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The ‘testy’ Ryan video was about urban policy not media bias

By | 10.09.12 | 11:05 am

Video ricocheted around the Web Monday of Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan “getting testy” with a Flint, Michigan, ABC reporter who asked him about urban gun violence. Ryan was presented by the Huffington Post as acting inappropriately in the interview out of disdain for the “liberal media.” That’s not exactly what was happening. There is a lot more to it worth considering.

Personhood Colorado not taking no for an answer

By | 09.12.12 | 11:16 am

Jennifer Mason, spokeswoman for Personhood Colorado, told the Colorado Independent, she believes it’s not too late for her group to land its anti-abortion initiative on the ballot in Colorado this year.

Personhood drive fails to clear signature hurdle in Colorado; supporters plan protest

By | 08.29.12 | 1:37 pm

DENVER– The Colorado secretary of state announced today that the petition drive to land an anti-abortion “personhood” initiative on the November ballot failed to qualify, missing the mark by roughly 4,000 signatures. Personhood Colorado plans to protest the signature tallies released by the secretary of state and is confident the measure will appear for a vote this year.

Obama looking to shore up constituencies with CU speech

By | 04.24.12 | 8:32 am

President Obama will speak this afternoon at the University of Colorado Boulder, part of a swing-state campus tour designed to pressure Congress into extending low-interest rates on federal student loans. The rates are set to double in July.

Coffman opposes SOPA as potentially restricting and burdensome

By | 01.18.12 | 4:23 pm

Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman has come out in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), explaining that he sees how the legislation could act to tamp down free expression and business innovation.

Gov. Rick Perry (Flickr Creative Commons/Robert Scoble)

PPP: Perry rides tea party, anti-science wave to front of pack in Iowa

By | 08.24.11 | 7:07 am

As if to prove Colorado College political science professor Bob Loevy is correct when he says the current presidential nominating process gives too much power to fringe groups in small states, Rick Perry is riding a strong anti-science sentiment to the lead in Iowa polling. He also leads Republican contenders in Colorado.

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Colorado clergy join in calling for a federal budget fair to the poor

By | 07.14.11 | 9:48 am

Prominent Christian pastors in the United States who have dedicated themselves to serving the poor and most vulnerable citizens don’t believe in trickle-down economics and they don’t believe the problem of poverty should be left for churches to address. More than 4,000 of those pastors signed an open letter to that effect addressed to President Obama and the members of Congress, urging them as they hammer out a federal budget not to make poor and hungry Americans bear the burden of reducing the nation’s deficit. More than 95 pastors and clergy members in Colorado signed the letter, which appeared in Politico Wednesday.

VIDEO: Senator Michael Bennet joins Rep. Paul Ryan on CNBC debt panel

By | 06.15.11 | 9:56 am

What do Michael Bennet and Paul Ryan have in common? Both participated Tuesday in a conference hosted by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget entitled “The Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Plans, and Market Jitters: Where Do We Go from Here?”

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI (Image: Flickr/Creative Commons/U.S. Embassy/Kabul)

Ryan plan would hit Colorado hard, according to advocacy group

By | 06.15.11 | 7:23 am

If enacted, the Ryan Medicare plan could result in significant cuts to health programs in Colorado. The proposal, titled “The Path to Prosperity,” was introduced in April by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). The plan would overturn the Affordable Care Act and make considerable changes to both Medicare and Medicaid.

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Pawlenty talks tax cuts, swerves clear of Bush years

By | 06.07.11 | 11:58 am

Income tax cuts for the wealthy will liberate the U.S. economy to create jobs and generate revenue and shrink the deficit. That line has become a policy standard on the right and a talking point repeated on stumps all across the nation. It is a cornerstone of the GOP Ryan Budget plan being pushed on Capitol Hill. Yet analysis and statistics and personal anecdotes pile high and deep against that tack as an effective real-world national economic policy. GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who led the state down a path toward deficit swampland, is the latest to try to rework history to suit the tax-cut narrative. As Dave Weigel at Slate points out, Pawlenty’s recent big economic speech twists and turns and makes a dead stop at the Bush years, when “tax cuts for the wealthy” national budget policy went into full effect and revenues plummeted and the deficit skyrocketed and the economy withered.

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