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Retiring Sen. Wayne Allard floated as possible head of CSU

In the latest twist to the presidential saga at Colorado State University, retiring U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard is being touted as a possible replacement for President Larry Penley, who abruptly resigned mid-semester less than two weeks ago.

Tom Tancredo up for ‘flak of the year’ award

Just how does one cap off a four-term congressional career and quixotic run for president? How about throwing your hat in the ring as best media maven on the campaign trail for your supernatural ability to stay on message about anything even tangentially related to immigration?

Some expected, and unexpected, names in the running for SOS

In the most exciting thing to happen since the gossip hounds were howling post-election about who might possibly challenge Dick Wadhams for chairman of the state Republican Party, the deadline has now passed for people to apply to become Colorado’s next Secretary of State. And it appears that — stop the presses! — state Rep. Bernie Buescher has tossed his hat into the ring, along with several other expected, and not-so-expected names.

Enviros hungrily eye menu of conservation goodies under Obama administration

Besides revising or even rescinding Colorado’s controversial roadless rule, environmentalists are also targeting the Bureau of Land Management’s bitterly contested leasing for natural gas drilling on the Roan Plateau near Rifle as they make a wish list of conservation issues for the incoming Obama administration.

Obama campaign site, e-mail alerts direct aid to California wildfire victims

Visitors to Barack Obama's campaign Web site on Monday were greeted with an appeal to help the victims of Southern California's wildfires under the heading "Together We Can" with a link to CaliforniaVolunteers.org.

Focus dusts off ‘Merry Tossmas’ campaign in time for layoffs

Maybe Focus on the Family commentator Stuart Shepard should have just kept his “Merry Tossmas” campaign to one year — last year — and put a lid on this year’s efforts to threaten retailers who don’t wish him a Merry Christmas in a satisfactory enough way. His Merry Tossmas threat, coming just as hundreds of his colleagues were laid off doesn’t help much by way of public opinion for the guy who got his last whiff of fame for a video praying to God for Noah and the Ark-like rain to drown Barack Obama’s speech at Mile High Stadium during the Democratic National Convention.

Western Slope pols look for energy industry to take voluntary tax hike

The oil and gas industry spent $10.8 million to bring about the Election Day defeat of Amendment 58, a measure that would have dramatically increased the severance tax the industry pays to the state for extracting resources from Colorado soil. So it seems counter-intuitive that the industry would now voluntarily agree to pay even more severance tax, which in Colorado is currently the lowest among all major energy-producing states. But that’s exactly what key Western Slope lawmakers are hoping to accomplish in the coming months.

Colorado roadless rule deliberations coming to a head

Efforts to close perceived loopholes in Colorado’s controversial roadless rule, which outlines management plans for 4.4 million acres of largely unspoiled public lands throughout the state, will come to a head Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington as a key federal advisory group meets on the issue.

Transit issues top Colorado mayors’ priorities for Obama

Everybody wants the ear of President-elect Barack Obama and the nation's city halls are no different. MSNBC today posted a survey of 225 mayors and a nifty interactive map of their calls for relief from the tanking national economy, crumbling infrastructure, unfunded mandates, fossil-fuel based energy and spiraling costs of two wars. Not surprisingly, Colorado mayors from Cañon City, Thornton, Denver, Grand Junction, Vail and Westminster are most concerned about transportation issues.

‘Sore loser’ Musgrave places last on Newsweek’s ‘dubious behavior’ index

Just how low can Marilyn Musgrave go? Newsweek piles on this week, placing the Colorado congresswoman at the top — or, rather, the bottom — of its Dignity Index, ranking her refusal to concede nearly two weeks after losing her 4th District seat as even more egregious than Ralph Nader's "Uncle Tom" comment about President-elect Barack Obama and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough's potty mouth.
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