Colorado U.S. Reps. Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter signed onto a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last week Thursday that was penned by ...
Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver
A professor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Edie Disler, alleges that she has been disciplined for inviting gay Academy graduates to spe...
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver
For a decade now, Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver has been fighting an uphill battle to vastly increase the acreage of Colorado's public ...
David Thielen | Posted 09.17.2009 | Denver
I met with Rep. Jared Polis this afternoon at Canyon Mine Coffee in Lafayette. I swear, Jared has so much energy that if we could plug him in to the p...
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Last night, Colorado's representatives and senators actually paid attention during President Barack Obama's healthcare address to a joint se...
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
On Monday night, Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) appeared in a segment of "The Colbert Report." Stephen Colbert paid the openly gay freshman congressman a...
Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Progressives across the country should plan on giving special support to anti-war democrats Edwards, Grayson, Massa, Pingree, Polis and Speier in 2010.
AMERICAblog | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Pam Spaulding has published an email detailing just who's coming to the DNC's $1,000 (and up) a head gay fundraiser next week. I suspect those folks a...
Gay City News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World
As organized killings of Iraqi gays have escalated in recent months amid a homophobic campaign in that nation's media, openly gay Democratic Congressm...
Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.13.2009 | World
We visited two cities in Afghanistan, Kabul and Kandahar, near the Pakistani border. What a mess. No one can make sense of Afghanistan because it doesn't really make sense.
Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
From an undisclosed location somewhere in the Middle East... I am writing most of this entry from the backseat of a helicopter bound to Mosul from Baghdad.
Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
I couldn't count the number of sentences that began with "When we leave in 2011..." a sign of commitment to withdrawal that, thanks to Obama, is now inserted in the military political culture.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Jared Polis, a Democratic member of the House Of Representatives from Colorado's Second District, has apologized after remarks he made gloating over t...
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
DENVER — A Colorado congressman told bloggers that they and other new media are responsible for the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and other ...
Ari Herzog | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media
About half a dozen members of Congress (from both political parties) thumbed their iPhones and BlackBerries and twittered while President Obama spoke about the economy and technology.
The Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style
UPDATE: We've announced the winner, and it's Rep. Aaron Shock--a Republican from Peoria, Illinois. See an Aaron Schock slideshow and video here. Scrol...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business
The battle over the bailout of some segments of the US auto industry has become increasingly defined in terms of class, but this hides the fact that the same type of players will benefit from both bailouts.
Howie Klein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Last Saturday when we started a little Blue America contest to ask our readers to choose a House candidate to receive a Blue America PAC check for $5,...
Ron Levitt | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home
Mark Udall will win his race in Colorado, making both U.S. Senate seats for the state Democratic. Udall, and the slate of popular candidates running for his seat in the House, are moving the state strongly toward Obama.
The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver