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VA Secretary, House VA Committee chair speak in Denver on Aurora hospital ‘crisis’
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald and House Veterans Affairs Committee chair Jeff Miller are both committed to finishing the long-delayed VA medical center in Aurora, but getting to that last $604 million is proving tricky. The top federal VA bigwigs came together for two hours before a packed crowd Monday at the Disabled American Veterans…
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Tri-State seeks exemption to mercury rule for Nucla plant
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The Supreme Court’s recent ruling against the EPA’s mercury regulations came as much-needed good news for Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Colorado’s second-largest electricity provider. Tri-State filed an emergency motion July 31 asking for a special exemption from the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics rule for its 110-megawatt coal-fired Nucla Station. The energy co-op has until…
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Gardner, Hancock call for strong U.S. role overseas at foreign-policy forum
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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock may not agree on everything, but they both want to see the United States fulfill its role as a global leader, not withdraw from it. They joined foreign-affairs specialists Friday at the Ritz-Carlton Denver for a policy discussion sponsored by the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, which…
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Calhan’s young mayor lands in deep end of disappearing water mystery
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Nobody is quite sure what happened to the 2.5 million gallons of water that suddenly went missing in Calhan, but mayor Bryan Eurich is confident there’s a good explanation. At 29, Eurich grew up in Calhan and has lived there almost all his life. As a result, he says, it’s hard for him to imagine…
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CSU president Frank limits use of fetal tissue, but Lamborn says it’s not enough
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Colorado State University president Tony Frank has moved to limit the university’s use of fetal tissue following a national uproar over Planned Parenthood’s handling of post-abortion tissue and organs provided for medical research. In a letter to Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, Frank said he will suspend the purchase of fetal tissue for medical research from…
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Foreign-policy experts call for larger U.S. role in Middle East at CELL event
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Two foreign-policy experts told a sold-out Denver crowd Wednesday that the Obama administration and its successor need to take a more active role in the Middle East as threats to the region’s stability intensify. Former U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill and American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar Mary Habeck didn’t always see eye-to-eye, but they did…
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Jewell vows to meet court deadline, avoid Colowyo mine shutdown
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BUENA VISTA – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell insisted over the weekend that she and other federal authorities are “doing everything we can” to stop a shutdown of the Colowyo coal mine, which could include a request for more time to finish a court-ordered review. Jewell squeezed in a meeting on the mine’s future late Friday…
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Browns Canyon National Monument celebration overcomes blasts of turbulence
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BUENA VISTA — Like a whitewater rafting trip down the Arkansas River, the dedication ceremony Saturday for Browns Canyon National Monument hit a few rough patches along the way. The outdoor celebration had to be moved indoors, thanks to an unexpected storm. Two of the monument’s most active supporters — former Sen. Mark Udall and…
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Colorado GOPers decry Iran nuclear deal, Democrats see it as positive step forward
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Colorado Republicans were quick to condemn the Obama administration’s announcement Tuesday of a nuclear agreement between six countries and Iran, urging Congress to reject the deal even as Democrats called it as a step in the right direction. Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a blistering statement accusing…
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Ethics panel accepts ex-lawmaker’s guilt admission in tale of two Kings
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The Independent Ethics Commission’s vote Tuesday on disgraced former state Sen. Steve King might have seemed like overkill to some, but not to Kevin King. It was King who filed the ethics complaint against the ex-Republican lawmaker almost exactly a year ago, before Steve King pleaded guilty to embezzlement and official misconduct for submitting falsified…