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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Catholics, evangelicals pledge to ignore gay rights and abortion laws

Religious leaders signed a pledge Friday announcing that they won't abide by laws that support gay marriage or abortion. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and...

Oil and gas industry slams Salazar for yanking drilling leases near Utah parks

A study by an association representing the oil and gas industry – not surprisingly – found Interior Secretary Ken Salazar engaged in political gamesmanship...

Activist group ProgressNow calls for boycott of business behind Obama-jihad billboard

In response to a billboard campaign launched this week linking Pres. Obama to terrorist jihad and the Fort Hood shootings, ProgressNow has issued an...

CD3 candidate Beeson catches cold case murder straight out of Hollywood

Ninth Judicial District DA Martin Beeson, one of two Republican challengers seeking U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s Third Congressional District seat, may be too busy...

Parachute losing town council due to energy slowdown

Parachute has been hit hard by the current slowdown in natural gas drilling. Mayor Roy McClung has watched school enrollments fall and rental vacancies...

State commission unlikely to set Xcel expense policy at Dec. meeting

Consumer advocates who want the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to establish a firm policy cracking down on Xcel Energy charging ratepayers for lavish board retreats and travel and entertainment expenses likely won’t get their wish anytime soon, according to a commission spokesman.

Wolf Auto posts new ‘President or Jihad?’ billboard for Denver-area commuters

The Wolf Auto "birther" billboard inspired by talk-radio host Peter Boyles and paid for by wingnut blogsite WorldNet Daily has been replaced. Commuters on...

Talk radio’s Boyles: Threats against Muslim-Americans a ‘myth’

In the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, Denver KHOW talk-radio host Peter Boyles told listeners that reports of retaliatory threats around the country against Muslim Americans were a myth-- a product of a politically correct culture that aimed to silence hawkish members of the right and that was making the U.S. vulnerable to attacks.

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...