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Tuesday, March 6, 2007
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National primary?
EyeOn08.com: "I have argued for a long time that New Hampshire may move its primary up a lot. Seems that I may have been right: 'In 2008, he is widely expected to leapfrog six days ahead of Iowa, which would be Jan. 8, but no one knows for sure.' The Iowa and New Hampshire governors can't do much about this."
EyeOn08.com: "Apparently Washington is considering canceling its primary"
"2008 pres"
8:58:15 PM 
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Faggot
Andrew Sullivan: "I watched Ann Coulter last night in the gayest way I could. I was on a stairmaster at a gym, slack-jawed at her proud defense of calling someone a "faggot" on the same stage as presidential candidates and as an icon of today's conservative movement. The way in which Fox News and Sean Hannity and, even more repulsively, Pat Cadell, shilled for her was a new low for Fox, I think - and for what remains of decent conservatism. 'We're all friends here,' Hannity chuckled at the end. Yes, they were. And no faggots were on the show to defend themselves. That's fair and balanced..."
Read the whole article.
"2008 pres"
8:52:35 PM
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? for president?
Political Wire: "In California's presidential primary race, SurveyUSA found Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama, 44% to 31%, for the Democratic nomination with John Edwards coming in third at 10%...On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani appears to have Sen. John McCain 'outflanked on multiple fronts' and leads 41% to 23%, with Newt Gingrich coming in at 13%."
Daily Kos: "I've asked several campaigns whether they plan on attending the Fox News debate in Nevada. I've started collecting responses, and expect to post them tomorrow. I can say off the bat that the question clearly has campaigns conflicted. It's not a position they want to be in, and I'm sure they're cursing whoever it was that negotiated the deal with Fox News. (That Democratic Party decision maker, by the way, is still secret. Everyone claims they don't know who signed the deal.) The campaigns could make things easier for themselves by just stating, en masse, that they won't do a Fox News debate, but that they'll be happy to debate in Nevada with another media partner."
Political Wire: "A new Suffolk University poll finds Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama statistically tied among likely New Hampshire Democratic primary voters. Clinton gets 28% support, followed by Obama at 26% and John Edwards with 17%. Another 17% of likely voters were undecided. No other Democratic candidate had more than 3% support.
"Among likely Republican primary voters, Rudy Giuliani led the ballot with 37% support, followed by Sen. John McCain at 27% and Mitt Romney at 17%. A total of 12% of voters were undecided. No other Republican candidate had more than 2% support."
TPM Cafe: "A couple of the Dem Presidential hopefuls have now issued statements responding to the Libby conviction."
Political Wire: "Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has gained three points on Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) over the past week, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll. However, Clinton still leads by eight points, 34% to 26%, while former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) takes 15%."
Political Wire: "In California's presidential primary race, SurveyUSA found Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama, 44% to 31%, for the Democratic nomination with John Edwards coming in third at 10%...On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani appears to have Sen. John McCain 'outflanked on multiple fronts' and leads 41% to 23%, with Newt Gingrich coming in at 13%."
"2008 pres"
8:40:27 PM
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Coyote Gulch Outage?
We're experiencing problems with our news aggregator. We're going to attempt a remote reboot of the server back in Denver. Hopefully we'll be back online soon.
7:04:34 AM
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? for president?
Freakonomics Blog: "In his New York Times column the other day, David Brooks wonders aloud, and compellingly, if perhaps New Mexico governor Bill Richardson might somehow rise above the glamorously noisy H. Clinton/B. Obama fray and become the Democratic candidate for President. Here's what Brooks likes about Richardson: He's down to earth, accessible, funny, and smart. He is 'the most experienced person running for president. He served in Congress for 14 years. He was the energy secretary (energy's kind of vital).' He is a 'successful two-term governor who was re-elected with 69 percent of the vote in New Mexico, a red state. Moreover, he's a governor with foreign policy experience. He was U.N. ambassador. He worked in the State Department. He's made a second career of negotiating on special assignments with dictators like Saddam, Castro and Kim Jong Il. He negotiated a truce in Sudan.' He is the only Democratic candidate who is 'completely invulnerable on the tax cut issue.'"
Thanks to NewMexiKen for the link.
