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	<title>The Big Media Blog &#187; Colorado State Legislature</title>
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		<title>Radio hosts find Senate candidate&#8217;s link to Georgia birther trial, but let him deny his birtherness</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/31/radio-hosts-find-senate-candidates-link-to-georgia-birther-trial-but-let-him-deny-his-birtherness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Radio Colorado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative talk radio is all aflutter about a trial underway in Florida to determine whether President Obama is eligible to appear on the election ballot there.
A Georgia law requires all candidates to prove they&#8217;re eligible for office, and this means presidential candidates must prove they&#8217;re U.S. citizens.
Such laws, now on the books in a handful of states, are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio hosts fail to query State House candidate after he tells them state audit led to his business failures</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/30/radio-hosts-fail-to-query-state-house-candidate-after-he-tells-them-state-audit-led-to-his-business-failures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you&#8217;re a die-hard Tea-Party radio host, you&#8217;d think you&#8217;d try to clarify things when an ideologically-sympatico political candidate tells you on the air that he abandoned his business because of the Colorado Department of Labor&#8217;s efforts to enforce employment rules.
That&#8217;s what Colorado State House candidate Brian Vande Krol told KLZ&#8217;s Grassroots Radio Colorado Jan. 20:  
In fact, I’ve heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t blame media reports for confusion over Ramirez&#8217;s stance on Asset bill</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/21/you-cant-blame-media-reports-for-confusion-over-ramirezs-stance-on-asset-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/21/you-cant-blame-media-reports-for-confusion-over-ramirezs-stance-on-asset-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes one media outlet says one thing, another says something else, and you&#8217;re left saying, WTF.
That&#8217;s what happened last week when we heard different news about whether Rep. Robert Ramirez would back legislation this year reducing college tuition for some children of illegal immigrants. The bill is often referred to as a Colorado version of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State GOP lawyering up to fight Shaffer&#8217;s pass-the-budget-or-get-spanked bill?</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/11/state-gop-lawyering-up-to-fight-shaffers-pass-the-budget-or-get-spanked-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2012/01/11/state-gop-lawyering-up-to-fight-shaffers-pass-the-budget-or-get-spanked-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[7News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On KLZ’s Grassroots Radio Colorado yesterday, Sen. Kent Lambert ratcheted up the GOP opposition to Colorado Senate President Brandon Shaffer’s bill mandating that legislators take a pay and benefit cut if they require a special session to pass a budget bill.
Lambert’s attacks, apparently reflecting conversations he’s had with lawyers about Shaffer’s bill, go beyond what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media omission: Gessler promised to produce evidence of election &#8220;fraud,&#8221; but hasn&#8217;t delivered any</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/11/21/media-omission-gessler-promised-to-produce-evidence-of-election-fraud-but-has-produced-none/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2011/11/21/media-omission-gessler-promised-to-produce-evidence-of-election-fraud-but-has-produced-none/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado Secretary of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Scott Gessler said a lot of interesting things during his speech at Colorado Christian University last week, but reporters should circle back and ask about a story Gessler told about the last legislative session.
We know that Gessler made a lot of references to voter fraud during the last session, implying that there could be thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Hick budget director defends suspending tax break for seniors, reporters should note that he made same proposal when he worked for Bill Owens</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/11/02/when-hick-budget-director-defends-suspending-tax-break-for-seniors-reporters-should-note-that-made-same-proposal-when-he-worked-for-bill-owens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its coverage of the release of  Hickenlooper&#8217;s proposed state budget, The Denver Post predicted a partisan battle in the state legislature next year over Hick&#8217;s proposal to suspend Senior Homestead Exemption, which gives some seniors a property-tax break and costs the state around $100 million in tax revenue.
As it pointed to signs that the GOP will fight Hick on the Homestead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk show hosts should ask about poor kids whose parents won&#8217;t (or can&#8217;t) pay more for state health insurance</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/06/22/talk-show-hosts-should-ask-about-poor-kids-whose-parents-wont-or-cant-pay-more-for-state-health-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2011/06/22/talk-show-hosts-should-ask-about-poor-kids-whose-parents-wont-or-cant-pay-more-for-state-health-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Radio Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talk Radio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The conservative talk-radio world erupted in anger a few weeks ago, when Gov. John Hickenlooper vetoed a bill that would have required families near the poverty level to pay more for state-subsidized health insurance for their kids.
On KLZ&#8217;s &#8220;Grassroots Radio Colorado&#8221; June 1, Rep. Brian DelGrosso told hosts Ken Clark and Jason Worley that families [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Paso GOP passes resolution urging Republican county officers not to criticize elected Republicans</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/05/04/el-paso-gop-passes-resolution-urging-republican-county-officers-not-to-criticize-elected-republicans/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2011/05/04/el-paso-gop-passes-resolution-urging-republican-county-officers-not-to-criticize-elected-republicans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 23:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grassroots Radio Colorado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The El Paso County Republican Party executive committee passed a measure last night recommending, but not mandating, that party officers refrain from criticizing elected Republicans.
ReclaimTheBlue blogger Al Maurer broke the story that a resolution was introduced by Republican Bob Denny &#8220;on behalf of Rep. Amy Stephens&#8221; and was &#8220;designed to stifle opposition to SB-200.&#8221; HB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correction: Post reported that Bo Callaway (and even Dick Wadhams) supported competitive congressional districts</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/05/02/correction-post-reported-that-bo-callaway-and-even-dick-wadhams-supported-competitive-congressional-districts/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2011/05/02/correction-post-reported-that-bo-callaway-and-even-dick-wadhams-supported-competitive-congressional-districts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado redistricting and re-apportionment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newspaper industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth saying again, given that about 30,000 newspaper layoffs have occurred in the past three years, how much a community loses when a veteran journalist loses her job.
For example, someone like me has to spend hours poring over Nexis to discover that former Gov. Dick Lamm and former GOP chair Bo Callaway secretly agreed in 1980 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporters should find out if there&#8217;s any agreement between Dems and the GOP on competitive districts, as there was in 1980</title>
		<link>http://bigmedia.org/2011/04/29/reporters-should-find-out-if-theres-any-agreement-between-dems-and-the-gop-on-competitive-districts-as-there-was-in-1980/</link>
		<comments>http://bigmedia.org/2011/04/29/reporters-should-find-out-if-theres-any-agreement-between-dems-and-the-gop-on-competitive-districts-as-there-was-in-1980/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Salzman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado State Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado Statesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado redistricting and re-apportionment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denver Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ft. Collins Coloradoan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters don’t have much time to pore over Nexis, like I do, and they might argue that even if they had extra time, they wouldn&#8217;t want to spend it researching stories about redistricting, which seems to end the same way every ten years anyway.
But I found an old news article about redistricting that reporters would benefit from knowing about.
Rocky [...]]]></description>
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