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Diana DeGette

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Michael Bennet pitches for wind tax credit -- on Fox News?

    Denver blog posts bring the pain -- and pleasure. The Colorado Independent's Troy Hooper on Michael Bennet arguing on Fox News, of all places, that allowing the wind tax credit to expire would cost thousands of Colorado jobs. Who Said You Said questions Diana DeGette's position on the U.S. Postal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Photos: Groundbreaking for Mariposa housing project unites Michael Hancock, Flobots

    The Denver Housing Authority did not stand on authority. Yesterday, the latest phase of Denver's newest city housing community broke ground with passed-out pinwheels, high school drummers and speakers ranging from Mayor Michael Hancock, Representative Diana DeGette and councilwoman Judy Montero to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Diana DeGette gives Mitt Romney an earful about pledge to get rid of Planned Parenthood

    Denver blog posts are made of all-natural ingredients. Colorado Pols shares Diana DeGette's response to Mitt Romney's negative comments about Planned Parenthood. No, they can't be considered an endorsement. Mile High Mamas' Catherine considers the "kid blender." No, it's not a horrific new kitchen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Diana DeGette blames Tea Party madness for bill to prevent regulation of farm dust

    Diana DeGette.​Denver blog posts live like kings. Colorado Independent's Troy Hooper on Diana DeGette's nods to Alice in Wonderland when discussing legislation to stop the EPA from regulating farm dust. Which it isn't doing, by the way. Free Range Longmont's Joseph Bassman asks: Do you know ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Fracking: Congress needs to drill into the issue, says Diana DeGette

    Diana DeGette.​As reported in this space on Friday, a new study from Common Cause tracks how oil and gas interests spent $747 million on lobbying and campaign donations since 2001 to win congressional support for "fracking," hydraulic fracturing drilling methods that involve using toxic chemic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Diana DeGette and Henry Waxman request listeria outbreak investigation

    U.S. Representative Diana DeGette didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She's been concerned about food safety throughout her tenure in Congress, and yesterday, she and California Representative Henry Waxman sent a letter demanding a full investigation into the listeria contamination that's already ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Planned Parenthood target of GOP vendetta, says Diana DeGette

    Diana DeGette.​These Denver blog posts never drive drunk. Colorado Independent's Ashley Lopez on Diana DeGette pushing back on what she sees as a Republican vendetta against Planned Parenthood. DenverUrbanism's Dan Malouff on brainstorming a better RTD livery. Mile High Hockey's David Drisc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Racines serves award-winning nachos at 650 Sherman, not Bob's apartment

    Award-winning nachos at Racines, not Bob's.​Bob doesn't want Diana DeGette showing up at his door anytime soon, expecting to get the Readers' Choice Best Nachos from the Best of Denver 2011. On Monday, he received a letter from the congresswoman, congratulating the recipient for winning the aw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Carmelo Anthony is high-maintenance superstar & other things we've learned since Knicks trade

    ​These Denver blog posts materialized before our very eyes. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein shares what we've learned since the Nuggets dealt Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks -- including that Melo is a high-maintenance superstar. To say nothing of LaLa. WhoSaidYouSaid spotlights a mom who real ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Ty Lawson, Denver Nuggets to run rings around Raptors after tough losses to Orlando, Miami?

    Ty Lawson.​We've gathered here today to check out these Denver blog posts. Denver Stiffs' Nate Timmons notes that the Nuggets are at home tonight versus Toronto -- a blessing after a long road trip that ended with defeats to the Magic and Heat. 5280's Michael de Yoanna: Mark Udall is more ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Jared Polis and Diana DeGette try to tighten regulations on fracking -- again

    "Gasland"​Representatives Diane DeGette and Jared Polis are taking another run at tightening federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique also known as fracking. Introduced this week by the Colorado twosome and fellow Democratic rep Maurice Hinchey from New Yor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Mark Udall's Congressional team-building game plan: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

