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GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: State Bill to Allow Lawsuits for Animas Spill
GOP State Rep. Don Coram on Montrose says he will introduce a bill when the legislature convenes next month allowing the state to sue the EPA over the Animas River spill to recover financial damages. “The idea behind the bill is that it encourages them to settle this...
THE FARCE AWAKENS: Fractivists Submit 11 Proposals to Shut Down Energy Industry
As you were shopping for last-minute Christmas gifts, fractivist magnet Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development (CREED) was delivering a few gifts of its own. Last Tuesday, CREED submitted 11 proposals to cripple the oil and gas industry by literally or...
BIG BROTHER: How to Close Public, Private lands with a Click of Your iPhone
Want to help lock up pubic lands from public use? There’s an app for that. It’s called iNaturalist, and state wildlife officials are urging activists park visitors to photograph the location of birds and animals and download it onto this app so scientists can study...
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN: “We Should Learn to Care for One Another”
No president in recent history had such talent for communicating as President Reagan. To celebrate Christmas, he gave a presidential address from the Oval Office. In case the ugliness of politics has you down, this address from President Reagan should restore your...
SNARK ALERT: ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the blog, Every creature was drinking flat beer and eggnog. Newspapers were flung by the computer with flair, In hopes that some news soon would be there. Fractivists petitioned for gas to be dead, While visions of...
CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY: Jeffco United Files Donors with SOS
Likely because their gooses were already cooked with yesterday's report from Complete Colorado that showed the National Education Association donated $150,000 to the Jeffco School Board effort, Jeffco United today handed over the names of its donors to the Secretary...
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AGENCY: Clean Power Rules Threaten Sage Grouse
Nearly two dozen states including Colorado that are challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan say that the bureaucratic regulations will hamper efforts in western states to protect the sage grouse. Santa came early this year! This particularly...
HUMBUGGERS: Uncle Scrooge Told to Grant Comment Extension on Lease Cancellations
Last week we told you about the war on Christmas waged by the unholy bureaucrats at the Bureau of Land Management who refused to extend their comment period on the cancellation of 18 gas leases in the White River National Forest well beyond the holiday season. The...
NOT A GRASSROOTS EFFORT: National Teachers Union Provides Majority of Funding for Jeffco Recall Effort
Today, Complete Colorado uncovered the funding behind the Jeffco recall effort and, not surprisingly, the National Education Association (NEA), aka the teachers union, funded most of it. Throughout the campaign, three moms insisted that this was a parent-led effort....
DENIED? La Plata Holds off on Superfund Endorsement
La Plata County Commissioners have graciously held off voting for an endorsement of the EPA to descend upon San Juan County with a Superfund designation until their neighbors actually decide in January that’s what they want. What else happens in January? That’s when...