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07/14/11 Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has been credited with supporting a "new energy economy" built around renewable energy in Colorado, but a new report suggests the state's clean economy still doesn't lead the country.
06/26/11 One of former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's abiding legacies certainly relates to his work promoting the state as a center of clean and renewable energy.
06/19/11 Former Gov. Bill Ritter, center, along with, from left, Carbondale Mayor Stacy Bernot, Parachute Mayor Pro-Tem Judith Hayward, Carbondale Trustee Ed Cortez, Ritter, Clean Energy Collective President Paul Spencer (with scissors) and Scott Ely, owner of Sunsense Solar, took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday for a large new solar array at the Garfield County Regional Airport.
06/15/11 People interested in solar energy toured the five-acre solar array at the Garfield County Regional Airport near Rifle following a ribbon-cutting Tuesday morning. Former Gov. Bill Ritter was the featured speaker.
04/05/11 Gov. John Hickenlooper and former Gov. Bill Ritter were on hand to announce the coverage plans Tuesday at the state Capitol. Organizers also announced the race was getting a new name - the USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
02/11/11 The chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, appointed by former Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007, is leaving. Ron Binz said Thursday that he will resume his consulting practice and focus on clean energy issues.
02/01/11 DENVER Rural lawmakers voted Monday to restore sales-tax exemptions for farmers and ranchers.The 12-0 vote in the House Agriculture Committee was the first concrete step toward repealing one of the 11 tax-increase bills backed by former Gov. Bill Ritter last year.
01/08/11 Gov. Bill Ritter on Friday granted pardons to or commuted the sentences of 29 convicts, including a 23-year-old man with an I.Q. of 46 whom the state executed in 1939 despite considerable evidence that he was innocent.
01/06/11 (AP:DENVER) Outgoing Gov. Bill Ritter held up his old college ID card and smiled, announcing Wednesday that his next career move will be a return to his alma mater as the director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
01/06/11 Gov. Bill Ritter will return to his alma mater as head of a national New Energy Economy center at CSU after he steps down as governor Tuesday.
01/05/11 Sheriff Joe Pelle said he expects little to change at the Boulder County Jail in the wake of Gov. Bill Ritter's approval of a controversial immigrant-tracking program, despite howls of protest against the federal initiative from immigrant-rights organizations.
01/05/11 Gov. Bill Ritter is taking a job at Colorado State University after leaving office next week.
01/05/11 Immigrant-rights groups called it "racist," but Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday decided to join 35 other states in signing on to the federal Secure Communities program, aimed at speeding deportations of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes.
01/03/11 A federal program aimed at catching illegal immigrants by using their fingerprints when they're booked in jails is coming to Colorado, Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to announce Tuesday, despite opposition from advocacy groups who say the initiative is flawed.
12/15/10 Gov. Bill Ritter speaks to a packed crowd in the Community Room at the new Rifle Branch of the Garfield County Library District in Rifle, Thursday Afternoon.
12/09/10 Gov. Bill Ritter has six candidates to choose from to replace departing District Court Judges Jolene Blair and Terry Gilmore.
12/05/10 The man who has headed the Colorado Department of Natural Resources under Gov. Bill Ritter since May wants to stay on with the new administration. Mike King, a Montrose native who has served in several roles in the department, which frequently is a lightning rod for controversy in resource-laden Colorado, said he wants to remain there.
12/01/10 Gov. Bill Ritter launched two new loan programs Tuesday to help renewable-energy companies and those making energy-efficiency improvements to their buildings.
11/24/10 Applications will be accepted through Dec. 6 for a Weld County Court judge opening. The opening was created this week when Gov. Bill Ritter named Timothy Kerns to the District Court bench in Weld.
11/23/10 Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has proclaimed Nov. 23, 2010 as "Colorado Rapids Day" in recognition of the Colorado Rapids winning the MLS Cup after defeating FC Dallas 2-1 in overtime Sunday night at BMO Field in Toronto.
11/22/10 Gov. Bill Ritter announced today the appointment of Weld County Court Judge Timothy G. Kerns of Greeley to 19th Judicial District court. The appointment is effective Jan. 1. | 
