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WRONG TURN: School Field Trip Turns into Oil and Gas Protest
A group of Jefferson High (Weld County) students were excused from school Thursday morning to attend the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force meeting in Greeley. Not exactly as spectators, but as active participants in a protest alongside such radical environmental groups...
THANK YOU SCIENCE: Global Warming Forecast Evaporates
This will come as a surprise to no one we know some, but it turns out the science used to declare excessive global warming atop Colorado ski mountains and across the nation’s western peaks was bogus. Doomsday forecasters essentially used that analysis to predict that...
PEAK FEED: Colorado Is Still Cleaning Up after Hickenlooper
Cleaning up after the party is always the worst. Apparently, Team Hickenlooper agreed. So, they just didn't. Revealing Politics was there to catch the mess - and juxtapose it against Hickenlooper's suggestion that Coloradans perform 10,000 random acts of kindness...
GOING UP: Denver City Council Committee Moves Closer to Approving Double Digit Salary Increases
The only thing rising faster than inflation and rent prices in Denver is the salary of the city’s elected officials. Last night, a 4-3 vote by a committee of the Denver City Council translated into a 10.3 percent raise for the mayor and other elected officials, which,...
OFFICE PARTY: Hickenlooper Welcomes Doug Friednash as New Chief of Staff
Perhaps it's the fact that Governor Hickenlooper's new chief of staff, Doug Friednash, has had a finger in so many controversial pies in Colorado during his tenure as Denver City Attorney and as a private practice lawyer that uniquely qualifies him for this position....
INAUGURATION DAY: Highlights from the Day’s Festivities
In case you missed today's oaths of office and inauguration fun, we've recapped the events for you below. [View the story "Inauguration-Palooza: The Highlights " on Storify]
WE KNEW IT! ProgressNow Ghost Wrote Denver Post Blog
Sometimes reporters write stories that just aren’t newsworthy, and we have to wonder why. Was it a slow news day? Is someone pushing an agenda? What’s the deal? Such is the case with a recent Denver Post blog that takes a deep dive into Senate President Bill Cadman’s...
PEAK FEED: Local Group Stands with French Against Muslim Terrorists
While our own fair leader, President Barack Obama, skipped a rally to condemn terrorists in France, a local group has pledged support for France and its victims of a Muslim terrorist attack that left dead 12 who worked for French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo....
STRANGE ALLIANCES: WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION?
It seems that one of the Republicans on the State Board of Education has decided to bat for the other team. Despite Republicans holding a majority on the Board, Democrat Angelika Schroeder of Boulder was elected to serve as vice chair on a 4-3 secret ballot vote last...
PILING ON: Another Media Outlet Says Bennet Is One of Two Vulnerable Senators in 2016
Another day, another media outlet puts a target squarely on Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet's back. In Stu Rothenberg's first 2016 forecast, he notes that Democrats are vulnerable in just two states - Colorado and Nevada. Here's what the Roll Call wrote:...
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