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A LOOK BACK | Colorado congressman calls for abolishment of IRS
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: U.S. Rep. Dan Schaefer, a Republican representing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, joined several congressional colleagues for “tea” in Boston Harbor aboard the Beaver II, a full-sized replica of the 18th century ship of the same name. Dipping a copy of the United States tax code into a large basin, Schaefer…
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NOONAN | Expect bare knuckles, scorched earth as state Senate races heat up
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The general election contests for control of Colorado’s state Senate will follow two of philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s depictions of human experience: nasty and brutish. They won’t be, as Hobbes also wrote, short. Seventeen senate districts are up, but four will be hardest fought. Voters should expect mail depicting opponents as lying “swamp creatures.” That designation…
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IN RESPONSE | Don’t sell short the big tent of the two-party system
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I was cruising right along through Miller Hudson’s essay (“Is independent thought making a comeback at the legislature?” May 29) until I came to his surprising conclusion – that the breakthroughs achieved by the state legislature in the last two sessions would somehow multiply if independent or third-party candidates win more seats in the election…
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet rakes Republican health care plan over the coals: ‘This process is a disgrace’
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Hours before the Senate narrowly voted down Republican health care legislation known as the “skinny” Obamacare repeal, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, excoriated the majority party for rushing votes Thursday on variants of bills that no one but their authors had seen. In a lengthy address on the Senate floor, his voice rising…
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Indivisible founder tells Denver crowd how a movement was born: ‘It’s a tidal wave’
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They hadn’t intended to spark a movement, much less inspire one of the more ubiquitous hashtags of the past several months. But that’s what happened when Leah Greenberg, her husband and two friends wrote a declaration filled with advice called “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda,” and posted it online in mid-December.…
