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Yearly Archives: 2009

Climate change ‘Plan B’ gives oil-and-gas industry the jitters

While uncertainty swirling over a meaningful climate change agreement coming out of Copenhagen, and the U.S. Senate far from passing anything close to last...

Ski country to host protests in favor of immigration reform

Vigils will be held across Colorado this Friday in honor of the International Day of the Migrant--and to support immigration reform legislation expected to...

Note from the YouTube ad age: Mock Coors and pull down national press

On television in the pre-digital age, Pete Coors stood in the great Colorado outdoors next to a rushing stream "somewhere near Golden, Colorado," hawking...

But can’t the non-citizens work in the uranium mill?

The same Montrose County board of commissioners that recently kicked off a uranium mill hearing with the Pledge of Allegiance and then stood on...

The economic case for health reform, Part II

In June, the White House issued a report making the case that health reform — well beyond a moral and social imperative — is...

Publicly funded park proposal near Silt could include active gas drilling

Sorry, kids, that’s not a swing set. Oil rigs may become part of a public park near the town of Silt on Colorado’s Western Slope...

Udall floats two measures to bring more doctors to rural communities

Yesterday, Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall introduced two amendments to the Senate health reform bill designed to boost services in rural communities. “There are not enough doctors who want to practice outside major metro areas. In fact, of the 47 rural counties [in Colorado]—that’s out of 64 counties, total—all but three are designated by the federal government as health professional shortage areas,” he said.

Michael Brown reacts strongly to climate change video featuring storms

Michael Brown, Bush Administration FEMA chief and soon-to-be University of Denver law school instructor, has weighed in on climate change, taking the kind of...

DU panel: Deporting 12 million illegal immigrants is not realistic

After a year of study, a Denver University panel released 25 recommendations for immigration reform this week. Among them, according to the DU website,...

Sundance to premiere film documenting Mormon push to defeat gay marriage

The Mormon church poured money and effort into the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California, the initiative that outlawed gay marriage there. Director...