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Phony endorsement of Republican gets Hickenlooper’s dander up
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A mailer that Democrats see as falsely implying that Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper supports the re-election bid of Republican state Sen. Tim Neville of Littleton has the administration seeing red. The mailer, which showed up in mailboxes in Senate District 16 this week, comes from the independent expenditure committee Business Opportunity Fund. It says in…
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NOONAN | Dem fund-raising leaves GOP in the dust in key state Senate races
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Out of eighteen state Senate seats up for election, only four are “competitive.” These Senate districts have less than five percentage points separating Democratic and Republican registration. They also have Unaffiliated registration up to 39% of voters. The fight for these seats puts four Democratic women, or the Four Musketeers, against two men and two…
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National forfeiture foe says ‘Colorado now has the best laws in the nation’
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Washington, D.C.-based civil-liberties watchdog Institute for Justice joined in the applause for Gov. John Hickenlooper’s decision Friday to sign into law a much-debated rollback of state and local law enforcement’s civil-forfeiture powers. The new law includes a number of checks on those powers including a provision that drew dogged opposition from Colorado’s law-enforcement agencies: State and local…
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Hick signs safeguards against forged signatures on Colorado candidates’ petitions
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Remember Republican rising star Jon Keyser’s highly touted but short-lived bid for the U.S. Senate last year? His ambitions imploded en route to last June’s GOP primary amid findings that a worker had forged signatures to land him a spot on the primary ballot. In the end, paid petition circulator Maureen Marie Moss, 45, was sentenced to four years probation on…
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Colorado bill would make law enforcement account for what it takes
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One of the more controversial tools that law enforcement agencies have acquired in the era of the war on drugs — seizing cash and property they believe to be associated with a crime — will have to better account for itself under bipartisan legislation now on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper for his signature. House…
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‘Moms’ are back at the Capitol — to oppose a gun bill that’s as good as dead …
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…and in fact has been on life support for some time. But knowing they’ve already won won’t put a damper on plans by the Colorado chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and their allies to turn out in force today at a House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee hearing and denounce Senate Bill 116.…
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Pot is no longer about politics; it’s about cold, hard cash — make that, revenue
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While the annual “4/20” cannabis bacchanal gets underway this morning at Denver’s Civic Center Park — in search of some cause beyond satisfying the basic human need to party — a couple of observations from Colorado’s media gallery seem especially apt. First, Denverite’s Adrian Garcia notes today how a fissure has opened up in the marijuana world — pitting, for the…
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Colorado’s state retirement system wants to hear from you, and you, and you …
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Even if you count yourself among PERA’s wide-ranging critics, you have to give credit to the Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association for its outreach. Call it — as PERA does on one of its proliferating websites — an “effort to inform and listen.” Or, call it an attempt to reassure the public about “reducing PERA’s risk profile,”…
