Joe Hanel

Position: Journal Denver Bureau

Purple poll shows it’s a close race

Editor’s note: This is the Journal’s weekly roundup of campaign news.Republican Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate gave the ticket a bump, but “not a game change,” according to a...

DATE: Aug. 18, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Commission looks into wildfire issues

CONIFER — The view from the ridge top where Ellen Roberts stood Monday showed a landscape of life mixed with death.Lush green grasses and yellow wildflowers jutted out of the ground, which was...

DATE: Aug. 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Casida makes ballot for 3rd congressional district

Unaffiliated candidate Tisha Casida has qualified for the ballot in the Western Slope’s congressional race.She will face incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, Democrat Sal Pace and Libertarian...

DATE: Aug. 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Crowd welcomes Ryan to Colo.

LAKEWOOD — A fired-up crowd of 2,000 got Colorado’s first peek at Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Tuesday, and the Wisconsin congressman took quickly to his role as bulldog for...

DATE: Aug. 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Candidates continue to target Colorado

Editor’s note: This is the Journal’s weekly roundup of campaign news.What a week on the campaign trail in the Centennial State.President Barack Obama held four rallies in two days here and gave...

DATE: Aug. 11, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Mystery money fuels ballot issues

DENVER — This November, Colorado voters will be asked to get big money out of politics.But it will be mystery money fueling the campaigns for their votes.Coloradans will see three citizen ballot...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Obama targets women voters in latest Colorado campaign stop

DENVER — President Barack Obama left little doubt Wednesday how he plans to win Colorado in November.About 100 women filled the bleachers behind the president as he spoke from a podium that said...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Tipton, Pace take stage at first debate

ALAMOSA — Rep. Scott Tipton and Sal Pace sparred over differences of style and substance in the first debate of their congressional campaign Wednesday night.Tipton, a first-term Republican from...

DATE: Aug. 9, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Battling to get on the ballot

DENVER — Critics of big money in politics turned in 177,000 signatures Monday to the secretary of state, enough to all but guarantee that they will get their initiative on Colorado’s fall...

DATE: Aug. 7, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Democrats cut into GOP fund lead

Editor’s note: This is the Journal’s weekly roundup of campaign news.Colorado Democratic campaign groups closed their fundraising gap against rival Republican groups last month.Each party in the...

DATE: Aug. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Source: Obama to declare Chimney Rock a national monument

President Barack Obama will use his executive authority to declare a national monument at Chimney Rock Archaeological Area, sources confirmed to the Journal.The decision bypasses Congress, which...

DATE: Aug. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

Governor, wife decide to separate

DENVER — Gov. John Hickenlooper announced Tuesday that he and his wife, Helen Thorpe, are separating.The couple issued a joint statement to announce the surprise news.“After years of marriage that...

DATE: Aug. 2, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News

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