Why Not Make All Of Colorado An Enerprise Zone?

by Mike Krause | 10:27 pm, February 3, 2012

Today the Denver Post editorialized favorably on a legislative proposal to modestly rein in run-away tax incentives (read corporate welfare) in Colorado’s “enterprise zones.”
A better policy change might just be to get rid of enterprise zones altogether. Much to his credit, my former state representative Joel Judd (A Democrat from House District 4 in [...]

Bad Loan Sharking + Bad Financial Investor = Corporate Welfare

by Jon Caldara | 1:15 pm, January 6, 2012

We’ve all heard about the Solyndra scandal, but have you heard about the Lowenstein Project? Wait, you didn’t know you had the Lowenstein “investment” in your portfolio? Didn’t know you made a loan that was never repaid? Me neither.
In an op-ed the Reason Foundation’s Harris Kenny wrote for us that landed on the pages of [...]

Salazar defends fracking; waiting for the “real facts.”

by amy | 3:40 pm, December 13, 2011

While the Denver Post played the role of Rocky Mountain eco-Chicken Little of record, another news outlet — the Casper Star-Tribune — reported former Colorado Senator and current Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s opinion of the EPA’s premature press release about a “draft finding” regarding a link that may or may not exist between hydraulic fracturing [...]

Media acts like eco Chicken Littles

by amy | 6:15 pm, December 9, 2011

Has any media outlet bothered to ask if the EPA’s theory on groundwater contamination in Wyoming and hydraulic fracturing is even right?
The Independence Institute’s Energy Policy Blog can’t be accused (at least not accurately) of being in the tank for the oil and gas industry. We’ve been on opposite sides of several of the industry’s [...]

Dispelling the Myth of “Clean” Green Energy

by Energy Policy Center | 6:41 am, December 9, 2011

By Michael Sandoval
Clean Water Action’s Gary Wockner plays the card in his Denver Post guest editorial that is usually intended to end any debate between advocates of renewable energy technology and those in favor of continuing the exploration of fossil fuel resources–”What are the environmental impacts?”
Typically, readers are treated to some sort of facile environmental [...]

Are you “addicted” to civilization?

by amy | 8:28 am, December 5, 2011

The Denver Post gave Gary Wockner of Clean Water Action prime newspaper real estate in Sunday’s perspective section. Wockner’s guest editorial “Is Colorado Addicted to Oil?” was nothing more than a list of typical anti-fossil fuel questions that he tried to associate to Colorado’s and Weld County’s economic struggles as a result of the Great [...]

PERA Board: Ego trumps reality

by Amy Oliver | 3:43 pm, December 2, 2011

Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, a rare voice of reason on Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) Board of Trustees, told News Talk 1310 KFKA talk show host Amy Oliver in a recent interview that when the Board voted to maintain an unrealistic 8 percent rate of return one Board member provided the following reason, ”We [...]

The mystical problem with wind

by amy | 7:27 am, December 2, 2011

Yesterday Complete Colorado headlined a Denver Post story about wind power “Another Bubble Bursting?” The reason for the headline is that in 2012 federal tax credits for wind power are set to expire and, as we revealed several months ago in a post about Xcel Energy’s latest compliance plan, wind power is not economically viable [...]

The Terribly Dangerous Right on Red Phenomena

by Jon Caldara | 3:02 pm, November 9, 2011

There’s just something refreshing about Vincent Carroll’s writing. It’s clear, it flows well, it’s to the point, and clever all at the same time. I wish I could do what he does. Hell, I’d take doing it half as well. Look at his latest piece in the Denver Post’s opinion section on red light cameras. [...]

Can Prop. 103 proponents go for the Big Fix?

by Kelly Maher | 11:23 pm, November 7, 2011

Proposition 103 was badly beaten last week, sending a message (along with other measures that went down) that Coloradans do not want higher taxes. So what’s coming next from the tax-and-spend crowd?

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