Word: colorado
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...Ridder papers include such varied properties as the Journal of Commerce, a useful if pork-belly plain compendium of business news; Colorado's folksy Boulder Daily Camera (circ. 22,380); and the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, which occasionally outshines its bigger Twin City sisters. In general, however, the Ridder papers do not have the heft and influence of the Knight dailies. Though the Knight brothers are both conservatives, the papers are what Hills describes as "central progressive." In the 1972 election six Knight papers endorsed Richard Nixon and two backed George McGovern; only two echoed John Knight...
...Mountain News Managing Editor Howard. "What better advertising is there than that?" This spring the increasingly splashy News exposed as a phony Ph.D. the official running the state air pollution control program, caught the state revenue director in a conflict of interests and has waged a running battle with Colorado polluters. Grandson of the co-founder of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, young Howard was raised in New York City, took his B.A. at Yale in Russian literature. He has helped add about 30,000 new subscribers to the once listless tabloid (circ. 219,000) since joining...
Dick Lamm, 34, began his political career in 1966 by winning an at-large seat in the Colorado state legislature. A year later he introduced one of the first laws in the nation to legalize abortion where fetal deformity or psychological hazard is likely to occur. Though the bill passed, he later came to believe it was too moderate and persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitutional. Lamm led the successful fight against holding the 1976 Winter Olympics in Colorado. Now he is the man to beat for Colorado's 1974 Democratic gubernatorial nomination...
Patricia Schroeder, 33. "If businesses were run the same way Congress is, the country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
...Colorado Springs, Colo...