In Colorado, Biden touts stimulus and new energy economy

LONGMONT– Vice President Joe Biden here Friday made a strong case for the stimulus program and the need for a full-throttle green energy program, which he said were inextricably linked. “Some say we shouldn’t use tax dollars to provide seed money for green energy, but wouldn’t it be a bitter irony if we got off of foreign oil only to be tethered to foreign technologies in clean energy?”

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…

Benson and Blake on Colorado’s higher education funding crisis

This week, Education News Colorado posted an interview with University of Colorado President Bruce Benson and Colorado State University Chancellor Joe Blake. Sitting in arm chairs for a YouTube-style video session, the two discussed the great challenge they face…

News Nuggets: 31 July 2009

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HEALTH REFORM TERROR: The risky scary healthcare reform experiment Pres Obama would subject the nation to will end in themurder of old people. Or it will formalize steps already being taken by smart and…

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GUNS AND GAYNESS: CNN has done something really right. Its show, Freshman Year, available on the web is something like a Real World Capitol Hill, featuring freshman representatives, whom I guess the…

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…

News Nuggets: 22 July 2009

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PRIMETIME FACEBOOK PRESSER: Obama is talking to journos Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper about health care right now from a podium inside Facebook. It’s the first-ever White House Facebook health-care press conference. The comments…

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…

CSU Chancellor Blake’s contract posted; meetings lawsuit settled

In a year of record budget shortfalls, the Colorado State University board created a new top executive spot at the university and filled it with board Vice Chairman Joe Blake. The new chancellor’s contract is now posted online at…

As CSU puts controversial chancellor search in the past, questions linger

In an outgoing op-ed last month, Former CSU Board Chairman Doug Jones said he learned a great deal this year from public response to the board’s controversial chancellor search, which ended in selection of Board Vice Chairman Joe Blake.…