In a video interview with the Wall Street Journal this week, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer did not shy away from the "Big Oil Bob" moniker ordained by his opposition. Instead, he advocated off-shore drilling to help achieve energy independence and to help American consumers at the pump.
COLORADO'S FRONTPAGE
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Follow this topic by RSSRitter declares October 'energy awareness month,' detractors declare guv 'out of touch'
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October 6, 2008Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, has proclaimed October as “Energy Awareness Month,” offering Coloradans advice on how to conserve energy around the home. Detractors say such suggestions are short-sighted and accuse Ritter of stalling energy development in Colorado.
Schaffer tells WSJ editorial board to drill, baby, drill
September 20, 20088/25: DNC enviro-hypocrisy
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With all this talk about the “greenest” political convention ever, does reality live up to the hype? More >
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, 2008It's turning out to be a very bad week for Andrea Robinson, the "Director of Sustainability & Greening" for the Democratic National Convention.
DNC Boondoggle: Carbon Credits Fund Broken Turbine
A Face the State Staff Report
July 26, 2008The 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, 2008Intrepid world traveler Gov. Bill Ritter is back from his trip to the Arctic Circle. And boy, is he photogenic.
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."
"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."
FTS Humor: When your goose is cooked
Face The State Humor
July 3, 2008By 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.
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11/21: Ritter's feel-good jobs policy
Another stimulus package? You’ve got to be kidding me.