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YESTERYEAR: General Assembly toys with corporate, military law

Mar 2, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

…Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The Colorado General Assembly seemed to have lawmakers’ heads stuck in the corporate law section of the Colorado Revised Statutes. At the start of the 1997 legislative session, the Colorado Bar Association pushed two measures in the Legislature that would have far-reaching impact in corporate law,…
Sewald Hanfling adds Brittany Morris Saunders as local affairs chief

Feb 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

UPDATED with comments from Mayor Michael Hancock, Tami Door and R.D. Sewald. Brittany Morris Saunders, the senior vice president for economic development and public affairs with the Downtown Denver Partnership, is joining Sewald Hanfling Public Affairs, a Denver-based lobbying, business development and communications firm, The Colorado Statesman has learned. Saunders, a former economic development director for…
YESTERYEAR: Colorado represented in national party leadership, albeit controversially

Jan 19, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Different times, they were, but so much the same … Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Coloradans were in a proud position. The state’s very own were to head both of the nation’s major political parties. Gov. Roy Romer acknowledged that his new post as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee –…
YESTERYEAR: Top Colorado politicians sworn into office

Jan 12, 2017

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

… Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Diana DeGette is sworn in as a new member of Congress. The newly elected DeGettehosted more than 300 of her supporters, family and closest friends at her ceremonial swearing-in as the 19th representative for the 1st Congressional District. DeGette replaced retiring Democratic Rep. Pat Schroeder, who had served…
YESTERYEAR: Buckley scrutinized, newly elected Perlmutter nabs key committee seat

Dec 15, 2016

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican Secretary of State Victoria Buckley found herself under a bit of a microscope with the legislative branch. Buckley was forced to defend her campaign’s actions, coming under fire by the Colorado General Assembly’s Audit Committee. The state auditor had released a report finding that Buckley had…
YESTERYEAR: Owens takes steps to fix transportation budget shortfall, Amendment 41 derails three legislators

Dec 8, 2016

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … The Colorado Children’s Chorale performance at the White House was proclaimed a riveting success. Thirty-two Colorado children performed at the private event, an experience the now-adults have surely not forgotten. “The Holiday Open House” event was for White House staff, members of Congress, the Secret…
YESTERYEAR: Owens talks economy on West Slope, Romer and JBC butt heads, ADL condemns David Duke

Dec 1, 2016

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Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics

… Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Politicos and policy wonks from Denver braved the treacherous mountain passes on I-70 to visit the Western Slope for an economic roundtable, featuring Colorado’s chief executive, Gov. Bill Owens. The Republican governor stated that allowing businesses and consumers to buy “Chevrolet instead of Cadillac” health insurance plans would…
YESTERYEAR: Republicans test waters to challenge Wirth’s bid for another Senate term

Nov 3, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Twenty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … So far only one Republican had emerged to challenge U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth, who was gearing up to run for a second term in 1992, but plenty of others were sniffing around. Former state Sen. Jim Brandon and Denver GOP activist Gloria Roemer – both…
No silver bullets: Jim Carpenter stresses fundamentals, agility

Nov 3, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Jim Carpenter likes to tell a story about a campaign stop more than two decades ago in a small town on the Eastern Plains. It’s no coincidence the story stars former three-term Colorado Gov. Roy Romer, a man Carpenter describes as the master of quick thinking and innovative approaches to the surprises any politician is…
YESTERYEAR: Hart, Strickland discuss terrorism in wake of 9/11 attacks

Oct 20, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart and Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Tom Strickland discussed the changing face of terrorism at a forum sponsored by the Colorado Young Democrats on the Auraria campus. “The events of Sept. 11, in my judgment, completely blurred the line between war…