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SPONSORED CONTENT: Your health care at risk: It’s time to make your voice heard

Oct 25, 2019

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Tim Brown

Medical Care When it comes to health care, we can all applaud the efforts of our elected officials to improve access and affordability. Unfortunately, a recent proposal misses the mark and puts both the quality of our health care system and access to care at risk. On October 8, Gov. Jared Polis’s administration unveiled a…
Lucia Guzman, John Hickenlooper among One Colorado’s Ally Award winners

Feb 17, 2018

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Ernest Luning

Two Capitol Democrats with a history of blazing trails for LGBTQ equality are among the recipients of One Colorado Education Fund’s annual Ally Awards, the advocacy organization announced this week. Gov. John Hickenlooper is one of three Ally Award winners, and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, a Denver Democrat, is slated to receive One Colorado’s…
As Congress squabbles over ACA, Colorado’s Western Slope residents face ‘staggering premiums’

Oct 28, 2017

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

With Obamacare open enrollment just days away on Nov. 1, some Western Slope residents are bracing for health-insurance premium spikes of more than 40 percent for 2018, while Congress continues to do partisan battle over whether to dismantle the law or just try to patch it up. Colorado’s resort counties, saddled with some of the…
Eagle County Commissioner Jill Ryan jumps in Democratic primary for House District 26 seat

Jul 29, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Eagle County Commissioner Jill Ryan, a Democrat serving her second term, announced Friday she’s running for the House District 26 seat held by state Rep. Diane Mitsch Busch, who is running for Congress. Ryan joins Eagle County Deputy District Attorney Dylan Roberts, also a Democrat, in the race. The Democrats might have a candidate for…
Bennet discusses legislating in the Trump era and whether words have meaning anymore at Frisco town hall

Jun 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Near the end of the town hall in Frisco last Friday, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat in his ninth year in the Senate, invoked the famous answer Benjamin Franklin gave when asked what the framers of the Constitution had created. “He was asked, ‘What kind of government are you forming, a republic or a…
Veterans group backs wilderness bill after Bennet adds Camp Hale

Aug 29, 2016

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David O. Williams Special to Colorado Politics

When Garett Reppenhagen, an honorably discharged cavalry scout and a sniper with the U.S. Army First Infantry Division, returned to his home state of Colorado in 2005 after serving in Kosovo and Iraq, the wilderness advocate recovered by spending time on public lands. “When I came home I looked to the outdoors kind of instinctively…
Colorado’s Western Slope counties back Sanders

Mar 2, 2016

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David O. Williams

Colorado’s Western Slope has been bone dry of late, but on Super Tuesday the state’s mountain counties were really feeling the Bern as big crowds of Democrats turned out for Bernie Sanders. From the ski towns in Summit and Eagle counties west to the mining and drilling towns of Mesa and Garfield counties, the Vermont…