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Bacon to bring conservation effort home with plan that would protect 90,000 acres

By | 06.15.12 | 3:47 pm

Billionaire hedge-funder Louis Bacon is donating a conservation easement on 90,000 acres bordering the San Luis Valley, which will provide the foundation for the proposed new Sangre de Cristo Conservation Area that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is in the process of establishing.

Obama leading in new Colorado poll

By | 05.30.12 | 11:03 am

A poll released this week by Project New America shows Obama with 57% of the vote among registered unaffiliated voters to just 30% for Romney in Colorado. While Obama holds large leads in numerous important categories of voters, his overall lead in Colorado is just four points, 48-44, according to the poll of 601 likely Colorado voters.

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.

Obama-backed restoration projects putting more than 20,000 low-income youth to work

By | 05.21.12 | 11:34 am

Four new conservation projects in Colorado will add to the more than 20,000 work opportunities for low-income youth on public lands this summer.

NOM integrally tied to GOP fundraiser group ActRight

By | 05.18.12 | 8:47 am

“NOM is not a partisan organization or a stalking horse for either party,” wrote National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown in March. “We are a movement of people of every race, creed, color — and party — willing to stand up for marriage.”<

Obama administration challenges oil, gas companies to drill already leased lands

By | 05.16.12 | 10:46 am

Oil and gas companies are tapping only about 28 percent of federal offshore sea floor they have leased and 56 percent of the onshore land they’ve leased is also sitting idle, the Interior Department said Tuesday.

At Colorado oil drilling site, Mitt Romney tries to apply heat to Obama’s energy policies

By | 05.09.12 | 2:31 pm

FT. LUPTON — Standing in front of an oil derrick and a tanker truck, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attacked the Obama administration’s energy policies Wednesday, dismissing the fact that domestic oil production has gone up since the president took office.

Supreme Court hears Arizona immigration case today

By | 04.25.12 | 7:19 am

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on the legality of four provisions contained in Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Analysts on both side of this issue say the court’s eventual decision will affect the future of state immigration laws across the U.S.

Obama personalizes student loan message for cheery CU Boulder students

By | 04.25.12 | 6:56 am

BOULDER — President Barack Obama dropped into town Tuesday, swung by the Sink to pick up a pizza, and he tested out a young entrepreneur’s smart phone-controlled ball on University Hill before imparting a few words of wisdom to 11,000 screaming students at the nearby Coors Event Center.

Romney campaign may be moving left on immigration

By | 04.18.12 | 10:54 am

Mitt Romney’s campaign hired GOP campaign strategist Ed Gillespie, while Kris Kobach’s “advisor” status was put in doubt, according to news reports.