Tag: Legislature Hearings
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Xcel Energy defends power shutoffs
Xcel Energy officials defended the company’s use of public safety power shutoffs during extreme wind events as a necessary step to prevent wildfires, while telling Colorado lawmakers the company is accelerating efforts to make future outages more targeted and shorter. Robert Kenney, president and CEO of Xcel Energy Colorado, told a joint legislative committee Jan.…
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Disciplinary information rarely considered in decisions on judge retention
Colorado’s system of judicial discipline is so secret that the state’s nearly two dozen performance review commissions that evaluate judges have rarely known for sure whether a jurist they recommended voters keep on the bench had a record of misconduct or not. That shortfall is a critical flaw in the state’s judicial retention process that…