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With fracking creeping toward schools, candidates drill down their positions

By | 06.15.12 | 6:19 am

As concerns mount over oil and gas rigs inching closer to several Colorado schools, legislators are looking toward 2013 to sort out whether local controls should take a backseat to state regulations.

VIDEO: Immigration reform protesters arrested in Denver

By | 06.16.10 | 10:39 am

“Obama, remember we vote in November!” chanted the crowd marching for federal immigration policy reform in Downtown Denver Tuesday. Fourteen reform activists were arrested in an act of civil disobedience in front of the federal court house.

The crowd…

This is not a post about ugly Baptist group that craves media attention

By | 04.22.10 | 5:21 pm

That Kansas-based Christian group that protests at the site of gay hate crimes, U.S. military funerals and pretty much anywhere there might be someone with a camera and a laptop or a microphone and a truck with a dish…

Pepper spray, broken glass cut short Tancredo talk opposing DREAM Act

By | 04.15.09 | 12:33 pm

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo maintained his reputation as a lightning rod on immigration issues Tuesday night in Chapel Hill, N.C., when a rowdy mob disrupted a speech the Littleton Republican had planned to deliver to students at the University of North Carolina.

Campus police used pepper spray and Tasers to subdue a crowd gathered to protest the former presidential candidate, invited by a self-styled campus “right-wing youth movement” to speak out against legislation that would grant in-state tuition to the children of undocumented immigrants, known as the DREAM Act. But when protesters broke a window, showering glass on a student, officers shut down the event and escorted Tancredo from the room, the Associated Press reports.

Saturday protests against bank bailout gain steam

By | 04.08.09 | 1:42 pm

The national “New Way Forward” protest against the Obama-Geithner bank bailout is gaining momentum in Colorado. On the Web site facilitating the action, people are signing up to rally Saturday at banks and public buildings around the country. Denver sign-ups to meet on the west steps of the Capitol have climbed to 145 people.

Limbaugh Muses About DNC Race Riot, Local Radio Pimps Itself

By | 04.25.08 | 12:08 pm

While Rush Limbaugh backpedals and his “dittohead” fans defend the “White Christmas” parody musing about race riots during the Democratic National Convention, Denver conservative talk radio station Newsradio 850KOA seizes the opportunity to promote its website. How classy.

Part II: Project Rulison Protester Remembers the Bomb

By | 10.03.07 | 11:48 am

The history of America’s atomic age from nearly 40 years ago is haunting Colorado once again.

The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, now called the Department of Energy, experimented with a nuclear bomb west of Rifle in 1969 called Project…

“Caught Red-Handed” Protestors Get Pink Slips

By | 08.31.06 | 9:41 pm

President Bush is alleged to have angrily described the Constitution as “just a goddamned piece of paper!” Evidentally, someone in the Federal Building in downtown Fort Collins needs to reaquaint himself with the importance of the First Amendment…