Friday, September 25, 2009
Pro-expansion candidates and Army continues to try back door approaches
Not 1 More Acre opposition group blocked a recent effort by the Army to do an 'end around' by annexing the Pinon Canyon maneuver site into Fort Carson (and by doing so changing the name and intending to side step legislation against expansion specific to Pinon Canyon). Read Notice by PCEOC here
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Judge rules Army 'Arbitrary and Capricious'
IT'S TIME for the Army to go back to square one now that a federal judge has blocked plans to increase its use of the existing Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site.
Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch this week set aside the Army's decision authorizing new facilities and year-round training at the 238,000-acre site northeast of Trinidad. The judge concluded the Army's impact statement "does not adequately assess the impact on the environment of the increase in intensity and duration of training operations" at the site.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Penry continues to gain on McInnis - makes a heck of a lot more sense than McInnis
From the Pueblo Chieftain:
Friday, September 04, 2009
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DEAN TODA
THE GAZETTE
It was billed as one young professional talking to a bunch of people like him about what it’s like to quickly climb the ladder of success.
Josh Penry has lived that story. At age 33, he’s the Republican leader in the state Senate.
But what the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce Rising Professionals group got with their lunch Thursday was a stump speech by Penry, who wants to succeed Gov. Bill Ritter.
Penry, who’s from
Penry’s prescription is classic Reaganomics: tax cuts, which he said would not only energize the economy, but increase tax revenues enough to pay for what he called “reforming” the public education system, making college more affordable and investing more in the state’s transportation system.
Penry also defended his vote this year to deny the use of state lands for the expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, a
The more common view in the Springs, however, is to see the
According to a variety of local Republican officeholders at the state and county level, if a Pinon Canyon expansion is less practicable, then Fort Carson becomes less desirable as a place to transfer new Army units or keep the ones already there.
There’s no evidence that the Pentagon is planning to pull the plug on
Penry also faces a name recognition hurdle. He’s not as well known in the Springs as Scott McInnis, who served six terms in Congress and is also seeking the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
County Commissioner Sallie Clark is chairwoman of McInnis’s campaign in