Tag: Cory Gardner
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Gardner’s public lands bill is in trouble after missing key deadline last week
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump’s administration failed to meet the Nov. 2 deadline to submit a list of conservation projects to be funded by the Great American Outdoors Act, putting in jeopardy the bill that Sen. Cory Gardner touted in his unsuccessful reelection campaign. The public lands…
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National popular vote keeps Colorado’s partisan mojo in play | Joey Bunch
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Coloradans face one question with two choices on Nov. 3. Do we give our votes to California, or do we hand them to over to Alabama? Proposition 113 would tie Colorado’s nine Electoral College votes to the novel concept that the person who gets the…
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EDITORIAL: Gardner shellacs Hickenlooper in the first U.S. Senate debate
In the year’s first debate between candidates for the U.S. Senate, Democratic nominee John Hickenlooper made a serious mistake. He built his case for election on a slushy foundation and showed Colorado why he’s not cut out to be a senator. Any undecided voters who watched this debate should not remain undecided. Sen. Cory Gardner,…
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Jefferson County deputies looking for woman who allegedly vandalized campaign signs
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The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office posted photos of a woman Wednesday morning thought to be involved in the vandalization of political campaign signs. The woman was seen near the vandalized campaign signs on Golden Gate Canyon Road, the sheriff’s office said. The sheriff’s office released the photos asking for the public’s help in identifying the…
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The ‘Lower Ark’ may be mostly Republican but the issues are widely divergent
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: This story is part of a series to capture views among Coloradans. Those who live in southeast Colorado do not always share monolithic views with their northeast Colorado cousins. But views about the urban-rural divide — or what some call the war on…
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ENDORSEMENT: Reelecting Gardner is the easiest call on the ballot
Colorado has the third-youngest senator in Congress who has proven himself a workhorse who gets great results for Colorado. With six years of gaining trust and respect among his colleagues, Pentagon brass and the White House administration, he is well on his way to becoming the most formidable member of the Senate. On a ballot…
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EDITORIAL: Swiftly confirm a new court justice
The U.S. Supreme Court must preserve the union and all it was founded to stand for. That means the party in power has an obligation to appoint and confirm justices without delay. Voters elected President Donald Trump and a majority of senators in large part out of concern for the court. The United States is…
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EDTORIAL: Hickenlooper was jet-set as rural Colorado burned
John Hickenlooper snubs rural Colorado because “backwards thinking” voters don’t matter all that much. They don’t matter in terms of getting him elected. That was his attitude as governor, so it comes as no surprise he has almost nothing to do with rural Coloradans while running for the United States Senate. Hickenlooper blew off Saturday’s…
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Six months in, Colorado officials urge patience, diligence as state awaits COVID-19 vaccine
The rumors were swirling in early February that the Department of Defense had tapped the Colorado Army National Guard’s facility on Fort Carson to potentially quarantine Americans fleeing Huebi province in China, the center of an outbreak of a wild new virus. Globally, more than 30,000 had been infected. The bulk of cases had occurred…