Colorado civil unions supporters argue proposed bill embraces GOP values

At a Colorado Senate committee hearing on a same-sex civil unions bill last Wednesday, a series of witnesses battered Republican lawmakers opposed to the bill, suggesting they were confused in their ideology, non-strategic in their thinking, and enslaved to an outdated anti-gay “hateful bigoted mantra.” The harsh criticism came More…

House approves shale plan

A bill designed to encourage oil shale development cruised through the House on Thursday evening. But a wind production tax credit didn’t fly, and now layoffs and abandoned projects loom.
The Republican-controlled House approved U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn’s bill to increase oil shale development on public lands in addition More…

Conservative group aims to ‘clean up’ voter rolls

Green groups sue U.S. government over proposed Rocky Flats land swap

Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit in a Denver federal court Tuesday to try to stop a proposal to turn the eastern side of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge into a four-lane, high-speed tollway.

Colorado civil unions debate rekindles old arguments for and against rights for gay couples

Denver state Sen. Pat Steadman’s re-introduced same-sex civil unions bill is being heard this afternoon in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Although the bill will be passed easily by the committee’s Democratic majority, the hearing will be the staging ground for this year’s arguments for and against it, drawing the More…

Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale ‘boondoggle’

Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn responded that his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal regulations and mandates as opposed to carving out special interests in the tax code.” More…

Colorado residents ask Feds to withdraw lease parcels to go up for oil, gas auction

Scores of residents in Colorado’s North Fork Valley aren’t nearly as keen about oil and gas drilling as the wide-eyed Democrats and Republicans who talk about tapping America’s energy reserves.

Colorado Senate GOP tests arguments against undocumented-student tuition bill

DENVER– In a highly anticipated debate in the Colorado Senate Friday, Republicans launched early-round attacks against a bill that aims to create a mid-level state-university tuition rate for undocumented students who have graduated from Colorado high schools. Although the bill easily weathered the GOP barbs in the Democrat-controlled chamber, passing More…