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Rest In Peace Patsy Ramsey

Diane Dimond | Posted 07.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Murder, John Ramsey, Victims of Crime, Beauty Pageant, District Attorney of Boulder Colorado, Jon Benet Ramsey, Dna Testing, John Mark Karr, Christmas 1996, Touch Testing, Boulder, Colorado, Hard Copy, Ed Gelb, Patsy Ramsey, Media News

In 2000 I was assigned to cover a lecture given by John and Patsy Ramsey to a group of young journalists. In a twist on the Golden Rule, Patsy said, "Don't go forward and do to others what has been done to us." Good advice for all of us.

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Obama Supporters Woo 18,000 New Citizens In L.A.

Ryan Rivera | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Citizenship, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Citizenship USA, Colorado, Barack Obama, California, Nevada, Naturalization, New Mexico, Bill Foote, Latino, New Citizen, David Shippers, Home News

McCain's California supporters swear the Golden State is in play, yet skipped an opportunity to register 18,000 new citizens at the L.A. Convention Center. Obama's minions, of course, were out in force.

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GOP Senate Candidate Pushed Oil Deal Detrimental To U.S.-Iraq Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Schaffer Aspect, Schaffer Oil, Mark Udall, Colorado Senate Seat, Schaffer President Bush, Schaffer Kurdistan, Bob Schaffer, Schaffer Iraq, Colorado, Schaffer Senate, Udall, Warwire, Politics News

At the same time that he was officially a candidate for the United States Senate, Colorado Republican Bob Schaffer was helping to arrange a major oil ...

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McCain Opens Southwest HQ Amid Protests

Dawn Teo | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Nevada, 2008 Elections, John McCain, New Mexico, West, Colorado, Arizona, Southwest, Barack Obama, Home News

During the grand opening of the McCain Campaign Ariz. headquarters Friday, a couple of hundred supporters showed up and at least half that number protested outside in the 110 degree heat.

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Blue Laws Repealed, Sunday Beer Sales Legal In Colorado

CNNMoney.com | Douglas Quenqua | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Colorado Beer, Prohibition Laws, Blue Laws Repealed, Beer on a Sunday, Blue Laws, Beer, Sunday Beer Sales, Colorado, Colorado Beer Laws, Business News

(Fortune Small Business) -- On Sundays, Jeanne McEvoy sits in the office of her Loveland, Colo., liquor store and turns away customers. She would, na...

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Rocky Mountain Conservation Land Deal Tops $500 Million, Largest Of Its Kind

AP | MATT GOURAS | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Rocky Mountains Land Deal, Conservation, Rocky Mountain Conservation Deal, Green News

HELENA, Mont. — Some of the most prized land in the northern Rocky Mountains is being protected from development in a conservation land deal hai...

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New Citizen Voters in Colorado

Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Citizenship, Ya Es Hora, Registration, Ciudadania, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Grace Lopez Ramirez, Barack Obama, Latino Voters, Southwest, Latina Initiative, Anna Sampaio, Mi Familia Vota, University of Colorado, John McCain, Home News

Hundreds of thousands of new citizens will be casting their votes in November, and in the swinging Southwest, these disproportionately Latino and Democratic voters could cinch tight elections.

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Why President Obama Could Lose Ohio & Florida

Ari Melber | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Obama Electability, Ohio, Obama, Florida, Obama Electoral Map, Electoral College, 270, Electoral Map, Colorado, Barack Obama, Politics News

If Obama can close the deal out West -- winning back Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico while simply holding the states that went for Kerry in 2004 -- then he can win.

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Almost Blue: The Obama-Dean Western Campaign

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home

Obama's army goes deep behind enemy lines in the West. He and Dean are determined to compete in red states as a matter of strategy, forcing McCain to spend money and resources on his own turf.

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Former Clinton-Gore Campaign Chair: "This Race Is Over, Over."

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Quit, West Virginia, Electibility, Democratic Primary, Superdelegates, Jack Johnson, Oregon, Roy Romer, Electability, Colorado, Hillary Clinton, Drop Out, Barack Obama, Home News

In Roy Romer's endorsement of Obama, it came down to the map and the math. "It is different kind of winning possibility that Senator Obama was presenting to the party.... This nation is evolving."

