Jamie Connell, a veteran land manager with a long history in Colorado, is returning to the state to direct the Bureau of Land Management as the agency grapples with a pending record oil-and-gas lease sale and a growing battle between conservation interests and energy interests. As part of a BLM shuffling by the Interior Department, […]
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Fact check: A look at what’s true and what’s false in Colorado’s 2018 governor’s race
The candidates’ misleading claims and negative attacks are making it difficult to tell fact from fiction in the 2018 campaign. It’s particularly tough in Colorado’s governor’s race between Democrat Jared Polis and Republican Walker Stapleton, where competing lines dominate the conversation and big outside money is fueling the falsehoods. To help voters, Colorado media outlets […]
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The 6th Congressional District TV ad battle is one of the nation’s most expensive; spending in Colorado attorney general’s race ramps up
Television-advertising spending in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District race continues to set records, with about $16 million booked and totals rising, even as pollsters begin to make their predictions in the fierce battle between incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger, Jason Crow. The Cook Political Report moved the 6th Congressional District […]
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Colorado native studying the economics of climate change shares Nobel Prize
By Jim Heintz and David Keyton, The Associated Press Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday, one for studying the economics of climate change and the other for showing how to help foster the innovation needed to solve such a problem. William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York […]
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Crestone’s plans for oil and gas drilling on Boulder County open space could be delayed for years after state stops hearings
The state will not move on an application by Crestone Peak Resources to drill oil wells on Boulder County open space and land covered by conservation easements until a lawsuit between the county and the company are resolved—delaying the project for months, perhaps years. Ruling in favor of a motion by Boulder County a Colorado […]
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Jared Polis nears $20M mark in governor’s race self-funding; oil and gas spending on initiatives tops $34M
Democratic congressman – and multimillionaire – Jared Polis neared the $20 million mark in terms of his own spending to win the Colorado governor’s office. That’s according to reports filed Monday tallying fundraising and spending from Sept. 13 to Sept. 26. Polis’ campaign has spent $19.4 million on his bid to become governor so far, […]
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George Brauchler vs. Phil Weiser: Where Colorado’s attorney general candidates stand on the issues, from marijuana to the death penalty
The November battle for who will become Colorado’s next attorney general has widespread implications for the state, from the future of cities, like Denver, that have so-called “sanctuary policies” toward immigrants in the U.S. illegally, to oil and gas regulations. That’s not to mention how the race could decide the way in which Colorado squares […]
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A preview of Colorado’s 2018 ballot: Taxes, roads and an existential crisis for oil and gas
Colorado’s 2018 ballot questions explained, one by one
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Boulder County fights with finesse — and an all-out assault — to stop drilling on public open space
It doesn’t look like much of a battlefield — cottonwood groves, a small reservoir and farm fields with traffic zipping through on Colorado 52 — but this 10-square-mile patch of ground is being fiercely fought over by Boulder County and oil and gas drillers. Both the county and Denver-based Crestone Peak Resources lay claim to […]
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An electric car for under $10,000? Used EVs becoming a more affordable, but risky, new market
When Maria DiBiase Eisemann went to Tynan’s Nissan in Fort Collins to turn in her leased Nissan Leaf last fall, she left the dealership as owner of the same electric vehicle. But it wasn’t for her. It was for teenage daughter. “It’s the greatest thing because it doesn’t go far, and she doesn’t have to […]