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Historic health care reform House debate underway

The historic Congressional debate on health care reform legislation has begun. It is streaming live on C-Span. Democratic leaders are confident they have won...

Denver community reps anxious over police review board appointments

DENVER-- Tempers flared during a meeting of the Denver Citizen's Oversight Board meeting last month, where community members were aghast that the city seemed to be circumventing processes meant to guarantee that diverse community perspectives inform review of police action.

Swalm takes last swipe at gender equality insurance bill

DENVER-- The House easily passed a bill this morning to end health-insurance gender rating over the objections of Spencer Swalm, R-Centennial, who argued today as he has throughout the session, that the bill would unfairly raise rates for men.

How reconciliation irons out the House and Senate health bills

Democratic leaders pushing health care reform this year like to argue that a vast majority of the proposals represent uncontroversial changes backed by most Capitol Hill lawmakers. And while that might be true, it hasn’t prevented some sharp disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over a handful of high-profile reform provisions.

Personhood USA submits 15,000 new signatures in support of Colorado anti-abortion initiative

Anti-abortion group Personhood USA has submitted 46,671 new petition signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State's office in a second attempt to land an initiative...

FOX News brings out the dirtball in all of us, Leadville discovers

Leave it to FOX News to elicit even more stereotyping on a story already loaded with bias. Denver Post reporter Mike McPhee was discussing the...

Conservatives squeeze $250 million abstinence-only extension into health reform bill

Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey, head of the national Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, is drawing attention to the fact that social-conservative lawmakers have...

Markey targeted by new pro-health reform campaign

Moderate Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey is being targeted by a pro-health reform campaign that will run in the districts of 17 members of...

Michele Bachmann will either love or hate the queered census

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is aiming to "queer the census" by handing out stickers Americans can paste onto the outside of...

Reducing abortions by expanding health coverage

Last week, Colorado Republicans opposed a bill that would expand health coverage for maternity and contraception partly on the grounds that some contraception terminates...
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