Candidate rides into the Pinon Canyon controversy

So many St. Patrick's Day parades, so little time. Gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, decked out in a shamrock-green blazer, had to zoom from Denver's shamrock celebration to the Pueblo Democratic Party's St. Patrick Day's fundraiser. And there, he weighed in on one of Scott McInnis's pet projects: the proposed expansion of the Army's 235,000 acre Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site -- right onto private ranchland in southeastern Colorado. While McInnis supports the land grab, Hickenlooper does not. "Unless there is a deal embraced by the residents of Southeastern Colorado that they feel is better for their community, it's hard for me to support it," the Denver mayor told the Pueblo Chieftain. "I don't think the military is so foolish that they want one part of the community to thrive at the expense of another."...read more