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- Going red for Romney: GOP presidential candidate’s speech rallies around Republican ideals
- May 30, 2012
- Mitt Romney on Tuesday did what no other presidential candidate has done in more than 100 years of Moffat County history. He campaigned in Craig. Speaking in a region with abundant natural resources and to a community dependent on energy development for jobs, the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee wasted no time criticizing President Barack Obama’s regulation of the coal, oil and natural gas industries.
- Mitt means business: Craig residents meet with Romney for business roundtable
- May 30, 2012
- Scott Cook, a Craig and Steamboat Springs businessman, said new finance regulations are hindering him in the marketplace. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was drafted to create more accountability in the financial system following the sweeping bank failure at the dawn of the recession. However, Cook said the act has “created some huge compliance issues” in the finance and insurance departments of his business, Cook Chevrolet, which has locations in Craig and Steamboat. He took his concerns Tuesday to someone who, depending on what happens in November, may be able to help.
- Lance Scranton: Life, honor and people who make this home
- May 30, 2012
- May is all about names and recognition. Moffat County High School’s annual Awards Night and National Honor Society Installation Ceremony is filled with a variety of guests who laud students for their toil, dedication and learning by presenting certificates and scholarships. Graduation is another celebration of names and accomplishments where students are applauded for their four-year commitment and are rewarded at various levels for many different accomplishments. Some for making it through but others for going above and beyond.
- Guiding lights: Energy, environmental reps react to Romney’s energy views
- May 30, 2012
- Reaction from energy industry representatives to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech Tuesday in Craig was largely positive. Appearing in downtown Craig, Romney said his administration would create an energy policy that utilizes all of America’s natural resources, including coal, natural gas and oil. It was a message Colorado Mining Association President Stuart Sanderson appreciated hearing. “I liked the points that he hammered away on (about) reaching our full potential through the development of natural resources, taking into account the struggles the local communities like Craig are experiencing as a result of the burden of national regulations, not to mention state regulations, although he certainly could speak considerably about those,” Sanderson said.
- ‘History in the making’: An estimated 2,000 people jam Alice Pleasant Park for campaign visit
- May 30, 2012
- The line to enter Alice Pleasant Park grew quickly Tuesday morning, winding its way around the Museum of Northwest Colorado. As the morning wore on, the line would only grow longer as more residents gathered to catch a glimpse of the first presidential candidate to speak in person in Craig history. “I think this is a piece of history,” Craig City Council member Ray Beck said before Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s speech Tuesday. “I think this is monumental, I really do. This is history in the making.” An estimated 2,000 people, more by some estimates, filed through metal detectors staffed by Secret Service agents at security checkpoints before entering the park.
- Janet Sheridan: Americana in Craig
- May 30, 2012
- I walked briskly along Breeze Street, clutching a cup of coffee in my chilled fingers, watching others converge on Mitt Romney’s campaign event, wondering if my jacket was too light and my arrival too late. I left my house at 6:45 a.m., the gates would open 45 minutes later and already the line stretched along the north side of the Museum of Northwest Colorado, a sign of the willingness of people from near and far to get up early and stand in line to support a presidential candidate and/or enjoy an American experience never before offered in our community. As I took my place at the end of the line, people smiled a welcome, offered money for my coffee and enjoyed one another’s banter. “I wanted my children to be here more than they did,” a mother with a Romney button told me, which motivated her son to add, “You can say that again,“ in a tone only a teenager could muster.
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