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Rock the Vote: Still doing its thing

  It began in the era of MTV -- that is, as the olds say, in the era when MTV still played music videos and...

Rock the Vote’s Electionland Colorado website will get folks to the...

This week Rock the Vote launched ElectionLand Colorado, an "online roundtable" where Colorado voters can ask questions about voting and the elections and ballot...

Hickenlooper can throw one hell of a party

Last night the Mayor returned to his old haunt the Wynkoop Brewery to throw a huge Convention bash featuring local band and rising national sensation the Flobots. While the crowd might have been a little, well, old for the hip-hop beats, the event drew a broad range of Colorado politicos, including Pueblo sensations Ken Lane and Sal Pace, former CO Dem Party Chair Chris Gates, former CO first lady for Dottie Lamm (the first candidate I ever worked for) and her daughter Heather, Host Committee COO Paul Lhevine, and a whole host of others that I’m just not important enough to know personally.

Read more of Jeff's commentaries: • Protesters police and bigots invade dncThanks for turning my city into a fortress'Saturday Night Fever' at the DNC • C-SPAN tricks its rideI love me some Police State’n, yeah!

Get out from under the bus, check out Bush legacy

Unless you're a defense contractor, oil executive or Dick Cheney, you've probably felt the last eight years have left you, figuratively, under the bus. An actual bus filled with exhibits commemorating the Bush Years is chugging its way to Denver with stops Friday and Saturday in Northern Colorado and Wyoming. The mobile museum, sponsored by Americans United for Change, joins a multitude of vehicles converging on the Democratic National Convention.