Colorado Democrats call for new national monument in Rockies
August 26, 2022 GMTDENVER (AP) — Top Colorado Democrats on Friday asked President Joe Biden to declare a new national monument in the heart of their state's Rocky Mountains.
In a letter to Biden, the state's two Democratic senators, Democratic governor and Democratic congressman who represents the area asked for Biden to create a Camp Hale - Continental Divide National Monument.
Utah senator blocks internment camp designation, draws ire
February 11, 2022 GMTDENVER (AP) — On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the forced internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans at the onset of World War II, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is getting backlash for holding up the creation of a national historic site at a former internment camp in rural Colorado.
Mississippi Sen. Wicker says he has recovered from COVID-19
August 31, 2021 GMTJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi said Tuesday that he is feeling well, less than two weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
“To everyone who has asked, I have recovered fully from my bout with COVID-19, and I have a clean bill of health,” Wicker posted Tuesday on Twitter.
Three senators test positive for COVID in breakthrough cases
August 20, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Three senators said Thursday they have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, a high-profile collection of breakthrough cases that comes as the highly infectious delta variant spreads rapidly across the United States.
Bill would recognize firefighter, EMS right to unionize
June 27, 2021 GMTCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire would recognize the right for firefighters and emergency medical services personnel to join a union and bargain for fair working conditions.
News Guide: Hickenlooper, Biden win in Colorado
November 4, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Colorado voters elected former Gov. John Hickenlooper to replace Republican U.S. Sen...
Democrat Hickenlooper wins US Senate race in Colorado
November 4, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Democrat John Hickenlooper has defeated Republican Sen. Cory Gardner in one of the closest-watched Senate races in the nation...
Major Democratic group pulls out of Colorado Senate race
October 16, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — A major Democratic group on Friday pulled its last remaining ads from Colorado's closely watched U...
Gardner defends record, Trump’s morality in final debate
October 14, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Republican Sen. Cory Gardner on Tuesday defended his record, alliance with President Donald Trump and the president's morality in the final debate of the heated Colorado Senate race...
John Hickenlooper wins Colorado’s Democratic Senate primary
July 1, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to face Republican Sen...
‘A hot mess’: Hickenlooper stumbles into Democratic primary
June 18, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Gov. John Hickenlooper was supposed to be Democrats' worry-free solution to the Colorado Senate race, but he's stumbled badly in the weeks leading up to the party's June 30 primary...
Senate hopeful Hickenlooper apologizes for slave comment
June 15, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado governor and current Senate hopeful John Hickenlooper apologized Monday for comments he made six years ago comparing politicians to slaves being whipped to row “an ancient slave ship...
Former Colorado governor held in contempt by ethics panel
June 4, 2020 GMTDENVER (AP) — The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission held former Gov. John Hickenlooper in contempt Thursday for defying orders to appear at a hearing on a Republican complaint that private plane trips he took while governor violated the state's gift ban...
Bullock becomes 3rd governor to drop presidential campaign
December 2, 2019 GMTHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Steve Bullock ended his Democratic presidential campaign Monday, becoming the third Western governor boasting executive experience and a Washington-outsider appeal to flame out in the contest...
Ex-Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper says he’s running for Senate
August 22, 2019 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday that he will run for the U.S. Senate, becoming the immediate front-runner in a crowded Democratic field vying for the right to challenge Republican incumbent Cory Gardner...
Hickenlooper ends White House bid, mulls Senate run in 2020
August 15, 2019 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday ended his DENVER (AP) — John Hickenlooper will drop out of the Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, according to a Democrat close to him...AP source: John Hickenlooper ending his 2020 White House bid
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Debate takeaways: Should 2020 Democrats go big or get real?
July 31, 2019 GMTDETROIT (AP) — Should Democrats be going big or getting real? That's the question that dominated the Democratic presidential primary debate as progressive favorites Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders fended off attacks from lesser-known moderates...
