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EDWARDS — The question put to Congressman Jared Polis by a man at Wednesday’s health-care town hall in Edwards drew a loud cheer from the majority of clearly conservative mountain-dwellers feeling disenfranchised by the ultra-liberal freshman Democrat from Boulder.
Apparently somebody forgot to tell the Denver Post that Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central is satire.
Initially acknowledging the “TV funnyman” is a...
BOULDER -- In this lefty liberal enclave where support for the President and the stimulus package and health-care reform goes mostly unchallenged, the heated...
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DUELING RALLIES: Old Town Fort Collins could be plenty crowded during the lunch hour Wednesday. The Obama-oriented Organizing for America reoriented...
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ROAD RULES, BOULDER: When Second District U.S. Democratic Rep. Jared Polis wasn't busy laying waste to the nation's health-care future...
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BOOT CAMP: The National Republican Congressional Committee this week is flogging GOP state Rep. Cory Gardner's fundraising efforts, clearly pinning hopes...
Here's our daily roundup of some of the news around Colorado that caught our attention:
• Boulder police returned two 20-gallon drums of marijuana that...
Four Colorado projects that convert wood waste, or biomass, into energy received a total of $1 million in federal stimulus funds Thursday, but a state with more than two million acres of dead and dying lodgepole pine forests could use a lot more.
One of the last remaining providers of very late abortions in the country said it was an "outrage" the murder of Dr. George Tiller last week has led to his family's decision to close the clinic he ran in Wichita, Kan.