Chancellor of Germany was not even re-installed. In the 1871 German Empire, the imperial chancellor ("Reichskanzler") served both as the emperor's first minister, and as presiding officer of the Bundesrat, the upper chamber of the German parliament. He was neither elected by nor responsible to Parliament (the "Reichstag"). Instead, the chancellor was appointed by the emperor. The federal level had four organs: Technically, the foreign ministers of the empire's states instructed their states' deputies to the federal council (Bundesrat) and therefore outranked the chancellor. For this reason, Prince Bismarck (as he was from 1871 onwards) continued to serve as both prime minister and
The Colorado Statesman the paper announced that it had merged with Clarity Media Corporation's Coloradopolitics.com. The branding associated with the "Statesman" was abandoned in favor of the Coloradopolitics.com brand. It had been owned by Denver businessman and homebuilder Larry Mizel. The Colorado Statesman The Colorado Statesman was a weekly political newspaper published in Denver and was also one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in Colorado. "The Statesman" covered the Colorado General Assembly, state government, public policy issues, campaigns and elections, the state’s political parties, and the people and personalities behind them. Founded in 1898, "The Statesman" changed its name from the "Colorado