Author: Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Mysterious letter causes uproar, investigation in Mesa County GOP | A LOOK BACK
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Twenty Years Ago This Week: An unregistered activist group calling themselves ‘The Colorado Republican Caucus’ mailed letters to at least 160 Republicans in Mesa County calling various Grand Junction Republicans “turncoats” and “traitors.” “The danger was that the letters were mailed by a group, with an official-sounding name, and many people thought it was from…
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Colorado Politics Calendar Apr. 20-26
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Colorado Politics calendar Apr. 13-19
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Minority Leader Peña argues against oil and gas bill | A LOOK BACK
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “The Colorado House of Representatives had just given its final approval to House Bill 81-1152, which created $9 million in tax relief to oil and gas companies. But this came “at the expense of local governments,” House Minority Leader Federico Peña, D-Denver, argued in an open letter to The Colorado…
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Colorado Politics Calendar Apr. 6-12
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Gov. Lamm challenges Congress to stop ‘decontrol’ of natural gas | A LOOK BACK
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: In a memo to Colorado’s congressional delegation, Gov. Dick Lamm urged them to vote against the phased pricing deregulation provisions in the Natural Gas Policy Act, a measure introduced in Congress in 1978 and still under sharp debate in Congress. “Immediate, total natural-gas decontrol should be opposed because of significant…
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Colorado coal use seen as in decline in 1980s | A LOOK BACK
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “Contrary to popular belief, it appears that growth in Colorado’s coal industry during the 1980s will be surprisingly sluggish,” said the findings in the Colorado Energy Research Institute’s “Focus Series.” The institute’s conclusions on the state of energy in Colorado were not surprising to many. In 1979, Colorado had an…
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Colorado Politics Calendar Mar. 30-Apr. 5
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Governor warns energy development both a boon and a risk to Colorado | A LOOK BACK
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “The real opportunity and the dangers before us are both real,” said Gov. Dick Lamm in his January state of the state address before the Colorado General Assembly. Lamm argued that energy development would continue to impact Colorado, including the federal ownership of a large portion of the state’s resources.…
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Colorado Politics Calendar Mar. 23-29
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…