Author: Nicholas Riccardi
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Switchbacks defender Jimmy Ockford a steadying force
Three days prior to his team’s USL Championship season opener last week, Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC defender Jimmy Ockford was awarded the role of team captain for the 2021 campaign. The 28-year-old, now in his eighth professional season, is confident that his first year on the pitch with the Switchbacks will be a positive one…
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Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
DENVER — Dawn Reinfeld moved to Colorado 30 years ago to attend college in the bucolic town of Boulder. Enchanted by the state’s wide-open spaces, she stayed. But, in the ensuing decades, dark events have clouded her view of her adopted home. The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. The 2012 massacre at the Aurora…
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Democratic presidential debate: Key takeaways
A dozen Democratic presidential candidates participated in a spirited debate over health care, taxes, gun control and impeachment. Takeaways from the three-hour forum in Westerville, Ohio: WARREN’S RISE ATTRACTS ATTACKS Sen. Elizabeth Warren found Tuesday that her rise in the polls may come with a steep cost. She’s now a clear target for attacks, particularly from…
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Gardner, other Republicans stumbling over question at heart of impeachment
A simple yes-or-no question keeps tripping up Senate Republicans: Should the president ask foreign countries to investigate political rivals? A month ago, the question was a legal and constitutional no-brainer. It’s illegal to accept foreign help in a political campaign, an action that also raises questions about U.S. sovereignty. But President Donald Trump last week…
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Key takeaways from the 2020 Democratic candidates’ debate
HOUSTON — Democratic debate night No. 3: Attacks and counter-attacks. Love for one former president, loathing for the current one. A 76-year-old front-runner essentially got called old, and he turned around and called another rival a “socialist.” But will it change the fundamentals of a nominating fight that remains remarkably stable at the top with five months until voting…
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Poll: 64% disapprove of Trump’s climate change views
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump gets some of his worst marks from the American people when it comes to his handling of climate change, and majorities believe the planet is warming and support government actions that he has sometimes scoffed at. While the administration has rolled back regulations to cut emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from power…
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Pressure mounts on Hickenlooper, but Senate is no sure bet
SIOUX CITY, Iowa • As his campaign cash dwindles and he keeps scraping the bottom in polls, pressure is mounting on former Gov. John Hickenlooper to trade in his faltering presidential bid for a U.S. Senate run in his home state of Colorado. But that decision won’t be easy for the 67-year-old Hickenlooper. He was…
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Pressure mounts on Hickenlooper, but Senate is no sure bet
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — As his campaign cash dwindles and he continues to scrape the bottom in polls, pressure is mounting on former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to trade in his faltering presidential bid for a U.S. Senate run in his home state. But the decision will not be an easy one for the 67-year-old.…
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Gardner had good news for Colorado about BLM. But Trump had tweets.
WASHINGTON — Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner had reeled in a big political fish. A major government agency, the Bureau of Land Management, was moving to his state and marking a victory years in the making for one of the Senate’s most vulnerable Republicans. But Gardner’s moment of triumph rolled out Monday in the shadow of…
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Debate in Miami: Will Biden’s stumbles provide an opening for Hickenlooper, Bennet?
Moderate Democrats are issuing dire warnings about the prohibitive expense of big-ticket liberal promises. They bemoan that the party is ignoring politicians who found success in areas that supported President Donald Trump. One — Colorado’s John Hickenlooper — even echoes the Republican talking point that Democrats are becoming socialists. Yet the moderates competing for the…