GOP Latino group calls on Republican senators to support DREAM Act
Latino advocacy group Somos Republicans is calling on GOP Senators to support the youth-immigrant DREAM Act when it comes up for vote Thursday and warns lawmakers that voting against the bill will have electoral...
Democratic lawmakers try to block vote on unemployment extension
It seems that President Obama’s impromptu press conference on Tuesday to sell the compromise he worked out with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts and unemployment benefits has not convinced some of his...
House passes immigrant-youth DREAM Act; Senate to vote Thursday
Wednesday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation that lawmakers have batted around Washington for years as the post- 9/11...
Media gabfest offered insights in to how some of Colorado’s leading mainstreamers think about...
Earlier today, a handful of journalists got together downtown to discuss, what else, journalism.
Sponsored by Rocky Mountain Media Watch and the University of Colorado at Denver's School of Public Affairs, it was a riveting...
PUC commissioners still split on fate of Cherokee 4 unit
The three Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) board members in charge of regulating the state’s publicly owned electrical utilities remain split on what to do about Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Cherokee 4 unit, according to...
Bennet calls on Senate to pass DREAM Act, says it’s a ‘matter of conscience’
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet called on his colleagues to pass the DREAM Act as the Senate assembled for voting Wednesday afternoon. Bennet argued that since the government has failed for more than a...
Polis draws heat over Obama tax cut deal
Progressive watchdog blogger Jane Hamsher reports that Colorado Congressman Jared Polis argued passionately at a Democratic Congressional caucus meeting Tuesday in favor of the White House deal with GOP leaders to temporarily extend Bush...
As momentum wanes, Reid likely to call for vote on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’...
Without any sure vote count and with waning prospects for success, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would likely call for a vote tonight on the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"...
NORML expert says Colorado taking right approach to pot-impairment laws
Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told The Colorado Independent this morning that Colorado seems to be approaching the issue of marijuana-related driver impairment appropriately.
The Independent...
As DC weighs DREAM Act, immigrant rights group loses vote in Longmont
Immigrant rights supporters lost a bid in Longmont last night to send a message to local residents and federal lawmakers in support of the DREAM Act. The Longmont City Council voted against a pro-DREAM...