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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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The Moderate Voice: "Clinton has 7% lead over Obama. The latest Gallup daily tracking poll shows that the controversies swirling around Democratic Senator Barack Obama have taken their toll -- in the form of rival Senator Hillary Clinton taking a healthy lead in the numbers."
Dave Winer: "I had so many thoughts after Obama's speech yesterday, but none of them were organized enough to write. Today maybe a few are."
Political Wire: "The latest Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina shows Sen. Barack Obama barely edging Sen. Hillary Clinton, 44% to 43%. Clinton actually leads among Democrats in the poll, 44% to 43%. But Obama has the overall lead based on a very strong performance with unaffiliated voters, with whom he has a 53% to 35% advantage."
"2008 pres"
6:45:29 PM 
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Five years ago we linked to the NYT quoting their editorial on the war about to start, "Once the fighting begins, every American will be thinking primarily of the safety of our troops, the success of their mission and the minimization of Iraqi civilian casualties. It will not feel like the right time for complaints about how America got to this point. Today is the right time."
"2008 pres"
6:33:14 PM
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Denver Business Journal: " EcoBroker International plans to host the Green Real Estate 2008 Conference and Expo July 16 and 17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Based in Evergreen, EcoBroker International offers educational programs on "green" real estate topics related to energy efficiency and sustainability, and the EcoBroker designation to students who complete its program. The company teamed up with the Association of Energy and Environmental Real Estate Professionals, also based in Evergreen, for the conference."
6:16:59 PM
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Here's a roundup of reactions to Barack Obama's speech yesterday from The Moderate Voice.
"2008 pres"
6:54:46 AM
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From The Denver Post: "As mining claims in Colorado and the West skyrocket in a kind of modern-day gold rush, Congress wants to rewrite an arcane law governing mineral exploration. The measure hasn't been overhauled since President Ulysses S. Grant signed it into law in 1872. "Efforts to comprehensively reform the Mining Law (of 1872) have been ongoing literally for decades but have repeatedly failed," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat who leads the Senate Energy Committee. That panel is crafting legislation to update the law. Following the lead set by House members last year, Bingaman and others in the Senate believe they now have a good opportunity to rewrite the mining rules. Even the mining industry is willing to agree to some changes, said Carol Raulston, spokeswoman for the National Mining Association."
More from the article:
The Senate is looking for the first time at charging royalties for minerals pulled from federal lands. Mining companies currently don't pay anything for using property owned by taxpayers. That money could be used to clean up abandoned mines, including the 23,000 in Colorado. "Many of these sites continue to pollute the water, land and air," said Sen. Ken Salazar, a Colorado Democrat who sits on the Senate Energy Committee. As he toured the Colowyo coal mine near Meeker on Tuesday, Salazar pointed out that coal mines are not covered by the 1872 law but provide money to the federal government for cleaning up remnants of the country's mining past. The Colowyo Coal Co., for example, paid $2.8 million in 2006 for abandoned-mine cleanup. "Coal carries the responsibility now for abandoned-mine reclamation," Salazar said. "If the 1872 mining law is updated, part of that will be to figure out how the other mining resources in the public domain can help."
In Colorado, mining is big business. Minerals pulled out of mines in the state sold for more than $2.6 billion in 2006, said Stuart Sanderson, president of the Colorado Mining Association. The state ranks first in the nation for the amount of molybdenum harvested and fourth for gold production, he said. And like many Western states, Colorado has seen a surge in new mining claims. Those claims skyrocketed to 23,473 this January, from 5,430 in January 2003, according to a study by the Environmental Working Group and the Pew Campaign for Responsible Mining.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here and here.
"2008 pres"
6:02:05 AM
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Climate Change deniers are trumping the refreezing of the Arctic sea ice since the summer as news that the planet is not in a long-term warming trend. This article from The Insurance Journal reports that the ice is thinner, exactly what you would expect, according to NASA. From the article:
NASA has released the findings from its most recent satellite observations, which, taken in conjunction with other reports, confirms that "the Arctic is still on 'thin ice' when it comes to the condition of sea ice cover in the region. "A colder-than-average winter in some regions of the Arctic this year has yielded an increase in the area of new sea ice, while the older sea ice that lasts for several years has continued to decline." NASA's scientists said they believe that the increased area of sea ice this winter is due to recent weather conditions. However, the bulletin explained: "The decline in perennial ice reflects the longer-term warming climate trend and is a result of increased melting during summer and greater movement of the older ice out of the Arctic."
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5:55:44 AM
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