Tag: Joey Bunch
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The return of the flaming moderates: Primary election a victory for the Great American Middle | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hail to the flaming moderates. If this past Tuesday’s primary election was anything, it was a victory for the Great American Middle. Across Colorado, moderate, mainstream Republicans won their races against more extreme ones. The GOP candidates who supported election conspiracy theories and questioned the…
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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer,…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado beat the Russians at its election games
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Wayne Williams took office in 2015, secretaries of state didn’t talk much about hackers or, if at all, Russians. Now those topics dominate discussions among the sharpest minds and deepest worriers about the security of our elections. Colorado became a tough nut to crack…
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Study cites costs of oil and gas measure; Ken Salazar calls it unconstitutional
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A study by a business coalition released July 27 crunched the costs of putting 2,500-foot setbacks between homes and oil and gas operations in Colorado. “If passed, this initiative will have a devastating impact on our economy,” Earl Wright, chairman of the Common Sense Policy…
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Rising political star Amber McReynolds leaving Denver elections post
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A potential candidate being sized up by insiders to run for Denver city clerk next year, then possibly higher office has her own plans. Amber McReynolds, Denver’s ubiquitous director of elections, is leaving Aug. 18 to become executive director of the National Vote at Home…
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INSIGHTS: Public loses authority to police campaign finance
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On “The Andy Griffith Show,” Gomer Pyle took the law into his own hands. After Barney Fife wrote Gomer a ticket for an illegal U-turn, the deputy made the same mistake. Gomer leaped from the cab of his truck and into law enforcement. “Citizen’s arrest,…
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COVER STORY | Grand Junction shines as D.C. eyes new home for BLM
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly caught up to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the House floor. Gardner had Colorado business to discuss with his old friend, the former senator from Montana who…
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INSIGHTS: CU’s investment strategy could cost political capital
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaCYcJvfIL8 Chancellor Phil DiStefano thinks he knows what’s best for the University of Colorado Boulder, and that it’s best if he oversees a purse worth about $21 million each year instead of CU Boulder’s student government leaders. “I want to inform you of a financial…
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INSIGHTS: Trump sowing seeds of doubt in Colorado farm country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you want to make some noise, you stick the pig that squeals loudest. That’s what you need to know about the Chinese tariffs on 128 U.S. agricultural products and what it could mean for President Trump. Coloradans in the business of livestock and crops…
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Colorado House expels Rep. Steve Lebsock, 52-9
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado House voted to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock, a Democrat from Thornton, Friday, the first such move since a member was found to take a bribe on a floor of the chamber in 1915. Lebsock left the Capitol as soon as the vote was…