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As Colorado braces today for another bad budget projection, it’s at least a little comforting to know that the rest of the country is suffering — and in some cases, even worse than we are. As The New York Times reports: In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over […]

Eager political types who woke up this morning hoping for lots of press coverage of the new challenger to nationally infamous Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams, former Eagle County Commissioner Thomas C. Stone, were rewarded mostly with crickets. Actually, it’s winter so there weren’t even crickets. We’ve only got one newspaper in town now, after […]

The swift deterioration of Colorado’s budget outlook is emerging as the most dire situation our elected leadership has faced in many, many years. Colorado certainly isn’t alone in facing major shortfalls, though, and the massive new federal economic stimulus package being put together in Congress is focused on the stabilization of state budgets. It’s the […]

Marilyn Musgrave’s next couple of weeks, seen through the eyes of someone who’s been there–Bob Beauprez. From the latest Mother Jones: In Capitol Hill official-speak, it’s called the “transitional suite.” In reality, the harshly lit warren of numbered cubicles in the bowels of the Rayburn House Office Building is the private purgatory of members of […]

Amazing poll numbers from Rasmussen Reports: If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 17% would vote to keep the current legislators in office. Today, just 23% have […]

There’s a reason this is happening, as the Greeley Tribune reports: Tensions in the 4th Congressional race boiled on Tuesday over what campaign officials for Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., call inconsistent statements on the part of challenger Betsy Markey. Officials with Musgrave’s campaign have asked Markey for clarification on statements and documents surrounding her involvement […]

Fascinating article in today’s Boston Globe, titled “Clinton to get symbolic nomination”: Hillary Clinton’s name will symbolically be placed into nomination at the Democratic National Convention later this month, the latest gesture to unify the party behind Barack Obama and mollify Clinton’s diehard supporters… After the protracted and at times bitter primary fight, the role […]