Tag: Hickenlooper
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Kelly Brough and Mike Johnston offer plans to tackle arrival of immigrants to Denver
News that Texas Gov. Greg Abbot sent scores of immigrants by bus to Denver took center stage in the latest debate between mayoral aspirants Kelly Brough and Mike Johnston on Thursday night, with both candidates offering largely similar approaches to the crisis. The 41 immigrants sent by the Abbot administration to the Mile High City…
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U.S. Sen. Hickenlooper calls for Federal Reserve to pause rising interest rates
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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper called for the Federal Reserve to pause rising interest rates Thursday in a stern letter to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. The central bank has increased interest rates five times this year in an effort to combat skyrocketing inflation by slowing the economy and easing pressures on prices, The Washington Post reported.…
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Governor Polis kicks off $700 million in I-70 improvement projects on Floyd Hill
Gov. Jared Polis, accompanied by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and other state and local officials met at the Floyd Hill Open Space Trails parking lot Wednesday to kick off $700 million in improvements to I-70 along the Floyd Hill corridor. The state received a $100,000,000 Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight…
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Oil & gas leasing practice eliminated by Hickenlooper bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal-lands leasing practice critics say allows oil and gas companies to unfairly gain control of publicly owned mineral resources was eliminated by a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper that was included in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that became law Tuesday.…
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Forced labor in China triggers investigation into solar panel dumping
A firestorm of criticism exploded when U.S. solar panel producer Auxin Solar CEO Mamun Rashid filed an unfair trade practices complaint with the U.S. Department of Commerce. When rumors emerged that punitive retroactive tariffs on imported panels could go as high as 250%, it brought importation of solar panels from Southeast Asia to a sudden…
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Bennet, Hickenlooper urge U.S. Air Force to address ‘forever chemicals’ contamination in El Paso County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s two U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Air Force to address water contamination from “forever chemicals” in El Paso County. In a letter, U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper said polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has contaminated the Widefield aquifer, which provides drinking water to thousands…
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INSIGHTS | BLM lost diversity coming to Colorado, others shouldn’t follow
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Diversity was never Grand Junction’s long suit. We knew that two years ago, but nobody wanted to say anything when the Trump administration moved the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. That was a daisy. The agency controls more than 245 million…
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Colorado delegation splits along party lines as House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of the Colorado House delegation voted along party lines Friday on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, a nearly $2 trillion package Democrats are hailing as a groundbreaking social and environmental legislation and Republicans are denouncing the measure and its price tag. The…
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EDITORIAL: Gazette report shows need for Amendment 78
The wind blew a branch on the roof and caused a leak. Dad obtained emergency aid to fix it. He easily patched the damage and had a pile of cash left over. So, dad went to the bar. He yelled “drinks on me” and spent the balance on his friends. His wife was miffed, saying…
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Amache national historic site bill passes U.S. House, heads to Senate
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Camp Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp that imprisoned over 7,000 in southeast Colorado, took one step closer to becoming a national park Thursday. The Amache National Historic Site Act, a bipartisan effort to preserve and learn from the legacy of the notorious incarceration camp,…