How's that housing market?
I read a headline this morning on the Rocky Mountain News front page about a jump in foreclosure rates for the Denver market. I poked around a little on their website and found some rather large...
View ArticleNew Orleans Evacuees Stretching Houston's Limits
The strain of taking in approximately 150,000 evacuees is beginning to bubble to the surface in Houston, TX. According to a recent story that came out today (in the NYT and USAToday), Houston is...
View ArticleDL Boulder with Jim Derych
Boulder's Drinking Liberally chapter met again last night. In addition to some of our regulars, there were some new faces to meet. Thanks to johne (Drinking Liberally-Denver) giving us an assist,...
View ArticleOwens didn't sign NG letter to Bush
Colorado's lame-duck governor has done it again... or not done it again, depending upon your viewpoint. As an editorial from yesterday's Denver Post notes, Governor Owens was the only governor in the...
View ArticlePost-Labor Day Boulder DL
Boulder's Drinking Liberally had a smaller than average group last night. A couple folks did show up from Longmont, which was a nice surprise. We had plenty to talk about though. Discussion ranged...
View ArticleColorado Evolutionary Response Team
Leading up to the 2006 election, I heard about and joined a group called Scientists and Engineers for America. Today, they sent me an email with some information about how they impacted the...
View ArticleDrinking Liberally Boulder 12/7/06 wrap-up
Our second Boulder Broker DL meeting went very well last night. We talked about topics far and wide in diversity:A DailyKos Diary Rescue Ranger showed us some behind the scenes action. Very exciting...
View ArticleMarilyn Musgrave's bad analogy
As we all know, two major winter storms blanketed eastern Colorado in the waning days of 2006. The second storm took aim at southeastern Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico and Oklahoma.There was...
View ArticleMeeting with Rep. Udall: Safe Climate Act
I attended a meeting yesterday with Rep. Mark Udall's (CO-02) Field Representative Scott Prestidge to ask Rep. Udall co-sponsoring Rep. Henry Waxman's (CA-30) Safe Climate Act.There are a number of...
View ArticleCO-Sen: Rep. Mark Udall (D) files for 2008 seat
Earlier this week, Rep. Mark Udall (CO-02) filed paperwork to form a new Senate election committee, the first step in his run for the Senate in 2008.From the hardworking ColoradoConfidential:Udall...
View ArticleCO-02: Jared Polis joins the race
The field for Colorado's 2nd CD (mostly Boulder and points west; currently represented by Mark Udall) will be one stronger today, as Jared Polis plans to formally announce his candidacy.Jared joins...
View ArticleIlona Meagher's book tour & Drinking Liberally Boulder
One of our fellow Kossacks, Ilona Meagher ,is touring the country, talking about her novel, "Moving a Nation to Care", published by Ig Publishing.*Yesterday, Ilona came to Boulder. She gave a talk at...
View ArticleDenver Pride 2007: walking with Polis
Despite the heat wave that's gripped the Front Range, a group of citizen activists turned out to walk in the Denver Pride parade with CO-02 candidate Jared Polis.I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that...
View ArticleColorado Health Care Town Hall Meeting (Part I of III)
First, a little background. Last weekend, I went to see SiCKO, the most recent film by Michael Moore, with some friends. I've read a number of diaries on DailyKos about health care, mostly by nyceve...
View ArticleColorado Health Care Town Hall Meeting (Part II of III)
This is the second of three diaries about the Health Care Town Hall Meeting that I attended last Saturday. In my previous diary (SquareState and DailyKos versions), I introduced a few of the people...
View ArticleColorado Health Care Town Hall Meeting (Part III of III)
This is the third of three diaries about the Health Care Town Hall Meeting that I attended last Saturday. In my first diary here and here, I introduced a few of the people involved in the Meeting,...
View ArticleDiscussion of the Colorado Climate Action Plan
Yesterday, 300spartansgym wrote a diary at SquareState announcing Gov. Bill Ritter's "Strategy to Address Global Warming". [applause for Gov. Ritter and 300spartansgym] That diary was posted while I...
View ArticleDetails of the Colorado Climate Action Plan
A couple days ago, I presented a summary of Gov. Ritter's strategy to take action within Colorado on what I view as the most critical issue facing us: global warming.There has been a distinct lack of...
View ArticleColorado Energy and Climate News 12/4/07
Originally, I wanted to write a diary today about the upcoming House vote on the 2007 Energy Bill. Then I saw a number of related news items that help provide some context for this bill. A large...
View ArticleMason-Dixon polls Colorado
Today's front page of the Denver Post has an article about a Mason-Dixon poll of 800 registered CO voters conducted Jan 21-23. Obama leads the Democratic side (within the margin of error) and Romney...
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