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Sunday, January 21, 2007
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HB 1156
Here's the link (pdf) to HB 1156. The bill if it becomes law, "Requires every contract for the purchase and sale of all residential real property to disclose the source of water for the property. If the source is a well, requires the disclosure to include a copy of the well permit."
"colorado water"
5:15:41 PM 
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Richardson for president?
Say hello to Bill Richardson. He's officially in for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination. Thanks to the Bill Richardson Blog for the links. We hope that Governor Richardson's blog will soon have an RSS feed.
ABC News: "The field for the Democratic presidential nomination got still more crowded this morning, with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announcing he will take the first step in a run for the White House by forming a presidential exploratory committee. Richardson followed the announcement with an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week."
"2008 pres"
8:22:18 AM
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Brownback for president?
Say hello to Sam Brownback. He writes, "I have decided, after much prayerful consideration, to consider a bid for the Republican nomination for the presidency. I am running to spread hope and ideas. We are a blessed nation at an important crossroads. War, corruption, disintegrating families, and for some, hopelessness, tear at the American Dream. We need hope and ideas. I am running for America...to be of service in a crucial time of trial. Ours is an exceptional nation. A nation between two oceans made up of people from every nation on earth. A great nation united by our ideals. But we are a great nation because of our goodness. If we ever lose our goodness, we will surely lose our greatness. We believe in a culture of life - that every human life is a beautiful, sacred, unique child of a loving God. We believe in justice for all - at all times. We believe in liberty."
The Right's Field: "Sam Brownback is officially running for president. He just made his announcement from Topeka, Kansas. His speech touched on many issues (including making curing cancer a campaign plank), but two things were abundantly clear to me. First, Brownback is going to be a Christian candidate. His success will largely hinge on whether or not he is the Christian candidate. He framed his issue positions around his faith, as well as casting the strength of America in 'Family, Faith, and Freedom.' Brownback is going to spend the next year-plus talking to voters who share that vision of American greatness, one of the main reasons I think Brownback's candidacy will gain traction."
Here's the link to his announcement video.
"2008 pres"
8:10:27 AM
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The Right's Field
Say hello to a new group weblog The Right's Field. They're, "a blog dedicated to providing coverage of the 2008 Republican presidential primary through news commentary, polling analysis, and research." Here's the link for their RSS Feed.
Welcome to the Blogosphere. We'll be watching.
"2008 pres"
7:56:03 AM
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Referred Charter Amendment 1A
Colorado Confidential: "The question before voters is whether or not to eliminate the three-member Denver Election Commission and replace it with a single, elected clerk and recorder. Denver City Council voted 7-6 last month to hold the special election now instead of in May. While nearly everyone seems to agree that changes are needed at the DEC, there's not consensus that abolishing it is the right move. Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez and City Auditor are the measure's strongest backers. Saying it was the best option available, Mayor Hickenlooper gave his guarded support. Many others, however, are against the move. Some want to retain the three-member DEC, others want it gone but think the hasty special election is not the way to go about it."
"denver 2007"
7:45:06 AM
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Clinton for president?
Here's a long profile of Hillary Clinton from The Atlantic Online. From the article, "There is also the question of her public dexterity. The one major initiative she led in her husband's administration, a broad reform of the health-care system, was a calamitous failure, and led to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. But Clinton has adapted surprisingly well to the byways of the Senate, becoming what few could have foreseen: a wily manipulator of the Senate's outsize egos, and a master of cloakroom politics. This has come at the cost of some of her most deeply held values. However flawed Clinton's health-care plan was in execution, it was undergirded by an element of sincere idealism that is all but absent from her Senate record. Clinton has chosen systematic caution as the path to power."
Thanks to Josh Marshall for the link.
