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California’s ballot is sizzling hot. Top of the list is Proposition 23, which would emasculate or kill California’s pace-setting 2006 climate change law, Assembly Bill 32. That law takes a multi-pronged approach, including statewide cap-and-trade and more rooftop solar, to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Prop. 23 would put […]

Congressman John Salazar has a tough job. His constituents are scattered across a huge swath of Colorado’s rural Western Slope, over a political and demographic spectrum that ranges from oil and gas roughnecks in conservative Grand Junction to creative-class telecommuters in liberal Telluride. But most of Salazar’s constituents lie somewhere in between and share a […]

When the votes are counted election night, it might surprise some national pundits if Idaho’s 1st Congressional District goes blue. But Democrat Walt Minnick was a pretty good bet when he wrested the seat from 14 years of Republican ownership in 2008. And since then, Minnick has positioned himself to appeal even more to Idaho’s […]

Undocumented kids thrive in the U.S. — until they turn 18 and the law cracks down.

An unsolved murder increases fears along the Mexican border