Tag: pat schroeder
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In 1976 when it celebrated its centennial, everything was headed for Colorado
When the nation’s 200th birthday arrived in 1976, everything was headed for the Centennial State. Colorado had captured the nation’s imagination. On the radio, John Denver serenaded endlessly about a place so pretty that you could get high just looking at it. Everything was coming to Colorado — including people. The population living way out…
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Colorado remains among a shrinking pool of states with glass ceilings at top of the ticket | TRAIL MIX
Will 2026 be the year Colorado voters shatter one of the state’s stubborn and seemingly incongruous glass ceilings? The Centennial State approaches next year’s sesquicentennial — preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary of statehood — with an increasingly rare distinction in the almanac of American politics. Across all those years, voters have never elected a…
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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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This was a week for our daughters to dance | Vince Bzdek
I don’t know about you, but I thought 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman stole the show at the Presidential Inauguration this week with her electric recital of “The Hill We Climb.” She amassed nearly 900,000 Twitter followers over the course of the day, and I think it’s because she gave the country a new story to…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | What Polis’ record in office reveals about the governor-elect
Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Dec. 15. Early on the night of Colorado’s June primary election, the congratulations started pouring in for Jared Polis, the five-term congressman who bested three fellow Democrats on his way to winning…