The environment’s relationship to the economy is a key theme for Sal Pace, minority leader in the Colorado House, as he challenges incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton for a seat in Congress. He says Tipton misses the connection.
Governor-elect John Hickenlooper today appointed Reeves Brown to head the Department of Local Affairs. He named Ellen Golombek director of the Department of Labor and Employment.
Club 20, the Western Slope lobbying group formed 56 years ago to give the largely rural area a stronger political voice in Denver, is starting to see some dissent from members who feel energy interests are taking over the organization.
Note to the Obama campaign: John McCain handed you political gold when he said we should renegotiate the Colorado River Compact. Failing to use that in a Grand Junction TV spot, or at the very least on radio, would constitute political malpractice of the highest order. This could swing the Western Slope to enough to win state-wide.
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Political fireworks punctuated a meeting of the Western Slope advocacy group Club 20 in Grand Junction over the weekend, with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall being booed by some audience members who were clearly more supportive of his Republican opponent, Bob Schaffer, according to the Grand Junction Free Press.
Ponytailed, liberal and a member of the Green Party, San Miguel County Commissioner Art Goodtimes served for 10 years on the board of Club 20, a traditionally conservative organization that promotes Western Slope opinions on issues and policy. Goodtimes…
Few know the condition of the state’s highways and roads better than the director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Russell George. He commutes to Denver from his Rifle home almost every weekend, more than 400 miles round trip on…
If you are a statewide candidate and you want to show real concern in Western Slope people, issues, opinions and attitudes, you usually make an extra effort to attend Club 20′s spring and fall meetings – unless, it seems,…
Severance tax is just about the No. 1 topic among oil-and-gas boom communities’ political leaders on the Western Slope because in their opinion, it’s about the hundreds of millions of dollars of impacts on rural town infrastructure, with minimal state…
This is Part 2 of what was heard and seen in the hallways of a Club 20 fall meeting in Grand Junction last Saturday.
Nothing is more exciting to a Western Slope political junkie than the fall meeting of…
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