Friday, April 29, 2005

West Nile Prevention From email to city employees: "As part of the West Nile Virus Surveillance Program, Denver is again submitting dead birds for testing. We will be collecting dead birds (from the Corvids family) from May 2nd to July 29th. If you find any dead crows, ravens, magpies, or blue jays that have been dead less that 24 hours and the carcass is NOT decomposed, desiccated or maggot-infested they should be submitted. To make arrangement for pick up please call Animal Control at 303-698-0076." 8:50:20 PM

Purple Haze Julie Soulen: "So, we went on a short walk, down the road and out to Contemplation Point. It was the first time we had ventured there since the drifts melted away..." 6:02:45 PM

Filibusters Blogs for Bush is hoping to drive their traffic to a petition in favor of ending filibusters on nominees to the federal judiciary. MoveOn also has a petition up. Category: 2004 Presidential Transition 5:51:15 PM

Social Security Josh Marshall: "Interesting. The Post pretty much nails the new Bush plan on the front page: cut pretty much everyone's benefits a lot. The sweetener? Poor people's benefits won't be cut as much!" 5:52:07 AM

Justice Center This is the last day for early voting. Both sides in the election for the new Justice Center are predicting victory, according to the Rocky Mountain News [April 29, 2005, "Jail fight down to the wire"]. From the article, "The tax question has been around for months, but in the closing days of the campaign it has been the 900-pound gorilla threatening to crowd out other issues. This is how the proponents have it gauged: Although the center will cost $378 million, a sum that will be paid by property taxes, no homeowner will have a tax hike solely because of center construction." Supporters of the new Justice Center have had plenty of dough to spend to get Referred Question 1A passed, according to the Denver Post [April 29, 2005, "Stream of contributions floods justice-center push"]. Colorado Pols: "It sounds like Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and his staff are going to be sweating out the next couple of days. Internal polls show that while the new Denver jail/justice center should pass on Tuesday, it's going to be very, very close." Here's the link to Safe Denver.com and the link to Fail the Jail.org Category: Denver May 2005 Election 5:16:51 AM

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