Tag: Colorado
News Nuggets, 7 August 2009: Anti-health reform demagoguery in Pueblo
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SENIOR CARE: Concerning the GOP/ health industry-backed misinformation and rabble rousing campaign on health reform, it really doesn't get any more...
Medical Marijuana plant-stash lands patient in court
In today's chapter in the unfolding story of Colorado's expanding medical marijuana industry, we find that a patient has been arrested and charged and...
NYT editorial laments ‘fracking,’ gas drilling in Catskill Mountains
Any Coloradan who’s spent a significant amount of time living or working back east knows how difficult it is to duplicate the true wilderness...
Market magic: stacking the deck from toll-taker to pacemaker
Lawmakers and policy people who advance private-sector solutions for public-service needs talk about competition-- competition like maybe the kind we got with the Colorado...
Foreclosure crisis continues, bound to hobble recovery
WASHINGTON-- As new foreclosure notices reach the troubling milestone of 10,000 per day across the nation, it is increasingly clear that measures taken so far to turn back the tide have failed. This week, a number of officials here have signaled that they have decided to support a shift in strategy.
Reason Magazine’s laughable libertarian fantasy Colorado
Nick Gillespie, editor in chief at Reason magazine, a libertarian guide to life and politics, posted a comic example of media carpet-bagging yesterday when he blogged on how he'd like to move to Colorado because of the amazing job Taxpayers' Bill of Rights has done in saving our state from the ravages of the recession.
Vail Resorts, 25th in the nation, tops list of state’s renewable-energy...
Colorado-based ski industry leader Vail Resorts is the state’s top purchaser of renewable-energy credits (RECs), according to a recent report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the company ranks 25th in the nation.
Gay marriage watchers eye Colorado
Last week in gay marriage, which brought groundbreaking developments in Iowa and Vermont, underlined the patchwork nature of our country's legal fabric, leaving citizens across the country scratching their heads: "What does it mean?" "What happens next?"
ACLU Director Matt Coles has written a short guide to the issue at the ACLU blog, where he explains that the future of gay marriage hinges on what happens in states like Colorado.
New Colorado skier plate could touch off Utah boarder war
More people ski more days in Colorado than any other state, but you wouldn’t know it out on the open road, unless you’re stuck in weekend skier traffic on I-70.
ICE fugitive unit inflating arrests with non-criminal immigrants
Bloated federal funding and political pressure pushed a U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement program to meet arrest quotas rather than focus on rounding up criminal fugitives and addressing national security threats, says a damning new report on the controversial agency.