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PUC still deliberating on Clean Air, Clean Jobs

By | 12.07.10 | 10:30 am

The Colorado Public Utilities Commissioner Monday kicked off more hearings on a plan submitted by Xcel Energy that would brings the utility giant into compliance with the Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act passed by the state legislature last session.

The…

Game wardens work Colorado outback crime beat

By | 12.07.10 | 8:10 am

Ah, the fresh air, the mountain views, the crystalline streams — and the whack jobs with guns.

Being a game warden or park ranger in glorious Colorado may seem like the perfect job, but as The New York Times

At Prop. 8 appeal, anti-gay marriage attorneys work to make same failed arguments succeed

By | 12.06.10 | 4:18 pm

Attorneys presented oral arguments in the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 appeal in San Francisco Monday. Prop 8 famously lost in court this summer when Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Prop 8 as unconstitutional for failing to meet equal…

Sens Udall and Bennet vote for lower- and middle-class tax cuts

By | 12.06.10 | 12:34 pm

Senate Republicans killed two bills Saturday that sought to extend the Bush tax cuts to the middle class while letting the cuts expire for the country’s wealthiest taxpayers. The first bill, passed by the House on Thursday, would have secured…

Bush tax cut debate cast in light of new Wall Street bailout documents

By | 12.06.10 | 9:47 am

A video of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is making the rounds this week. In the clearest language to come out of Washington on the topic, Sanders powerfully states what he sees as at stake in the battle over extending…

Coffman: U.S. needs to scale back in Afghanistan

By | 12.06.10 | 8:26 am

Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman says the United States should not be involved in “nation-building” in Afghanistan.

The former Marine says we have a role there, but it is not to try and build a Western-style government or Western-style economy.…

Wikileaks: The killer app for any would-be leakers anywhere

By | 12.03.10 | 3:14 pm

The discussion in the Unites States over the legality of Wikileaks, the wondering over whether it qualifies as an enemy of the state, considerations about whether it should be categorized as a terrorist organization and whether the United States should…

Doh! CU missing as many great black students as ‘great black athletes’

By | 12.03.10 | 8:41 am

Former CU-Boulder Coach Bill McCartney told the Denver Post that the university will never win again until its sports teams become less white. “You can’t win without the great black athlete,” he said, taking a chapter from disgraced sportscaster…

CU immigrant tuition equity movement benefits from ‘teach-in’

By | 12.02.10 | 3:00 pm

BOULDER – Roughly 100 University of Colorado-Boulder students working to secure tuition equity for the state’s undocumented teens got a boost Wednesday from professors who held a teach-in for the movement, providing historical perspective on the issue for attendees eager…

GAO calls for study on water requirements tied to oil shale development

By | 12.02.10 | 1:45 pm

A new Government Accountability Office report (pdf) issued this week concludes that a lot more study of water resources needs to be conducted before there’s a full-blown resurgence of the Colorado’s Western Slope oil shale industry.

Actually, resurgence isn’t…