By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

October 30, 2007
They call it the Public Insight Network, but it ought to be called real people journalism.
For months, Colorado Public Radio has been using the Internet to construct a data base of thousands of regular folks to find out what they think about everything from the environment to the Rockies […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com

October 29, 2007
Buck McVeigh has a bumper sticker that he uses in the presentations he makes as administrator of Wyoming’s Economic Analysis Division. The bumper sticker says, “Please, God, give us one more energy boom. We promise not to screw it up this time.”
After 28 years working for the state, McVeigh has […]

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By Jim Spencer
SpencerSpeaks.com
October 30, 2007
 
 
The rest of the Rocky Mountain West needs to learn from Wyoming’s love affair with fossil fuels. Here’s why: The economic and political pressure to drill for gas and oil and to mine coal is probably too great for Colorado and Wyoming’s other neighbors to fight off.
The pressure doesn’t sit well […]

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