Colorado lawmakers are hustling during the term’s final days to dramatically raise the pay of elected officials, including themselves. A bill to hike the salaries of statewide elected officials and state lawmakers passed the Senate late yesterday on an unrecorded voice vote. The bill has to pass the Senate in a more formal recorded vote before heading to the House. The bill hikes the pay of Continue reading
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X-CEL Energy customers are about to start feeling the effects of House Bill 1365, the so-called “Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act.” Power producers, elected officials, coal miners and others warned state Democrats last year, that the bill would increase energy rates for Continue reading
The Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) has selected The Keystone Center and Engaged Public to Continue reading
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The Environmental Protection Agency’s Regional Director, Shaun McGrath will be in Craig tonight to hear from citizens, business leaders, elected officials and others about the agency’s new carbon emissions rules. The rules are unpopular to coal counties as they are projected to raise the cost of electricity, cost coal mining jobs, and Continue reading
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The Craig Chamber of Commerce & Moffat County Visitor Center is seeking candidates interested in serving on the Chamber’s board of directors. Terms run from 2015 through 2017. The board is looking for people with a solid track record of contributing to the Continue reading
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to hold extra public hearings on its new carbon emissions rules, but none of those hearings will be in Moffat County, or any coal producing county. Instead, the EPA will hold an extra day of hearings in each of the cities already on the schedule. Hearings will now be in Continue reading
Colorado Counties Incorporated is gauging the interest of County Commissioners throughout the state in giving raises to elected officials. Elected officials in Colorado have not had their pay raised since 2006. The CCI sent out a survey to county commissioners asking them how they would feel about pay raises. There are a few options listed as to how much the raise should be: Continue reading
Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO), yesterday, issued a statement on President Obama’s use of the Antiquities Act to unilaterally designate a massive 500,000 acre national monument in New Mexico despite local objections, a move that could indicate the presidents intentions for land in Northwest Colorado. Local citizens and elected officials raised serious concerns over Continue reading
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife, in coordination with The Keystone Center, an independent facilitator, is holding a series of seven public meetings across the state this spring in order to receive feedback on a Colorado West Slope Mule Deer Strategy. The Strategy will guide agency efforts to work towards Continue reading
EPA Grants Extension to Public Comment Period
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