Hickenlooper: Vast majority of campaign’s problem ‘was me’
July 8, 2019 GMTPERRY, Iowa (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Sunday "the vast majority of the problem with the campaign was me," but promised to stay in the Democratic presidential race and become a better candidate...
The Latest: NBC announces 1st 2020 Democratic debate lineups
June 14, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Democrats' first 2020 presidential debates later this month (all times local):...
$15 minimum wage becomes part of 2020 presidential landscape
May 20, 2019 GMTFrom liberal firebrands Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to moderates Joe Biden and John Hickenlooper, nearly the entire 2020 Democratic presidential field agrees that the federal minimum wage should be more than doubled, to $15 an hour.
Colorado Sen. Bennet enters Democratic presidential contest
May 2, 2019 GMTDENVER (AP) — U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado jumped into the packed Democratic presidential primary on Thursday, announcing a 2020 campaign that had been stalled while he was treated for prostate cancer...
White presidential hopefuls face ‘woke litmus test’ on race
April 24, 2019 GMTHOUSTON (AP) — After touring the National Lynching Memorial recently, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke of the "shame" he felt that some white people "kind of looked the other way during these lynching incidents...
2020 hopeful Hickenlooper meets Columbine shooting survivors
April 16, 2019 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday met with survivors of the Columbine High School attack and other survivors of the state's mass shootings just four days before the 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre...
‘We need a million -- and quick!’ Dem candidates’ playbook
March 18, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, little known outside his home state, boasts he raised over $1 million in the days after launching his White House bid...
Left or center? Democrats mull best options to beat Trump
March 16, 2019 GMTDUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — As she waited to meet former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper at a recent house party in Dubuque, attorney Connie O'Connor was anxious about the liberal direction of the Democratic presidential primary...
Bipartisanship in 2020? Not so fast, some Democrats say
March 13, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — When John Hickenlooper announced his Democratic presidential campaign, he vowed to sit down with the Senate's top Republican if he wins in 2020 — the kind of milquetoast pitch for bipartisanship that White House hopefuls have made for generations...
Ex-Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper enters presidential race
March 4, 2019 GMTDENVER (AP) — Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said on Monday he's running for president, casting himself as a can-do uniter who's used to overcoming adversity and accomplishing liberal goals in a politically divided state...
Democrats 2020: Governors try to crack the senator scramble
March 2, 2019 GMTThe opening months of the Democratic presidential primary have been dominated by senators who have staked their campaigns on personal narratives and sweeping liberal policies...
Beyond liberal base, some Democrats pitch to party moderates
January 30, 2019 GMTWEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the early Democratic presidential candidates come out with their tax and health care plans, former Colorado Gov...
Colorado’s Hickenlooper presents last state budget request
November 16, 2018 GMTDENVER (AP) — Colorado's John Hickenlooper on Friday presented his last budget request as governor to lawmakers — one he says helps prepare the state for an eventual recession.
Hickenlooper spoke on Friday before the Legislature's Joint Budget Committee...
Weld County Leader Pushing State Transportation Commission to Fully Fund North I-25 Fixes
June 23, 2018 GMTAs the state transportation commission prepares to allocate money approved in May and to firm up which projects around the state are highest priority, civic leaders from northern Colorado requested they consider fully funding northern Interstate 25.
Trump proposes easing oil, gas leasing restrictions in West
May 3, 2018 GMTBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration wants to ease restrictions on oil and gas leasing and other activities across a huge swath of the American West that were put in place to protect an imperiled bird.
‘He’s not listening’: Teachers and Arizona governor at odds
April 28, 2018 GMTPHOENIX (AP) — As thousands of teachers and supporters gathered at the Arizona Capitol to protest inadequate public school funding for a second day Friday, Gov...
EDITORIAL: Back Hickenlooper, science and common sense for an end run on climate obstructionists
July 25, 2017 GMTWhile the toxic partisan atmosphere is seemingly as dangerous as the one humans have seriously altered enveloping the planet, the time for diplomatically mincing words as the world burns is over.