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8/7: Wildfire prevention


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It’s been hot outside! After a record number of days over 90 degrees, what gives? More >

A rough week for DNC's "greening" director

July 26, 2008

It's turning out to be a very bad week for Andrea Robinson, the "Director of Sustainability & Greening" for the Democratic National Convention. More >

DNC Boondoggle: Carbon Credits Fund Broken Turbine

A Face the State Staff Report

July 26, 2008

The eastern Colorado wind turbine tapped for the Democratic National Convention's carbon-offset program has one problem: It doesn't generate any electricity. Convention organizers are now being questioned for their eagerness to market those credits to delegates.

Rough-and-tumble Ritter

July 22, 2008

Intrepid world traveler Gov. Bill Ritter is back from his trip to the Arctic Circle. And boy, is he photogenic. More >

Flipping the Bird at the Army

The Latest 'Word
July 18, 2008

How convenient! Even as Representative Wes McKinley and southeastern Colorado ranchers were complaining about the Army's revised plans to take part of Pinon Canyon for a training facility, a ranch family was revealing that they had had found a rare, albino eagle on their Pinon Canyon property...Moral of this story: f you want to save an endangered piece of land, no better way to do it than to come up with a rare, endangered bird."

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Hickenlooper's conundrum: Thousands of protesters, nowhere to bed down

Slapstick Politics
July 16, 2008

"Now Hickenlooper is forced to meet in private with protestors in order to figure out a way to accommodate the crowd expected in City Park. Suggesting buses and an alternative camp site raises questions about the city's commitment to being green - one that Jung points out - and where, exactly, the protestors would be bused from. It isn't likely that many suburbs would welcome thousands of protestors into their neighborhoods for the duration of the DNC."

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FTS Humor: When your goose is cooked

Face The State Humor

July 3, 2008

By Andrew Ripemoff

Centuries ago, in a distant land called Colorado, a kind and beloved leader named King Owens ruled the countryside. Life was good in the Kingdom, where off in a small corner of the grounds of the monarchy's vast estate worked a humble man, tending to a lone goose. But this wasn’t an ordinary goose. This was a goose who laid golden eggs - pure gold in fact.

6/30: Ritter's enviro-nannyism


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Next time the government tells you it needs a tax increase, think of the $150,000 now being spent on TV ads telling you how to live your life. More >

GOP goes on offensive regarding $4 gas

A Face the State Staff Report

June 23, 2008

As gas prices reach an all-time high in Colorado — with the average price hitting $4 a gallon for the first time Thursday — local Republicans are charging that Democrats controlling state government are to blame in part due to their continued alienation of the energy industry.

5/26: Feel-good climate change policies


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Here comes more pie-in-the-sky, feel good government policy on climate change. More >

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