Tag: Kent Thiry
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Red Carpet Reception proves new home’s a winner for Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale | NONPROFIT REGISTER
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW News: It wasn’t just the art that people were talking about at Thursday night’s Red Carpet Reception for the 34th Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale. A good number of the 1,000-plus guests were on their first visit to the show’s spacious new location on the second floor of The Legacy, the recently completed, four-story, $100 million world headquarters for the National Western Stock Show. And…
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Initiative to change Colorado’s primary and general elections failing
A hotly debated initiative that seeks to change how primary and general elections are run in Colorado has failed, according to early election results. Just over 55% of voters have cast their ballots against Proposition 131, which would establish a top-four primary election and ranked choice voting for certain state and congressional races, as of 3:40…
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Proposition 131 debate: Weighing the merits and cost of ranked-choice voting in Colorado
Colorado Voter Guide: 2024 General Election Watch the full debate here. The benefits and drawbacks of Proposition 131, which seeks to establish an all-candidate primary and ranked-choice voting system in Colorado, were discussed during a debate hosted by Colorado Politics, the Denver Gazette, and the University of the University of Denver’s Reiman Theatre on Thursday. The…
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Colorado election spending: How donors are shaping the 2024 races
Some of Colorado’s biggest donors include Thiry, Polis, Bloomberg, Stryker and others
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Are Coloradans ready for ranked choice voting? | Cronin and Loevy
Citizen Initiative 310, backed by a few Denver political reformers, will be on your Nov. 5 general election ballot. It proposes a major overhaul of how Coloradans would vote in state and congressional elections — but not for local and presidential elections. This reform is named ranked choice voting. It is being supported by the “Colorado…
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Is a new ‘Independents Day’ dawning in Colorado? | Vince Bzdek
Some day in the not-too-distant future, Americans may look back at this moment in history and single out Colorado as the place a new birth of “independents” occurred. Colorado Springs was, in fact, featured in a national political magazine recently as one of the epicenters of a movement by voters away from political parties. “If…
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Big money floods Denver mayor’s race as Michael Bloomberg, Pete Coors make large contributions
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and once presidential aspirant, forked out half a million dollars in contributions to help a candidate from almost 1,800 miles away. Bloomberg’s goal? Get Mike Johnston, a former state legislator, elected as Denver mayor. Meanwhile, businessman Pete Coors, the Republican nominee for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat…
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LinkedIn cofounder, former DaVita CEO pour money into Denver mayor’s race
Kelly Brough maintains a fundraising edge, but Mike Johnston is not far behind, having benefitted from nearly $900,000 in outside support.
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United States v. DaVita: Preview of groundbreaking white-collar trial in Denver
The nearly three-week criminal trial of Denver-based DaVita, Inc. and its former leader, Kent Thiry, will begin on Monday morning, as prosecutors attempt to prove that a series of agreements between DaVita and its competitors are a novel violation of a century-old antitrust law. The government alleges there were high-level understandings that certain competitor companies…