The Indy’s Marianne Goodland on this week’s Politics Unplugged
This week on KMGH-7’s Politics Unplugged: the hospital provider fee, what’s next for transportation and how did the 2017 General Assembly fare?
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Five(ish) takeaways from the 2017 legislative session
The 2017 legislative session may have done more for rural Colorado than any session in the past two decades. “Rural, rural, rural! Music to my ears!” As Colorado’s population grows, largely along the...
View ArticleRepublicans running for Colorado governor: Who’s the biggest defender of oil...
Republican candidates for governor vigorously defended Colorado’s oil and gas operators on Wednesday, including Cynthia Coffman who said she has worked on behalf of the industry as Colorado’s sitting...
View ArticleThree Colorado Democrats debate fracking as they run for governor of Colorado
During their first televised debate, former State Treasurer Cary Kennedy, ex-state Sen. Mike Johnston, and current Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne drilled down on whether and how to further regulate fracking in...
View ArticleDrilling, one mile outside Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office last year, the administration has used its “energy dominance” agenda to require states to conduct quarterly sales on public lands across the West. As...
View ArticleHickenlooper calls his executive order for orphan gas wells the ‘second-best...
Colorado’s Democratic governor, John Hickenlooper, on Wednesday signed an executive order focused on addressing the safety concerns around orphaned wells— while simultaneously admitting that the order...
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Trump dreams about a new energy boom. Oil leases could cover this mountain...
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View ArticleWe know where Walker Stapleton stands on oil and gas. Which Jared Polis would...
DENVER — Dueling speeches in a sparkling ballroom from Colorado’s major candidates for governor today highlighted a political minefield in the coming campaign over the state’s oil-and-gas industry. At...
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Guest Post: Protecting our climate is a bridge issue — not a partisan wedge...
This is about our own lives and the future of everyone and everything we care about. When I was in Washington, DC in June I witnessed a heartbreaking presentation by a young man from the Republic of...
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New Colorado nonprofit news outlet ‘couldn’t pick two more polarizing topics...
“We’re very much like the Chalkbeat of energy.” That was the message publisher Mark Roberts had for a crowd of supporters at the Denver Athletic Club Tuesday about his new journalism venture...
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