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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Gun-debate groups choose sides in Colorado’s CD3
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Prominent national organizations on both sides of the gun debate are taking sides in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund this week endorsed U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the Republican seeking a fifth term, while Giffords, the gun safety organization founded by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, endorsed former state Rep.…
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This Labor Day, let’s all resolve to ‘Fight for $15’
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The beauty of Labor Day is that it’s about more than just one day – it’s about acknowledging and celebrating every other day – when Americans go to work and do their critical work to keep our economy and society humming along. All work involves some combination of experience, education, skill, courage and commitment, and…
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Hudson: How public servants came to be viewed as coddled bureaucrats
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I was discharged from the U.S. Navy in July of 1970. After picking up a new Toyota Land Cruiser for $4,100 (a deal made possible through a purchase program available only to returning troops), my wife and I drove coast to coast with our two month old son, Byron, in a crib that slid neatly…
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Caldara: Independence Institute works to build ‘Freedom Embassy’
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More than three decades after its founding, the Independence Institute has grown from a free-market think tank into what Jon Caldara, its president of 17 years, calls Colorado’s “Freedom Embassy,” bringing together the state’s disparate right-leaning organizations – including those representing wings of the movement that aren’t natural allies – into a place where he…
