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Head of new Office of New Americans named

Jul 18, 2022

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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment hired Dee Daniels Scriven as director of its new Office of New Americans, according to a news release. Scriven previously worked for more than 12 years at the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The new office, created by House Bill…

Gardner postpones Pueblo town hall to survey hurricane damage in Puerto Rico

Oct 5, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A day after Sen. Cory Gardner announced plans for a town hall meeting Friday in Pueblo, he announced the town hall is on hold. The White House asked the Republican senator from Yuma to be part of a bipartisan delegation of House and Senate members to go to Puerto Rico Saturday to view the hurricane…

Democrat Dan Baer drops bid challenging Colorado U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter

Oct 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Dan Baer, a former ambassador and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s only remaining Democratic challenger, said Wednesday he’s dropping his bid to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Three other Democrats – state Sens. Andy Kerr and Dominick Moreno and state Rep. Brittany Pettersen – ended their campaigns for the suburban seat in late August within days…

Nordberg: No bail out for Puerto Rico

May 18, 2016

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Rep. Dan Nordberg

If we ran the state of Colorado like Puerto Rico’s politicians have run that U.S. territory’s government for the last decade, we would have had to close up shop a long time ago. As a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, balancing our state budget on a yearly basis, and responsibly spending the taxpayers’…