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Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nebraska, George W. Bush, Colorado, General Election, Media, Electoral College, China, South Dakota, Nevada, Virginia, Ohio, Superdelegates, West, Racism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Islam, Alaska, John McCain, Rural Voters, Presidential Election, Clintons, Texas, Pennsylvania, Democrats, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Idaho, Japan, Midwest, Religion, Urban Issues, Muslims, South, Iowa, San Francisco, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Indiana, White Voters, Politics News

Were Hillary the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have been able to dispatch a presidential neophyte like Barack Obama.

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The Rise of the Ludlow Democrts

David Sirota | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Labor, Colorado, Bill Riter, Bill Ritter, Ludlow Democrats, Politics News

In the last year and a half, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D) has been repeatedly asked the age-old labor question: Which side are you on? And he has repeatedly answered that question by taking business's side.

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America's Twisted Marriage of Religion and Politics

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Mormons, Hiv, Catholicism, George W. Bush, Colorado, Democratic Party, Pacifism, John Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, Defense of Marriage Act, Same-Sex Marriage, Catholics, Catholic Church, Jewish Issues, Mike Huckabee, New Jersey, Latino Voters, Ohio, John Edwards, Baptists, Aids, Republican Party, African-American Issues, John Magee, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Atheism, Louisiana, Monica Lewinsky, Abortion Rights, Mitt Romney, Episcopal Church, Congress, Clintons, Mormonism, Pennsylvania, Democratic National Committee, Donna Hanover, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Denver Convention, Religion, Rudy Giuliani, Bible, Christian Conservatives, Iraq War, Anti-Semitism, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Gay Marriage, Heterosexuals, Gay Issues, Methodists, Politics News

In a presidential campaign infused like never before with the candidates' efforts to sell their religious beliefs as best-fitting an illusory mainstream, Obama hasn't quite pulled it off.

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The Lesson of Nixonland Haunts '08 Swing State

David Sirota | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dick Wadhams, Colorado, Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, Politics News

Fortunately for progressives, as the Republican Party has imploded nationally, they have turned to the ballot initiative strategy of Richard Nixon -- a strategy that drove the GOP into the ground.

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Udall, Corruption, Al Gore, House of Representatives, Ben Cardin, Martin O'Malley, Emanuel Cleaver II, Tammy Baldwin, Maria Cantwell, John Lewis, Barney Frank, Oregon, Colorado, Missouri, Gregory Meeks, Eliot Spitzer, Niki Tsongas, Lois Capps, Pete Stark, New Mexico, New Jersey, Dennis Kucinich, Doris Matsui, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards, Carl Levin, Barbara Mikulski, North Carolina, Daniel Inouye, African-American Issues, Alcee Hastings, Ed Towns, Daniel Akaka, Edward Markey, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Massachusetts, Congress, Joe Biden, Kendrick Meek, Democratic National Committee, Frank Lautenberg, Ted Kulongoski, John Baldacci, Geraldine Ferraro, Maxine Waters, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Susan Davis, Hilda Solis, Davide Paterson, Michigan, Jimmy Carter, Brad Sherman, Hillary Clinton, Mazie Hirono, Dnc, Jim Clyburn, Senate, Hawaii, Barbara Boxer, Sam Farr, Sherrod Brown, Jesse Helms, New York State, Maryland, Washington, Tom Harkin, Mel Watt, Tom Allen, Howard Berman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Laura Richardson, Yvette Clarke, California, Democratic Primary, Maurice Hinchey, Nydia Velazquez, Maine, Superdelegates, Lynn Woolsey, Norm Dicks, Mike Honda, Rhode Island, New York Governor, Diane DeGette, Ron Wyden, John Tierney, Florida, Donald Payne, Patty Murray, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Jose Serrano, Corrine Brown, Loretta Sanchez, Texas, Henry Waxman, 2008 Election, Bill Richardson, New York City, Bob Filner, Carolyn Maloney, Iraq War, Jon Corzine, Tom Udall, Sheldon Whitehouse, Governors, Wisconsin, Jerry Nadler, Iowa, Georgia, Diane Watson, Louise Slaughter, Politics News

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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The Democratic Party's Clintonian Rules

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Triangulation, House of Representatives, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Alaska, Florida, John McCain, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, General Election, Democratic Party, Minnesota, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Virginia, Paula Jones, New Mexico, Michigan, John Kerry, Arkansas, New Hampshire, Bob Dole, Superdelegates, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Republican Party, Senate, Gennifer Flowers, North Carolina, Politics News

