Tag: Dennis Hisey
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El Paso County district attorney won’t seek charges against former state Sen. Dennis Hisey
The District Attorney for Colorado Springs, who indicted a Democratic senator on voter fraud tied to residency, has decided not to charge a Republican senator with committing a similar offense. The case involves former state Sen. Dennis Hisey, who was elected to represent Fountain in Senate District 2 in 2018 but ran for a different…
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Converting Colorado coal plants to nuclear? Fed report shows benefits
Hundreds of decommissioned or soon-to-be-shut-down coal-fired power plants — including at least five in Colorado — can be saved by converting them to nuclear power with small modular nuclear reactors. That’s according to a report from the U.S Department of Energy, which also notes installing small modular nuclear reactors in place of the coal-fired boilers could…
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GOP groups outspending Democratic allies in Colorado Senate races
The latest campaign finance reports show the “soft money” group dedicated to supporting Republicans running in Colorado Senate races is outspending its Democratic counterpart by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. The Senate Majority Fund’s independent expenditure committee, which backs Senate Republican candidates, and All Together Colorado, the Democrats’ soft side IEC, collectively spent about $6 million on…
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State Sen. Dennis Hisey accused of voting irregularity
Sen. Dennis Hisey, R-Colorado Springs, has been accused of voting in a district in which he does not live. The Colorado Ethics Institute, founded in 2020 by former Colorado Democratic Party Chair Rick Palacio and former journalist Curtis Hubbard, asked Republican District Attorney Michael Allen of the 4th Judicial District in Colorado Springs to investigate…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom turns toward nuclear power
As Colorado appears uninterested in the potential for nuclear energy to provide full-time grid-stabilizing electricity, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is considering reversing course on shutting down his state’s last nuclear power plant to help prevent power shortages in the state. The plant, Diablo Canyon, provided 6% of the state’s power last year and is…