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More headliners on the way for ALEC’s Denver gathering
The Trump administration’s Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta and Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke will join the speakers’ dais in Denver at next week’s annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council. The event already features Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Pete Coors, Guy Benson and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.…
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Bears Ears prompts Bennet to challenge USDA on protecting monument’s forests
Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet wants to know if the U.S. Forest Service is asleep at the switch as the Trump administration aims to trim Bears Ears National Monument. Bennet and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, sent a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who oversees the Forest Service, asking pointed questions about…
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Uptick in gun sales rare good news for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, while it lasts
At least Colorado Parks and Wildlife can still count on hunters and anglers. The state is set to get $28 million next year from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from federal taxes and fees associated with hunting and fishing. That’s up from $25.8 million last year, and just over $20 million in 2015. Why…
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#GetTrumpTeamToTheSummit is Centennial’s latest call to action
The Centennial Institute – the conservative advocacy arm of Colorado Christian University in Lakewood – scored a coup last year with its campaign to lure then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to its annual Western Conservative Summit. #GetTrumptotheSummit was the rallying cry on Twitter, and it succeeded in getting Trump to make his first campaign speech in the state when he addressed the summit…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner touts pick for No. 2 at Interior whom greens fear and loathe
Call it a tale of two sound bites. Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s office sent a press release to the news media this afternoon announcing the junior senator’s scheduled introduction Thursday of Coloradan David Bernhardt at his confirmation hearing for deputy secretary of the interior. It’s a formality and a show of same-state pride and support for…
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Hickenlooper says it’s ‘unlikely’ Colorado national monuments will face Trump-ordered review
Gov. John Hickenlooper said late Thursday that he’s confident that Colorado’s national monuments won’t be threatened as a result of an executive order signed this week by President Trump instructing his interior secretary to conduct a review. Hickenlooper said he discussed the executive order Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two…
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Trump era liberal strife still evident in Dem Boulder town halls; but what does it mean for Colorado?
It was another weekend in the first months of the Trump administration and so another weekend of packed political town halls in heavily Democratic Boulder County, Colorado. “Resistance” energy in the region seems as fresh as it was the day after the inauguration, but it’s difficult to gauge to what degree Boulder might be a…
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Colorado Dems, enviros wary of Trump cabinet picks
Despite a growing list of climate change doubters and fossil fuel industry supporters and executives comprising the list of Trump administration cabinet nominees, Democratic Colorado lawmakers and environmentalists are hopeful the state’s clean energy economy and outdoor recreation industry can continue to thrive. Mostly, though, there’s a growing sense of dread from the conservation community…