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Daily Archives: November 19, 2009

Proposed geothermal lease in Chaffee County has residents steamed

Colorado is no stranger to controversial energy extraction, with its perpetual tussles over oil, gas and uranium mining. Now Chaffee County is seeing a battle...

Santa Fe County provides a case study in local drilling regs versus state control

Even as issues of state versus local jurisdiction bubble to the surface in the proposed Battlement Mesa drilling plan on Colorado’s Western Slope, there’s...

Report: Latino population pressure likely to impact GOP politics

A report released this month by America’s Voice, an immigration reform advocacy group, argues that swiftly growing Latino constituent populations across the country may...

Xcel Energy lops nearly $44 million off rate-increase request

Xcel Energy Thursday filed for state approval of a settlement with consumer groups in its ongoing rate case before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission...

Doh: Fumbled 2005 anti-gay amendment may ban all marriage in Texas

A conservative group wrote a constitutional amendment in Texas in 2005 meant to be so broad that it would ban gay people from any...