Tag: U.S. Senate

Proponents of a renewable energy standard, which would require that a certain percentage of the country’s electricity be produced from sources like wind and...

LOVELAND - Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck celebrated his primary win Tuesday night over Jane Norton as a victory for true conservative principles and the willingness to stand up for them against an unresponsive Washington culture of excess.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet campaign spokesman Trevor Kincaid told the Colorado Independent that Democratic primary challenger Andrew Romanoff just called Bennet and conceded the...

Tom Jensen has released a Primary Day report on a Public Policy Polling survey that found Coloradans don't like any of their options for...

Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart, now a Wirth Chair professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, is part of a group of climate change policy experts urging President Barack Obama to act aggressively on the issue in the wake of the U.S. Senate giving up on passing a comprehensive climate change bill this session.

Sen. Mark Udall’s bill to promote year-round recreation at ski areas cleared a critical committee vote late last week and is headed to a...

DENVER--Ken Buck was joined by Sen. Jim DeMint today as he hosted a hotdog hoedown for both grass-roots and establishment supporters. DeMint said he has been lonely in Washington but saw a wave of anti-establishment choices, like Buck, rising to the top in this election. Continuing to lash out against characterizations of extremism Buck said that his brand of extremism would be to stand with DeMint in the Senate and champion free market values. Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak said that was the more or less the extremism they are talking about.

The Colorado Independent’s sister site, The American Independent, reported Tuesday that Dick Armey and his FreedomWorks PAC are throwing their weight behind Weld County...

Jane Norton’s murky past as a possible lobbyist continues to haunt her as the former Colorado lieutenant governor tries to curry Tea Party votes...

ExxonMobil’s acquisition of natural gas giant XTO Energy – the hot topic in the gas-field communities of Colorado’s Western Slope this week – has...