The Colorado Independent

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Economy/Finance

Obama Wins Second Term

By | 11.06.12 | 11:00 pm

Americans voted to reelect President Barack Obama tonight, giving him four more years to work to expand the economy and drive down stubborn unemployment numbers. Throughout the long campaign, voters told pollsters they favored his steady demeanor and, in the end, embraced his vision of a government that sought to prioritize middle class opportunity, in part through a federal tax policy that asks the top earners in the country to pay the same rates they paid in the Clinton years, when the U.S. economy boomed.

Obama taps energized Boulder supporters for crucial last-stretch turn-out-the-vote drive

By | 11.02.12 | 12:10 pm

BOULDER– In a speech that alternated between conversational asides and full-throat exhortations, President Obama rallied roughly 11,000 supporters at the packed Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus here Thursday. It was the latest but not the last scheduled event in the high-intensity swing-state get-out-the-vote effort his campaign here has orchestrated for the final short stretch to Election Day next week.

The ‘testy’ Ryan video was about urban policy not media bias

By | 10.09.12 | 11:05 am

Video ricocheted around the Web Monday of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan “getting testy” with a Flint, Michigan, ABC reporter who asked him about urban gun violence. Ryan was presented by the Huffington Post as acting inappropriately in the interview out of disdain for the “liberal media.” That’s not exactly what was happening. There is a lot more to it worth considering.

In Denver debate, Planned Parenthood’s Richards looking to see women’s health tied to economy

By | 10.03.12 | 6:57 pm

DENVER– With the first presidential debate set to begin here at the University of Denver campus in a matter of minutes, Cecile Richards, national president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, told the Colorado Independent she would like to see the candidates discuss some of the ways women’s access to health care is tied to the national economy and the financial prospects of the nation’s citizens.

Perlmutter and Coors mix it up over tax policy

By | 09.27.12 | 3:30 pm

ARVADA– In a debate sponsored by a business group here Thursday morning, it came as little surprise that Colorado Congressional District Seven candidates Joe Coors and Ed Perlmutter received no questions about their stances on social issues.

Marijuana in Colorado: From the black market to the corner store

By | 09.25.12 | 5:39 pm

There is no question that keeping marijuana illegal comes at a price. There are no easy answers when it comes to how high that price is, though.

Future shock: What happens if Colorado legalizes pot?

By | 09.20.12 | 1:52 pm

If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to possess, grow, consume and give away up to an ounce of marijuana. It may take more than a year, however, before adults can purchase marijuana legally in a store.

Obama in Golden seeks to rev up swing-state campaign

By | 09.13.12 | 4:17 pm

GOLDEN– On his eighth trip to swing-state Colorado this election year, President Obama came to this scenic town in battleground Jefferson County to energize and recruit ground troops to help his campaign win the state’s nine electoral college votes, just as he did in 2008.

Colorado’s backcountry ‘roadless rule’ takes effect

By | 07.05.12 | 3:33 pm

A plan to manage some of Colorado’s most prized forests went into effect on Tuesday, marking the end of a seven-year process conducted among an eclectic mix of stakeholders.

Aspen Ideas Fest audience decides natural gas boom doing more harm than good

By | 07.03.12 | 1:56 pm

ASPEN — After an Oxford-style debate Sunday night, environmental attorneys Deborah Goldberg and Katherine Hudson convinced 15 percent of the audience here to change their minds about hydraulic fracturing. Before the debate, only 38 percent of the audience agreed that the detriments of hydraulic fracturing are greater than its benefits but afterward, 53 percent agreed fracking does more harm than good.

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