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Coloradans Hold Breath Watching Washington Wrangle Over Farm Bill

By | 06.12.13 | 8:56 am

The titanic piece of legislation known simply as “the farm bill” is being debated again in Washington. The legislation is critical for Colorado, where agriculture contributes $40.7 billion annually to the state economy, making it the second-largest revenue-generating industry after tourism.

Obama taps energized Boulder supporters for crucial last-stretch turn-out-the-vote drive

By | 11.02.12 | 12:10 pm

BOULDER– In a speech that alternated between conversational asides and full-throat exhortations, President Obama rallied roughly 11,000 supporters at the packed Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus here Thursday. It was the latest but not the last scheduled event in the high-intensity swing-state get-out-the-vote effort his campaign here has orchestrated for the final short stretch to Election Day next week.

‘No Personhood’ Colorado campaign cautions against big government

By | 08.24.12 | 11:15 am

DENVER– A rally hosted here Thursday on the steps of the capitol by this year’s “No Personhood Campaign” featured speakers who decried government intervention into citizens’ private lives and admonished overreaching political activists who would tap the organs of the state to solve perceived social ills.

Colorado fires unite delegation in Washington (updated)

By | 06.27.12 | 1:05 pm

The nine-member Colorado delegation to Washington announced today it is working together as a bipartisan group to wring as much help as it can from the federal government to address the wildfires presently raging across the state, fouling the air across hundreds of miles of the Front Range, racking up enormous sums in damages and displacing tens of thousands of residents.

VIDEO: Udall not giving up push for wind tax credit

By | 06.19.12 | 12:40 pm

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall has a new routine. He wakes up every morning, puts on a suit and tie and then implores his colleagues on Capitol Hill to pass the wind production tax credit.

Study: Climate change leaves American West especially vulnerable to wildfires

By | 06.12.12 | 2:42 pm

Rising temperatures are projected to trigger more wildfires in nearly all of North America and most of Europe, according to a new study, but climate change may have the opposite effect around the equator.

As High Park blaze rages, Colorado delegation presses gov’t for resources

By | 06.12.12 | 9:47 am

Set by a Saturday lightning strike, according to the Larimer County sheriff’s office, the High Park Fire burning west of Fort Collins in Colorado has burned more than 43,000 acres and taken one life. It’s already one of the worst fires in Colorado history and, fueled by the dry conditions and tinderbox beetle-kill forests that have become the norm here, it is a harbinger of fires to come.

ProgressNow, others ask Obama to protect Colorado lands

By | 05.31.12 | 3:37 pm

DENVER – ProgressNow Colorado and allies in the Monumental West campaign today presented President Barack Obama’s campaign field office in Denver with hundreds of Colorado signatures to a letter requesting he support the protection of Browns Canyon and Chimney Rock.

Obama calls in to Colorado-based Spanish-language radio show

By | 05.22.12 | 3:35 pm

DENVER — When KBNO radio host Fernando Sergio launched his weekday Spanish-language talk show in 2004, you’d have been completely crazy to predict that the President of the United States would call in for a chat about seven years later.

Colorado River Agreement signed by major players

By | 05.16.12 | 1:45 pm

In the American West, the battle for control of water never really ends, but on Tuesday a major agreement among key Colorado players promised greater future cooperation to get more water to more people more consistently. The Colorado River Cooperative Agreement was signed by Denver Water and representatives from Grand County, Summit County, the Colorado River District and the Clinton Ditch & Reservoir Company.

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