Wednesday, March 17, 2004

2004 Presidential Election Vice President Cheney was in Denver yesterday helping Bob Beauprez raise dough for his run to keep the 7th Congressional seat. John Kerry's alleged claim about foreign leaders and their presidential preferences was the buzz of the day, according to the Denver Post [March 17, 2004, "V.P. winds up crowd with disputed pitch"]. Taegan Goddard is reporting the the race for the Presidency will likely come down to 18 contested states. Alas, Colorado is not listed, so we can expect to be ignored (again) during the campaign. I bet both candidates show up to raise dough though. Update: How about some cool election applications to take you into the wee hours instead of drinking green beer. Thanks to Taegan Goddard for the link. Update: Here's a link to President Bush's speech about Iraq one year ago today. Thanks to Josh Marshall for the link. Update: Here's the coverage of Vice President Cheney's visit to Denver on Monday from the Rocky Mountain News [March 17, 2004, "A heapin' helpin' of Cheney"]. 6:11:27 AM

Colorado Water Water and fire officials are worried about the snowfall accumulation along the Front Range, according to the Rocky Mountain News [March 17, 2004, "Critical conditions"]. Denver and Aurora residents should brace themselves for water restrictions and their may be another dangerous fire season. From the article, "Statewide, average snowpack is in far better shape than 2002, the year Colorado experienced the worst drought on record. Then, it was just 56 percent at the outset of March. This year, it was 90 percent. But in the South Platte basin, one particularly important to Denver Water and Aurora, snowpack is at 69 percent of average and lagging further behind expected totals with each warm day. But that still beats 2002 levels, when on this date snowpack was 59 percent of average in the basin." 5:48:53 AM

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