Monthly Archives: November 2009

Eight months ago, President Obama nominated Indiana judge David Hamilton for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. As Jeffrey Toobin reported,...

Jared Polis has come out of the closet: The internet millionaire, reality TV star and 2nd District U.S. Representative is also a Star Trek-loving...

Colorado stands to gain between $60 and $175 million if it wins a Race to the Top grant, according to finalized federal guidelines released...

The Douglas County Board of Education election, it seems, still isn’t over. Early this week, Douglas County informed the Douglas County School District that it would not be able to certify the election in time to swear in the new slate of charter school-friendly, Republican-backed, “reform” candidates for the next board meeting.

For years, school lunch advocates have been pushing schools to ditch the chocolate milk. Now the dairy industry is fighting back. In a $500,000 to...

Immigrant and Latino advocacy groups, as well as some media watchdogs, are cheering the news today that longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs has resigned....

Former U.S. Congressman, onetime one-issue firebrand anti-illegal immigration presidential candidate, Justice Sonia Sotomayor hater, controversial radio talk show host, provocative and excitable cable-news guest...

The conflict between environmental protection and coal extraction is a long simmering political flashpoint in the Appalachian states, which are home to some...

Bloggers at Colorado Pols today speculated that former U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo had filed exploratory committee papers for the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. In the...

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet earlier this week introduced the Senate version of U.S. Rep. John Salazar’s San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act,...