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YESTERYEAR: Andrews rips Dems, ‘shadow senator’ for playing coyote to roadrunner Owens
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, excoriated Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, for “doom[ing] compromise on the year’s toughest issue” in the just-concluded special session on growth with his “belligerent, partisan and profane” words. In a stinging guest commentary, Andrews criticized the Democrats at the…
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YESTERYEAR: Reactions vary widely to U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Amendment 2
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Elected officials had a range of reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Colorado’s Amendment 2, the ballot measure passed four years earlier by state voters, that would forbid “protected status based on homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation.” The court “rejected the equal rights…
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The Hot Sheet, February 26, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Friday, February 26, 2016 DENVER – Happy Friday! Easing you into your weekend of … more work, campaigning, selling (seriously give yourself that one day of rest — it’s how we’re built). How ’bout some debate recap! “You may have seen I recently launched a Snapchat…
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Video: Top Colorado Democrats call Clinton most qualified candidate in field
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[vimeo 156771225 w=700 h=394] Video: Lawmakers rally for Hillary Clinton by The Colorado Statesman Several of Colorado’s leading current and former Democratic officials called Hillary Clinton the most qualified presidential candidate in the field — some going so far as to say she’s the most qualified candidate in living memory — at a news conference Thursday at…
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The Hot Sheet, February 19, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Friday, February 19, 2016 DENVER – Good morning from all of us here at The Colorado Statesman, and a very Happy Friday to you and yours. Here’s to a smooth glide into the weekend. “The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited…
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The Hot Sheet, February 17, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Wednesday, February 17, 2016 DENVER – Happy Wednesday, and good luck to you for the rest of your week. We are a mere three days away from the Nevada Caucuses, when we will be given a taste of how these presidential candidates perform in a Western state. We…
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The Hot Sheet, February 12, 2016
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By TCS Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright @_JaredWright_ Friday, February 12, 2016 DENVER – Well, you made it to Friday. Ahead for you are two days of not having to wander underneath the Gold Dome. Congrats. If you’re working campaigns … my condolences. “It’s always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves … they tend to spill over …” —…
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Celebrating 118 years, Long Live The Colorado Statesman
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[vimeo 154292452 w=700 h=394] The Colorado Statesman celebrated its 118th Anniversary Feb. 4, marking the occasion with the release of this film which was screened at a relaunch party hosted at the Governor’s Mansion Carriage House in Denver. The Colorado Statesman is the state’s longest running political news source, and one that has made…
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The Hot Sheet, February 4, 2016
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DENVER – Happy Thursday everybody — time for a throwback. Read the Statesman’s Ernest Luning’s Yesteryear column and reminisce the olden political days with us: Denver Mayor Wellington Webb stands up for the old Mile High Stadium name, tension mounts between members under the Capitol dome over Amendment 23 and prayer, and more. #TBT The old Mile…
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Yesteryear: Webb blasts new stadium name, school funding fights loom
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Denver Mayor Wellington Webb lamented a vote by the Metropolitan Football Stadium District board naming the new stadium “Invesco Field at Mile High,” saying “a piece of Denver history and tradition was lost despite the overwhelming public sentiment to keep ‘Mile High Stadium’ as the…