    Colorado congressional delegation cooperates to contain Washington's hot air.​ Mark Udall, the Colorado senior senator who has recommended a mixed-party seating arrangement to symbolize unity during President Obama's January 25 State of the Union speech, has an extended game plan for continued ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Mike Fallon, Diana DeGette opponent and GOP Young Gun, finally gets on Mike Rosen's show

    Mike Fallon.​There are no national polls gauging Colorado's 1st Congressional District race. Staunchly Democratic Denver is widely viewed as a lock for incumbent Diana DeGette, who has held the seat since 1997. But there is anecdotal evidence to suggest that Republican newcomer Mike Fallon i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Mike Fallon, Republican candidate in District 1, takes on Diana DeGette, seeks cure for Congress

    Mike Fallon​It's the middle of the afternoon and Mike Fallon is at Pint's Pub. The Republican candidate for Colorado's 1st Congressional District wasn't driven to the bottle by the rigors of campaigning, however. Rather, he's holding the first in a series of town-hall meetings that will take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Immigration reform must happen now, says Denver City Council proclamation

    Chris Nevitt has something to proclaim.​The controversial Arizona immigration bill hasn't stopped any folks from coming into this country illegally yet. After all, it won't take effect until July. But it's certainly led to a bumper crop of proclamations, including denunciations by Denver Publi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Diana DeGette in Colorado politics tarot deck: Kenny Be's Hip Tip

    #15 of 22 Major Arcana: Diana DeGette, Temperance... Kenny Be​

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Diana DeGette John Hickenlooper = Ellen DeGeneres

    An early strategy being used to undermine John Hickenlooper in his run for the governorship is actually an old favorite -- portraying him as too liberal. That's the theme of the video above, put together by WhoSaidYouSaid.com, a humor-oriented political website overseen by Republican stalwarts Kell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Denver Blogs: Woody Paige vs. Bronco Talk

    Photo by Brett AmoleWoody Paige has opinions -- and he isn't afraid to use them.​These are some Denver-centric blogs we enjoyed reading today. Bronco Talk's Kyle Montgomery notes that the Post's Woody Paige dismissed him as "some kid in Arizona who is a Broncos fan and writes a blog, without ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Abortion rights a hill Diana DeGette's willing to die on in healthcare debate

    Will Nancy Pelosi get so mad at Diana DeGette that she actually blinks?​Just because the House of Representatives passed a healthcare bill this weekend doesn't mean it'll stay passed. Denver congresswoman Diana DeGette is leading a group of reproductive-rights supporters who are mad as hell th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Denver Blogs: Could teachers work year-round? Would they?

    ​Our daily perusal of local web goodness. At HuffPo Denver, Alan Gottlieb writes that we need to demand more of our teachers -- and compensate them accordingly (H/T Education News Colorado). With Dems in control, Congresswoman Diana DeGette might finally be in position to save some wildernes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Proof that Diana DeGette actually met with voters at a healthcare town hall

    Even after Congresswoman Diana DeGette announced a slew of in-person healthcare town halls to supplement a previously scheduled teleconference, she was still portrayed in some quarters as trying to dodge face-to-face interaction on the subject. Note the accusations leveled by a Ron Paul supporter w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Diana DeGette belatedly getting her healthcare on

    Diana DeGette.​Back on August 4, the conservative Face the State website (which is currently in limbo as it attempts to restructure), went out of its way to slap Congresswoman Diana DeGette for scheduling only one healthcare town hall -- over the phone. At the time, a number of congressional r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Pelosi appearance: Free (and often stupid) speech lives

    Just because speech is free in America doesn't mean it's always enlightening. That truth comes through loud and clear from the video above, assembled by Fireside Productions during Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's visit yesterday to the Stout Street Clinic, 2100 Broadway -- an effort by Democra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Nancy Pelosi in the hizzy

    The lightning rod named Nancy Pelosi.​The U.S. House of Representatives is on recess -- but that doesn't necessarily mean its members are having fun. They'll likely spend much of their time off pimping healthcare reform -- and to that end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- the woman with giant eye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Denver Blogs: Diana DeGette on the line

    "It's for you, Diana...."​A blogging we will go -- but where? Tell us. Face the State headlines that Democrat Diana DeGette's only town-hall meeting during the House recess will be by phone -- but buries the fact that Republican Mike Coffman is among Colorado reps who haven't scheduled any se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Safety first: Diana DeGette provides food for thought

    Sometime this morning, right after the full House votes on the Food Safety Enhancement Act (the discussion starts at 8:30 a.m. MST), Representative Diana DeGette and other members of the working group that pushed the measure will hold a press conference to discuss its ramifications. In anticipation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Is it Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?

