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Congressional dustup over farm dust: A problem the White House says does not exist

By | 12.09.11 | 10:54 am

A bill that aims to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating farm dust addresses an imaginary problem and could choke critical powers from the Clean Air Act, according to opponents.

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VIDEO: Polis and Bennet join with White House on anti-bullying efforts

By | 03.11.11 | 3:08 pm

As efforts to reduce school bullying reach the White House, Coloradans take leadership roles.

Colorado activists to rally at capitol ahead of Cancun climate talks

By | 11.30.10 | 2:10 pm

Colorado climate-change activists will converge on the west steps of the state capitol building in Denver Wednesday evening in conjunction with a national demonstration in Washington D.C. aimed at urging President Barack Obama to take a stronger leadership role heading…

Reports show White House mishandled oil spill response

By | 10.07.10 | 8:34 am

President Obama’s May directive to triple the number of people working to stop the Gulf oil spill may have actually hindered the government’s response. The Coast Guard, in the days after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion, kept track of the government’s response to the spill on a “simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.” The White House denied a request by government scientists in the weeks after the spill to release worst-case oil flow rate scenarios to the public.

New Yorker story details Senate breakdown on climate bill

By | 10.04.10 | 8:03 am

The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change legislation.

The story, by Ryan Lizza, is nearly 10,000 words, but it’s definitely worth a read.…

Republican Senatorial Committee still pushing Romanoff-White House story

By | 06.11.10 | 1:04 pm

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is emailing around a story posted by The Hill today that reports the non-news that Sen. Michael Bennet knew that the White House was in talks about a job with his primary opponent Andrew…

Romanoff: White House made offers but didn’t push him to exit race

By | 06.03.10 | 8:23 am

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff said Wednesday night that after the media reported his plans to run for Senate last spring, White House officials informed him of their intent to support his opponent, incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, for the seat and suggested Romanoff might be interested in one of three possible though “not guaranteed” jobs.

Tancredo wrong: Romanoff said nothing about White House job offer

By | 06.02.10 | 12:44 pm

Filling in for Denver talk-radio host Peter Boyles, former Congressman Tom Tancredo repeated an inaccurate version of the Romanoff- White House job-offer story that is fueling the controversy.

Tancredo said U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff claimed he was offered a…

Rove rejects ‘birtherism’; hits back at Tancredo

By | 04.19.10 | 7:07 pm

Colorado conservative talk radio has been on fire of late considering the birther conspiracy, spurred by Greeley native Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s coming court martial for refusing orders from the man he doubts is a legitimate Commander in Chief. Last…

White House moving away from ‘war on drugs’

By | 03.18.10 | 8:56 am

Quietly, free of headlines and fanfare, the Obama White House is toning down the bellicose “war-on-drugs” position that has defined U.S. narcotics policy for the last 25 years. In Vienna last week for the 53rd annual United Nations meeting on global drug policy, administration officials shifted from attacking drug use as a crime to be penalized and moved toward a strategy of tackling addiction as an illness to be treated, a number of health and human rights advocates who attended the event said.