Tag: Ken Buck
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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
When John Hopper, dean of students for the Granada School District, began teaching his history students about Camp Amache in the early 1990s, the site was a sage-brush strewn prairie dotted with concrete foundations. Now, after Hopper and his students spent decades preserving the former Japanese American internment camp from World War II, advocating for it,…
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President Biden signs legislation designating Colorado’s Camp Amache a national historic site
President Joe Biden on Friday signed bipartisan legislation to add the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment center in the southeast corner of Colorado to the National Park System. Sponsored by Colorado lawmakers U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, the Amache National Historic…
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Ilhan Omar hangs up on Lauren Boebert, ends ‘unproductive’ call over anti-Muslim remarks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tensions flared Monday as U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert dug in on her recent comments suggesting that a Muslim congresswoman has ties to terrorism amid mounting calls for GOP leaders to condemn the Colorado Republican. A…
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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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TRAIL MIX | Minimal job requirements make for eclectic cast of U.S. lawmakers
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A year from now, Coloradans will be nearly finished with the process of hiring their congressional representatives for the next two years. In just 52 weeks, ballots will start going in the mail to Colorado’s registered voters — and if past performance is a guide, most…
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After narrow escape from Afghanistan, interpreter, family embark on journey to new home in Colorado
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The interpreter slogged through human sewage up to his knees, two trips back and forth through steaming sludge, each time carrying two of his children on his shoulders. At the walled gate separating fear from freedom, he heaved them into the arms of his anxious…
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TRAIL MIX | Epic face-off between Neguse, Boebert only a short-lived fantasy
It was fun while it lasted. For five days, Colorado political watchers got to play “what if?” with a potential 2022 race between two of the state’s brightest stars, U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse, the Democrat, and Lauren Boebert, the Republican. During that brief period before harsh reality brought the flights of electoral fantasy down to…
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Colorado’s political landscape has changed significantly in 10 short years | TRAIL MIX
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A decade in politics can be a lifetime. Especially in a state with term limits and the kind of rapid, uneven growth Colorado has experienced since Denver was still trying to shake its long-discarded reputation as a cow town, even a few years can turn…
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A Big Tech reckoning is coming, and Coloradans may lead the way
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, had dinner about a year ago with the man who probably has more power over our public debate than any other person right now, Mark Zuckerberg. The CEO of…
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A Big Tech reckoning is coming, and Coloradans may lead the way | Vince Bzdek
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, had dinner about a year ago with the man who probably has more power over our public debate than any other person right now, Mark Zuckerberg. The CEO of Facebook now owns four of the biggest social media…