    Peter Boyles. The name game took a loopy twist after Colorado Media Matters published an item last Wednesday attacking KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles for referring to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as "Vagina DeGette" and "Vagina DeJet," for reasons that are too dopey to explain -- although CMM did ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    The Susan Greene-Peter Boyles vagina dialogue

    Susan Greene. Shortly after this morning's blog "Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?" went live, Denver Post columnist Susan Greene joined the aforementioned Boyles on his KHOW radio show to debate the subject of the item: Boyles' reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as "Vagina DeGette" a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Diana DeGette's "chattering class"

    Diana DeGette wants to be Colorado's first female Senator - maybe - but Denver's U.S. Representative has gone about making that known in a strangely blunt and abrasive way, namely by calling out Governor Bill Ritter, who will choose a a new one, and by bashing the "chattering class." In a video po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Wake-Up Call: Who's on (the) first?

    A few weeks ago, Diana DeGette, Colorado's representative for the 1st Congressional District, had lunch with Ken Salazar, the Colorado senator who'd early on been rumored to be in the running for a position in the Barack Obama cabinet. "No, it's not going to happen," he told her. Yesterday, it happ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Hot food, hot topics at 8 Rivers

    A few weeks ago, Diana DeGette, Colorado's representative for the 1st Congressional District, had lunch with Ken Salazar, the Colorado senator who'd early on been rumored to be in the running for a position in the Barack Obama cabinet. "No, it's not going to happen," he told her. Yesterday, it happ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    The Colorado officials who bucked the bailout -- and those who went along

    A few weeks ago, Diana DeGette, Colorado's representative for the 1st Congressional District, had lunch with Ken Salazar, the Colorado senator who'd early on been rumored to be in the running for a position in the Barack Obama cabinet. "No, it's not going to happen," he told her. Yesterday, it happ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2008

    Diane DeGette Testifies on a Hot Topic

    A few weeks ago, Diana DeGette, Colorado's representative for the 1st Congressional District, had lunch with Ken Salazar, the Colorado senator who'd early on been rumored to be in the running for a position in the Barack Obama cabinet. "No, it's not going to happen," he told her. Yesterday, it happ ... More >>

  • News

    July 3, 2008

    Best or Bust!

    Native Americans thought the camera stole their spirit. But sometimes it just takes your story.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    The Last Gasp

    Native Americans thought the camera stole their spirit. But sometimes it just takes your story.

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    Thirst Fridays

    A mellow mix of booze and art goes down easy at First Fridays.

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2007

    DeGettin Busy

    A mellow mix of booze and art goes down easy at First Fridays.

  • Calendar

    June 28, 2007

    Liberty for All

    Runners and walkers lace up for freedom.

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2006

    A Real Page-Turner

    Runners and walkers lace up for freedom.

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Doin' It With DeGette

    Diana DeGette gets played, not laid, on The Colbert Report.

  • Culture

    May 11, 2006

    Next Up

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  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Across State Lines

    A representative sampling of our congressional candidates.

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Follow That Story

    Zip Trip

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Off Limits

    Shakers and movers

  • News

    October 18, 2001

    Screen and Screen Again

    Forget Victoria's Secret. Argenbright Security has a few secrets of its own.

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Off Limits

    Let them eat tulips...

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    Off Limits

    Let them eat tulips...

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Women's Work

    Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    Off Limits

    Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

  • News

    February 5, 1998

    The Million Fan March

    Colorado activists struck first on domestic violence.

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