Colorado’s U.S. reps scramble to keep $115M in federal highway funds
Six of Colorado's seven representatives in Washington, D.C., signed onto a letter Wednesday asking Congress to suspend the state's obligation to pay back more than one hundred million dollars in transportation funds, a sum that amounts to roughly 25 percent of the stimulus money received by the Colorado Department of Transportation for highways this year.
More fodder for FRAC Act backers as Pa. officials shut down fracking ops
State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) officials in Pennsylvania have ordered Texas-based Cabot Oil and Gas to stop all hydraulic fracturing activities in Susquehanna...
Denver birtherboards ask The Big Question
From a wingnut corner of the mediasphere, talk radio's Peter Boyles and World Net Daily have teamed up to bring the Denver metro-area...
GOP stoked for Keystone confab, fanning flames of ‘Rojo Revolution’
For the Colorado Republican Party, it’s time to party like it’s 2010 at Keystone ski resort starting this evening.
According to the Denver Post, state...
Aspen-area school superintendent still on hot seat for banning Obama speech
It’s been more than two weeks since President Obama’s shockingly innocuous speech to schoolchildren urging them to, gasp, stay in school and work hard,...
Anti-ACORN pile on creates bad legislation and lawmaker confusion
The Minnesota Independent is reporting that U.S. Rep and conservative Christian firebrand Michele Bachmann is going after ACORN again, calling for a congressional investigation...
Cañon City uranium contamination looms over Montrose mill battle
MONTROSE -- Many residents of Montrose County and surrounding counties in Southwest Colorado, have stood in opposition to the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill. "Not in my back yard," they say. Cañon City residents support the opposition. They didn't take that stand years ago and have suffered debilitating health effects associated with the metal the Navajo Indians call “yellow death.”
Colorado delegation pushes to help hard-pressed dairy farmers
Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, sent a letter Thursday asking leaders in both the House and Senate to keep $350 million...
Birther billboards to begin distracting Denver-area drivers today
According to billboard owner Phil Wolf, Denver's "birther boards" will go up mid-day today at Kipling and I-70 on the north side of frontage...
Colo. water cleanups hobbled by ‘Good Samaritan’ legal risks
LEADVILLE — It’s a fall morning in the mountains just outside this Lake County town. Contractors in yellow earthmovers are cleaning up acid mine drainage in the Sugarloaf Mining District. They're part of a unique government-nonprofit-college collaboration that has made great strides in improving water quality in the Lake Fork of the Arkansas River. Everyone involved in this feel-good project, however, is a target of potential lawsuits under the Clean Water Act.