Climate change lobbying dominated by 10 firms

By Marianne Lavelle and Matthew Lewis

Hundreds of lobbyists are cramming into Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building this week for the House Energy and Commerce Committee

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"… Arizona Democratic Representative Morris Udall — whose son, Mark, is now Colorado’s freshman Democratic senator. Sliz later headed up lobbying for the Ame …"

Broken elections, stolen votes

By Susan Q. Stranahan

Were the chaotic presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come this November? Is democracy, as Karl Ro

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"… stration replaced U.S. attorneys in nine of the states he listed: Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Arkansas, and New Mexico. S …"

Campaign MoneyWatch takes aim at Ken Buck’s loaded history

By Aaron Mehta and Josh Israel

It must be Ken Buck week here at You Report central. A reader in Colorado followed up yesterday’s post about an education group’s attack ad

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"… nmoney.org …"

"… able for where they get their political donations.”Buck’s opponent — Colorado Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet — co-sponsored the Fair Elections No …"

"… o Buck’s campaign. The ad concludes that Buck is “just plain wrong for Colorado.”On its website, Campaign Money Watch has an itemized list documenting t …"

"… ekend. Campaign Money Watch is now discussing whether to run another ad in Colorado before the election, he said.A Buck campaign spokesman did not return call …"

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Teachers' union spends big bucks to defeat Buck

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

A reader in Denver alerted us to an ad that went up yesterday in Colorado by the NEA Advocacy Fund, blasting Republican Senate candidate Ken

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"… vertising. …"

Yucca Mountain cancellation creates expensive headaches for DOE and Navy

By Laurel Adams

Government scrambles to figure out alternatives to canceled Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage

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"… nsible for managing almost 13,000 metric tons of nuclear waste at sites in Colorado, Idaho, New York, South Carolina and Washington. For the past three decade …"

"… om submarines and aircraft carriers at the Idaho site. The agreements with Colorado and Idaho both specify a date when the DOE and Navy must remove the nuclea …"

"… e locations. The federal government may be liable to pay Idaho $60,000 and Colorado $15,000 for each day past January 1, 2035, that DOE and the Navy have not …"

'Undetected rapists' on campus: A troubling plague of repeat offenders

By Jennifer Peebles and Kristen Lombardi

A chilling case of sexual assault at Texas A&M

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"… for Public Integrity, contributed to this story. …"

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Homeland Security’s billion-dollar bet on better communications

By Sarah Laskow

Interoperability money aids Motorola and other contractors, but are first responders better off?

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"… 95 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building; and the 1999 shootings at Colorado’s Columbine High School.In each case, as a grab-bag of agencies converge …"

"… th surrounding jurisdictions. A 2007 audit of interoperability spending in Colorado worried: “Without … the context of a regional or statewide plan, it is …"

A legacy of spying

By G.W. Schulz

Civil libertarians worry that fusion centers, financed with hundreds of millions of dollars in homeland security grants, are a throw-back to

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"… land Security, told a crowd at the National Homeland Defense Foundation in Colorado last October. “This shift has led to a new information-sharing landscape …"

Are things any different in Denver?

By G.W. Schulz

The state of Colorado had its own fusion center. But authorities there refused a public-records request for documents showing what role the

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"… ear’s Democratic and Republican national conventions. But authorities in Colorado refused a public-records request sent by CIR.The Colorado Information Anal …"

"… t authorities in Colorado refused a public-records request sent by CIR.The Colorado Information Analysis Center is run by the state’s Department of Public S …"

"… ulti-Agency Group Intelligence Conference included no fewer than two dozen Colorado law enforcement agencies and met at least into the 1990s to share intellig …"

"… sion centers that exist across the United States. According to the report, Colorado’s fusion center doesn’t have investigative powers, but it does “coll …"

Lax enforcement of Title IX in campus sexual assault cases

By Kristin Jones

Feeble watchdog leaves students at risk, critics say

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"… tims have resulted in huge settlements.In December 2007, the University of Colorado paid $2.85 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit filed by two students …"

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