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Governor Hickenlooper's Colorado bucket list

December 14, 2011 15:05PM

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1. Gorge on corn at the Olathe Sweet Corn Festival.
If the world really comes to an end in 2012, what are the things you'd like to do before your time's up? That's the question we posed to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper a few weeks ago, in advance of New Year's Eve. Now we present Hickenlooper's Colorado-centric bucket list -- and tell us, what have you done on this list? What's on your Colorado bucket list?

Also view Mayor Hancock's Denver bucket list.

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