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Bennet plans town hall meetings in Steamboat Springs, Granby next week
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet will listen to the concerns of constituents in northwest Colorado next week and possibly get in some fishing. Colorado’s senior senator, a Democrat from Denver, announced town hall meetings in Steamboat Springs and Granby Friday. Tuesday he will field questions and share his perspectives of issues concerning Colorado, including financial support…
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Interior’s No. 2 man sees Washington from a Colorado point of view
Growing up in Rifle on the Western Slope, David Bernhardt saw Colorado’s great outdoors from both sides of the economic equation. This upbringing would shape his way of thinking as the second-in-command for the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Rifle of his boyhood in the early 1980s – from the rugged Flat Tops Wilderness…
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Local governments get $40.1 million to offset tax loss from federal lands
Fifty-six Colorado towns and counties that are home to federal lands received an oversized check from one of their own this week. Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who grew up in Rifle, delivered an oversized check for $40.1 million from the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program, which helps lesson the blow to local…
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Bennet joins bipartisan Senate push to renew conservation fund
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Colorado Democrat Michael Bennet, plan to launch what they describe as a 100-day campaign to save a federal conservation fund that helps pay for parks and other public facilities – a program that President Donald Trump wants to slash. If you’ve ever visited the Cheyenne Mountain visitor center,…
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Republicans are giddy for Western Conservative Summit (and so are Democrats)
Chief organizer Jeff Hunt says he hasn’t seen this much excitement around the Western Conservative Summit since Donald Trump and Sarah Palin came to Denver for the 2016 gathering. This year’s summit – the largest gathering of conservatives outside the nation’s capital Beltway – runs Friday and Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center. Each year…
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EPA’s Pruitt to speak in Denver this weekend
Scott Pruitt, the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak in Denver this weekend, organizers of the Western Conservative Summit said Tuesday morning. Pruitt and Attorney Jeff Sessions, who was previously announced, will speak Friday night at the ticketed conclave of conservative activists and operatives at the Colorado Convention Center. “2018 will see…
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COVER STORY | Grand Junction shines as D.C. eyes new home for BLM
Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron addressed a joint meeting of Congress, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly caught up to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the House floor. Gardner had Colorado business to discuss with his old friend, the former senator from Montana who now leads the U.S. Department of the Interior, which administers…
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Colorado Senate Democrats take a stand on the Great Sand Dunes
Every Democrat in the Colorado Senate has signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s proposal to sell off public land for energy development near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. But Gov. John Hickenlooper is not joining them in challenging the plan, noting that the parcels involved are on the opposite side of the…
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Western Slope celebrating the return of Anvil Points millions
Sen. Cory Gardner didn’t have a sleigh or a red coat, that we know of, but it was Christmas in April Friday in Grand Junction, as Gardner touted millions of dollars in government money for Garfield, Rio Blanco, Moffat and Mesa counties. The $18 million is left over from the oil and gas leases revenue…
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FEEDBACK | An alphabet soup of opinion — on PERA, the BLM and the NRA
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…