lafayette mayor christine berg
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Q&A with Christine Berg: Proudly progressive Lafayette mayor jousts with oil and gas
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She’s a fully engaged environmental activist and green-energy advocate; she’s a hard-charging, small-city mayor who is duking it out with the oil and gas industry as well as the state government over her community’s attempts to curb drilling; she’s a mom. And it all fits together pretty seamlessly if you’re Christine Berg, especially as mayor…
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Independence Institute set to announce which Coloradan will be named Californian of the Year
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Awards season is upon us, and the conservative jesters at Colorado’s right-leaning Independence Institute are bestowing the inaugural “Californian of the Year” award Wednesday on the lucky Coloradan who has “done the most to turn us into California,” in the words of the think tank’s president, Jon Caldara. While the award has been generating some…
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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…
