By Lynn Bartels The Denver Post The director of the Governor's Energy Office recently interviewed 20 people from scores of applicants and hired someone who had worked on Republican Bob Beauprez's gubernatorial campaign. Plant...
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As Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry hypocritically attacked the state government and Governor Bill Ritter during Colorado's ongoing budget crisis, ProgressNow Colorado, the state's largest online progressive advocacy...
In today's Denver Post, Lynn Bartels reports that Mr. Penry was asked to name those who are part of the political silo of patronage in the governor's Energy office. He named two, Alice Madden and GEO executive director, Tom...
When Governor Bill Ritter signed a bipartisan bill last year to put the brakes on the Army's use of eminent domain to steal ranch land from Coloradans and turn it into a mini-Afghanistan right in the middle of our square state,...
Channel 7 investigative reporters Arthur Kane and John Ferrugia have exposed Democrat Governor Bill Ritter’s so-called “hiring freeze” for what it really was: Gov. Bill Ritter promised a hiring freeze last year to help bridge...
Grand Junction Sentinel columnist Bill Grant follows up on last week's spat between gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry and Speaker Terrance Carroll over the Governor's Energy Office--Grant, like us, finds it a little odd that...
Josh Penry’s suggestion that it might be time to abolish the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) may backfire. Rather than exposing a “silo of patronage,” his remark has brought attention to “the single brightest light in our...