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Tag: John Cooke
How Colorado Dems beat attacks on the Clean Power Plan
DENVER -- A months-long attempt by Republican lawmakers to halt state action on the Clean Power Plan came to a predictable end Wednesday in...
Dems don’t buy GOP push for EPA clean power plan approval
“But does the Public Utilities Commission have expertise in the fact that our rivers and soil are drying up?”
‘Obamacare’ long war haunts bill on EPA carbon-emissions plan
DENVER — Obamacare was the unlikely elephant in the room Thursday during a state Energy Committee hearing about a new bill that would rework...
In Senate offices, dedicated to trying to debate guns like grown-ups
After a heated magazine-ban hearing, odd-couple Senators Guzman and Cooke talk and listen, rib and sip.
ICE gets iced by ACLU and most Colo sheriffs
The majority of Colorado’s sheriffs have officially agreed to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants based solely on requests from the federal government...
Littwin: Never mind secession, we got sheriffs
Welcome to Colorado, where (some) gun laws are not laws at all. Really.
At Colorado oil drilling site, Mitt Romney tries to apply heat...
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.
Right claims Weld County immigration raid court loss as a victory
Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a dramatic Weld County raid on tax records last year violated the Fourth Amendment, which guards the...
Buck poised to enter Senate race astride two controversial prosecutions
The day after Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck appeared before a roaring crowd on the steps of the State Capitol at a Tea Party protest, the veteran prosecutor was back in court, leading the charge on two of the more contentious prosecutions Colorado has seen in the last year.