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• The Swing-State Politics of Energy and Taxes

  The meandering 9-hour drive from Denver to Jackson Hole, Wyoming - which I completed yesterday - takes you through one strand of the Rocky Mountain West's sprawling oil and gas web. You start seeing oil rigs in Weld County just...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 31, 2008 8:52 AM
  Tags: energy Land Politics

• NYT MAG: Enviro Populism Threatens the GOP In the West

  As promised late last week, the New York Times magazine published an article of mine that explores a little-noticed populist uprising here in the Mountain West - one around the oil and gas drilling boom. The article touches on...

  Posted by David Sirota on May 19, 2008 8:36 AM
  Tags: Land Politics

• Ballot Initiatives Target Oil & Gas Industry

  Land Politics hits the ballot in 2008....

  Posted by David Sirota on February 18, 2008 10:10 PM
  Tags: Land Politics

• Memo to Right-Wingers: This Is Not the Way to Win In Red States

  Memo to lunatic partisan Republicans: Calling hunting and angling groups "wackos" is not the way to win votes in red states....

  Posted by David Sirota on February 15, 2008 3:05 PM
  Tags: Land Politics

• White House Uses Fiat to Expand Eminent Domain, Crush State/Local Authority

  The Los Angeles Times has the scoop: "The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday designated nearly all of Southern California, parts of Arizona and much of the northeast as "national interest" energy transmission corridors, an action that allows federal regulators...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 3, 2007 9:56 AM
  Tags: hypocrisy Land Politics

• Wash Post Writeup of Land Politics

  Karl Vick has a good writeup in the Washington Post today about what I have called Land Politics. The long and short of his article is that the Bush administration's lobbyist-backed quest to drill for oil everywhere is damaging the...

  Posted by David Sirota on September 16, 2007 8:10 AM
  Tags: Land Politics

• Register-Guard: GOP Sen. Smith "Willing to Bend and Selectively Omit the Facts"

  Oregon Republican Sen. Gordon Smith (R) has a problem, and he's making it worse. His problem is that just 38 percent of Oregonians tell pollsters they are ready to support him for reelection - an incredibly anemic number for an...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 21, 2007 3:37 PM
  Tags: environment Great American West Land Politics

• LAND POLITICS: Law-and-Order Dems Target Energy Industry Tax Loophole

  Last week over at the Denver Post's PoliticsWest site, I pointed out how, in the wake of the Minnesota bridge disaster, many conservatives seem eager to berate any calls to even consider modest tax increases to repair and rejuvenate America's...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 12, 2007 12:09 PM
  Tags: Land Politics New conservation coalition taxes

• Land Politics Report 8/6/07: The Coalition Between Unions, Sportsmen and Conservationists

  With so much going on in Land Politics, I've decided to start filing semi-regular reports on the issue like I do on the trade issue, since (like the trade issue) few - if any - cover it in a comprehensive...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 6, 2007 8:39 AM
  Tags: energy environment Land Politics New conservation coalition

• More Proof the West Is A Heckuva Lot More Colorful Than Red vs. Blue

  From the Rocky Mountain West's Department of Shifting Politics comes dispatches out of Boise and Ft. Collins that show, once again, how fractured the old Republican coalition has become, and how many opportunities there are for Democrats - if they...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 16, 2007 7:04 AM
  Tags: environment Great American West Land Politics war on the middle class

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