Tag: stimulus

Although Colorado ranks 46th of the 50 states in federal stimulus spending per capita, according to a report published this week by ProPublica and picked up widely in the media, perhaps more relevant in measuring the effectiveness of the stimulus in the state is a study released earlier this month that ranked the state second in transparency concerning how funds are being used.

On Friday came the annual start to the school season here, marked as ever by the release of the Colorado Student Assessment Program scores. And...

Dug up fresh, daily. ROAD RULES, BOULDER: When Second District U.S. Democratic Rep. Jared Polis wasn't busy laying waste to the nation's health-care future...

Ken Salazar's Department of the Interior has allotted $86.2 million in federal stimulus funds to Colorado so far, $14.6 million of which is going to Four Corners' Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa plans to spend the money in part on two renewable energy projects and is opening bids on those projects in June and July.