Hands off.

That’s the message that U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., has delivered to the Office of Management and Budget after the OMB decided to sequester $150 million in fees from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. MORE

We said it before ballots were even cast on Boulder’s path toward creating a municipal utility: “Any expenditure in the hundreds of millions of dollars should be explicitly approved by voters, not authorized without voters MORE

Overblown.

That’s how we would describe the visceral reaction to the Colorado General Assembly’s passage of new renewable-energy mandates for rural electricity providers.

Senate Bill 252, which passed MORE