FTS Weekend Edition, 8/1/09

This week on the Face The State Weekend Edition: The week in Colorado news, where Aspen snubs (sort of) its newest resident and the School of Mines rakes in the dough. DIA bends over backwards to get into the 'green' energy game; yet more Republicans get in on the U.S. Senate race; Pinnacol's future is in the breech this week; health care rallies reflect opposition, support for gov't control.

• The week's news: Aspen won't honor Armstrong; Mines rakes in the dough
  Kate Melvin joins FTS managing editor Brad Jones to review the week in Colorado news. Aspen won't honor Lance Armstrong, who has lived there "all of five minutes," the Colorado School of Mines brings in the dough from private donors, and Aurora schools jump on the Twitter bandwagon.
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• Denver bends the rules in the name of 'green' energy
  FTS staff writer Kate Melvin has the skinny on those new solar panels at Denver International Airport. How'd they end up there, and did the City and County of Denver bend the rules to make the project happen? Stay tuned for the full story, coming Monday to Face The State.
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• GOP US Senate field gets crowded; Morgan Carroll's future
  FTS staff writer Rachel Boxer dishes the latest political gossip with an eye toward 2010. Crested Butte attorney Luke Korkowski makes his U.S. Senate bid official, but will his entry into the already crowded Republican field make any difference? Former state Sen. Tom Wiens files an exploratory committee to do the same. State Sen. Morgan Carroll is so far mum on her plans for 2010, but rumors are growing that she'll mount a bid for state Attorney General in a challenge to incumbent Republican John Suthers.
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• Pinnacol's future; Huttner tests his credibility
  A state legislative committee meets this week to consider the future of Pinnacol Assurance, Colorado's largest worker's compensation insurance provider. But will the proceedings be an opportunity for the company's critics to call for major overhauls to the state's insurance laws? Plus, ProgressNow agitator-in-chief Michael Huttner says conservative protesters are lemmings with no mind of their own.
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• Dueling health care rallies
  A review of audio from dueling rallies in opposition to and in support of Pres. Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the nation's health care system.
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