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Pat Stryker puts up $2 million to match donations for hurricane relief
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Pat Stryker is known for many things – billionaire, businesswoman, Stryker Corp. heiress and one of the four rich Democrats who helped turn Colorado into a purple state. But on the list of her credits, philanthropist could be underlined in red. Her Bohemian Foundation, which has givens millions in grants in Colorado, is offering to…
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Driverless cars a “game changer” for Denver
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It sometimes seemed like something from science fiction, as Denver City Council’s Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee viewed a presentation on driverless, or autonomous, vehicles by a venture capital investor and author of a book on the technology, with another book planned. Rutt Bridges, founder of Colorado’s Bighorn Center for Public Policy and former…
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No silver bullets: Jim Carpenter stresses fundamentals, agility
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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…