Jared Polis

Saving Our Rainforests: Just a Sip Away?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 01.07.2010 | Green

Read More: Jared Polis, Greenwashing, Natural, Caffeine, Grocery, Guayaki, Coffee, Whole Foods, Product, Organic, Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com, Tea, Greenwash, Mate, Green News

When Coke buys Odwalla or Pepsi buys Naked Juice, The Man dumbs the product down. It's no longer quite so high-quality, quite so green -- because The Man is about the bottom lines, not triple bottom lines.

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Jared Polis Poetry: Polis Reflects On The New Year In Verse

Posted 12.30.2009 | Denver

Read More: Congress, 2010, Poetry, 2009, Jared Polis, Jared Polis Poems, Denver News

Looks like Representative Jared Polis has been doing some end of year reflecting. In an end-of-year email Polis sent out to supporters he wrote two p...

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Gay Congress Members Still Face Inequality

Advocate | Kerry Eleveld | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Tammy Baldwin, Jared Polis, Congress, Gay Rights, Congressional Spouses, Polis, Tammy Baldwin, Gay Representatives, Rep. Jared Polis, Colorado, Politics News

When the partner of freshman Colorado congressman Jared Polis went to get his Congressional Spouse ID last February at Member Services, he thought the...

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Anthem Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Colorado Workers Fed Up With Being Demonized, Start 'I Exist' Campaign

Denver Business Journal | Bob Mook | Posted 12.11.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mark Udall, Insurance Workers, Diana DeGette, 'I Exist' Insurance Campaign, Insurance, Health Care, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Health Care Reform, Colorado, Michael Bennet, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis, Denver News

Workers at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado are mad as heck and they're not going to take it anymore. Employees for Colorado's largest...

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Jared Polis Signed Letter Opposing Net Neutrality Before Coming Out For It

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Fcc, Net Neutrality, Gregory Meeks, Qwest Communications, Ed Perlmutter, Jared Polis, Denver News

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 ...

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Edie Disler, Air Force Academy Professor, Disciplined For "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Discussion

Posted 10.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jared Polis, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Edie DIsler, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Air Force, Csprings, Denver News

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...

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Diana DeGette The Leading Force Behind Controversial Legislation Expanding Protected Lands

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mark Udall, Colorado Wilderness Network, Colorado, Hidden Gems, John Salazar, Diana DeGette, Michael Bennet, Jared Polis, National Forest, Denver News

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 ...

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My Coffee with Rep. Jared Polis

David Thielen | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Jared Polis, Lafayette, Town Hall Meetings, Barney Frank, Colorado, Denver, Denver News

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...

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Colorado delegation doesn't tweet during Obama's healthcare speech

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, Betsy Markey, Jared Polis, Joe Wilson, Mark Udall, Michael Bennet, Michael Roberts, Mike Coffman, Home News

Last night, Colorado's representatives and senators actually paid attention during President Barack Obama's healthcare address to a joint se...

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Jared Polis Does Beer Bong With Stephen Colbert (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jared Polis, Stephen Colbert, College, Colbert Jared Polis, Politics News

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...

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Schumer Says Reform by Labor Day, While Cowardly Democrats Vote with Sessions

Frank Sharry | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Immigration Reform, President Obama, Al Franken, Independent Voters, Appropriations, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Amy Klobuchar, Immigration Debate, Jared Polis, Politics News

Why are Democrats letting Senator Sessions set the agenda with empty, irrelevant, "build the fence bigger" immigration amendments?

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Obama and Anti-War Democrats

Norman Solomon | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Massa, Jim McDermott, Rahm Emanuel, Chellie Pingree, Jane Harman, Peter DeFazio, Donna Edwards, Alan Grayson, Marcy Winograd, Barack Obama, Jared Polis, Jackie Speier, Politics News

Progressives across the country should plan on giving special support to anti-war democrats Edwards, Grayson, Massa, Pingree, Polis and Speier in 2010.

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DNC-LGBT Fundraiser Boycott Called For Over White House DOMA Defense

AMERICAblog | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality Caucus, Lgbt, Dnc, Boycott, LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Doma, Tammy Baldwin, Democratic National Committee, Gay Marriage, Jared Polis, Barney Frank, Politics News

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...

