Fix is in: Senator misses testimony, knows to vote with Xcel

by Amy Oliver | 6:02 pm, March 21, 2012

Senator Betty Boyd, a democrat member of the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee, was not present in the committee hearing for any of the testimony either for or against HB 1172, the carbon tax repeal. Yet she knew exactly how to vote — against electricity ratepayers, against the environment, and for Xcel Energy.
According to [...]

Pat Stryker waiting for more taxpayer money to fund Abound

by Amy Oliver | 6:44 am, March 20, 2012

Leftist billionaire heiress Pat Stryker is waiting to see if taxpayers via the Department of Energy (DOE) will throw another $10 million at Stryker’s failed thin-filmed solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar before she puts any more of her own money into the Colorado-based company reports Eric Wesoff of GreenTech Media:
The firm awaits $10 million from the DOE [...]

Chevy instructs how to gouge Colorado taxpayers

by Amy Oliver | 9:26 pm, March 16, 2012

Buy a $40,000 Chevy Volt and taxpayers in Colorado and across the country will pick up nearly one third of the cost plus provide a permit to use Colorado’s HOV lanes free. Chevy blasted a “radio advisory,” which I received for my show on News Talk 1310, bragging about taxpayers footing the bill:
Colorado residents who [...]

SB 93 a perversion of transparency

by Amy Oliver | 6:11 pm, March 16, 2012

The first step toward religious persecution is identification, and that is exactly what Senator Morgan Carroll wants to force hospitals to do that don’t perform abortions or provide other services based on “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”  SB 93, her bill that passed the Colorado state senate on along a party line vote, would require:
A [...]

Taxpayers still on the hook for Abound employees?

by Amy Oliver | 12:00 pm, March 14, 2012

Are taxpayers still paying for Abound Solar employees despite the company’s cost saving measure of laying off 70 percent of its work force? Could be and the figure is nearly $2 million.
Late last month Colorado-based Abound Solar announced layoffs of 180 full-time and another 100 part-time employees so the thin-filmed photovoltaic manufacturer could “re-tool” to [...]

Why should Americans pay for Colorado’s green fantasies?

by Amy Oliver | 2:52 pm, March 5, 2012

Greeley Tribune reporter Nate Miller interviewed me as the voice of opposition about the wind “Production Tax Credit” (PTC). Miller does a good job of presenting both sides of the argument:
Supporters of the wind production tax credit, which began in 1992, contend failure to extend it will result in layoffs for workers from good, high-paying [...]

Two decades is long enough for wind tax credit

by Amy Oliver | 7:19 pm, March 4, 2012

If we had our way, there would be no tax subsidies of any kind for any energy resource. Since the wind production tax credit (PTC) is what’s currently being debated in Congress and on editorial pages across Colorado, we’ll address it. Below is our column that appeared originally in the Pueblo Chieftain on Sunday, March [...]

CU compensation report and the tuition debate

by Amy Oliver | 10:59 am, March 3, 2012

Brittany Anas of the Daily Camera reports that University of Colorado President Bruce Benson wanted to speed up the vote on CU’s proposed 15.7 percent tuition hike in order to minimize media scrutiny.
Below is a compensation report with details of raises for administration and faculty after the last 9.3 percent tuition hike. (This [...]

Breaking news: carbon tax repeal passes Colorado state house

by Amy Oliver | 12:00 pm, February 29, 2012

Good news for Xcel Energy ratepayers. HB 1172 “no imputed carbon tax”, Representative Spencer Swalm’s second attempt to repeal Colorado’s carbon tax, passed the state House on third reading this morning. It is now headed to the…

Weld County suspected storm clouds over Abound

by Amy Oliver | 11:53 pm, February 28, 2012

Update: The personal property tax incentive was not extended to Vestas either for the 2012 budget. In the 2011 budget Vestas received $96,252 in tax incentives. Commissioner Sean Conway said the vote to discontinue the incentives going forward for both Abound and Vestas was 5-0 in December 2011. The same measure was defeated for the [...]

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