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Let's Talk Some Policy II

By Richard - Nov 30th, 2006 at 9:25 pm EST

A couple of days ago, I posted a summary about David Sirota's book, "Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government - and How We Take It Back". The more I get involved in political activism, the more I realize that too many decisions are being made by too few people that control very large sums of money. Part of me is disappointed that politicians are corrupted by the allure of trips to resorts, the oiling of their election campaigns by big money interests, etc. I guess that reflects my lack of understanding of how that world works. Read More »

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Energy in the 110th Congress

By Richard - Nov 28th, 2006 at 8:07 pm EST

America's energy policy has been driven with blinders on during Bush's reign. Assisted by Republican congress people who vote as their campaign contributions tell them to, our energy policy has remained stuck in a "pre-9/11 mindset". Read More »

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Colorado Evolutionary Response Team

By Richard - Nov 21st, 2006 at 4:42 pm EST

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 election. They had a Speaker Series at some universities, used internet banner ads, held a commercial contest, and garnered some press coverage. One of the press pieces they shared was from the Denver Post in early October. Read More »

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Let's Talk Some Policy I

By Richard - Nov 21st, 2006 at 1:26 am EST

I've been reading plenty of books that address progressive perspectives. And while I do my fair share of bashing the right-wing, I actually prefer to combine some sort of discussion along with examination of current policies based on fringe ideology. David Sirota's "Hostile Takeover" is a very good example of taking stock of the current landscape and then, looking beyond the present, proposing a short list of solutions per issue. It provides a good framework from which we can begin to address issues that matter to most Americans. Read More »

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Education opportunity for DPS grads

By Richard - Nov 10th, 2006 at 1:25 pm EST

Some incredible news this morning regarding a new education opportunity:

Students graduating this spring from three Denver high schools will have their college costs covered under a new scholarship program that officials say will soon expand to all city high schools.

Tim Marquez is a 1976 graduate of Lincoln High School. He is a founder and CEO of Venoco Inc., which is an oil and gas company Read More »

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Big Colorado news day

By Richard - Nov 2nd, 2006 at 8:27 pm EST

Between Tim Brown and Ted Haggard, some out of sight activities have had some light thrown on them in the past day. Read More »

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Paccione moves ahead

By Richard - Oct 31st, 2006 at 9:32 pm EST

An article at Square State details that Angie Paccione and Ed Perlmutter have leads in independent polling.

This is good news for obivous reasons. Read More »

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Letter to the Editor work

By Richard - Oct 30th, 2006 at 9:26 pm EST

I received a pleasant surprise this morning when the Longmont Times-Call rang me up verifying my phone number and requesting permission to print a LTE I wrote last week. Read More »

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Marilyn Musgrave, Doug Lamborn, Rick O'Donnell googlebomb update

By Richard - Oct 30th, 2006 at 9:24 pm EST

So how's that googlebombing project moving along?

Pretty darn well, as I hear it. Read More »

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2006 election googlebomb update

By Richard - Oct 28th, 2006 at 6:23 pm EDT

So where do Colorado's candidates stand as of 4P on the 28th of October, 2006?

Let's take a look: Read More »

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Paccione Project wraps up

By Richard - Oct 28th, 2006 at 6:09 pm EDT

A group of folks from Boulder County decided earlier this year to do some work out in Longmont to try and help get Angie Paccione get elected for Colorado's 4th Congressional District.

Along the way, we received some local press attention. In the past month, enough volunteers showed up every Saturday morning so that as of today, the Paccione Project completed its goals.

This morning saw about 30 people show up and we needed all of them because we walked in three precincts.

More below. Read More »

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Marilyn Musgrave 10th worst Congressperson

By Richard - Oct 26th, 2006 at 2:56 pm EDT

So what's the progress of Chris Bower's googlebomb so far?

I think this is evidence we need to keep up our efforts. Read More »

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Xcel/PUC meeting draws critics

By Richard - Oct 25th, 2006 at 6:30 pm EDT

The Public Utilities Commission held a hearing Monday in Denver regarding Xcel's proposal to increase rates by $211 million.

A Denver Post article discusses the meeting and the details surrounding the proposal. Read More »

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Googlebombing the elections

By Richard - Oct 24th, 2006 at 1:08 pm EDT

Via Chris Bowers over at myDD.

His googlebombing project is officially underway. Head over and check it out! Read More »

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Google bombing the election

By Richard - Oct 23rd, 2006 at 1:49 pm EDT

Link Bowers of myDD has started a project that should have an interesting effect on the election. He wants help from the netroots to help direct people searching out information on their candidates (R only) to articles that actually share the truth on those candidates. Read More »

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