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Breaking news from the Pennsylvania gaspatch that’s sure to provoke debate in Colorado “fracking” country, WTAE-TV Pittsburgh reports: Natural gas and drilling fluids are spewing from an out-of-control well in Clearfield County. Emergency officials said a mile-wide area has been evacuated after an operation drilling into the Marcellus Shale ruptured on Friday. The FAA has […]

As AP’s Erica Werner reports, it’s not the same game as health care: Bye, bye, Mr. Nice Guy. After pursuing bipartisan talks for months on health care and deflecting rather than challenging Republican critics, President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are deploying a more aggressive approach in their attempt to push financial overhaul legislation […]

Two stories in today’s Colorado Springs Gazette illustrate how the area’s ideologically-driven experiment with “small government”, a story given regrettable national attention in recent months as the situation has deteriorated, has turned both farcical–and tragic. City officials say they mistakenly left all the streetlights on around the Broadmoor resort and the affluent Old North End […]

A noteworthy turn of events reported in the Montrose Daily Press this weekend–as our readers know, one of the GOP’s best pickup opportunities in the Colorado Senate this year is considered to be the sprawling southwest Senate District 6 seat, occupied by Jim Isgar until last year. Now held by Democrat Bruce Whitehead, Republicans across […]

Who cares if what you’re saying is true, as long as it’s been focus grouped to produce the results you want? As the Washington Post reports: “Big bank bailouts! Big bank bailouts!” So goes the refrain for Republican leaders this week, whose escalating attacks on a proposed overhaul of the financial regulatory system center on […]