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The Politics of Healthy Eating

An interview with House Majority Leader Alice Madden It's back to school time and the problem of childhood obesity-and how schools might help curb it-is...

Filling Up Your Municipal Watershed

The two candidates for governor

A Hurricane Story In the Hallway

The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, was sitting at a table in the hotel hallway being interviewed. He was a guest speaker at...

Try Funding Schools

School has started and with it the school fundraisers, Denver Post columnist Michelle Singeltary laments.  Yet  nowhere in her entire column complaining about the...

Mixed Minds on “Marilyn’s Muffs”

A secretive new 527 organization is running radio and blog ads criticizing U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's record as a lament from long-suffering advertising copywriters. However,...

Did They Send Thank You Notes?

Backers of an initiative to ban gifts from lobbyists to public officials have released a report detailing more than $200,000 in gifts and free...

Frost-Brewed Irony

Republican Rick O'Donnell is already facing problems in his campaign for congress in CD7 because he once called for an end to Social Security....

No Word Yet on Legality of O’Donnell’s March Fundraiser

No word yet from the U.S. Office on Special Counsel (OSC) on the resolution of the investigation of whether federal laws were violated when...

Politics Runs In Family For Zakhem

How John Zakhem became the lawyer for the "all things Republican" in Colorado is no accident.  His recent role in the dust up about...

When Geography Teachers Fly Flags, Terrorists Win

Republican Secretary of State Gigi Dennis is still being grilled over changing a handful of campaign rules that may adversely affect Democrats over Republicans....
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