Colorado

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51,685 commenters weigh in on BLM’s oil-shale lease plans

The federal government received 51,685 comments in connection with its plans to issue a second round of oil shale leases in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The Bureau of Land Management discussed the comments in a Federal Register notice ...

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McInnis lowers Pennsylvania gas boom on Ritter

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who bypassed an opportunity to levy a tax on natural gas drilled in his state, has the right approach to drilling, Scott McInnis said. McInnis, a Republican who wants to be Colorado governor, pointed to ...

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Ritter proposes transportation fund increase

A Senate bill signed into law in March may help state transportation funding climb 6 percent next year. Gov. Bill Ritter proposed a $1.03 billion transportation budget Monday for the 2010–2011 fiscal year. Although the number is higher ...

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Proposal caps public retirees’ living cost raise

Retirees from the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association would see cost-of-living increases capped, and new employees would have to work longer before they retire, under an association proposal. The state, school districts and other ...

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Ritter holds $37.4M in revenue for emergency

Gov. Bill Ritter will hold back $37.4 million in distributions of severance tax grant funds to communities impacted by energy development in case he needs the money to help balance the state budget. That amount includes $25 million that ...

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State releases new information on stimulus

Gov. Bill Ritter presented new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 information Tuesday, including the number of jobs created in the state by the act — more than 10,000 — and the amount of stimulus funding that’s ...

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Ritter names replacement for Natural Resources chief

Gov. Bill Ritter has turned to a familiar face to become his new natural resources chief, tapping a member of his own cabinet for the post. On Monday, Ritter named Jim Martin, executive director of the state Department of Public Health and ...

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3rd quarter expensive in governor’s race

Hotel stays. Airfare. Consultants. Stuff with your name on it. It’s all part of the cost of running for public office. Colorado’s three richest gubernatorial campaigns have together spent nearly half a million dollars in the ...

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Personal income down from last year

Personal income hasn’t increased in Colorado since the second quarter of 2008, but the recent trend of decreasing income was less severe in the second quarter of 2009 for the state’s 2.5 million workers. The amount of money earned ...

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Havana native bishop-elect of Pueblo diocese

The bishop-elect of the Catholic Diocese of Pueblo was born in Havana, Cuba, and while working for a bank in Florida promoted some of the first automatic-teller machines before joining the priesthood. The Rev. Fernando Isern, 51, will be ...

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