Tag: Department of the Interior

Just when you think you have seen it all. State Democratic leaders sent out a press release this afternoon criticizing the Republicans for a "drill only" energy platform. Not wasting much time to marry Republicans to the latest scandal coming from Washington, D.C. that also has Colorado ties, House Majority Leader Alice Madden, D, took a shot across the bow.

Scathing reports released Wednesday charge officials with "a culture of ethical failure" involving sex, drugs and financial shenanigans at a federal agency in Denver charged with collecting energy royalties for taxpayers.

Colorado received $6.7 million from 11 earmarks in the 2008 Interior Department appropriations legislation. About 40 percent of the total, $2.8 million went to...

The military funding ballooned under the proposed 2008 budget presented by President Bush, warranting cuts in other departments. Hence, the common folk in Colorado...