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Wiretap: Neocons and liberal hawks who cried wolf

There's a good reason Americans are hesitant to do much about ISIS, as neocons and liberal hawks have been crying wolf for so long.

Women for Udall talk priorities — health care and voter mobilization

  A group of female business owners joined Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards at local woman-owned restaurant Fire on the Mountain...

Western Slope Club 20 debates kick-off final-stretch election campaigns

  The 61-year-old Western Slope advocacy group Club 20 is hosting its election-year candidate debates this weekend in Grand Junction. The event will draw a...

Aaaand another bid for Springs mayor

  Local economist Tom Binnings announced he too is considering a run for mayor of Colorado Springs. Via the Gazette. He's a senior partner at...

Wiretap: Jacksonian hellhound on ISIS trail

Joe Biden said it - pursuing ISIS "to the gates of hell." Peter Beinart writes in the Atlantic that the beheading of two American journalists has transformed American foreign policy.

AP fact-checks Gardner claim that he helped launch green-energy economy

  How to demonstrate you're a new kind of Colorado Republican politician, that you're not the kind of old-school Republican pol who doesn't embrace full-range...

Three arrested at fast food strike in Denver

Three men were arrested today in a rally during which more than 100 protesters — workers, union members, organizers and supporters — called for a minimum wage of $15 an hour and a union for fast food workers. The strike was part of a coordinated national effort today in more than 150 cities.

Udall, Bennet join with EPA to receive public comment on carbon

  Representatives of Democratic Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet joined with the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday in receiving 189,286 public comments from folks in...

RGA’s “Spotlight” hits Hick where he’s strong

  The latest in a fresh wave of anti-Hickenlooper ads from the Republican Governor's Association strikes out against one of the incumbent Democrat's much-discussed strengths,...

Touting military service, Coffman strays beyond conduct code boundaries

  In his neck-and-neck re-election race against Ivy League-educated former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, Congressman Mike Coffman is leaning heavily on his long service...
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