broomfield
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State Sen. Marble sues Colorado ethics commission over decision
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State Sen. Vicki Marble, a Fort Collins Republican, has filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission challenging its decision earlier this year that she had violated the state’s constitutional amendment on ethics. Marble’s lawsuit was filed June 29 in Denver District Court. In the complaint, Marble’s attorney, Marcy Glenn, challenged the ethics commission’s decision to issue a…
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COVER STORY: The fight over forced pooling — should drilling-without-consent law be changed?
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From her front porch in Broomfield’s Wildgrass subdivision, Jean Lim looks out on a park and the Rocky Mountains beyond. There she sits, waiting for an oil and gas driller to use a state law to get the mineral rights beneath her home she doesn’t want to lease. “We are just waiting to be pooled,”…
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Oil and gas money flows into local elections seeking a bang for the buck
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Money from the oil and gas industry and its supporters has been flowing into municipal elections in the suburban oil patch north of Denver -but while the bucks have been big by local standards, so far the bang has been small. The most recent foray into community elections came in Erie on April 3, when $55,000…
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Colorado commission delays vote on ethics complaint against Sen. Vicki Marble
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The Colorado Ethics Commission Monday spent close to two hours deliberating on the facts and issues in an ethics complaint filed against Fort Collins Republican Sen. Vicki Marble. While the commission appeared to lean toward dismissing the complaint, they decided to hold off on a vote until their next meeting on March 5. Marble is…
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Colorado Republicans unveil plans to hold 2018 state assembly at Coors Event Center in Boulder
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Colorado Republicans will convene this year’s state assembly at the Coors Event Center on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder on Saturday, April 14, returning to the same hall where the GOP assembled four years ago, party officials said Friday. “We looked for a venue in Colorado, but they were all booked,” said state party…
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Marble ethics violations now in the hands of Colorado state commission
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A lengthy hearing Monday to determine whether state Sen. Vicki Marble violated the state’s ethics law ended without a decision by the state ethics body. The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission took testimony through almost seven hours from witnesses to a Feb. 15 event in Broomfield that featured an oil and gas company’s plan…
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Fracking foes win the day in Broomfield, but next they go to court
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Broomfield voters gave a 57 percent edge to giving local government more say-so on whether oil-and-gas wells are safety and healthy. At the very least it was a major moral victory for opponents of the oil-and-gas industry in the fast-developing countryside north of Denver. Industry and business coalitions on the right, and environmental groups on…
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Colorado voters set to decide school board and city council races, contentious ballot measures
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Voters across Colorado finish casting ballots at 7 p.m. tonight, deciding city council and school board races as well as local ballot issues ranging from funding for affordable housing and limits on oil and gas drilling to road improvements and municipal high-speed internet. For the first time in eight years, though, there isn’t a statewide…
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Municipal elections across Colorado include questions on taxes, bonds, housing and marijuana
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Voters in more than 80 municipalities across Colorado are electing members to city councils and town boards, as well as deciding a range of ballot measures covering everything from tax and bond questions to pot sales and high-speed internet, according to data compiled by the Colorado Municipal League. For the first time since 2009, there…
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Big gun Bill Owens — the former guv — opens fire on Broomfield ballot issue
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You know the war over Broomfield’s anti-fracking proposal – or any pending ballot issue, for that matter – is heating up when a former governor steps into the fray. Republican Bill Owens, who served as Colorado’s chief exec until 2007, took to the airwaves and digital media this week with a video denouncing Question 301…
