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Speaking Friday night at the annual Colorado Trout Unlimited gala at the Arvada Center, a $100 a head sit-down dinner, Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall compared the outdoor sporting opportunities in DC to those in Colorado and sounded like a true native of the West: “Pull a fish out of the Potomac, you’ll get a [...]

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), a leader in the battle to defeat health reform, sounded an odd note against the legislation yesterday, likening the move to expand health care to the the war to free the slaves, another “Yankee aggression,” he suggested. Progressive websites are highlighting the speech as a “reactionary” over-the-top “diatribe” that signals [...]

Obama health reform legislation, already the subject of an American political contest for the history books, hinges this weekend on the votes of about 12 conservative fence-sitting Democrats. They are now the target of intense campaigns for and against reform and they are the subject of a brief round-up piece at Politico this a.m. Will [...]

Anti-abortion group Personhood USA has submitted 46,671 new petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office in a second attempt to land an initiative on the November ballot that would grant fertilized human eggs the full spectrum of legal rights.
“Over the past few days, the massive quantities of signatures that poured in just amazed us,” said Gualberto [...]

Leave it to FOX News to elicit even more stereotyping on a story already loaded with bias.
Denver Post reporter Mike McPhee was discussing the bizarre case of Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, of Leadville – arrested in Ireland in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog [...]

From yesterday’s Twitter feed of Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the GOP whip’s office:

He’s not in the grave yet but he’s likely spinning already. The Colorado Independent is late coming to this today, but indie rocker and Memphis rat Alex Chilton died last night. Today Tennessee U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen eulogized him on the floor of the House.

Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, head of the national Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, is drawing attention to the fact that social-conservative lawmakers have levied into the health reform bill Congress is looking to pass this week a $250 million extension of the failed “abstinence-only” sex ed program that pays schools to not teach [...]

Two Colorado companies played a pivotal role in getting Sen. Mark Udall to craft legislation aimed at offering the same federal tax credits individual homeowners receive for installing solar panels to community collectives to build so-called “solar farms.”

Backers of the controversial FRAC (Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals) Act, including co-sponsor Diana DeGette (D-Denver), were quick to caution Thursday that a proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study of hydraulic fracturing shouldn’t be seen as an alternative to legislation.