Author: jim.trotter
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Our suggestions on the 2024 ballot issues | Cronin and Loevy
Here are our views for the 2024 Colorado state and Colorado Springs ballot issues. We summarize each proposed measure, then indicate our personal vote and finally offer our prediction of what the public vote will be. Colorado state issues Amendment G: Modify Property Tax Exemption for Veterans with Disabilities. Proposed by the legislature. 55% vote…
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Colorado’s naloxone fund is drying up, even as opioid settlement money rolls in
On a bustling street corner one recent afternoon outside the offices of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver, employees of the education and advocacy nonprofit handed out free naloxone kits to passersby. Distributing the opioid reversal medication is essential to the center’s work to reduce fatal overdoses in the community. But how long the…
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Vance promotes Trumpism; Walz carries the Harris flag | Cronin and Loevy
Vice presidents matter. Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and George H. W. Bush, among others, were vice presidents before they were presidents. We have had some notable disappointments as vice president. Andrew Johnson, who was Abraham Lincoln’s inadequate successor, came within one vote of being impeached. Spiro Agnew, who almost became Richard…
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Matthew McConaughey, Ukraine’s Zelensky highlight National Governors meet
SALT LAKE CITY • Everything is not all right, all right, all right in America, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey told a rapt crowd at the National Governors Association meeting here on Friday, alluding to presidential politics and bitter partisanship. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky followed him onto the same stage a couple of hours later and explained…
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Gazette investigative reporter honored by Polk for unmasking Colorado’s family courts
Gazette senior investigative reporter Chris Osher has been awarded the prestigious George Polk Award for his work in exposing Colorado’s dysfunctional and dangerous family court system. The annual national awards, among the most respected in journalism, were announced Monday in New York. This is the first Polk Award ever awarded to The Gazette. Also honored…
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Blue state, Red state: Colorado, Wyoming have twin COVID-19 outbreaks
WHEATLAND, Wyo. — Brandon Graves said COVID-19 arrived in Wheatland the way new movies do in this High Plains farming town: Months after hitting the big cities and without much fanfare. “It kind of trickled in and it never really exploded here,” said Graves, a lifelong resident and mayor of the town of about 3,500,…
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Delta variant surges in Mesa County as thousands attend festival
GRAND JUNCTION — Dr. Rachel LaCount grasped a metal hoop at a playground and spun in circles with her 7-year-old son, turning the distant mesas of the Colorado National Monument into a red-tinged blur. LaCount has lived in this western Colorado city of 64,000 nearly her whole life. As a hospital pathologist, she knows better…