Bare politics:
So, as of a couple of hours ago, the Democratic National Convention is coming to Denver in 2008. A little coverage of what the western US means to the Democratic is here and here, with coverage and comments from ColoradoPols...
Posted on January 11, 2007 2:58 PM • 1 Comments
The title refers to this post, where I covered Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack's November visit to Boulder to tout his in-depth/out-depth knowledge of energy policy. Gov. Vilsack gave up the reins to Iowa last night in a final State of...
Posted on January 10, 2007 2:37 PM • 0 Comments
Via Colorado Confidential, a Colorado group on the Western Slope is hammering Gov. Bill Ritter for being too east-centric. The image (click it to make it bigger) is brilliant, is it not? I love georeferenced information. The hidden political lesson...
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Posted on January 9, 2007 4:38 PM • 7 Comments
Seen first on Mr. Fleck's blog. Senator John Warner (R-VA) is challenging Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) for the Ranking Member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee when the 110th Congress convenes in January. But Mr. Inhofe is not...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:56 PM • 5 Comments
Charlie Rangel is the incoming chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, which is the one of the most important committees in the House (you'll read some articles saying that it is the most important, but it competes for...
Posted on November 20, 2006 1:05 PM • 1 Comments
Karl Rove is clearly delusional and getting more so. His interview to NPR's Robert Siegel on October 24th could have been dismissed as Rove trying to give encouragement to his base and discouragement to NPR's lib listeners. That was the...
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Posted on November 13, 2006 12:12 PM • 0 Comments
If they want to win the POTUS seat in 2008, the Democrats need to realize how the results of 2004 and 2006 reflect on each other. The simple lesson is this: the right kind of Democrat can do very well...
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Posted on November 9, 2006 4:13 PM • 11 Comments
Last week's AskAScienceBooger question was "What's the most important local political race to you this year (as a citizen, as a scientist)?..." My answer is Richard Pombo's race in the 11th District in California. Pombo is currently Chair of the...
Posted on November 7, 2006 2:35 PM • 0 Comments
Maybe the Republicans decided to just end entirely any pretense of courting the black vote. Maybe they decided it's all a lost cause (what with Barack Obama on the rise and all) and that they shouldn't waste their time going...
Posted on November 4, 2006 10:12 PM • 0 Comments
Because the headline on this story is Haggard's accuser fails lie detector while not more than five paragraphs into the story you read The test administrator, John Kresnik, said Jones' score indicated "deceptions" in his answers. However, Kresnik said he...
Posted on November 3, 2006 1:12 PM • 7 Comments
In my mid-October haze I missed a major development in a story I cover fairly closely -- FEMA and disaster response. I covered back in September the Collins/Lieberman coup to get new FEMA language passed. What I missed recently (Oct...
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Posted on October 27, 2006 3:25 PM • 0 Comments
Walking home today, best bumper sticker I've seen in a long time: "I study ferns and I vote" Speaking of studying and voting, if you didn't catch the SMIP (Karl Rove) on NPR Tuesday, you should take a listen. I...
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Posted on October 26, 2006 11:31 PM • 0 Comments
I just got this from CQ Today: Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., promised today that anyone who covered up improper contacts with underage pages will be punished. Hastert defended actions of his staff, but said he would dismiss any aide...
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Posted on October 10, 2006 3:59 PM • 3 Comments
For all you fellow inside politics wonks, a must-read out the NY Times today: Of Party Dues and Deadbeats on Capitol Hill. Good inside look into how the parties find soft money despite campaign finance "reform." This was essentially my...
Posted on September 30, 2006 5:19 PM • 1 Comments
Strange juxtaposition in the Times yesterday on the stem cell stuff. Two pictures ran under the page A1 story on Bush's veto -- one of Harry Reid and a wheelchair-bound passenger for prop purposes (apologies to the actual person, but...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 12:39 PM • 3 Comments
i'm still away so two quick notes and then i'm going back underground 1- Check out Sean D's new atmospheric science blog, Head In A Cloud. Technical earth sciences blogs are far too few and far between so Sean's blog...
Posted on July 15, 2006 4:52 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
