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THE REAL GREEN: Big, Hidden Dollars Backing Enviros In Fracking Fights
A few weeks ago, Patrick Malone of the Coloradoan wrote a lede on funding for the fracking ban campaign in Fort Collins that was more than a little misleading (see what we did there?): The Colorado oil and gas industry has spent more than $250,000 to beat back a Fort...
CONFUSION: A-Basin Passes Yanked for Pot Use
Update below on Colorado's ski areas. Once again Arapahoe Basin earns bragging rights as the first ski area to open this year in Colorado, and it's also the first to deal with a new problem: how to handle skiers and riders who smoke pot in public. The Summit Daily...
BLOOMBERG’S BACK: NYC Mayor Gives $1 Million to Billion Dollar Tax Hike Campaign
See updates below. It's triple or nothing for Mayor Bloomberg in Colorado. The New York City mayor, who spent $350,000 earlier this year on the losing recall defense campaigns of Angela Giron and John Morse, is back with another big check, this time $1 million for the...
RAID ON THE FOURTH ESTATE: Colorado Observer Reporter’s House Ransacked by Feds
Audrey Hudson, a former Vail Daily reporter and the current Washington Correspondent for The Colorado Observer, had her Maryland house raided by Homeland Security, federal marshals, and the Maryland State Police. The federal agents, one of whom identified himself as...
DO NOTHINGS: Some Had a Productive Government Shutdown, Others Not So Much
The Denver Post's Allison Sherry recently highlighted the accomplishments of Colorado's U.S. Representatives and Senators during the government shutdown. While some boasted legitimate accomplishments, others seemed to freak out about Sherry's query and list some...
PeakFeed: Tancredo’s Spooky Tale of Amendment 66
Regardless of who you're supporting in the 2014 governor's race, you have to vote the recent video from the Tancredo for Governor crew most creative thus far. The Halloween-themed fairy tale is the story of "Hickenlooper's Monster", aka Amendment 66. In the video,...
REFORM: Former Dem Senate President Praises DougCo School District
The money that unions spend on Democratic elections is amazing, but the cost of unions to public schools in this state is truly obscene. Douglas County School District has put badly-behaving union thugs in time-out to the benefit of its students, and it's now...
PeakFeed: Devastating Ad Slams Union Candidate For Protecting Teacher Convicted Of Assault
A new ad running in Douglas County absolutely destroys union school board candidate Bill Hodges, using his own words describing why he didn’t fire a teacher convicted of assaulting a high school softball player before the teacher attacked a second student. When it...
SALAZAR’S SOLAR FLOP: Zero Bids On Colorado Federal Solar Panel Projects
During former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's time in the Obama administration he constantly touted his spearheading of commercial-scale solar projects on federal land. He told The Denver Post's Mark Jaffe in 2011 that the locations chosen were the "sweet spots."...
SETTING THE SPIN: Floyd Ciruli Says Highly Funded Amendment 66 Loss Would Be “Very Big News”
When the billion dollar tax increase Amendment 66 is declared defeated in a little more than a week's time there will be some serious 'splaining to do to liberal donors who ponied up what's expected to be at least $10 million. The pro-billion dollar tax increase team...