Gold, silver mining plan makes Ouray County commissioners nervous
Ouray County commissioners are wary of a plan to conduct exploratory gold and silver drilling in one of the most scenic areas of Colorado...
Uranium trains continue to criss-cross Utah as Moab project hits milestone
One of the rationales frequently trotted out in support of a proposed uranium mill in western Montrose County is that it won’t impact outdoor...
Arrest at Denver pot rally punctuates racial profiling complaints
DENVER-- Less than 30 minutes after Colorado Progressive Action co-executive director Carlos Valverde, Jr., spoke on the sad reality of racial profiling in drug-related...
News from the schools: Colo. spending on schools dismal and getting worse
A brief shocking but not surprising piece posted at the Great Education website today is making waves. It was also posted at the politics-insider...
State of the State speech: The GOP response
Bill Ritter gave his state of the state address this morning. The Republican response came from Assistant Minority Leaders Sen. Greg Brophy and Rep....
Gov. Ritter’s State of the State speech: The transcript version
Bill Ritter gave his final State of the State speech this morning. The full transcript of his speech is below. Ritter spoke perhaps most...
Kobe DA Hurlbert seeks state Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Gibbs
The sexual assault case against NBA superstar Kobe Bryant put a white-hot spotlight on Eagle County back in 2003, exposing issues of racism and...
Xcel officials: 30 percent renewable energy target by 2020 ‘not impossible’
Officials for Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest utility, said Wednesday the Minnesota-based company is willing to consider upping the state’s renewable energy standard (RES) to 30 percent by the year 2020, a proposal highlighted by Gov. Ritter in a speech marking the beginning of the legislative session this week and at the center of the first House bill introduced yesterday as the session got underway.
Tea Party conference will be covered only by sympathetic media
And now we throw the floor open for softball questions!
Dave Weigel again at the Washington Independent reports that the organizers of the National Tea...
Business leaders look to preempt move to suspend tax breaks
Denver business leaders are predictably pushed back this week against Gov. Bill Ritter's latest budget-cutting plan. Ritter has proposed adding $131.8 million to revenues by suspending business tax exemptions. The move would generate a little more than 10 percent of the estimated $1.02 billion missing in the budget. Ritter unveiled the budget-cut proposal on Friday. Metro Chamber of Commerce business executives voiced their opposition at a meeting Tuesday at the state capitol.