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YESTERYEAR: Mud slung and accusations hurled in GOP state chair race
Thirty Years Ago This Week in The Colorado Statesman … The John V. Christensen Award, the highest and post prestigious honor to be awarded by the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), was awarded to the executive director of the Denver Technological Center, George MacKenzie Wallace. According to the DRCOG, “In October 1972, the John V. Christensen…
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YESTERYEAR: Colorado looks to solve the ‘brown cloud’ and prison reform problems
Thirty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … According to Don Barbarick, state meteorologist with the Colorado Department of Health’s air pollution division, the Town of Parker was a relative “fail-safe area” for Denver’s “brown cloud,” the notorious billow of smog that settled across Denver’s skyline. Parker was deemed safe because of its elevation,…