San Miguel electric co-op goes green in most recent board election
At least one Colorado rural electric co-ops is leaning greener this week after a pro-renewable candidate, former Telluride Mountain Village Mayor Rube Felicelli, beat out incumbent Tony Forrest for a board seat on the San Miguel Power Association.
Right wing writer tabs Bush, Obama in Muslim Brotherhood
CRAZYLAND USA -- Center for Security Policy founder, former Reagan Administration arms control adviser and Washington Times Op-Ed writer Frank Gaffney was apparently driven out of his mind by the "revelations" he found buried in the President's Cairo speech, arguing in the paper today that the speech proved Obama is a Muslim and that even if it didn't exactly prove Obama is a Muslim, well, then it proved that Obama's sympathies lie with Muslim extremists!
DeGette, Polis introduce FRAC Act aimed at closing hydraulic fracturing ‘loophole’
Using some rather pointed language aimed at Bush administration energy policies in general and former Vice President Dick Cheney in particular, Colorado Rep.’s Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Jared Polis, D-Boulder, Tuesday introduced the FRAC Act aimed at closing a natural-gas drilling loophole in the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Boulder abortion provider deplores decision to close Tiller’s Kansas clinic
One of the last remaining providers of very late abortions in the country said it was an "outrage" the murder of Dr. George Tiller last week has led to his family's decision to close the clinic he ran in Wichita, Kan.
State Republicans eye Loveland event center for 2010 convention
The 2010 state Republican convention will likely be held at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland, the Loveland Reporter-Herald reports. That's inside the 4th Congressional District, which will be a top GOP target next year as the party tries to retake the seat from freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, a Fort Collins Democrat who ousted three-term Republican Marilyn Musgrave last year.
Wadhams’ quest for presidential Big Kahuna centers on South Dakota
Once upon a time, when Colorado GOP kingpin Dick Wadhams was referred to as “Rove 2.0”, the Las Animas political operative was on a fast track to manage a presidential campaign.
U.S. Sen. George Allen's racist "macaca" gaffe uttered at a Virginia re-election campaign stop may have derailed then-campaign manager Wadham's direct trajectory toward the Big Kahuna. But long ties to a darkhorse 2012 Republican presidential candidate may give him another shot at a run at the White House.
Pro-gun gay groups take aim at hate crimes bill
One month after successfully tucking an amendment into the credit card reform bill that expanded gun rights, a small number of Senate Republicans are looking at the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act as another chance to score a victory for the Second Amendment.
The plan — to add an amendment that would allow gun owners to carry their weapons from one state to another in accordance with concealed carry laws. The possible rationale — to defend gay rights.
Road to ruin: Online payday lenders fight regulation
Consumer protection shortfalls are not limited to messy subprime mortgages. Lagan Sebert and David Murdoch detail the payday loan industry's continued assault on U.S. consumers for the American News Project. By offering small loans, typically in amounts ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, payday lenders target consumers who need money for basic necessities, then charge them outrageous interest rates (as in, above 700%).
Palin playing chicken with chicken-little GOP
Gov. Sarah Palin is toying with the reeling leaderless Republican Party. The months-long "feud" between Palin and two GOP campaign committees that asked her and then didn't ask her to appear at a fund raising dinner tonight is reaching new heights of absurdity.
Convicted killer Ray handed death sentence for ordering witness slaying
An Arapahoe County jury decided Monday that Robert Keith Ray will be sentenced to die for arranging the 2005 killing of a witness to another murder committed by Ray a year earlier, the Aurora Sentinel reports.