Author: Rachael Wright
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Best and Brightest: Volunteering leads student to academic achievement
Community service is at the heart of everything that Cheyenne Mountain High School senior Garrett Wellens does. In May 2021, Wellens and a group of peers founded the “Interact Club.” The group has since grown to the point that it now donates hundreds of pounds of uneaten fruit to local farms for livestock feed, works…
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Sticker shock hits state Capitol over cost of legislative studies | A LOOK BACK
Sixty Years Ago This Week: For the previous year, the Republican majority in the state legislature had been touting the many benefits of conservative fiscal policies, but reporters uncovered a spending spree on the production and publication of several legislative studies that had many in the public policy community questioning their necessity. It turned out that…
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Best and Brightest: Dedication to community and computer science
For Air Academy High School senior Kaci McBrayer, community service both locally and nationwide are core passions. McBrayer comes from an Air Force family. Her father, Brandon McBrayer, is still on active duty, and she’s lived for over seven years in Japan, as well as in South Korea. The exposure to different cultures has instilled…
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Senate minority leader abruptly ends legislative career | A LOOK BACK
Thirty Years Ago This Week: In a surprise move, state Senate Minority Leader Larry Trujillo, D-Pueblo, announced to his Senate colleagues that he would resign from his District 3 seat before the end of the legislative session and asked his party to elect a new minority leader within two weeks. Both Trujillo and Senate Assistant…
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Denver mayoral candidate gets pulled into heated auditor battle | A LOOK BACK
Forty Years Ago This Week: Candidate for Denver mayor Dale Tooley was seemingly broadsided by criticism from another candidate whom he was not running against. Mike Licht, who was in his own race for Denver auditor, fired back at Tooley, which afforded him the opportunity chide his opponent, the incumbent auditor, in the process. At…
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Dem Minority leader claims GOP’s hard-line, low income tax stance slipping | A LOOK BACK
Sixty Years Ago This Week: At a meeting of the Denver Young Democrats, state House Minority Leader Allen Dines, D-Denver, claimed that “some splits” were “developing in the Republican ranks” and that large swaths of GOP legislators were even slightly resentful of newly-elected fellow Republican Gov. John Love. In his presentation to the youthful gathering…
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Denver mayoral candidate attacks EPA over clean air pushback | A LOOK BACK
Forty Years Ago This Week: Candidate for Denver mayor Monte Pascoe launched an attack against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming that officials were using their power and positions to “politically punish” Coloradans. Holding a press conference inside the EPA building in Denver, Pascoe singled out EPA administrator Anne Burford and regional director Steve Durham…
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Legislator introduces bill to compensate for hostage situations | A LOOK BACK
Forty Years Ago This Week: State Sen. Alvin Meiklejohn, R-Arvada, announced that he would introduce a bill that would make it possible for cities and towns to recover some of the immense costs involved in hostage situations. Meiklejohn told The Colorado Statesman that his bill was necessary because of a gap in the existing criminal…
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Estill Buchanan embroiled in furniture ‘flap’ at retirement party | A LOOK BACK
Forty Years Ago This Week: Outgoing Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan landed herself in hot water just days before a retirement reception honoring her service to Colorado. State officials said that when Buchanan had left office the month prior, she had taken with her state-owned furniture and office equipment including six chairs, two electric…
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GOP congressman seeks alternate legislation to Equal Rights Amendment | A LOOK BACK
Forty Years Ago This Week: Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Ken Kramer, R-Colorado Springs, had the result of infuriating the president of the Arapahoe chapter for the National Organization for Women, Shirley Wood. Kramer’s legislation sought to “amend the 14th Amendment” by making sex “a suspect classification.” Under the law women could not be discriminated…