Every year, Colorado state employees have the opportunity to make charitable donations through the Colorado Combined Campaign (CCC). Last year this workplace giving program raised $945,000 for nearly 700 different non-profit groups.
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Thousands Gather At Anti-Abortion Rally In Denver
Thousands showed up to the Celebrate Life Rally and March at Colorado’s Capitol Saturday, which occurs annually in cities across the U.S. around the anniversary of the monumental Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nearly half a century ago.
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OPINION: The Pro-Choice Movement Needs To Stop With The Pregnant Belly Photos
I work in the reproductive rights field. Every day my colleagues and I work to destigmatize abortion and encourage people to be open and honest about their own abortion stories. One of the most compelling things we discuss is that most pregnancies are terminated at around 7 weeks. As a matter of fact, that’s when I had my abortion. At 7 weeks along, whatever was hanging out in my uterus was itty bitty and looked nothing like a baby, as the anti-choice movement wants people to believe.
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Calling Gardner A “Bubbly Ray Of Sunshine,” Congressman Enters Race To Lead Colorado Republican Party
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who entered the race yesterday to be the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party, threw his unequivocal support behind Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner’s re-election bid in 2020, calling the first-term senator a “bubbly ray of sunshine that puts a smile on the face of the Republican Party. “
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Gardner Won’t Say If He’ll Donate His Shutdown Pay To Charity
With over 800,000 federal workers still going without pay as a partial government shutdown over border wall funding continues, some Colorado lawmakers are refusing to accept paychecks or planning to donate their earnings to charity.
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Senator Owen Hill: Poetry Critic
UPDATE: Senator Hill replied with a statement at the end of this post.
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Bunny Boilers and Primary Challengers: Gardner’s Shutdown Statement Angers Republican Base
Colorado’s conservative activists are furious at U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s call to end the government shutdown without funding for President Trump’s wall. County GOP officials and Tea Party leaders are talking openly about the need for a primary challenger in 2020.
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Arapahoe Tea Party To Address Gardner And “The Problem of the Circular Firing Squad”
At a meeting Tuesday, Arapahoe County Tea Party members will discuss ways to win (and lose) elections in Colorado, including the “problems of a circular firing squad,” according to the group’s Facebook page.
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Sounding Alarm To Climate Crisis, Activists Call For Bold Policy Change At Denver Rally
Community activists called for bold policy change to address the coming climate crisis and hold the oil and gas industry accountable at a rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park Thursday, the day before Democrats took control of the state legislature and kicked of the 2019 legislative session.
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Would Gardner Vote To End the Shutdown?
UPDATE: Gardner told The Hill that he’d vote to end the government shutdown, without providing funding for the border wall.