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Fields: Colorado should stand up to EPA’s mandates
When the federal government released their harmful new energy regulation — better known as the “Clean Power Plan” — Attorney General Cynthia Coffman wasted no time filing a lawsuit against the Obama administration for overstepping its authority. Coffman rightly joined a rapidly growing coalition of states who are standing up for Colorado’s right to control…
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Webb: Economic growth and environmentalism have a symbiotic relationship with good policy
Environmental groups across the country are celebrating a recent victory — President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. This political decision was at best an ideological choice, with very real, and perhaps unintended economic consequences. At worse, it may have driven a stake in the growing wedge between labor groups and environmental organizations.…
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Vervier: Raise a glass to the clean water rule
How important is it to protect clean water in Colorado? The federal EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are trying to do that with a new rule released in August. But now opponents are attacking the rule in the courts, and even the U.S. Senate is trying to block it. This is bad news…
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Sanderson: The president’s costly power plan is a stealth energy tax for Colorado
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is coming to Denver to drum up state support for a federal effort to implement the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Announced by the White House with great fanfare this past summer, it is the president’s response to climate change. For Colorado, it will be a costly response.…
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Ours: Unlocking access to palliative care spells better cancer outcomes
This year more than 24,000 Coloradans will hear the dreaded words, “You have cancer.” Thousands of individuals and families will cope with not only the physical symptoms of cancer, but will likely ride an emotional roller coaster as well. How is it possible to provide for and treat all of these symptoms simultaneously and successfully?…
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Brown: Building a Better Colorado engaging state in discussions on challenges, solutions
You don’t have to be paying close attention to our national political conversation to know that we are increasingly dividing ourselves by sides, networks, and extremes. But if you haven’t been paying close attention, you may not be aware of a remarkable exception taking place in Colorado. This past summer, a nonpartisan group of Republicans…
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Lockwood: Coffman’s EPA suit healthy for Colorado
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman rightfully joined a multi-state suit challenging the toxic-waste dumping Environmental “Protection” Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Shortly thereafter, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper sought an opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court about her power to file suit against the wishes of our state’s top elected official. The new, controversial and questionable Clean…
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Hartley: Jeffco vote was a rejection of partisan gridlock
This past Tuesday, the voters of Jefferson County delivered a loud and clear message against the divisive and hardline posture of their school board majority. By nearly a two-to-one margin, they recalled the board majority of Ken Witt, Julie Williams, and John Newkirk and refused to vote in their allies running for the two open…
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Ganahl: Carly Fiorina, the accomplished candidate
Back in 2008, as the owner of Camp Bow Wow, a fast-growing national franchise business, I was riding a tide of success. When the market took a downturn, I went from riding a tide of success to not knowing if we were going to make it. We, as a company, were forced to make very…
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Fields: TABOR, the hospital provider fee and protecting taxpayers
As the legislative session ended earlier this year, Senate President Bill Cadman went on the radio and called a bill to exempt the hospital provider fee from the limits provided under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, the No. 1 bad idea of the session. Yesterday, Gov. Hickenlooper unveiled his proposed 2017 state budget.…