Tag: doug lamborn
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard. The touchdowns of Bezos’s rocket last week and Shepard’s six…
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Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard.…
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TRAIL MIX | Jockeying for open seats is the same old House race
By the end of the year, the outline of Colorado’s newest congressional district — the state’s 8th CD — should be finalized, and by next July the major party candidates for the seat will have been chosen in what could be barn-burner primaries. While the state’s independent redistricting commission has relatively free rein when it…
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TRAIL MIX | Jockeying for open seats is the same old House race
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By the end of the year, the outline of Colorado’s newest congressional district — the state’s 8th CD — should be finalized, and by next July the major party candidates for the seat will have been chosen in what could be barn-burner primaries. While the…
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Colorado congressman blasts Air Force Academy’s teaching of critical race theory
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn continued his crusade against critical race theory Wednesday after an associate professor at the Air Force Academy in favor of the theory called it “vital.” The theory, Lamborn said in a Wednesday press release, shouldn’t be taught to service members because…
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Colorado congressman blasts Air Force Academy’s teaching of critical race theory
U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn continued his crusade against critical race theory Wednesday after an associate professor at the Air Force Academy in favor of the theory called it “vital.” The theory, Lamborn said in a Wednesday press release, shouldn’t be taught to service members because it advances Marxist thought in its attempt to show that…
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Colorado’s political landscape has changed significantly in 10 short years | TRAIL MIX
A decade in politics can be a lifetime. Especially in a state with term limits and the kind of rapid, uneven growth Colorado has experienced since Denver was still trying to shake its long-discarded reputation as a cow town, even a few years can turn the political world on its head. Throw in the 24-hour…
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TRAIL MIX | A few standouts in early 2022 fundraising numbers
Campaign fundraising isn’t everything, but with a long 18 months until the 2022 election, at this point it’s the clearest way to quantify how the cycle is shaping up. Colorado’s federal candidates — for next year’s Senate race and seven of the eight seats the state will have in the House of Representatives for the…
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Space Command general tells lawmakers Alabama lacks communications capabilities he needs
U.S. Space Command’s top general admitted to a congressional committee that an expensive secure communications network to connect the headquarters to the Pentagon and other installations would have to be built if it moves from Colorado to Huntsville, Ala. While backing the planned move, Space Command’s Gen. James Dickinson, under furious questioning from Colorado Springs…
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Reactions on the guilty verdict of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
As the verdict came down in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, the news rippled in the Rockies on Tuesday afternoon. At the Colorado Capitol, state Rep. Tony Exum Sr., a Democrat from Colorado Springs, offered the first official post-conviction response: a prayer at a press conference. State Rep. Leslie Herod,…