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(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Dear Chairman Call, I'm not your typical terrorist:  a fifth-generation Coloradan, a Yuma County native and graduate of a small rural K-12 school, Idalia High School.  Upon return from college I settled in Wray where I raised my three children.  I was active in local activities – a founding member of […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Earlier this month the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) held its annual conference in Nashville. Jo Ann Emerson, former Missouri Congresswoman-turned-CEO of her top political donor, started the conference with an attack on the Obama administrations' environmental record.  She was followed by the alternative speaker Haley Barbour (who replaced Chuck […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) There is a coming war on the western economy.  Not the fake war promoted by our federally-subsidized rural electric system but a real one, waged by a formidable opponent: Mother Nature. If there was ever an argument for a transition to a 21st-century energy infrastructure, look no further than our current […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) "We cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used when we created them" ~Einstein I spent Father's Day of this year reflecting on the the challenges of Colorado's 4th Congressional District, a landscape of both abundance and scarcity.  A land where federal programs have provided an abundance for some; for […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Only Nixon could go to China. Only oil-man George W. Bush could deliver a national Renewable Fuels Standard and create the world's largest wind-energy market. Perhaps only my Congressman can catalyze a very different conversation on Capitol Hill about the role of renewable fuels in our nation's future.  With increasing regularity, […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) When I think of Abraham Lincoln, my first thought is emancipation:  the process of setting one free from legal, social, or political restrictions. In his day it meant ending the scourge of human enslavement.  And although Lincoln's primary challenge during his Presidency was preserving the Union, it's not often someone also […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Tuesday the latest political assault on Boulder, Initiative 310, will be decided.  I'm confident our Founding Fathers wouldn't be impressed – this isn't the way a democracy should function.  In 2011, a majority of Boulder residents voted to take back local control of their city electric utility – defeating Goliath, Xcel […]

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Tonight, while the male Senate leaders tied the bow on a deal aimed at ending the government shutdown, the credit for shaping the package is being given to a group of women.  As quoted by Senator John McCain: “It’s a good outcome” … “Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily […]