The Aurora City Council election isn’t technically a partisan battleground, but it’s turning out that way, as Democrats and Republicans have poured money and/or endorsements into the race for fellow Democrats or fellow Republicans.
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Another CO Springs Radio Host Says He’s Been ‘Terminated’ After Refusing ‘Chinese COVID-19 Injections’
Another right-wing radio host in Colorado Springs says he’s “been terminated” due to his refusal to get the COVID vaccine as required by his radio station.
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CO Springs Radio Host Fired for Failing to Abide by Station’s Vaccine Requirement
After over 13 years as a host on KVOR in Colorado Springs, Jeff Crank was told to walk away from the radio station’s microphone due to his failure to get a COVID vaccination, per KVOR’s requirement for employees — a mandate Crank calls “unethical and immoral.”
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CO Hospital Says Its COVID Vaccine Mandate for Organ Recipients Saves Lives, But to GOP Leader, It ‘Doesn’t Seem Humane at All’
The leader of the Colorado Republican Party appeared on conservative radio Tuesday to say she shares a GOP lawmaker’s outrage over the decision of UCHealth, a Colorado hospital affiliated with the University of Colorado, to require an El Paso woman to get a COVID vaccine prior to receiving a kidney transplant.
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Denver Radio Host Says He’s ‘Heard’ That Competing Hosts ‘Are Told Not To Talk’ About Trump
In response to changes in talk-radio programming at Denver radio stations KOA and KHOW, Peter Boyles — who works for a competing station — said last month that he’s “heard” that talk show hosts at KOA and KHOW, both owned by IHeartMedia, have been “mandated” not to talk about specific topics, including some related to Trump.
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Stealth Conservatism Evident in Center Square News Stories Published in Colorado Politics
Last month, Colorado Politics, a print and online political news site, published a story about conservatives who submitted signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State to place an anti-tax initiative on the ballot.
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As They Debate Dumping Primaries, CO Republicans Tell The World They’re Losers
No matter what side they’re on in their internal war over whether to dump open primaries, Republicans are telling the world — and each other — how weak they are in Colorado, how much swing voters hate them, how deep blue the state is turning, and how depressed they are about it.
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CO Radio Host Recovers from COVID, Brags About Being Opinionated, But Still Won’t Say Whether People Should Get Vaccinated
A Colorado talk radio host whose show introduces him as a “newsman, now with an opinion,” is refusing to offer his opinion on whether his conservative listeners should get a COVID vaccination, despite his landing in the hospital himself this year and after contracting COVID.
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Lawmaker Who Uses Ivermectin for COVID Believes Dems Don’t Grasp Where Air Pollution Comes From
State Rep. Rod Pelton (R-Cheyenne Wells), who uses the mostly veterinary drug Ivermectin to fight off COVID, also has anti-scientific views when it comes to Colorado’s air pollution woes, saying recently that Democrats at the state Capitol don’t seem to understand that they can’t clean up air pollution in Colorado that originates in California.
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Remember Cory Gardner Wants To Let States Like Texas Decide Whether to Ban Abortion
This article was originally published by the Colorado Times Recorder in 2019, after the state of Alabama passed a law that essentially banned abortion. The law was subsequently blocked by the courts.