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White House: Walker Stapleton among state officials backing GOP’s overhaul of nation’s tax laws
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Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton, a candidate for governor in next year’s election, is among dozens of Republican state officials backing efforts to overhaul the nation’s tax laws, the White House announced a day before congressional Republican leaders said they’d reached a deal on the legislation. “I applaud and support the efforts of federal lawmakers and…
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Joe Biden visits Denver on national book tour to share White House stories and hope
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, whose road to the White House in 2008 officially began in Denver, returned to the Mile High City Saturday night to talk politics and the Trump administration – and to promote a new book on the relationship with the son who died of cancer two years ago. Biden spoke for…
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White House election commission renews request for voter data
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Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State, Wayne Williams, received a renewed request on Wednesday from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity for voter data. Williams’ office said the renewed request came with several changes that had been proposed by his office following an outcry. The commission had initially put a hold on submitting data until a…
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Bianchi: Is Colorado still a swing state?
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The quick answer: yes. The real answer: it’s complicated. Helped by an influx of transplants drawn to Colorado’s liberal marijuana laws, high-tech economy and overall high quality of life, the state, by most metrics, is in a considerable economic boom. That same associated population growth, by the way, likely means that the upcoming 2020 census…
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Denver Republican Party chairman hears from White House after incident at LGBT pride parade
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Denver Republican Party Chairman Jake Viano can scratch a big item off his bucket list. On Monday, he received a phone call from the White House to thank him and GOP volunteers for remaining calm during an altercation with a protester at Sunday’s PrideFest Parade in Denver. “I was really stunned,” Viano told Colorado Politics.…
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Trump talk with Russians ‘wholly appropriate,’ adviser says
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The White House on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials as “wholly appropriate,” as officials tried to beat back criticism from fellow Republicans and concerns from international allies. One day after officials declared that reports about Trump’s discussions with the Russians were false, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster…
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May: Faithless
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Religious freedom, the most basic liberty, is under attack in more and more lands “I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.” So said President George W. Bush in 2004. Leave for another day the debate over whether such a belief is more hopeful than realistic. What we…
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Viano: GOP health insurance reform bill must stop Obamacare-induced bleeding
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Back in 2010, voters across the nation swept Republicans into office, giving the GOP the majority in the House of Representatives for the first time in years. Two years later, Americans allowed the Republicans to take control of the Senate, and the party has managed to maintain its majority in the federal legislative branch ever…