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Report: Trump White House ‘scouring’ Hickenlooper’s background

Feb 15, 2017

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The White House considers Gov. John Hickenlooper a potential challenger to President Donald Trump in 2020 and has hired consultants to “scour” his background, according to a report in the New York Post. The story by Post reporter Aaron Short relies on anonymous sources “close to the administration,” and has the salacious whiff of a…

CDOT director blames jump in traffic fatalities on ‘epidemic of distracted driving’

Feb 7, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Traffic deaths are on the rise in Colorado over the past two years – reversing what had been a decade-long trend of falling fatalities – and the state’s transportation chief says it’s because more drivers are paying less attention to the road. “What the data tells me is we have an epidemic of distracted driving,”…

Hancock: Denver welcomes ‘sanctuary city’ title, won’t be ‘bullied by Washington’

Jan 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

In a video posted online Friday, Mayor Michael Hancock says he’s happy to call Denver a “sanctuary city,” adding that every new decree from the Trump administration only firms his resolve to keep Denver “welcoming, open and inclusive for everyone.” Hancock had rejected the term on Wednesday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening…

Colorado Technology Association aims to steer state into the future

Jan 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s technology industry is booming, and Andrea Young couldn’t be happier. Young, the president and CEO of the Colorado Technology Association, a trade organization that represents more 300 companies and counts some 15,000 people involved in its network, said in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman that she’s excited about the prospects for the…

Senate GOP site targeted by progressives

Jan 9, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Majority Republicans in the Colorado Senate asked for comments, so ProgressNow Colorado urged its followers to do just that. But that input probably differs – maybe even strongly differs – from what the GOP might have expected to hear from its members and followers. The Senate Majority sent social media messages on Monday, Jan. 9, asking people to…

Wolff: Trump beat Clinton with authentic, modern communication

Dec 28, 2016

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Jared Wright

It’s the first thing they say in the world of the showman: know your audience. If nothing else, Donald Trump knew his audience and how to communicate with them. And I’m not talking about racists or sexists or homophobes or any other type of bigot. What the Democrats missed (colossally, gravely) is that technology has…

GOP consultant Dustin Olson stresses authenticity, ability to connect with stories

Sep 22, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Republican political consultant Dustin Olson has been at the center of national politics and numerous local campaigns – he and his wife, Carolyn, just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Olson Strategies & Advertising, their Colorado-based firm – but it was a few days he spent touring Civil War battlefields and shopping at Wal-Mart with a comic…

UPDATED: Police arrest Arvada man who threatened Sen. Laura Woods with ‘Bullet straight to the head’

Sep 19, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Updated 09/19/16 at 04:56:05 p.m. Police arrested a 21-year-old Arvada man on Saturday afternoon on a charge of threatening the lives of state Sen. Laura Woods and her family in an electronic message. Dylan Seila Hopkins stands accused of sending an alarming Facebook message to Woods, an Arvada Republican, on Saturday morning warning that he…

Weiner’s wife is leaving him amid a new sexting scandal

Aug 29, 2016

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Associated Press

Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former New York congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal. “After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” Abedin, vice chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign, said in a…

‘Alt-right’ hashtag spurs racism, rebukes during speech

Aug 26, 2016

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Associated Press

Wondering what “alt-right” means? There’s a hashtag for that – but the results might not be pretty. People in the niche conservative movement are using the hashtag #AltRightMeans not only to define the philosophy, but also to slam Muslims, immigrants in the U.S. illegally and others they see as a threat to their vision of…