Daily Kos: "Is Hillary Clinton my first choice for president? She is not. In fact, I don't think she'd make my top ten. But I'm very glad to see her in the race. What's so exciting about a candidate who I won't be voting for in the primary? Just check out all those pronouns in the first paragraph. Yes, it's a sexist thing: I'm overjoyed to see a woman running. I'd be happier if women candidates made up half the options (or heck, let's have all women for a season, just to help even things out), but right now I'm happy enough that a woman is running, and that she's considered a serious, first-tier candidate." Right on!
Andrew Sullivan: "Among my many guilty pleasures - bad reality television, solitary nose excavation, the Fox News Channel - hating Hillary Clinton was once near the top of the list. The senator from New York somehow managed to arouse every one of my love-to-hate zones. She was a self-righteous feminist (boo) who married her way to power (double-plus-boo). She wanted to turn American medicine into the National Health Service (grrr) and all her friends were wealthy lawyers (triple eye-roll). She was Lady Macbeth when she wasn't some goo-goo liberal ideologue...
"Why am I having a hard time keeping the wave afloat? The answer is relatively simple. Clinton has been an almost painfully reasonable, centrist, sensible senator. I'd like to hate her but she's foiling me every time."
"2008 pres"
7:41:17 AM
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Underground storage in the Upper Ark Valley?
The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy and the USGS are planning to study the aquifer in Custer county to determine if it can be used as underground storage to support further development, according to the Pueblo Chieftain. From the article, "Groundwater storage or recharge in the Upper Arkansas basin could be possible, a preliminary federal study shows. The Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District is looking at a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey to determine if the concept is a way to cope with increasing growth in Custer, Chaffee and western Fremont counties. 'Right now we have a baseline study of the groundwater and the size of the aquifer,' said Terry Scanga, Upper Ark executive director. 'The continuation of the study will look at the aquifer along the mountains to determine the rate of recharge.'[...]
"The new phase of the study would calculate the rate of recharge and subsurface flows out of the aquifer. It could also identify which areas could be recharged if a source of replacement water is available. For instance, if a certain quantity of water takes two years to reach the river, an aquifer might have one year of available storage."
"colorado water"
7:28:20 AM
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How to incorporate climate change into water policy decision making?
Is there a way to measure Colorado's decreasing runoff due to climate change? Many are asking that question and at the same time they're trying to see a few decades in the future to predict the sustainability of water supplies in light of the pressure to send more rainy side water to satisfy the unbridled growth on the Front Range. Here's an article with some details from the Glenwood Springs Post Indenpendent "reg".
From the article, "This week, at a meeting of the Colorado River Water Conservation District board of directors, river district general manager Eric Kuhn said recent research findings by nationally recognized climatologist Robert Balling suggest annual runoff from spring snowmelt in the Colorado basin could decrease 35 percent by 2050. How decreases in water flows due to climate change will impact an already strapped supply in the Colorado River can only be surmised. Nevertheless, it must be factored in to projections of future water demands, especially with the growing population on the Front Range. 'The issue of future climate change on water resources is just now beginning to get attention within the water community,' Kuhn said...
"To fill the gap between present supply and future demand, several water transportation and storage projects are under study. These so-called 'straws' would suck water out of West Slope reservoirs and rivers and pipe it across the mountains to the Front Range. In one - the $4 billion Yampa Diversion Project - the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District aims to pull about 300,000 acre feet a year out of the Yampa River at Maybell and transport it through about 200 miles of pipelines and tunnels under the mountains to the plains, where it would serve Front Range cities. 'If climate change were to reduce stream flows, is there really a reliable water supply for these projects?' Kuhn asked. 'The difficult challenge (will be) how to incorporate climate change into water policy decision making in a reasonable and understandable manner.'[...]
"Both Kuhn and Randy Udall, director of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) in Carbondale, are involved in the Colorado Climate Project, a bipartisan initiative to study the effects of impending climate change across the state and how to lessen its impacts. The aim of the initiative is to develop a plan to reduce emissions of global warming pollutants - greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide."
7:17:03 AM
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