By Chris Frates
A proposed Colorado ballot initiative to limit government services for undocumented immigrants would cost taxpayers more to implement than it would save, according to a report released Thursday by a liberal think tank.
The report’s release was an early salvo in what is shaping up to be a contentious fight next year […]
By Mike Soraghan
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has begun reviewing its policies on drilling for federally owned gas on private land in the West and has established a website where people can submit comments.
By Jim Hughes
More than 30 Iraq and Persian Gulf War veterans have entered congressional races across the country as Democrats, hoping to capitalize on their military experience to topple the incumbent Republican majority.
In Colorado, two former military men, Jay Fawcett and Bill Winter, are vying for the House seats of two strong, […]
By Beth Potter
Peace activist Bill Sulzman in Colorado Springs protests the war in Iraq by refusing to pay the federal excise tax of about 50 cents on his monthly phone bill.
Sulzman also recruits others who are against U.S. military involvement in Iraq to stop paying the tax, which was first adopted in 1898 […]
By Robert Sanchez
An international tribunal was asked Tuesday to hear a complaint from a former Castle Rock woman whose three children were slain by her estranged husband six years ago, because, her attorneys say, she has “exhausted” her legal remedies in U.S. courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take the case. […]
By Anne C. Mulkern
Washington - As the Senate raced to end its work for the year, Democrat Ken Salazar stood next to two Republicans on the Senate floor, counting votes and counting on an unconventional victory.
For weeks, Salazar had worked across party lines to delay renewal of the USA Patriot Act, fearing […]
By Electa Draper
Dove Creek - The notion of wild horses roaming the American West might be more a national delusion than a reality.
Almost 35 years ago, Congress proclaimed that the West’s wild horses were an American treasure. It passed a law in 1971 to protect them from slaughter.
But the realities of the […]
Washington - In the year 112, the Roman governor Pliny the Younger dispatched a letter to the Emperor Trajan, asking how to handle the emergence of a “mad sect” in the Middle East.
The Roman temples in Pliny’s jurisdiction were deserted. Tithing was down; no one was sacrificing to the pagan gods.
“This superstition […]
By Bruce Finley
Goma, Congo - Militiamen from neighboring Rwanda barged into her mud-brick hut at night. They stabbed and sliced Farijika Nzigire’s husband to death. Then five men raped her. They burned the hut and left her beaten and bloody.
Now, a year later, a baby girl, Ajibu, tugs at Nzigire’s tattered shirt. […]
By Alicia Caldwell
One of three candidates for the U.S. attorney job in Colorado has dropped out of contention, saying the year-long process has dragged on too long.
The withdrawal of Stu VanMeveren (pictured), a veteran state prosecutor from Fort Collins, underscores what is a growing concern about the delay in appointing a permanent […]
As George W. Bush explains why he didn’t need court permission to let the National Security Agency wiretap terrorism suspects, mail from the FBI trickles into the Colorado chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The gathering correspondence makes a better case than the president on whether Americans need judicial oversight of domestic intelligence.
By Bruce Finley
While Congress wrestles with new legislation to crack down on employers who hire illegal-immigrant workers, enforcement of an existing prohibition has all but ceased.
Not a single employer in the Denver area has been fined for three years, records show, and federal authorities have targeted only a handful of employers nationwide.
This […]
By Katy Human and Kim McGuire
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden created breakthroughs that led to solar panels so thin and flexible they can be rolled onto rooftops.
NREL engineers made refrigerators more efficient, wind turbines more powerful and agricultural waste more useful, but today, many of them are facing layoffs, […]
By Mike Soraghan
Washington — Congress has dropped a plan to speed up oil-shale development in western Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
The proposal by House Resources Chairman Richard Pombo, R-Calif., would have eliminated requirements for consultation with state and local officials, limited environmental reviews and capped royalty payments. It would have thrown out a compromise on […]
I need to apologize. I owe it to so many of you out there. You know who you are.
You have called to tell me about the funny clicking sounds on your telephone calls, the peculiar hiccups in your Internet e-mail service, the cars parked in the alleys outside your houses, and I always […]