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New COVID-19 restrictions will prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings
Adams 14 schools go remote
GOP contenders defend gas industry
Five candidates running for governor meet in Fort Lupton BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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Colorado’s oil and gas industry was well represented Jan. 6 as five Students in the Adams 14 Republicans seeking their party’s School District will be doing nomination for Colorado governor remote learning the week of met in Fort Lupton. Monday, Jan. 10. “(Gov. Jared) Polis killed the oil The reason is the spread of COand gas industry. It’s one of the bigVID cases. According to a stategest industries in the state of Coloment from the district, Adams rado,” candidate Greg Lopez said at County has seen a 357 percent the forum hosted by the Republican increase in cases in the last two Women of Weld County. “Not only weeks. does it create over 80,000 jobs, both Meals will be available during upstream and downstream, it pays this week of remote learning from 11:45 a.m. and 1 p.m. at each well for families. You should remember that in his first legislative school. Students at Sanville Presession after we voted to tell him to school can get their food at Rose leave oil and gas alone, he decided to Hill Elementary School, 6900 E. go ahead and pass legislation to put 58th Ave. in setbacks.” Meals will also be available in Nine Republican Colorado guberneighborhood locations starting natorial candidates were invited Tuesday, Jan. 11. The district to the candidate forum at the Fort said it would send information Lupton Recreation Center, but only about locations and times directfive candidates attended. They were ly to families. Greg Lopez, the former mayor of The district said each school’s Parker; Morrison’s Jason Lopez; start and end times will be the same. The same applies for lunch Elbert County Realtor Danielle Neuschwanger; Jeffrey Fry of breaks .. 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hayden and Frisco’s Jon GrayMiddle-school sports are canGinsberg. celed for the week. High-school Veteran political strategist and sports -- with a two-person-informer Colorado state Republican attendance-per-athlete rule in chair Dick Wadhams moderated the place -- will continue unless the forum, asking focusing on Colorado School ActiviA long lineHigh of cars outside the city of Brighton’s rapidquestions testing site at oil and gas, protecting rural areas, ties Association says otherwise. Riverdale Regional Park. The site has had to close early many days in recent crime, transportation, the pandemCHSAA officials said they will weeks due cues to high demand. Adams County’s test positivity rate ic, and 14-day the 2020 election. take their from local health primary will occur June 28. departments. was 15.9 percent, as of Nov. 17, according The to Tri-County Health Department. The general election is Nov. 8. than Grounds, buildBrighton andmaintenance, Commerce City’s test positivity rates were both higher Greg Lopez, who lives in Elizabeth ing engineers, transportation, 13 percent. Forty-five people in Brighton and 29 insaid Commerce City currently, Polis does nothave care technology department employdiedand from COVID-19 related health issues. To limit spread of COVID-19, about Weldthe County or Colorado ees those in food service families. that prohibits indoor and need to 15 report during regularly at least counties moved to tighter restrictions “His goal is to make sure that scheduled hours, according to personal gatherings. when and solar replace fossil fuels, the district. One administrator he doesn’t care about Weld County, from each campus will be on-site he doesn’t care about the families each day. that work hard,” said. “We are Decisions about future remote Photoheby Belen Ward going to make him a one-term goverlearning needs are due by Thursnor so he doesn’t make Coloradans day, Jan. 13, according to the suffer.” district.
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Gubernatorial candidates for Colorado Governor left: Greg Lopez, Jason Lopez, PHOTO BY BELEN WARD Danielle Neuschwanger, Jeff Fry, and Jon Gray-Ginsberg.
Morrison’s Jason Lopez, CEO at NANO Rx, a pharmaceutical ingredient maker, said he has seen firsthand how oil and gas benefits the country. “I come from an oil and gas background and protect the oil and gas sites all over the world being in the military. Seeing the prosperity does bring in economic value,” he said. He argued against over-regulation. “One of the things that I do not agree with is over-regulation of industries,” he said. “We need to put new policies in place that can thrive industries,By airEllis quality control, ERP Arnold systems, quality management, Colorado Community Mediathat along with the environment needs to be protected. We have the As Denvertometro technology do it.counties We justcontinue need toto implement in the right situations inch closer toitlocal stay-at-home orders — right places and in the right times under Colorado’s system of coronavirus— Gov.restrictions, Polis is notthe doing related state that.” announced Neuschwanger said it should not a new level of rules that prohibits indoor come as a surprise to oil and gas dining and personal gatherings — a workers and their families. “Gov.that Polis told to you change applies theexactly majoritywhat of the he’s going to do when he ran for Denver metro area and many counties in offi ce regions. back in 2017 when he said that other in the next 40 years Colorado would COVID-19 which has be aThe state’s 100 percent green dial, efficient been in effect since September, the set state,” Neuschwanger said. is “Just recently inlevels Senate Bill 260, the transof different of restrictions that each portation initiative, he said that
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there’d be a push for 940,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2030. “ She promised to focus on preserving that rural industry. “For Weld County, I will stand up for every single rancher and farmer across our state, I will make sure to reduce stagflation,” she said. “We bring back our oil and gas industry in Colorado and focus on natural resources such as the advanced nuclear power plants and Platteville.” Fort St. Vrain, the former nuclear plant that generates electricity by burning coal, is a quarter-mile northeast of the Weld County county is required to follow basedtown. on the Fry, the Littleseverity of ageneral county’smanager local virusatspread. ton’s DC Power Industrial, said the The dial grew of the state’s current pushout towards greensafer-atenergy home order — the hurts policy that came after policies actually lower-income the statewide stay-at-home order this Coloradans. “Current energynumerous policy right spring and allowed typesnow of is all green energy by 2040. So think businesses to reopen. about it, if you have a gas stove and state switched color youThe have torecently pay,” Fry said. to “So from identifiers — levels blue, yellow and a gas stove to electric, you have orange rather thanline numbered to run the right which levels is 220.— to Then you’ve got to upgrade yourred avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level gas furnace to electric. How many meant a stay-at-home order. Now, level people do you think in the low-inred — “severe risk” — is the secondcome bracket can do that with fixed incomes?”
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