Baseless yet relentless Republican attacks on the results of the 2020 election known as the “Big Lie” have trickled all the way down to a small-town, Western Slope mayoral race this week.
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GOP State Senate Hopeful’s ‘Selling Drugs’ Admission Sparks Debate Heading Into Assembly
With Republicans focusing on fentanyl and Colorado’s rising crime rate in the 2022 election, a Western Slope state senate candidate’s admission of “selling drugs on the side” in college is raising eyebrows ahead of this weekend’s GOP state assembly.
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Neguse, Bennet, Hickenlooper Back Local CO Challenge of Utah Oil Train Project
Colorado’s two Democratic senators and the congressman whose district would arguably be most impacted are backing towns and counties suing to stop a massive Utah oil project.
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Western Slope Senate Hopefuls Call Putin War Criminal, Weigh Energy Fallout of War
Retired U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Rich Cimino, a Republican Grand County commissioner running for state Senate district in the central and northern parts of Colorado’s Western Slope, believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is a war criminal for his brutal invasion of democratic Ukraine.
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Bennet ‘Deeply Concerned’ About Oil Trains in Colorado as Feds Approve Utah Project
The prospect of up to 350,000 barrels of oil a day rolling through Colorado on trains has caught the attention of Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet following the Dec. 15 U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) approval of the Uinta Basin Railway in northeastern Utah.
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Hickenlooper Pushes to Extend Health Insurance Savings
Coloradans who don’t get their health insurance through their employer and have to buy it on the individual market are saving hundreds of dollars a month in 2022 thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the federal stimulus package passed earlier this year by Democrats.
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Boebert’s GOP Primary Opponent Says Voters ‘Exhausted by Lies, Deceit and Hatefulness’
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) GOP primary challenger, Marina Zimmerman, said voters are “exhausted by [Boebert’s] lies, deceit and hatefulness” after a Thanksgiving week of slurs and scandal.
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Blowing it: Debating the Wisdom of Making Snow, Seeding Clouds to Ski During Climate Crisis
VAIL, Colo. — Looking up at the grassy, brown lower slopes of Colorado ski resorts these days, streaked in places with patches of artificial snow, it’s natural to wonder, what’s the point?
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GOP Primary Opponent Says Boebert Still Vulnerable to ‘Silent Majority’ in Even-Redder CD3
EAGLEVAIL, Colo. — Marina Zimmerman, a member of the GOP running to unseat right-wing Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in the June 28 Colorado primary, says there’s a “silent majority” in her party inclined to put someone other than Boebert on the ticket.
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Ken Buck Battles Big Tech With Bill to Unlock App Stores’ Rules
Despite a recent court ruling that could carve off a big slice of Apple and Google’s revenue for rival tech companies and app developers, Colorado Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO4) continues to sharpen his anti-trust policy knife against the Big Tech giants.