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Tourism outlook: Pent-up travel demand will boost visitor numbers in the Pikes Peak region
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Colorado Springs tourism leaders are optimistic that visitors will return to the Pikes Peak region in near-record numbers as the two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic fades from view. Officials believe Americans are ready to take vacations after two years of trying to avoid infection, and they are spending heavily to bring those visitors to the region. Visit…
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Trump administration to add $16B in tariffs on Chinese goods
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The Trump administration will impose a 25 percent tariff on an additional $16 billion in Chinese goods, the office of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Tuesday. The tariffs – which will hit products like fertilizer, electrical generators and railway freight cars – are the second to go into effect, following the tariffs imposed in…
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White House plans $12B bailout for farmers caught in Trump’s trade war
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WASHINGTON – The White House is set to announce $12 billion in emergency aid to U.S. farms to help them cope with the retaliatory tariffs other countries have imposed in response to President Trump’s tariffs on imports from China, Europe, and others. The aid will be provided through the Agriculture Department’s Commodity Credit Corporation, which…
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Stapleton to ag community: I’ll stand up for you with Trump administration
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State treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton hosted a roundtable Thursday for representatives of the agriculture community on trade and tariffs – a session that was closed to reporters. The forum, hosted at the Colorado Farm Bureau’s headquarters in Centennial, included Stapleton and three Republican members of the General Assembly: his lieutenant governor running…
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Hickenlooper, other governors talk foreign trade amid Trump tariffs
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SANTA FE, N.M. – Colorado’s John Hickenlooper and other governors discussed ways Thursday to court foreign investment in the wake of President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with countries including China, Canada and Mexico. Several of the more than 20 governors attending the annual meeting of the National Governors Association said shifting U.S. trade policies are…
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Bennet, agriculture leaders say Trump’s trade moves hurt Colorado
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet took aim Friday at the Trump administration’s trade tactics, saying the recent tariffs imposed by the administration on trading partners all over the world are hurting Colorado agriculture. “What Colorado agriculture needs is trade, not a trade war,” the Colorado Democrat told reporters Friday. Bennet spoke to about 30 farmers and…
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SLOAN | Is the U.S. losing focus on the world stage?
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President Trump’s approach to foreign affairs has been blunt, to say the least, and certainly has not conformed with what has come to be accepted as de rigueur diplomatic behavior. But, while bearing the president’s distinct mark, the approach is not entirely unprecedented, and has even spawned some considerable successes, mostly centered around reversing mistakes of…
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U.S. Senate Ag Committee advances 5-year farm bill with Bennet support
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Wednesday gave strong approval to the 2018 farm bill, known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. The 20-1 vote now moves the bill to the Senate floor. The one “no” vote came from Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, who raised objections during Wednesday’s hearing…
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Nigel Farage-Vicente Fox debates at CU teach students how to think
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President Trump’s recent move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is just his latest policy decision that has disrupted the traditional political order. Support for the decision has split conservatives between those who favor free trade and those who want to protect manufacturing jobs. But it’s also attracted some liberals, who are increasingly…
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Millennial Policy Center takes on tariffs in its latest video spoof
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Free market-minded Millennial Policy Center’s offers its own quickie course on tariffs and trade – the upshot being that the two don’t mix – and pitches the point through its latest effort in video spoofery. “ScamWow: The Tariff Towel!” – a play on the old “ShamWow” late-night infomercial – mocks the superficial allure of…
