Colorado’s Democratic Attorney General, Phil Weiser, who is running for governor, said he is open to creative public policy ideas that might help sustain local journalism.

The candidate’s comments came Thursday on the opening night of the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention held at the Delta Hotel in Thornton.

Tim Regan-Porter, who runs the association, interviewed Weiser at the event.

Regan-Porter said he was doing so not as a journalist but in his role as CEO of the press advocacy nonprofit. He said his goal wasn’t to try and pin the officeholder-candidate down on policy specifics or legal cases, but rather to create a space for dialogue about issues facing the local news industry.

Still, public policy did come up.

Unlike the state’s current Democratic governor, Jared Pol

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