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CAPITOL M | Celebrating (or hoping to survive) the last few weeks of the election season
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How NOT to make friends and influence people, Colorado campaign version. Friday, Pro15, the advocacy organization that bills itself as the voice of northeastern Colorado, held one of the last debates on the calendar for the two major party candidates for governor, in Greeley, in the heart of Colorado farm country. One thing you need…
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Colorado’s legislature will be hearing ‘rural voices’ by the dozens this week
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The other Colorado – the one that raises our corn and potatoes and beef and pork; the one that hosts a lot of our oil and gas exploration as well as our wind and solar farms; the one that comprises most of Colorado’s territory if not its population – will converge on the Capitol Thursday…
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In meetings with rural groups, lawmakers defend stands on hot-button hospital fee makeover
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Rural advocacy groups representing 59 of the 64 counties in Colorado joined forces at the Capitol Thursday to press legislators on their biggest issues. Group members said they desperately need funding to shore up failing rural transportation, education, healthcare and communication systems. As a result, much of the conversation Thursday centered on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s…
