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Here’s where Denver Mayor Mike Johnston stands on the local ballot issues
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced Friday he will not support the fur and slaughterhouse bans, though is backing a sales tax hike aimed at generating $100 million for “affordable” housing. The mayor on Friday outlined his positions on several local and statewide measures that will appear on the city’s ballot this November. Initiated Ordinances…
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The Trump shooting: An aftermath as disturbing as the incident | SONDERMANN
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Vince Lombardi once described football as “a game of inches.” The same is true for a number of other sports. Until Saturday evening, I had not thought of politics in quite that vein. But here we are with the narrowness of a single inch or less all that saved America from a fifth presidential assassination.…
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Deconstructing the simple, insulting notion of the Trump voter | SONDERMANN
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This week in Milwaukee, Donald Trump will join a rare group of only four Americans who have received their party’s presidential nomination in three consecutive elections. The others were Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt who, of course, set the record at four. Whatever his flaws and outrages, or in some cases because…
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Democratic 2020 campaign revving up quickly
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NEW YORK – Democrats are hitting fast forward. The first major presidential campaign announcements could come before year’s end. The Democratic National Committee plans to announce a debate framework by then featuring 15 to 20 candidates. The first primary debate could happen as early as May, a full three months before the premiere debate of…
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Hickenlooper plans to ‘sort through’ presidential decision this summer
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For months, Gov. John Hickenlooper has told reporters he’s too focused on being governor to think about running for president. Now he says he’s thinking about it this summer. “My wife and I have been talking about it for a couple of months and talking to old friends whose opinions we respect and trust,” the…
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Trump transition continues, may revisit Trump Country during victory tour
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Donald Trump may take a victory tour to states that elected him president, an aide said Saturday, as boisterous protests unfolded outside the tower where he holed up with members of his transition team and fielded calls congratulating him. While he’s announced one decision – putting Vice President-elect Mike Pence in charge of the transition…
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May: The ideals of 1776
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Should we return to them – and can we? Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task just over one week ago. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they – or rather we – are doing to these United States during an election season that often seems like a…
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Kaine, Pence ready for main stage
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With the first presidential debate complete and its spin cycle nearly over, the two understudies are getting ready to take the main stage. The vice presidential debate Tuesday will be the only time Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine will for the most part have the nation’s political attention all to themselves, away from…
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How the Trump and Clinton tax plans would affect Americans
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For America’s wealthiest families, the presidential campaign presents a stark choice: A big tax increase if Hillary Clinton wins the election – or a big tax cut if Donald Trump wins. For everyone else? Right now, neither candidate is proposing major tax changes. Tax policy is one of the issues on which the two nominees…
