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Pot foe says kids provided a reason to pass CBD bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save To say Colorado state Rep. Lois Landgraf loves pot is like setting up a punch line. The Republican from Fountain, however, thinks sick kids are no laughing matter. “I’ve always been against marijuana, but this isn’t that,” she said over the phone one evening about…
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At 80, CU’s Bruce Benson is too busy ‘running stuff’ to slow down for critics
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Bruce Benson turned 80 on the Fourth of July. He decided it was time to graduate into retirement after a glittering, sometimes tense, career in the oil business, Colorado politics and, for the last decade, education as president of the University of Colorado system. He…
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Colorado gets 2 dozen new laws, new budget
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save From squatters to swatters and $29 billion, the Colorado state budget and 25 laws took effect July 1. They are the products of the 120-day legislative session that ended in May, when lawmakers passed 432…
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Hickenlooper calls separating immigrant families ‘immoral and un-American’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday defied the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexican border as part of a “zero-tolerance” policy enacted in April by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.The policy is…
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More Colorado Republicans vote early, but unaffiliateds are breaking left
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If this is going to be a blue-wave year for Democrats, the first week of early voting certainly doesn’t suggest it. So far, Republicans are voting in bigger numbers than Democrats as the race to…
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INSIGHTS: Road to more transportation funding is lined with potholes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save This isn’t going to end well. I only need math – addition, subtraction and simple division – to understand the political equation of Colorado’s desperate need to fund transportation and the long odds to do it. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and a collection…
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Trump delivers a shout-out to Gardner’s pot bill
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Talking to reporters Friday, President Donald Trump said he “probably” will back legislation on states’ rights and marijuana introduced by Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner on Thursday. Inaudibly in a Fox News clip, a reporter…
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U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner, Elizabeth Warren aim to shield states with legalized marijuana
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. Sens. Cory Gardner and Elizabeth Warren unveiled legislation Thursday that says states that adequately regulate marijuana need not fear federal intervention. Colorado, Massachusetts and other states that have legalized marijuana have feared interference from…
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Republicans excited about conservative summit in Denver – and so are Democrats
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Chief organizer Jeff Hunt says he hasn’t seen this much excitement around the Western Conservative Summit since Donald Trump and Sarah Palin came to Denver for the 2016 gathering. This year’s summit – the largest…
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Special session on Colorado marijuana issues called a long shot
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Members of Colorado’s marijuana industry and other advocates on Thursday floated the idea of a special session of the state legislature to overturn Gov. John Hickenlooper’s vetoes of three marijuana bills this week. Hickenlooper nixed…