A coalition of groups in and around Carbondale is proposing a settlement to reimburse companies who own natural gas leases in the Thompson Divide area in exchange for retiring 43 leases currently in question and protecting the area from future energy development there.
The dust-up continues over billionaire Bill Koch’s proposed land swap so he can further fortify the replica Wild West town he is erecting a dozen miles upstream from the coal his company mines.
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.
Many Democrats are standing behind concerns raised by former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb last week after Webb said that Republican members of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission were playing it fast and loose with constitutional requirements when redrawing the state legislative boundaries.
Kathleen Curry, a three-term state representative from Gunnison, hopes to spark an independent revolution on Colorado’s Western Slope with her write-in candidacy for House District 61 in November.
A controversial commercial rafting bill – one of the most contentious issues of the just-completed legislative session – sank in choppy waters this week, launching an almost certain push for a citizen-driven ballot measure or two and giving rise to…
State Rep. Kathleen Curry Monday reiterated to the Colorado Independent that last week’s surprising switch in party affiliation from Democrat to Independent had nothing to do with “one event or person or bill or situation,” but she added that…
Rep. Laura Bradford, R-Collbran, has been pressuring the governor’s office and U.S. Rep. John Salazar to continue Bush Administration fast-tracking of the Red Cliff coal mine west of Grand Junction. But her lobbying ignores a couple of fairly glaring and clearly inconvenient truths.
Snow levels on the Western Slope are reaching historic proportions, affecting the winter range for deer and elk. Not only has Gov. Bill Ritter backed an emergency $1.7 million big game feeding program, he’s coming out…
She commutes hundreds of miles between home in Gunnison and to the State House in Denver. Plus, she doesn’t back away from controversial legislation for the sake of her constituents. It takes only a glance at Rep. Kathleen Curry’s life…
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