Meanwhile, New West reports, "It will all be over by the end of next January, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson told an audience in Des Moines, Iowa, over the weekend. Boston.com reported on the governor's Iowa swing, which included house parties, meetings with bloggers and party leaders in the key early caucus state. In January 2008, four caucuses are scheduled, including Iowa, and Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina. The governor told the press that the small group, grassroots meetings are indicative of the type of campaign he plans to run; with possibly less funding than the other, more high-profile candidates, Richardson plans to spend a great deal of time with issues, debates and local campaigning."
Oliver Willis: "Cons like Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds are currently pushing the idea that Giuliani being on top of the polls means that history should be revised and the importance of the religious far right is overstated (one could point to the election and re-election of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan for an easy counterpoint, but I digress). I just think this assertion is worth pointing out, especially if the eventual candidate comes with the blessing of the religious cons."
Michael Scherer (via Salon): "[Mike] Huckabee...Before becoming governor in 1996...served for 12 years as a small-town Baptist pastor. He is unassailably antiabortion, anti-gay marriage and sympathetic to creationism. He pushed for a law in Arkansas that allows for covenant marriage, in which spouses sign a contract agreeing not to divorce unless there is abuse, a felony conviction or adultery, an agreement Huckabee calls 'a positive pre-nup.' As governor he declared countless statewide 'days of prayer' and has written several books that explain the importance of God in daily life."
Thanks to Matthew Yglesias for the link, who writes, "I can't say that I really know anything about Mike Huckabee. It strikes me, though, that he's the kind of person I would expect to see win a Republican nomination -- a white Protestant conservative Republican governor who's never deliberately antagonized conservative leaders and also doesn't seem to be a weirdo...Huckabee is, obviously, a longshot. The odds favor Giuliani and McCain. Nevertheless, over the long haul I think it's clear that the Huckabee approach -- marrying religious traditionalism with some kind of revived effort to cope with domestic social policy problems -- is more promising for Republicans than the tax cuts and war platform of a Giuliani."
Talking Points Memo: "Newsweek does Rudy Giuliani's Presidential campaign a very big favor."
Pollster.com: "A new Rasmussen Reports automated survey of 769 likely Democratic primary voters (conducted 2/26 through 3/1) finds Sen. Hillary Clinton (at 34%) continuing to lead Sen. Barack Obama (26%) and former Sen. John Edwards (15%) in a national Democratic primary."
"2008 pres"
6:36:01 AM
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Three terms for Denver D.A.?
From today's Denver Post: "The Denver City Council nixed an attempt to change the way some voters elect at-large council members Monday, keeping it off the May municipal election ballot.
At-large Councilman Doug Linkhart hoped to split the races for Denver's two at-large seats into separate races and require candidates to win a majority. Currently, all at-large candidates run in a single pool and the two candidates with the most votes get seats. Linkhart said the change would add accountability to the races by - for one thing - allowing candidates to challenge a particular incumbent. But other council members questioned whether the current system was a problem. The effort failed because seven votes are needed for the City Council to put a question on the ballot. The council voted 6-4, with three members absent.
"The council approved a different ballot question extending term limits for the district attorney from two terms to three."
Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News. They write, "Denver voters will decide in May whether the district attorney can serve three terms instead of two, the same as other elected officials in city government. But what voters won't have a say on is whether at-large council candidates should be elected by a majority instead of a plurality. The City Council on Monday unanimously agreed to place the DA's term limit question on the ballot but killed a proposal to ask voters to create an A seat and a B seat for the two at-large posts. Council members in opposition said they were concerned the public hadn't weighed in on the proposed charter change."
"denver 2007"
6:16:17 AM
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Hickenlooper or Lopez for Mayor?
Even though Mayor Hickenlooper has not officially announced his campaign for re-election he's raising dough and spending some, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has not officially announced his re-election run, but he is sitting on a campaign war chest of about $590,000 and spent nearly $150,000 on the campaign.
The Hickenlooper campaign raised more than $112,000 in the month of February alone.
The contributions amount to almost $90,000 more than Hickenlooper raised at this point in his 2003 campaign - when he was facing seven other candidates...
"Of the $112,000 Hickenlooper raised in February, nearly $60,000 came from outside the city of Denver. Slightly less than $20,000 of that came from outside the state...
