New conservative Douglas County school board to vote on GOP-backed charter school application
Unofficial results posted at 10:45 Tuesday night by the Douglas County Clerk’s office show a conservative bloc making a clean sweep of the controversial Douglas County school board election. The results could have immediate implications for the district as one of the new board's first items of business will be to vote on a charter school effort being led by a major proponent and campaigner for the bloc, Douglas County GOP Vice Chair Mark Baisley.
Sticky bud, green energy get nod from Colorado ski-country voters
Things just got a whole lot greener in Colorado’s high country.
Voters in Breckenridge overwhelmingly backed the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana and paraphernalia...
Conservatives rework rhetoric after high-profile New York loss
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. --Slightly before midnight on Tuesday, reality reared its ugly head. Hoffman lost to Democrat Bill Owens, who became the first member of his party to represent this region of New York in Congress since the 1870s. The margin when Hoffman conceded was slightly more than 4,000 votes. Nothing went right. Owens won his base in the northeastern part of the district, and he won or held his own in the parts of the district that Scozzafava–who endorsed Owens after leaving the race–represents in the assembly. Hoffman underperformed in the Syracuse, N.Y., suburbs that neither candidate had political ties to, even though polls had him leading by a 2-1 margin there.
GOP ‘Young Gun’ Cory Gardner compelled to spin his Democrat past
Fourth District U.S. Congressional candidate Cory Gardner, a state senator from Yuma, is a rising Republican Party star, a flamboyant participant in the...
State Sen. Schultheis will not seek second term
Colorado Springs Republican Sen. Dave Schultheis has announced he will not seek re-election in 2010. The staunch conservative posted a blog with the news...
Heated GOP campaign rhetoric a risk in purple Colorado
The heated rhetoric and no-holds-barred campaign tactics on display in the Douglas County school board race may complicate what looks to be Republican party...
Xcel seeks nearly $180 million rate hike to cover coal-fired Comanche 3
Xcel Energy’s rate-case hearing before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission runs through the end of the week, with some wags saying the state’s largest...
GarCo commissioners show resolve on drilling spill, but not yet on FRAC Act
The Garfield County commissioners Monday did decide to fire off a strongly-worded resolution condemning contamination of drinking water by the natural-gas industry. It just...
Meanwhile in New York: Musgrave’s Susan B Anthony List campaign
Social-conservative Marilyn Musgrave, who was ousted by fed-up moderate conservative Fourth District Colorado voters last year, is campaigning for third party New York Congressional...
Ugly Douglas County GOP campaign alienated Republicans
Even if the Douglas County Republican Party candidates win the Douglas County School Board election today, the battle may come at the cost of wider party support.