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PARTY POOPERS: Setback Compromise Reached, Enviros Celebrate With Threats
The oil and gas industry last week agreed to a compromise rule on setbacks, and energy regulators made it official with a vote that new wells must be at least 1,000 feet from any outdoor area used by schools. “Today’s rulemaking is a direct result of good-faith...
FAKE SHUTDOWN? RMNP Remains Open, but Closes Roads
We are yet again in a partial government shutdown, which means it’s time for the liberal overlords of the National Park Service to exploit the situation to try and make Republicans look bad. We already know Trump is to blame for the shutdown — the president stepped up...
HOLIDAY THANKS: Gardner Honors Law Enforcement in Senate Speech
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s Senate floor speech on honoring law enforcement during the holidays: I come to the floor today to honor our men and women in law enforcement. As Members of Congress and their staffs head home this holiday season, we must remember the...
SIREN: Colorado Only Has One Bakery
OMG, you guys. Apparently, Colorado has just one bakery. Grandmas everywhere are going to have to shuffle through yellowing recipe cards in the bottom of their kitchen drawers to remember their grandmas recipes for raspberry-filled kolaches for Christmas morning. Or,...
NOT A JOKE: Colorado Crew Launches GoFundMe to Build Border Wall
We see jokes on social media all the time about how government expenditures should use GoFundMe campaigns. We laugh, and we secretly like it because, really, who would set up and/or contribute to a GoFundMe account to fund a study of romance novels, for example, to...
GUESS WHO’S BACK, BACK AGAIN: Betsy “What’s a Yield Curve” Markey to Take on Economic Development
Democrat former Rep. Betsey Markey is one of our favorite Democrats because she's so gaffe prone. That's why we were so excited to see that Markey would lead the state's economic development and trade office under Jared Polis. For those of you new to Colorado (aka,...
IRONY ALERT: Planned Parenthood Facing Criticism over Treatment of Pregnant Women
No, we're not talking about how Planned Parenthood convinces women to get abortions. Those aren't the pregnant women Planned Parenthood is mistreating in a new report. We're talking about their employees. From a Vox report: "But multiple employees at the nonprofit say...
ALMOST OFFICIAL: Bennet One of 3,927,480 Democrats Planning to Run for President
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet officially announced he is thinking about running for president during an exclusive interview with America’s most trusted news source a Yahoo! News podcast. They spoke of his “impressive credentials” … Well, they said former President Obama...
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