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Gov. John Hickenlooper orders flags lowered across Colorado to honor slain Douglas County deputy
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Sunday afternoon ordered flags lowered to half-staff immediately on all public buildings statewide until sunset Tuesday in honor of Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Zackari Parrish, who died in the line of duty responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment complex in Highlands Ranch. Flags should be lowered from sunrise to sunset, the…
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Trump, Colorado officials express ‘deepest condolences’ for victims in Douglas County shooting
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President Donald Trump offered his condolences Sunday morning to the victims of a shooting in Highlands Ranch that killed one Douglas County sheriff’s deputy and wounded six others, including four deputies. “My deepest condolences to the victims of the terrible shooting in Douglas County @dcsheriff, and their families. We love our police and law enforcement…
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Tancredo calls liberalism a mental disorder on Twitter
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Tom Tancredo, Republican candidate for governor, is known for being forthright. Just last week, he took on political correctness in a Facebook Christmas video, saying the days of playing “cowboys and Indians” in his childhood seem “as distant as the Ward’s catalog.” On Wednesday he called out Newsweek for an article headlined “How Trump and…
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Cary Kennedy unleashes ‘tweetstorm’ … on Colorado growth
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Former state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor Cary Kennedy held a 25-hour “tweetstorm” Thursday, one tweet per hour for every new person that moves into Colorado, 25 each day. Also this week, Kennedy unveiled her goal of improving the state’s transportation challenges and expanding broadband in rural areas. “Growth is a top concern,” Kennedy…
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Republican Mike Coffman: The ‘absolute last thing Washington needs’ is ‘morally bankrupt’ Roy Moore
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As Alabama voters prepared to head to the polls Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, denounced Roy Moore, the state’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee, as “morally bankrupt” and called a Moore win “the absolute last thing Washington needs.” The 70-year-old Moore, who was twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court for defying federal law,…
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Steve Lebsock calls it ‘disgusting’ that foes just want to ’score political points’ bashing Lori Saine
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State Rep. Steve Lebsock, the Thornton Democrat facing complaints he sexually harassed a fellow lawmaker and a former lobbyist, on Friday chastised social media denizens who’ve been heaping criticism on state Rep. Lori Saine, the Firestone Republican arrested and jailed this week at Denver International Airport for bringing a loaded handgun to a security checkpoint.…
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Fracking opponent and supporter get poetic on Twitter about drilling risks, benefits
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A pair of #copolitics Twitter accounts threw down Friday in an impromptu, virtual poetry slam about fracking, or hydraulic fracturing – the polarizing practice of pumping pressurized fluid deep into the ground to free up fossil fuels. First, the anonymous Twitter account Piceance Watchdog – named after Northwest Colorado’s Piceance Basin, which holds vast quantities of…
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Gabby Giffords to Mike Coffman after concealed-carry vote: Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough
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Democrat Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman wounded in a mass shooting six years ago, called out U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Twitter after the Aurora Republican voted to make it easier for gun owners to carry concealed weapons across state lines without running afoul of conflicting state laws. Giffords, who has endorsed one of…
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Out West Roundup: Refugees thank adoptive North Dakota city by feeding hungry
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North Dakota Refugees thank adoptive North Dakota city by feeding hungry FARGO, North Dakota – Maria Modi’s journey from South Sudan to a new life in Fargo included a stop at a refugee camp in Cairo. She and her seven siblings know what it is like to be hungry. “My mother and father work 12-hour…
