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Your Mama’s a Pickle Plant President

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's stem cell research bill made it through the Senate yesterday, but ended up four votes short of a needed majority...

Kids: Marry Now Or Hold Your Peace Until Age 18

Governor Owens signed Senate Bill 6 from the special session yesterday, which requires parties to common law marriages in Colorado to be at least...

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People in Denver who lack health insurance pay nearly 52 percent more than the federal government pays for the same prescription drugs according to...

Cranky Over Gay Hit Piece In 5th CD race

The already bizarre race to the right in the 5th Congressional District race took an even stranger twist today, when the Christian Coalition of...

Another Tancredo Donor Linked To White Power

It was reported yesterday that a Michigan resident with ties to hate groups had given $3000 to Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo. But now there...

A Brief History of Immigration

Governor Christine Gregoire, of Washington State, in connection with a letter to the federal government requesting reimbursment for immigration costs similar to a demand...

Invoicing Feds For Immigration Costs Doesn’t Work

One of the bills passed in the special session in Colorado a few weeks ago, House Bill 1014, calls for the attorney general to...

Private Prison Faces Grassroots Opposition

Citizens in Ault will speak to board members in opposition to a proposed new private prison in the area tonight.  Representing "Coalition Against the...

Colorado Loses Last Medicaid HMO

Health maintenance organizations, HMOs for short, were supposed to be the cost cutting tool that would revolutionize how health care was delivered in the...

TABOR on Trial II: Montana

Montana's version of TABOR, Constitutional Initiative 97 (or CI-97), hasn't officially made the ballot yet. Its signatures still await certification by Sec'y of State...
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