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Eagle County Ballot Issue 1A for mental health services passes in a landslide
Eagle County’s Ballot Issue 1A to tax recreational marijuana sales to fund badly needed mental health and substance abuse services in the Eagle and Roaring Fork River valleys passed by…
Chapin, Bruno, Coggin, Moffet win Vail Town Council seats
Three incumbents — including Vail Mayor Dave Chapin — won reelection in Tuesday’s Vail Town Council race, and they were joined by newcomer Travis Coggin, who finished with the third…
Health official alarmed by record 12 suicides so far this year in Eagle County
There have been 12 suicides so far this year in Eagle County — five more than the annual average and a staggering pace of 23 per 100,000 residents. The Colorado…
Dems react as Manafort, Gates charged with conspiracy in Trump election probe
Democrats pounced Monday as long-awaited indictments were handed down against Paul Manafort and an associate by a grand jury investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion and…
Vacancy committee names Roberts to replace state Rep. Mitsch Bush
Eagle County Deputy District Attorney Dylan Roberts will replace state Rep. Diane Mitsch Bush starting Nov. 2 after a Democratic vacancy committee chose him over Eagle County Commissioner Jill Ryan…
Hickenlooper, 9 other governors, push for Murray-Alexander bill to fix Obamacare
As President Donald Trump continues his assault on Obamacare — halving the enrollment period, cutting low-income subsidies and slashing marketing budgets by 90 percent — a bipartisan group of governors…
Campaign cash flows to state house, congressional races impacting Eagle County, Western Slope
Big bucks are pouring into local and regional political races on Colorado’s Western Slope, including the 2018 race for the state House District 26 seat that includes both Eagle and…
Vail Valley election season warming up with council forum, ballot questions
It’s election season in the Vail Valley, and that means it’s time for candidate forums and lots of letters to the editor for and against various ballot proposal to raise…
Obamacare now Trumpcare as president moves on his own to gut Affordable Care Act
Obamacare has officially transitioned to Trumpcare, as insurance experts predicted an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump will further destabilize former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act…
Hickenlooper decries partisan push by EPA’s Pruitt to scrap Clean Power Plan
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday pushed back against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which dramatically reduces emissions from coal-fired power plants…