The once-lush delta where the Colorado River used to spill out into the Sea of Cortez is now a dry sandy landscape in Mexico where “America’s hardest-working river” is too tired to finish the job. Climate change, urban demand and a burgeoning energy industry are literally tapping the Colorado River to death.
Can a person be pro-business and pro-environment? In Colorado and surrounding states, the answer is a resounding “yes” according to a poll released today by Colorado College.
In his more than 20-year political career, Colorado 6th District Republican Congressman Mike Cofffman has never lost an election. Before heading to Capitol Hill, he was a state representative and senator, then state treasurer and then briefly secretary of state. Among insiders, it has been accepted as a given that Coffman is planning to take a run in 2014 at Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Udall’s seat. Any future Coffman political plans, however, were complicated Thursday, when Denver District Judge Robert Hyatt put the 6th District GOP stronghold into play by paring off large swaths of mostly white suburbs south of Denver and including more urban, working-class and Latino regions to the north.
To be successful as the governor of Texas, it doesn’t hurt to be a friend to the Latino community. To become the Republican presidential nominee, however, it may hurt a great deal.
A phone survey of 2,200 registered voters in five western states, including 600 in Colorado, found that a majority of western voters think the amount of their state’s electricity being produced by renewable energy sources should “dramatically increase,” even if it means paying more on their utility bill.
Members of Colorado’s environmental community liked the selection Monday by Gov. Bill Ritter of Jim Martin, head of the Department of Public Health and Environment, to take over for Harris Sherman as executive director of the Colorado Department of…
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MUST READ: The Gazette unfurls a gripping two-part series examining a rash of murders — and other crimes — committed by soldiers from a Fort Carson unit that has seen some of the most disturbing…
A 14-week conservation campaign on the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs last semester encouraged students to change their daily rituals– to get less individualist and more communal, basically. The social experiment resulted in utility cost savings of nearly $100,000…
Want to know how Barack Obama and John McCain’s tax plans will affect your bottom line? Two Colorado College students have created a text message service to find out how typical tax burdens fare under both candidates.
It’s not just you. Colorado is looking a bit iffy these days in terms of election preparedness. And with less than three weeks to go until November 4th, things just keep getting stickier. But wading through the constantly breaking election muck can be a less than savory experience. So please, put away your wellies and let the Colorado Independent guide you. Each Friday until Election Day, we’ll publish a roundup of the week’s big news related to election bungles around the state. If you’ve got news or opinions to share, please add them in the comments section below. After all, we’re not as scientific as, say, Colorado’s new electronic voting machines. Read on for the roundup:
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