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Coloradans remember Bob Briggs, ‘the epitome of a statesman’

Dec 3, 2021

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Marianne Goodland

Former Rep. Bob Briggs, a Westminster Republican who served one term in the Colorado House, on Dec. 2 died of a heart attack. He was 83 years old and just three weeks shy of his 84th birthday. He is survived by his wife, two children, Christy (Briggs) Meiers of Erie and Robert “Chip” Briggs of Rocky…
YESTERYEAR: Broncos stadium project debated, Hickenlooper again wins mayor

May 4, 2017

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Rachael Wright

Twenty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The issue of a “new” stadium for the Denver Broncos turned two bill sponsors against one another when Rep. Vickie Agler, R-Littleton, House co-sponsor of SB 97-230 — a bill that allowed for consideration of a re-fit of Mile High Stadium — accepted an amendment that Senate sponsor Mike Coffman,…
Stapleton 5-party funding to allow new school, fire station, homes

Mar 29, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

A five-party funding arrangement is to be considered by Denver City Council that would eventually allow some 2,800 new homes to be built on the former Stapleton International Airport property, which was decommissioned in the mid-1990s. The Stapleton “Five Parties” (City and County of Denver, Denver Urban Renewal Authority, Denver Public Schools, Forest City and…
YESTERYEAR: Reagan lands at Stapleton to raise funds for Senate candidate Ken Kramer

Sep 22, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … President Ronald Reagan’s 90-minute visit to Colorado to headline a fundraiser for Republican Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Ken Kramer went off without a glitch and hauled in $912,000, the most ever raised at a single event in state history. “As we used to say on…

stapleton international airport

Coloradans remember Bob Briggs, ‘the epitome of a statesman’

YESTERYEAR: Broncos stadium project debated, Hickenlooper again wins mayor

Stapleton 5-party funding to allow new school, fire station, homes

YESTERYEAR: Reagan lands at Stapleton to raise funds for Senate candidate Ken Kramer