"The mayor is expected to cruise through this campaign - a poll conducted for The Denver Post at the end of last year showed approval ratings of 70 percent. But he will have an opponent.Dan Lopez, a city of Denver employee, collected enough signatures to be on the ballot. Lopez said he has not raised any campaign money so far. The Public Works employee said that beating Hickenlooper would amount to 'pulling off the biggest upset in the history of politics.' But Lopez is hoping even a meager campaign will allow him to voice frustration about pay for city employees and give any disgruntled voters another choice."
Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News.
"denver 2007"
6:13:29 AM
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Damming of rivers contributing to ecological homogenization
Here's an article about the ecological effects of dam building on river systems from YubaCity.net. They write, "Tens of thousands of dams on U.S. rivers are having a detrimental effect on the biodiversity of aquatic and riparian ecosystems across the nation, according to a Colorado State University report published this week in the journal, 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.' Understanding the cumulative effects of dams in modifying regionally distinct ecosystems is critical to conservation on a national scale, said LeRoy Poff, associate professor in biology and the graduate degree program in ecology at Colorado State. Poff and his research team examined years of U.S. Geological Survey stream-flow records for periods before and after the damming of 186 medium-sized rivers. The sample included 16 hydrologically-distinctive regions across the country over the course of the project, and used stream-flow records of undammed rivers as a control. They found that dams have caused historically-distinct regions to become much more similar, creating more homogeneous habitat conditions across the country...
"Dams can modify the timing of ecologically critical periods of high-and low-river flows, Poff said. Native aquatic and plant species have adapted to these long-standing patterns of natural variation of high-and low-flow; eliminating them creates conditions that puts native species at a disadvantage and favors the spread of invasive species. The study found one dam about every 30 miles on rivers that were part of the research data."
"colorado water"
5:59:31 AM
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Will-O-Wisp 1041 hearing postponed
From the Fairplay Flume, "Park County released a public notice around noon on March 5 that the Will-O-Wisp Metropolitan District's water special use 1041 permit hearing had been postponed again at the request of the district. The hearing had been scheduled for March 6 at the Park County Board of County Commissioners hearing room in Fairplay. The 1041 permit hearing has been postponed twice since it began on December 6, when the metro district presented the permit application The Dec. 6 hearing could not be finished that day, was initially continued to Jan. 24, and then it was later continued to to March 6. The district's water system proposal has raised interest in the community partly because it would include the diversion of water from Elk Creek. The water permit is needed before Will-O-Wisp Metro District can begin expansion of its water supply to serve the Tanglewood Reserve Planned Unit Development just west of Pine Junction."
5:48:58 AM
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Tr-State shares of Amity Canal water
Here's an article about Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association's plans for the water they've purchased on the Amity Canal, from the Pueblo Chieftain. From the article, "An electrical power supplier plans to file for a change of use on shares of Amity Canal water it is purchasing in July, but only after working out an agreement with the ditch company on how it will operate within the ditch. The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association owns or has contracts for 46 percent of the shares on the Amity Canal, or enough to nearly meet its goal of acquiring 20,000 acre-feet of water in the Arkansas Valley. Tri-State plans to build two coal-fired power plants near Holly within the next 12-15 years, and the water it has acquired should yield more than sufficient water. Tri-State would build a terminal storage reservoir and possibly use well-field storage to keep at least a year's supply at hand to operate the power plant. The association supplies electric power to 44 cooperatives in four states and plans to phase in power plants in Eastern Colorado as they are needed, Tri-State engineer Terry Nelson told Amity shareholders Monday at their annual meeting...
"In the next few months, Tri-State has pledged to have more meetings with the board and individual groups of shareholders to hammer out details of an agreement by June. After that, Tri-State plans to file an application in Division 2 water court to change the use of its Amity shares to industrial. Agricultural, augmentation and storage uses will be included in the decree as well, but there are no plans to add municipal use, Nelson said. Tri-State could benefit the Amity by making physical improvements to the system, using storage more efficiently and providing some excess water for irrigation, Nelson said. Amity plans to take its water in rotation and will remove only the consumptive use of the water, leaving the canal and the river whole, he said."
"colorado water"
5:39:46 AM
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