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As Lafayette goes, so goes Colorado? The Independence Institute hopes not
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If California ever does tumble into the sea, there’ll still be “East California” – aka Colorado. At least, that’s how Denver-based libertarian think tank Independence Institute envisions one possible U.S. map of the not-too-distant future. Well, not the part about California’s seismic fate; the part about politically purple Colorado morphing into a Middle American imitation…
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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…


