Community owned solar array goes live in Rifle

Tuesday, the nation’s largest community owned solar energy facility opened in Rifle.

Gov. Ritter to lead CSU new energy center

Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter announced today he will become director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University. Effective Feb. 1, Ritter also will assume the title of senior scholar at CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability.

Michael Brown awarded ‘heckuva job’ at KOA radio

Michael “heck of a job Brownie” Brown, the generally accepted incompetent head of FEMA who fiddled as New Orleans drowned under Hurricane Katrina, appears to have amassed the perfect credentials to enter the Colorado right-wing radio talkosphere.

You’ve been listed: Ethics Watch posts Top Five worst lapses of 2009

Who made Colorado Ethics Watch Top Five ethics scandals list of 2009? Gubernatorial GOP frontrunner Scott McInnis, for one, who gets listed for the behind-the-scenes likely illegal pre-campaign campaigning he did to set up his run. Also find Colorado State…

CSU tape: ‘Un-Christian’ lawmakers mock ‘the Pope’; Plus: More cronyism

As part of the settlement this week of an open-meetings lawsuit, Colorado State University has released an extended version of a tape of the May 5 meeting where the university board selected its own vice chairman, Joe Blake, for…

CSU settles open-meeting lawsuit; agrees to release tapes

The CSU Board of Governors today agreed to settle the open-meeting lawsuit that followed from the board’s selection in May of its own vice chairman, Joe Blake, as the university’s new standalone chancellor.

The university admits no wrongdoing in…

Colorado Stealth University

 
Over the past few years, the Colorado State University Board of Governors has become increasingly secretive. During the spring of 2009, the BOG’s stealth maneuvers became so extreme that several Colorado legislators introduced House Bill 1369, which was intended to require the…

TABOR: attractive to business leaders as voters, less so as university administrators

Top-dog prominent Colorado business leader and state Republican Party giant Bruce Benson voted for the Taxpayer Bill of Rights in 1992, joining in the effort to limit state government and to slow down taxing and spending. Now, as CU President,…

Judge grants CSU motion; chancellor search tape to remain unreleased

Unbowed by a ruling two weeks ago in which a Larimer County judge found that Colorado State University violated Open Meetings laws, the CSU board and its lawyers fought an order demanding the release of audio tapes of the executive session where the board selected its own vice chairman, Joe Blake, as sole finalist for the new chancellor position.

Judge Stephen Schapanski today granted CSU a stay of his order. The battle over the release of the tapes is part of a larger ongoing suit brought last month by The Colorado Independent, The Fort Collins Coloradoan and The Pueblo Chieftan alleging the university violated state transparency laws.

Do-over: CSU embraces transparency in latest search

Has something changed at Colorado State University in the wake of the secretive chancellor search that yielded one candidate and accusations of cronyism? The chancellor search that has so far generated campus protest petitions, a scotched state transparency law, an open-meetings lawsuit and an ethics-watchdog coalition backlash? Maybe.

The university today announced three applicant finalists for CSU Chief of Police. Note that: three finalists; not one. And that’s not all. The university has made the names of the applicants public so you can look into their background and qualifications. Also, the applicants are going to be asked to come to campus to meet with the CSU “campus and larger community” before any of the three of them are named Chief.