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Bush tax cut debate cast in light of new Wall Street bailout documents
A video of Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is making the rounds this week. In the clearest language to come out of Washington on the topic, Sanders powerfully states what he sees as at...
Coffman: U.S. needs to scale back in Afghanistan
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman says the United States should not be involved in "nation-building" in Afghanistan.
The former Marine says we have a role there, but it is not to try and build a...
Wikileaks: The killer app for any would-be leakers anywhere
The discussion in the Unites States over the legality of Wikileaks, the wondering over whether it qualifies as an enemy of the state, considerations about whether it should be categorized as a terrorist organization...
Doh! CU missing as many great black students as ‘great black athletes’
Former CU-Boulder Coach Bill McCartney told the Denver Post that the university will never win again until its sports teams become less white. "You can't win without the great black athlete," he said, taking...
CU immigrant tuition equity movement benefits from ‘teach-in’
BOULDER - Roughly 100 University of Colorado-Boulder students working to secure tuition equity for the state's undocumented teens got a boost Wednesday from professors who held a teach-in for the movement, providing historical perspective...
GAO calls for study on water requirements tied to oil shale development
A new Government Accountability Office report (pdf) issued this week concludes that a lot more study of water resources needs to be conducted before there’s a full-blown resurgence of the Colorado’s Western Slope oil...
Malkin lashes out at pro-DREAM Act students in UT speech
Fast and loose Colorado Springs blogger and occasional Fox News pundit Michelle Malkin blasted the DREAM Act in a speech at the University of Texas-Austin Tuesday, calling undocumented students there looking to benefit from...
‘Rotten egg’ odor rekindles Silt-area debate on gas fracking
A small town on the Western Slope of Colorado with the unlikely name of “Silt” has become ground zero for the natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” debate – at least in this state.
The...
As Cancun talks begin, Coloradans demand U.S. lead on climate change
What would happen if the United Nations hosted a climate change conference and nobody came? Does an iceberg crumbling into the ocean make a sound if there is no one there to hear it?
Well,...
Ellsberg calls Assange and Manning heroes, lets Clinton off hook
Blogger-troublemaker-muckraker and sometime L.A. radio host Brad Friedman Wednesday nabbed Daniel Ellsberg for an interview. Ellsberg, the Defense Department analyst who leaked the 1960s Pentagon Papers exposing Johnson Administration lies tied to the war...