By: Heather Ellerbrock
The other day while driving in the car with my dad, he told me a story about a 16 year old who upon exiting the highway way to fast, hit a bump and proceeded to flip his car in the air over two lanes of traffic landing on a hill hundreds of feet [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Colorado’
November 19, 2008
When a Democracy Goes Wrong
November 12, 2008
The Outcome of Colorado’s Amendments
by Sarah Popp
November 4 was a bad day for anyone trying to pass an amendment in Colorado.
It was no surprise that Amendment 48, which would have defined personhood as beginning at fertilization, failed miserably: 73.3 percent to 26.7 percent. According to a CNN exit poll, women were a bit more likely to favor the amendment [...]
November 6, 2008
Another prediction
On Monday I posted a number of predictions. One of them was Robert F Kennedy Jr. to the post of secretary of the interior. I would like to slightly amend that. I heard some rumors on tuesday night while I was at the sheridan hotel. These have been confirmed. I would like to predict the [...]
November 4, 2008
Did they call you too?
By Ilasiea L. Gray
So I thought about all the things I wanted to write about for this blog. Topics like he Colorado Amendments, Senate races, pre-election day coverage, and all kinds of other things filled my head. Then three phone calls changed my mind. I remember in class we discussed how in the past there [...]
November 4, 2008
Musgrave must go!
by Diego Del Campo
Will it happen again? Two times now, I’ve anticipated, no expected the voters in the 4th congressional district to give hate-monger Marilyn Musgrave the boot—and twice I’ve been disappointed that she’s been able to convince voters she’s worthy enough to keep her gerry-mandered seat.
Maybe gerry-mandered isn’t the word, since the CD-4 has [...]
November 3, 2008
Oil and You
By: Joe Oglesby
You may be upset at high oil prices and profits, but amendment 58 is not the way to exact revenge. The amendment will hurt the property owners, which is not the oil companies; the amendment will also hurt local governments. “Currently half of the severance tax revenue (approximately $122.5 million in FY 2008-09) [...]
November 3, 2008
Early Voting Going Nationwide?
By Matt Knipple
I decided to concentrate my most recent blog on voting, in particular early voting. After going out and performing exit polls on the many people that showed up it got me thinking about the rest of the states and how popular or unpopular early voting is. To my surprise, as pointed out [...]
November 1, 2008
Let’s cut the bull crap and get down to business!
November 1, 2008
By: Melissa Keller
Coloradans have turned in their TV remotes for more useful forms of information since their local television has been taken over by negative political ads. For those watching local news, it’s difficult to decide on who their congressional representative shall be this year when all there is to see are scandals [...]
October 30, 2008
Whats Next for the Republican Party?
By Lance Thibert
Regardless of how the presidential race ends up, the Republican party will come out of 2008 damaged to the core and internally divided. Even if McCain wins his squeaker by rolling snakes eyes in Pennsylvania, the damage the friction in the Republican party is already done. It was starkly evident in the primaries, [...]
October 28, 2008
What a heck happened with CD-7
by Leonid Balaban
When Colorado 7th Congressional District (CD-7) was created after census in the year 2000, it was drawn up by courts in such a way that there was no clear advantage for either major political party. In fact, at the time when the first ever contest was held in that district in 2002, the [...]
