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Nearly a dozen Republicans pack primary to replace Colorado’s Ken Buck

Feb 26, 2024

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With just weeks until precinct caucuses and less than a month to go before nominating petitions are due, it’s crunch time in the Republican primary for Colorado’s safest GOP-held congressional seat. At last count, 11 candidates are vying for the chance to replace Republican Ken Buck, the former state GOP chairman who said in early…

Colorado redistricting commissioners deliberated outside public view — after promise of transparency

Nov 14, 2021

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Evan Wyloge

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s new independent redistricting commission came with a promise of transparency and public inclusion, but in the days leading up to their adoption of a set of legislative maps, commissioners spent significant time working outside of public meetings. In the final two weeks of the…

Newly revealed interactions added to redistricting lobbying complaint

Sep 27, 2021

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Evan Wyloge

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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A complaint filed against a group of Republican political consultants and lobbyists, accusing them of failing to file proper redistricting lobbying disclosure, grew larger Monday, when the complainant added new interactions between the complaint targets and Colorado’s redistricting commissioners. The complaint, initially filed with the…

Coordinated persuasion efforts emerge in Colorado redistricting commissions’ public comments

Sep 20, 2021

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Evan Wyloge

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Around 2,400 Coloradans have used the redistricting commissions’ online comment submission portal, some to advocate for keeping apart areas of the state because of diverging interests. Others have argued that specific areas need to be kept whole in order to ensure their shared interests aren’t…

Douglas County Commissioners appoint health department board

Sep 14, 2021

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Dennis Huspeni

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Douglas County commissioners Tuesday appointed five people to the as-yet-formed Douglas County Health Department’s board of health, including two commissioners with no obvious experience in medical or health-care fields. It’s the second step necessary for Douglas County to create its own department after voting unanimously…

Redistricting lobbying laws violated, new complaint alleges

Aug 24, 2021

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Evan Wyloge

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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A complaint filed today with the Colorado secretary of state accuses a group of secretly funded political operatives of illegally lobbying the state’s redistricting commissioners. The complaint, filed by former Democratic state lawmaker Stanley Matsunaka, accuses former Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty and former Colorado House…

Former Colorado College running back, NFL Films pioneer Steve Sabol to be inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame

Jul 26, 2021

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Danny Summers danny.summers@gazette.com

Steve Sabol was the subject of a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in November 1965. That issue, which featured Muhammad Ali on the cover of the weekly magazine, told the story of how Sabol, a Colorado College running back via Philadelphia marketed himself as “The Tot from Possum Trot,” a fictional town in Mississippi, “The…

Redistricting commissions scramble for voice in supreme court’s census fix consideration

May 10, 2021

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Evan Wyloge

in Elections

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissions have hired attorneys days before a crucial legal deadline in a fast-moving state supreme court case that could alter the once-in-a-decade political map drawing process. Hiring lawyers who will advise the commissions and represent them in legal matters, like the one…

Hard times yield good prospects for Colorado’s mental health care

Apr 11, 2021

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Joey Bunch

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s need for mental health care has never been greater, after a year of living under the dark clouds of COVID-19, economic disruption, social unrest, record wildfires and another mass shooting. Government money has never been easier to come by. Peanut butter, meet jelly. The…

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