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Not a misprint, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Mineral owners Saturday assailed a Democratic lawmaker over the state’s new oil and gas rules, while Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said new natural gas discoveries across the country are playing the primary role in Colorado’s drilling slowdown. “The new regulations basically took away my minerals […]

Oh boy, as the Colorado Independent reports: U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman minced no words in a bizarre, Cheney-esque attack on Gov. Bill Ritter as a “terrorist sympathizer” for signing a new state law that stymies future expansion of the Army’s contentious Piñon Canyon training site proposal. The accusation of Ritter’s treason can be found in […]

We did not want the day to end without an acknowledgment of Denver Post reporter Michael Riley’s superb (if belated) story on Sen. Mark Udall’s credit card reform efforts. With the bill now on its way to President Obama’s desk, Udall might finally start to see those long years of thankless effort pay off in […]

Freshman Rep. Jared Polis appears to have stayed true to his antiwar stump speech heard so often during last year’s primary campaign, voting today against the latest supplemental funding bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan–new administration or no. Says Rep. Polis, “At its heart, this bill is about increasing and prolonging US military […]

We’ve been watching the tempest unfold for the last week regarding gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ self-insertion into the heated debate over expansion of the Pinon Canyon Army training site. As our readers know, McInnis stunned just about everybody when he publicly came out against a state bill headed for Governor Bill Ritter’s desk that would […]

Why in the world would anyone oppose telecommuting? After all, it reduces road congestion, highway and car maintenance costs, fuel consumption, improves employee morale, and all kinds of other good stuff–there’s really no downside. About as uncontroversial a idea as you could possibly propose to the General Assembly, especially in the form of a symbolic […]

UPDATE #3: House Bill 1274 fails Senate by one vote. UPDATE #2: Ritter breaks silence, essentially says he will veto House Bill 1274 as presently written. Developing. UPDATE: Rumors of the death penalty ban’s demise appear to have been exaggerated, breaking Denver Post: Lawmakers this morning put a ban on the death penalty back into […]