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Denver Post OP-ED: Transgender Case

A Denver Post column is on record referring to the outcome of a transgender workplace discrimination case as "government-backed blackmail" and "extra-constitutional protection." The...

Congress OK’s Building “Adobe Wall”

It was almost 20 years ago at the Berlin Wall that the headstone of Republican conservatism, President Ronald Reagan, spoke these words: "General Secretary...

The “Fifth Estate” Emerges in Grand Junction

Did they or didn't they? Did the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel actually post on their web site an editorial supporting Democratic candidate Bill Ritter...

ICE Capture Cools Construction

Immigrants are an important work base in Western Colorado and there is no place more reliant on these workers than the Roaring Fork area...

Tancredo Denies

Amid accusations that Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo stood behind a confederate flag and spoke to a "hate group," the congressman's campaign responded today in...

GLBT Violence Down, Severity Up, Studies Show

Violence against GLBT individuals is down both nationally and locally, according to groups that study the issue. However, it's not all good news. Reports...

Tancredo Speaks To

Despite receiving money from controversial figures connected to white power, and allowing his written words to appear on what civil rights groups have called...

Republicans Make it Personal

September 11, 2006. Five years later. Events marking the fifth anniversary of 9/11 are taking place all across the country, including here in Colorado. A...

Mortgage Mom, Meet Tuition Teen

Some levity from the Boston Globe's Dan Wasserman on the theme of "security moms" morphing into "mortgage moms" in this year's elections, which I...

The HCA-United Impass: How We Got Here

On the first of September this year, for profit HCA, a health care provider with a 35% market share and the highest profit margin...
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