Tag: Longmont
Colorado energy-policy protesters, counter protesters find common ground
LONGMONT-- The right and left protesters and counter-protesters gathered here off a sprawling suburban four-lane road and around a wall-less field house at the Boulder County Fairgrounds agreed on at least two things: that the group hosting the gathering, Americans for Prosperity, is suffering an image problem and that government subsidies to oil and gas companies have got to end.
As DC weighs DREAM Act, immigrant rights group loses vote in...
Immigrant rights supporters lost a bid in Longmont last night to send a message to local residents and federal lawmakers in support of the...
In Colorado, Biden touts stimulus and new energy economy
LONGMONT-- Vice President Joe Biden here Friday made a strong case for the stimulus program and the need for a full-throttle green energy program, which he said were inextricably linked. “Some say we shouldn’t use tax dollars to provide seed money for green energy, but wouldn’t it be a bitter irony if we got off of foreign oil only to be tethered to foreign technologies in clean energy?”
Grassroots candidate Ken Buck: confident enough not to pander
Weld County D.A. and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck made a campaign stop at the Longmont Public Library yesterday. His take on flash-point...
Mega-Church Retail/Residential Development Withdraws Annexation Request
A controversial church-backed commercial and residential development has withdrawn its application to be annexed by the city of Longmont. The 348-acre Union Project was...
History Made In Longmont
A group battling a Christian megachurch's controversial planned community in Longmont makes history today, successfully clearing the path to a vote of the people.The...
In Longmont: 5,500 Names And Counting
They needed 4,021 signatures, on petitions to force the Longmont City Council to either revisit their approval of a megachurch-driven annexation or take it...
LifeBridge Foes Report Props And Peril
With less than a week before a deadline to submit signatures to potentially force a vote of the people, the spokeswoman for a group...