I have a long post up on Prometheus here about today's Environment and Public Works Committee markup on S.1848, the Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act, sponsored by Senators Salazar and Allard....
Posted on September 13, 2006 5:09 PM • 0 Comments
After strongly pushing all larger wild mammals out of cities and suburbs over the past century, some mammals are starting to come back. Deer are the obvious visitors, but coyotes, fox, elk, bears (just to name the animals I've personally...
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Posted on August 29, 2006 12:00 PM • 6 Comments
The lessons for this region that West illustrates are as valid now as they were in the second half of the 19th Century. Ever since I moved to the Front Range I've had a subtle, mostly latent, uneasy feeling about life here. After reading West's book I know why.
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Posted on August 23, 2006 12:25 PM • 0 Comments
It's the first time we've had a TV in the house for years and with it we have basic cable. Unfortunately, around here "basic cable" means "you might as well just use an antenna." All the broadcast stations, some public...
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Posted on March 11, 2006 5:47 PM • 8 Comments
I went to a good talk tonight by Elliott West, hosted by the Center for the American West. Elliott was invited to talk about his book The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado, and I think even...
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Posted on February 21, 2006 2:22 AM • 4 Comments