By Mike Soraghan and John Aloysius Farrell
Washington - Sen. Ken Salazar backed a Senate bill Thursday that provides an 11-year path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as the immigration debate moved to the Senate floor.
But Colorado Republican Reps. Tom Tancredo and Bob Beauprez criticized the bill, saying it will increase illegal immigration.
The Senate […]
By John Aloysius Farrell
Washington - Florida Republicans are complicating the West’s hopes to have a major impact in the 2008 presidential primaries.
State Rep. Marco Rubio, a Miami Republican in line to become the next Speaker of the Florida House, says he has the necessary, bipartisan political backing to move the state’s presidential primary to a […]
By Karen E. Crummy
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado and members of her committee that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency are investigating whether the EPA chief’s attendance at a Denver political fundraiser was ethical, she said Thursday.
The Denver Democrat said that Stephen Johnson, who headlined a fundraiser for 7th Congressional District candidate Rick O’Donnell […]
The number made such a good headline: Illegal immigrants cost Colorado a billion dollars a year. But maybe not for long.
The figure came from Defend Colorado Now. The anti-illegal-immigration group paid a management and financial consultant from Evergreen to produce it. Defend Colorado Now wanted the number to make its case for a constitutional […]
By Alicia Caldwell
The White House has ordered deep background checks on Troy Eid, a lawyer and former counsel to Gov. Bill Owens, in preparation for nominating him as Colorado’s U.S. attorney.
Sean Conway, chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, confirmed Wednesday that Eid, who had dropped out of the nomination process, is in […]
On a Mountain Near Estes Park - This land is your land. This land is my land.
But maybe not for long.
Overcast skies and the haze of an approaching snowstorm knocked the views down to nearly nothing on the walk up Noel’s Draw. It didn’t matter. Whether you can see for 20 miles or […]
By Mike Soraghan
By Washington and the West
U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar met with President Bush today, urging him to recruit more assistance from other counties to help stabilize Iraq.
“I told the president it is important to internationalize the effort,� Salazar told reporters after the White House meeting.
By Anne C. Mulkern
Washington - The Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration-reform package Monday that would allow an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to stay in the country and seek citizenship.
On a day filled with protests by immigrant-rights activists across the country, senators by a 12-6 vote approved the bill, which also would […]
By Washington and the West
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is scheduled to be the guest speaker at this year’s graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy, officials announced Monday.
By Anne C. Mulkern
Washington — Hit by turnover and the loss of several high-profile lawmakers, Colorado’s congressional delegation lacks the clout and cachet it had in previous decades.
Numerous yardsticks show the state’s power in Washington has diminished. Compared with delegations of the last 30 years, Colorado now has fewer lawmakers who’ve been in Congress […]
Lech Walesa speaks truth to power. He started doing that on Aug. 14, 1980. That was the day a 30- something electrician climbed a barricade at a Polish shipyard and gave a speech to striking workers that eventually fueled a peaceful national revolution.
Walesa’s accomplishment is the stuff of legend. For a decade, he battled […]
By Kirk Mitchell and Annette Espinoza
An estimated 50,000 people marched in front of the state Capitol on Saturday and packed Civic Center, waving Mexican flags and signs urging Congress to defeat a bill that would make illegal immigration a federal felony.
With prompting from speakers using microphones, the crowd chanted “SÃ, se puede,” or […]
By Bruce Finley
U.S. agents along the southwestern border increasingly catch illegal immigrants from throughout the world — not just from Mexico — as they try to slip into the country.
Some come from Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and other countries U.S. officials regard as hotbeds of terrorism. Many more may enter undetected.
New data obtained by The […]
By Mike Soraghan
Washington — Gale Norton is heading out of Washington, but she might not be heading home to Colorado.
As she prepares to end her five-year tenure as secretary of the interior this week, she says she’s not certain she’ll settle down in the state where she was raised and elected attorney general.
“Not necessarily,â€? Norton […]
For economist Richard Freeman, the “Eureka!� moment came at an academic conference, when a Chinese colleague gave him a chart of the engineering and science doctorates being awarded by China’s universities.
“Oh, my God!� Freeman said to himself, startled at how that total was soaring. “How could China be doing this?�
And so Freeman, an agreeably […]