Gov. John Hickenlooper says he’s sorry; Stapleton’s PERA comment riles...
[media-credit name="CU" align="alignright" width="150"][/media-credit] President Bruce Benson Rush job. University of Colorado President Bruce Benson tried to speed up a vote on this year’s proposed...
View ArticleBeltway Blog — Salazar: House Republicans live in “imagined energy world,”...
[media-credit name="Evan Vucci, AP" align="alignright" width="275"][/media-credit]Interior Secretary Ken Salazar sharply rebuked House Republicans Tuesday for criticizing the administration's efforts...
View ArticleThey drink weird stuff in Colorado. Ask Gov. John Hickenlooper. Or Tom Norton.
[media-credit name="Bloomberg " align="alignright" width="270"][/media-credit] Gov. John Hickenlooper testifies during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. today....
View ArticleColorado turnout numbers way up under new mail-ballot election law and...
Election judge Josie Flanagan takes ballots from a voter at the drive-through ballot drop-off outside the Denver Elections Division downtown Monday. Voters can drop off their ballots Tuesday at a Voter...
View ArticleWhat the frack, Gov. John Hickenlooper?!?
What the frack?!? It’s the question several B and C-list celebrities offer up in a new web advertisement targeting Gov. John Hickenlooper for his support of the controversial oil and gas drilling...
View ArticleFracking at forefront as Republican George Leing challenges Jared Polis
Fracking will dominate the debate as attorney George Leing tries to unseat Congressman Jared Polis of Boulder.
View ArticleLeague of Conservation Voters targets U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner in $1 million TV...
The liberal League of Conservation Voters announced a $1 million TV ad buy Thursday jabbing Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner for his ties to "big oil."
View ArticleCongressman Jared Polis dubbed "King Polis" in ad critical of energy proposals
Rep. Jared Polis and his energy ballot measures under attack by Log Cabin Republicans.
View ArticleLog Cabin Republicans go all Robin Leach on Rep. Jared Polis over ballot...
Log Cabin Republicans lampoon Democrat Polis in a radio ad "Lifestyles of the Rich and Out of Touch" over energy ballot measures.
View ArticleLog Cabin Republicans deliver some flower power to Congressman Jared Polis
Rep. Jared Polis, a key player in controversial energy ballot measures, is targeted in an ad that plays off his floral delivery background.
View ArticleNikkel and slimed: Fractivist compares civil-unions hero Rep. B.J. Nikkel to...
Former Rep. B.J. Nikkel, once the darling of the left from her stance on civil unions, now is being attacked by the left for opposing a fracking moratorium.
View ArticleJared Polis vs. George Leing: A race that keeps getting livelier
Fracking has made Congressman Jared Polis' re-election bid against Republican challenger George Leing more interesting.
View ArticleGubernatorial running mates debate death penalty, fracking and state of the...
Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia challenged Bob Beauprez's running mate, Jill Repella, on her knowledge of the state constitution in testy death penalty exchange
View ArticleFracking: It doesn't get this Colorado farmer's goat
An attack on fracking is an attack on landowners like us, a Colorado farmer says in a new ad from Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development.
View ArticleHouse speaker calls oil and gas report "disappointing," may go to ballot...
The top Democrat in the General Assembly expressed disappointment Wednesday in the outcome of Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil and gas task force, saying she is open to an initiative effort to force the...
View ArticleU.S. Sen. Michael Bennet: Taking it from the left and the right
Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet will hear from some angry environmentalists at a campaign finance event Sunday in Denver. The right is after him, too.
View ArticleHickenlooper's oil and gas task force co-chair offers insights:...
Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil-and-task co-chair, Gwen Lachelt, expresses her feelings on the group's work in a letter to other task force members.
View ArticleFractivists renew push for Denver moratorium with petition delivery
The “Don’t Frack Denver” campaign on Wednesday delivered petitions to Denver city officials to underline their push for pre-emptive action against fracking.
View ArticleWestern Conservative Summit disinvites GOP gay group
The Western Conservative Summit has told a GOP gay group it can't set up a table at its event in Denver, sending exactly the wrong message, some say.
View ArticleRep. Lori Saine: Separate facts from theatrics on oil and gas
Rep. Lori Saine, a Republican from Firestone, says in an essay that critics of oil-and-gas production have no monopoly on loving the environment or the well-being of their families. Saine writes of her...
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