edie hooton
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Boulder County on AG Coffman lawsuit: A ‘special valentine’ to the drilling industry
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Boulder County is hitting back at Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, who filed suit Tuesday against the county seeking to force its commissioners to lift a moratorium on new oil and gas drilling projects. “The Attorney General sent a special valentine to the oil and gas industry today by filing a lawsuit against Boulder County,” reads…
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Boulder versus Coffman battle over drilling comes to state Senate
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Friday February 10 was the deadline Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman gave Boulder County to lift its moratorium on new oil and gas drilling projects. That Friday is here. It was never going to pass without resistance and, for now, the resistance is building. On Thursday, Coffman indicated she is planning to sue the county…
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In battle pitting religious freedom against discrimination, a small surprise victory
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Colorado House Republicans pitched a religious liberty bill last Wednesday to the Democratic-controlled State Affairs committee. It was the same kind of bill that has stirred hornets nest-like national protests in other states for fear that religious liberty might translate on the ground as discrimination. Republicans knew the bill, HB 1013, would die in committee,…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
