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Simmering for a century, Tipton, Lamborn want to put oil shale on front burner

By | 08.24.11 | 12:20 pm

The old joke on Colorado’s Western Slope – in a gallows humor kind of way – is that oil shale is the energy of the future … and always will be. But Colorado congressmen Scott Tipton and Doug Lamborn say the future is now – even if the oil and gas industry isn’t quite ready.

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More efficient cars creating challenges for highway funding

By | 06.27.11 | 5:57 am

Most highway construction and maintenance today gets paid for at the pump, in the form of gas and diesel taxes, both state and federal. So how will electric cars pay their share?

Coffman ‘health reform as job-killer’ claim debunked by FactCheck.org

By | 11.17.09 | 1:11 pm

Shortly after the House health care bill was passed November 7, Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican representing Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, issued a scathing press release characterizing the bill as a job killer. But in an article…