The Democratic Party has structured its system in a way that thwarts insurgency, promotes secrecy, and creates the need for vast amounts of money. The process is perfectly Clintonian,

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Clinton's General Election Disaster in the Making

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hawaii, Polls, Al Gore, North Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Vermont, West Virginia, Oregon, Colorado, General Election, Missouri, Nevada, Virginia, Defense, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Maine, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Ohio, Superdelegates, Super Tuesday, Ken Salazar, African-American Issues, Kansas, North Carolina, Illinois, Florida, John McCain, Alaska, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Texas, Pennsylvania, Democrats, New York, Barack Obama, Idaho, Foreign Policy, Independents, Wisconsin, Advertising, Michigan, Arkansas, South Carolina, 2008 Presidential Race, Iowa, Tennessee, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Utah, Rasmussen, Surveyusa, Politics News

Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate.

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Huckabee: He Is the Egg-Man

Patt Morrison | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Huckabee Women, Mike Huckabee, Huckabee Colorado Egg Amendment, Huckabee Egg Amendment, Colorado, Politics News

If Mike Huckabee and a 20-year-old Colorado woman get their way, a Colorado constitutional amendment would guarantee that every fertilized egg is a person.

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Local Pressure Builds On Superdelegates

David Sirota | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Superdelegates, Obama, Colorado, Clinton, Democratic National Convention, Denver, Politics News

The question is whether politicians and party officials with superdelegate votes will be loyal to a fellow politician or loyal to small-d democracy. The history of the superdelegates is one that designed the superdelegates to thwart democracy.

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My Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday Primary Picks

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: North Dakota, Super Duper Tuesday, Delaware, West Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado, Campaign, Arizona, Missouri, Picks, Republican, California, Primaries, Montana, Mike Huckabee, 2008, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Illinois, John McCain, Alaska, Florida, Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday, Primary, Mitt Romney, Democrat, Massachusetts, 2008 Elections, 08, Democrats, Minnesota, 2008 Election, Election, New York, Barack Obama, 08 Election, Elections, Rudy Giuliani, 08 Campaign, Tsunami Tuesday, Arkansas, 2008 Presidential Race, Georgia, Tennessee, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Utah, Alabama, New Mexico, Kansas, Idaho, Politics News

Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.

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From Obama Supporter to Volunteer in Three Days

Matt Townsend | Posted 02.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Phone Banking, Speech, University of Denver, Volunteer, Scarlett Johansson, Will Smith, Forest Whitaker, Barack Obama Volunteer, Colorado, Denver, George Clooney, 2008, Primary, Super Tuesday, Democrats, Home News

My younger sister called me Saturday afternoon from Denver, Col. with excitement in her voice. "I just got back from phone banking, and it was aweso...

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Rocky Mountain Realities On Feb. 5

David Sirota | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Politics News

When I took a leave of absence from my job in Washington in 2000 to work in the Montana Senate race, I didn't have much clue what I was in for. Growin...

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In 2008: A Few Questions on Energy For The Candidate

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Nuclear Energy, Bp, American Automobile Industry, Department of Interior, The Administratioin, Congress, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Opec, Arsenal of Democracy, Brazil, US Courts, Nopec, Nuclear Power Plants, Earl Deveny, Rep. George Miller, Department of Energy, Ethanol, World War II, President Bush, Amaranth, China, 2008 New Year, Business News

This administration has done little to confront the looming danger that our consumption of fossil fuels presents to the nation's environment, economy and national security.

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United Cancels Flights For Fourth Straight Day

AP | Posted 12.28.2007 | Business

Read More: Flight Delays, Midwest Snowstorms, United Airlines, Colorado, Cancelled Flights, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado Snow, Snowstorms, Business News

United Airlines, still recovering from weekend storms in the Midwest, canceled dozens more flights Thursday as the second winter storm since Christmas...

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From Hitchhikers to Private Jets: The Season in Aspen Begins

Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Aspen Colorado, Colorado Skiing, Aspen Skiing, Colorado, Aspen, Living News

Aspen is about ideas, and one idea here is that celebrities can be free to just chill out and not be bothered by their celebrity -while getting, of course, the full-fledged celebrity treatment.

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