james watt
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FEEDBACK | An alphabet soup of opinion — on PERA, the BLM and the NRA
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A PERA bankruptcy will leave Colorado taxpayers holding the bag Just a few years in the past PERA was flush with cash and more than solvent. So why is it that, due to some incredible fiscal stupidity, the rest of us must now be saddled with an insolvent and potentially catastrophic financial disaster? This is…
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YESTERYEAR: James Watt blasts critics, defends Interior policies in Grand Junction
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Thirty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Former U.S. Rep. Wayne Aspinall declared that Colorado was “back in the big leagues” as he introduced divisive Coloradan Interior Secretary James Watt at the annual Club 20 banquet in Grand Junction. Watt, who noted he carried a Navajo arrowhead to “be protected from newspaper…
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YESTERYEAR: Allegations surface that embezzlement scheme helped fund U.S. Senate petition drive
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Thirty-Five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Some of the money allegedly embezzled from the Central Bank for Cooperatives in Denver by Eve Lincoln, a former coordinator for Secretary of State Mary Estill Buchanan’s 1980 Senate campaign, could have been used to help finance Buchanan’s petition drive to get on the ballot,…
