Tag: Bill Owens
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Four former GOP state treasurers endorse Lang Sias
The last four Republicans to hold the office of Colorado state treasurer are endorsing Lang Sias’s 2022 campaign for the office, the Arvada Republican said Monday. Sias, a former state representative and the 2018 GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, is challenging Democratic State Treasurer Dave Young’s bid for a second term. Young’s four most recent…
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M. Michael Cooke to serve as interim chief of Early Childhood department
M. Michael Cooke, formerly executive director of the Department of Revenue and previous head of the Department of Regulatory Agencies under Gov. Bill Owens, will become the “transition” director for the Department of Early Childhood. Gov. Jared Polis announced Thursday Cooke will serve in that role for about two years and focus on the “transition and change management associated with the…
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Douglas County goes after San Luis Valley water
Douglas County, which will get $68.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, intends to put some of that money toward buying water from the San Luis Valley. But that isn’t sitting well with folks in the San Luis Valley, who claim the plan to divert water from the valley to the Front Range will…
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TRAIL MIX | Ken Salazar’s roots, political rise tell a uniquely Colorado story
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save They go way back. On July 28, U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper introduced their predecessor and fellow Democrat Ken Salazar at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Salazar’s nomination to be ambassador to Mexico. During his remarks, Hickenlooper noted that he first…
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Landing the All-Star Game was a home run for Gov. Jared Polis | Joey Bunch
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You can say a lot about Jared Polis. Trust me, I have. The one thing you must say is he’s Colorado’s best baseball governor, just as it’s hard to deny John Hickenlooper was the best beer governor. Bill Owens is the best governor. He cut taxes, passed infrastructure bonds, and reformed education. Polis is catching…
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Colorado’s deadliest shooters: Male, mostly young and signs of mental illness
Dylan Klebold wielded an Intratec TEC-DC9, an assault weapon originally conceived as a machine gun for South African police. His friend Eric Harris carried a Hi Point 995, a cheap short-barreled rifle. Both also brought shotguns sawed off to spray ammunition widely. Together they fired 188 rounds at Columbine High School, killing 12 classmates and…
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5 to receive governor’s medal as outstanding Coloradans
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five Coloradans will receive the Governor’s Citizenship Medal at a gala Oct. 11 at History Colorado, the same night the state museum unveils Owens-Hickenlooper Gallery. Current Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Gov. Bill Owens will be in attendance, according to the Quarterly Forum, who runs…
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4 Colorado ex-governors + 1 current guv + 1 Lynn Bartels = a fun read
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All of Colorado’s living ex-governors and the one who’s still in office — that John Hickenlooper fella — sat in on the same panel discussion Thursday, weighing in on the heavy issue of partisanship in contemporary politics. Yes, all five of them: Dick Lamm, Roy Romer,…