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Local-control drilling rules skewered by both sides
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Colorado’s chief regulatory agency for oil and gas drilling on Tuesday released new rules to give local governments more control over industry operations, but community activists are largely unimpressed and appear poised to ratchet up the battle at the ballot box next year. The proposed rules were born of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s Oil and Gas…
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Jump on growing wave of Colorado’s urban wineries
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Wine Country. It’s a term that conjures idyllic images of quaint wineries nestled among acres of bountiful vineyards. Most of us at one time or another have planned a trip to Wine Country, perhaps California’s Napa Valley or Colorado’s own Grand Valley. But the reality is most of us don’t actually do that very often.…
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Tymkovich elevated to chief judge of 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
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As the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals begins its new schedule of cases this week Judge Timothy Tymkovich has heard a couple of child porn cases, a campaign finance case, even a case involving a $7 million bicycle accident at the Air Force Academy. Last Wednesday, in a ceremony at the federal courthouse in…
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Axiom Strategies: Inside powerhouse lobbying firm
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As the staff of Denver-based powerhouse lobbying firm Axiom Strategies sits down around a conference table in their second-floor office just a stone’s throw away from the State Capitol, one of the first things that’s obvious is the gender discrepancy — all but one of the firm’s team members is female. Owner and President Micki…
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Axiom Strategies: Inside powerhouse lobbying firm
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As the staff of Denver-based powerhouse lobbying firm Axiom Strategies sits down around a conference table in their second-floor office just a stone’s throw away from the State Capitol, one of the first things that’s obvious is the gender discrepancy — all but one of the firm’s team members is female. Owner and President Micki…
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Adams County residents dread fracking project, look to state rule-makers for relief
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The battle taking shape in Wadley Farms, a neighborhood in unincorporated Adams County just 11 miles north of the State Capitol in Denver, is yet another battle in the Colorado war over suburban oil-and-gas drilling on the Front Range. And it’s another one being fought on one side by Coloradans motivated, not by strong feelings…
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SD 12 GOP primary pits Gardner, Klingenschmitt
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A Republican clash in Colorado Springs is shaping up to be the most intriguing race of the upcoming legislative primary slate. “It’s a classic standoff of the current split that’s going on in the Republican Party,” said Bob Loevy, a retired Colorado College political science professor and longtime Colorado Springs-based political analyst. Former state Rep.…
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State may or may not be probing ballot fraud in Chaffee County
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Colorado elections watchers who have been following the zig-zagging, on-again, off-again case of the 2012 Republican Primary Chaffee County ballots completed half in blue and half in black ink may get an answer soon whether or not state officials believe the ballots are evidence of election fraud. Or they may get no answer at all.…
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McInnis battles feds, ruffles feathers as Mesa County commissioner
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Rusting dump trucks. Feral cats. Potholed roads. A crumbling dog pound. Scott McInnis has his hands full. Being a Mesa County commissioner means dealing with a slew of problems. He is buttonholed by constituents over breakfast, stopped as he walks his dogs through his subdivision, and hailed from passing cars as he leaves the grocery…
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear city fracking-ban cases
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The Colorado Supreme Court this week agreed to decide two citizen-driven anti-fracking cases that will go a long way toward determining the future of oil and gas drilling across Colorado. In both cases — a five-year moratorium on fracking imposed by Fort Collins and an outright fracking ban in Longmont — industry and state officials…