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Iraqi Gay Murders Spur Action From Gay US Congressman

Gay City News | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Jared Polis, Gay Murders, Foreign Affairs, Iraq Gay Murders, Iraq Gays, Iraq Gay Shiites, Iraq Gay Murder, Iraq, Gays, Advocacy, Jared Polis Iraq, War Wire, World News

As organized killings of Iraqi gays have escalated in recent months amid a homophobic campaign in that nation's media, openly gay Democratic Congressm...

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Just Back from Afghanistan

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Obama, Congress, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Jared Polis, Afghanistan Trip, Co-02, World News

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.

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Congressional Visit to Iraq, Part II: Observations on Strategy (My Return to Iraq, 1.5 Years Later)

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Jared Polis, Colorado, Iraq, Iraqi Parliament, Christopher Hill, Air Force, Middle East, World News

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.

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Congressional Visit to Iraq, Part I (My Return to Iraq, 1.5 Years Later)

Rep. Jared Polis | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Jared Polis, Iraq War, Iraq, Congressional Codel, Codels, Baghdad-Iraq, World News

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.

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Colorado Representative Apologizes For Cheering Rocky's Demise

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polis Disses Rocky, Rocky Mountain News, Rocky Mountain News Closing, Polis Apologizes, Jared Polis, Politics News

Jared Polis, a Democratic member of the House Of Representatives from Colorado's Second District, has apologized after remarks he made gloating over t...

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Colorado Congressman: Demise Of Old Media Mostly For The Better

AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Old Media, News Media, Rocky Mountain News, Jared Polis, Media News

DENVER — A Colorado congressman told bloggers that they and other new media are responsible for the demise of the Rocky Mountain News and other ...

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Impolite or Not, Congress Twittered While Obama Spoke

Ari Herzog | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Jared Polis, Congress, Qik, Twitter, Social Networking, Earl Blumenauer, Bob Inglis, Judge Carter, Chris Dodd, Jeff Flake, Robert Menendez, Rob Wittman, Steve Israel, John Shimkus, Barack Obama, Social Media, George Radanovich, Twittering, Don Manzullo, John Ensign, Chuck Grassley, Bob Latta, Cathy-Mcmorris-Rodgers, New Media, Microblogging, John Culberson, Claire McCaskill, Media News

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.

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Who's The Hottest Congressional Freshman? (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Anya Strzemien | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Slideshow, Hottest Freshman Congress, Aaron Schock, Jim Himes, Glenn Nye, Poll, Tom Perriello, Hottest Congressional Freshman, Jared Polis, Huffington Post Hottest Freshmen Congressmen, Hottest Congress Freshman, Hottest Freshman, Who's the Hottest Congressional Freshman?, Hottest New Freshman Congressman Poll, Whos the Hottest Congressman, Hottest Congressmen, Hottest Freshman Congressman, Aaron Shock, Style News

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...

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Bailing Out Dan Quayle

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.14.2009 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Bail Out, Financial Bailout, Sherrod Brown, Aozora Bank, George W. Bush, Iraq, Colorado, Democratic Party, Wall Street Journal, Jared Polis, William Ford Sr, Aig, Auto Bailout, Mark Fields, Dan Quayle, Ohio, Real Estate, Republican Party, Gail Collins, Detroit, Steve Feinberg, Citigroup, John McCain, Florida, Gm, Alan Mulally, Private Equity, Ford, Condoleeza Rice, Congress, United Steelworkers, Cerberus, Japan, K2, Robert Rubin, Chrysler, Wall Street, Henry Ford, Michigan, Banking, IAP Worldwide Services, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Senate, Detroit Bailout, Business News

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.

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Last Lap In Blue America's $5,000 Congressional Competition- Vote Today

Howie Klein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jared Polis, Debbie Cook, Sam Bennett, Alan Grayson, Annette Taddeo, Blue America, Russ Warner, Politics News

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,...

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Budget-Busting Colorado Race A Victory For Dems

Ron Levitt | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008election, Colorado Turns Bluer, Offthebus, Mark Udall, Wayne Allard, 2nd Colorado District, Colorado 2nd District, Will Shafroth, Colorado Senate 2nd District, Joan Fitz-Gerald, Colorado Senate Race, Tom Tancredo, Jared Polis, Home News

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.

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