Author: Megan Schrader
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Obama: VA is healing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Barack Obama adamantly opposes privatizing the Department of Veterans Affairs to improve the level of health care veterans receive. “The notion of dismantling the VA system would be a mistake,” Obama told The Gazette…
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Obama: Gardner should meet with U.S. Supreme Court nominee
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Barack Obama on Thursday singled out Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado’s freshman Republican who unseated an incumbent Democrat in 2014, calling it “irresponsible” to refuse a meeting with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. “Sen.…
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Obama speech to Air Force Academy grads: Judgment, facts are crucial elements of leadership
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Barack Obama cautioned against the lure of isolationism in a growing world of conflict and ideological threats, while encouraging the Air Force Academy’s class of 2016 to rely on judgment and facts as they…
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No swanky digs for Obama’s night in Colorado Springs
Air Force One delivered President Barack Obama to Peterson Air Force Base at 7:12 p.m. Wednesday night, bringing the president to Colorado Springs hours before he speaks to the Air Force Academy’s 2016 graduating class. The president stayed the night at The DoubleTree hotel, a mid-range priced hotel in southern Colorado Springs near The Broadmoor World…
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Glenn has tough road to November ballot
HIGHLANDS RANCH -A Democrat political tracker – an opposition party henchman trying to catch political faux pas on camera – crashed a small neighborhood meet-and-greet for Darryl Glenn earlier this month. The man stood obtrusively in the middle of the living room with a small camera recording Glenn’s conversations. The man was asked to leave…
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Hickenlooper gets credit for his flair with Trump-Sanders socks
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – Sporting a Donald Trump sock on his right foot and a Bernie Sanders sock on the left – both complete with out-of-control, three-dimensional locks – Gov. John Hickenlooper said his autobiography released this…
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Hickenlooper gets personal in autobiography
DENVER – Sporting a Donald Trump sock on his right foot and a Bernie Sanders sock on the left – both complete with out-of-control three-dimensional hair – Gov. John Hickenlooper said his autobiography released this week is the anti-vice presidential bid. “I ran for mayor in 2003 and I’ve stayed in public service because I…
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Fight to get on Colorado’s crowded Republican primary ballot finally settled
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Ryan Frazier is an official candidate in the June Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Denver District Court Judge Elizabeth Starrs ruled Wednesday that Frazier had “substantially complied” with the Colorado law for getting on a…
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Colorado liquor store owners join forces to pressure Hickenlooper into signing beer and wine compromise
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – Gov. John Hickenlooper is being pressured to sign a bill that would slowly open Colorado’s liquor industry to chain stores hoping to hold multiple licenses. The former brewpub owner turned full-time politician has…
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Decision close regarding on Ryan Frazier’s place in Colorado Senate race
DENVER – Ryan Frazier must wait a few more days to find out whether votes cast for him in the Republican Senate primary will count. The Colorado Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday put him closer to being officially on the ballot, but Frazier remains about 30 signatures shy of qualifying as a candidate in the…