s online program for younger students. “They wanted them…
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Colorado’s Buck, Neguse hammer along party lines in Trump impeachment hearing
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Two Coloradans sitting on opposite sides of a wide partisan divide questioned legal scholars Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee conducted its first day of hearings to determine whether to impeach President Donald Trump. U.S. Reps. Ken Buck and Joe Neguse each held the microphone for five minutes during tense, day-long testimony that featured four…
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It’s official: Hickenlooper announces presidential bid (VIDEO)
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After almost a year of saying he was pondering a run for president, John Hickenlooper has finally made it official. The former Colorado governor and Denver mayor at 4:30 a.m. MT Monday declared he was launching a campaign for the White House, pitching himself as a seasoned executive with a progressive record who can “repair…
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Top 13 ways Hickenlooper says he’s probably (but not officially) running for president
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John Hickenlooper has spent months dropping fat hints that he’s thinking of running for president. But he just can’t bring himself to say he’s running. That’s probably for legal and campaign-regulatory reasons, as 9News’ Steve Staeger explores here. But it means that Colorado’s former governor has to keep coming up with coy, clever ways to…
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Hickenlooper is just 1 of 45 Democrats jostling to challenge Trump in 2020
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An unprecedented 45 Democrats are jockeying for the party’s nomination to challenge President Trump in 2020 – shattering the record for the number of candidates aspiring to be commander in chief. A review of potential contenders by the Washington Examiner reveals that up to 45 candidates could mount a serious bid to become leader of…
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Bush celebrated with praise and humor at cathedral farewell
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WASHINGTON – George H.W. Bush was celebrated with high praise and loving humor Wednesday as the nation bade farewell to the man who was America’s 41st president and the last to fight for the U.S. in wartime. Three former presidents looked on at Washington National Cathedral as a fourth – George W. Bush – eulogized…
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George H.W. Bush dies at 94
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HOUSTON – He was the man who sought a “kinder, and gentler nation,” and the one who sternly invited Americans to read his lips – he would not raise taxes. He was the popular leader of a mighty coalition that dislodged Iraq from Kuwait, and was turned out of the presidency after a single term.…
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Inspiration vs. pragmatism: Democrats face tough 2020 choice
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper speaks during the panel Economic Development at the National Governor Association winter meeting Feb. 25 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) DES MOINES, Iowa – Democrats beginning to think about the type of person they’d like to see take on President Donald Trump face an early conundrum: whether a pragmatist has a…