Author: Pete Webb
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The flack over fracking continues — it’s time to export common sense
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It’s only been in the last year or so that controversy has erupted over the practice of “fracking,” an energy industry term that’s shorthand for “hydraulic fracturing,” a technique used to disrupt underground formations and release the oil and gas captured in the geological strata. More precisely, fracking is a process that requires large volumes…
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Media Musings… Or, why is it done that way?
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• Let’s recognize that Channel 7 stepped up to cover the weeks of fire storms. Clearly it’s a sign that new owner Scripps-Howard takes local newsgathering seriously, and committed the resources to cover High Park, then Waldo Canyon, with reporters who could actually tell the story. Apparently they also moved crews and producers in from…
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What should we expect from “TBD”?
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Governor Hickenlooper has shagged dozens of his “closest friends” to participate in the “TBD Colorado” process, with the lofty goal of creating “public policy recommendations for improving Colorado’s quality of life.”The TBD groups, and yes, it’s TBD, like “To Be Determined” because no-one is quite sure what the outcomes might be, are tasked with offering…
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What the Post’s downsizing really means, and a ‘New York’ moment in local TV
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I’m becoming a bit more embarrassed these days when I admit that I still receive a newspaper on my front step, and that I read a large-format “national” newspaper (the Wall Street Journal) at the office every day. And doubtless you’re reading this on conventional newsprint, which is how Statesman subscribers are accustomed to getting…
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Standing in a circle, and firing at will
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The past month’s spectacle of Congress struggling with a debt ceiling limit, and the compromises over tax increases, cuts in government spending, and the anguished rhetoric, also highlighted a unique feature of partisan politics — the ability of party members to turn upon themselves. This phenomenon manifests itself with a peculiar exercise in which dueling…
