By Alan Fram, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — What started out as a rebellion with a potentially devastating effect on Nancy Pelosi’s winning drive to reclaim the House speaker’s post officially fell short Thursday as just 15 Democrats — including Colorado’s Jason Crow — refused to back her bid for the job. Though suspense about the […]
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Aurora officials say water in Colorado is increasingly difficult to find. So they’ve tapped an inactive mine.
A Denver suburb has finalized an unusual deal to acquire water from an inactive gold mine. Aurora city officials said Friday the $34 million deal gives the city the rights to about 1,400 acre-feet of water a year from the London Mine outside Alma, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) to the west. An acre-foot is […]
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Amazon didn’t pick Denver for its HQ2, but the company is not leaving Colorado empty-handed
Welp, it’s official. Denver didn’t get Amazon’s second headquarters, the 50,000 “high-paying” jobs, the $5 billion in investment or the major economic windfall — or massive headache, depending on whom you ask. Amazon notified the public in a news release at around 8 a.m. Mountain time, or roughly 12 hours after The Wall Street Journal said […]
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6th Congressional District battle gets even more fiery — and personal — as Mike Coffman and Jason Crow kick off final election stretch with tense debate
AURORA — Colorado’s high-stakes 6th Congressional District race took another negative turn Wednesday as Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and Democrat Jason Crow attacked each other in their first fiery face-off since voters began to receive ballots. And they kept it personal, picking apart campaign contributions, leadership abilities and past experiences. Policy platforms, for much […]
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Gun-control group, Giffords, will amend TV ad attacking Republican Mike Coffman after outcry over link to Platte Canyon High School shooting
Giffords, a political action committee seeking tighter gun controls, says it will amend an ad attacking U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman after outcry Tuesday about its similarities to a real-life event that left a Colorado high school student dead. The 30-second spot, part of a $1.5 million ad buy attacking Coffman, featured a hypothetical text-message exchange […]
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The anti-gun violence Giffords PAC is pouring $1.5 million-plus to unseat Republican Mike Coffman — more than the group has spent in any race thus far
Deep-pocketed Giffords, a political action committee named for the former Arizona congresswoman who survived a 2011 assassination attempt, is a growing force in the 6th Congressional District battle between Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman and Democrat Jason Crow. Giffords, a gun-violence prevention group seeking tighter firearm controls, has already spent $1.5 million on television ads […]
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In his toughest political battle yet, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman is trying to navigate his way to another re-election against growing headwinds
AURORA — On a Sunday morning in late July, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman stood at the front of a packed Ethiopian Orthodox church in Aurora, wearing an honorary scarf draped over his shoulders, to tout the work he’s done on behalf of the African immigrant community. As the five-term Republican spoke about progress with Ethiopia’s […]
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Democrat Jason Crow on the #abolishICE movement: “I want to take a more holistic approach”
As the more progressive wing of the Democratic party calls for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished, Jason Crow — the party’s hope this year to beat GOP U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District — isn’t on board. “I want to take a more holistic approach to it,” Crow said in an interview with […]