Hefley won’t seek DeLay’s old spot
Monday, January 23, 2006 ED SEALOVER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Several U.S. House members, seeking to elect the anti-Tom DeLay as the new majority leader, have asked Joel Hefley to consider running for the post, the Colorado Springs Republican said.
Hefley said last week that he was flattered but is not interested in the job.
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Medicare changes mean lots of choices — and confusion
Sunday, November 6, 2005 BILL RADFORD - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| The 43 million Americans on Medicare have a decision to make.
Beginning Nov. 15, those on Medicare can sign up for Medicare Part D, the new prescription-drug program designed to help seniors hit hard by rising drug costs. When the benefit kicks in Jan. 1, the government will pay part of the drug costs for people enrolled in the voluntary program; participants pay the rest through premiums, co-payments and deductibles.
It is the first time Medicare has provided an outpatient prescription-drug benefit.
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Courage for life
Monday, September 19, 2005 ANSLEE WILLETT - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Nancy Saltzman has endured heartbreaking loss, but she often uses one word to describe her life: lucky.
She’s buried her husband and two children. Her father died five years later, then her sister in March. She even faced her own mortality with two bouts of breast cancer.
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Carson soldiers won’t be charged
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 TOM ROEDER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Investigators had recommended charging two soldiers with manslaughter and charging nine others with lesser offenses from assault to lying to investigators. Commanders, who have the final say, chose not to charge anyone.
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NORAD at turning point in mission
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 PAM ZUBECK - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Canada wants to opt out of NORAD’s Star Wars mission, which could foreshadow changes in the way the United States fights the war against terrorism.
The two nations are negotiating the first post-Sept. 11 agreement for operation of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Peterson Air Force Base.
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Outlook bleak for roads, buildings
Thursday, February 17, 2005 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| DENVER - Colorado is running an annual shortfall of at least $1 billion a year, quickly falling behind on highway and building maintenance, according to a budget analysis.
Some legislative leaders hope the bleak findings in the 16-page analysis will reinvigorate stalled budget talks.
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Thousands of horses could be sold to slaughter under new law
Thursday, November 25, 2004 BILL McKEOWN - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Thousands of wild horses in the West could be sold to slaughter under a provision of the 2005 budget bill President Bush is expected to sign in the coming days.
The provision would allow the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, to sell to the highest bidder any mustang over 10 years old or any horse that has been unsuccessfully offered for adoption three times.
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Commission changes wolf-protection law
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 KERRY McGINLEY - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Interstate 70 was reaffirmed as the line in the sand for wolves Tuesday by the Colorado Wildlife Commission.
Following a recommendation by the commission's Wolf Management Working Group, the commission unanimously agreed to adopt a regulation in keeping with federal law. The federal Endangered Species Act allows wolves to be killed north of Interstate 70 for specific reasons like attacking livestock but forbids killing wolves for any reason south of Interstate 70.
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Activists Worry Election Reform May Wane
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
AP's ROBERT TANNER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Sure, there were hours-long lines, temperamental electronic machines and some old-fashioned misplaced ballots, but America's democracy worked well enough on Nov. 2 to elect a president.
Now, some voting activists worry that the pressure that fueled four years (and billions of dollars) of work to fix the election system is on the wane. Others say that skeptics should just admit it: While not perfect, the system is getting better.
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Egypt Prepares for Arafat's Funeral
Friday, November 12, 2004
AP's NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Egypt prepared Thursday for a strictly controlled military funeral for Yasser Arafat where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects, but where the people - among whom Arafat was by far more popular - will be mostly shut out.
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Gauge With Radioactive Material Found
Saturday, October 30, 2004
AP's STEPHANIE STOUGHTON - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| A measuring device containing radioactive material was found in a coastal Virginia pawnshop Friday, almost two weeks after it was stolen from a truck while the driver shopped.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating how the gauge was secured before the theft, spokesman Neil Sheehan said. "It either has to be under surveillance or has to be locked up. Neither was occurring," he said.
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3rd Congressional District candidates out on the road
Friday, October 22, 2004 ED SEALOVER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| When Greg Walcher held a news conference at Pueblo's senior center Friday, attendees were careful not to disturb tables set up for the wedding of a couple named Floyd and Rebecca.
When John Salazar spoke to a small crowd at Bauserman's Market in Manzanola - population 509 - supporters were moved to make way for customers buying milk.
Colorado's 3rd Congressional District - the seventh-largest district in the nation - consists of 29 counties ranging from the Western Slope to Pueblo. It lacks major cities and includes thousands of square miles of vacant federal land.
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Peres Fears Possible Attack on Sharon
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Israel's army chief of staff on Tuesday condemned a call from scores of rabbis on observant soldiers to refuse to obey orders to evacuate Jewish settlements under next year's planned Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip.
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Judge upholds some election rules, overturns others
Monday, October 18, 2004 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Colorado voters must take identification to the polls on Election Day, a judge ruled Monday.
Colorado Common Cause had filed a lawsuit to block the practice on grounds that it might prevent some people -- college students and the homeless, for instance -- from voting.
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Moore's Pre-Election TV Special Nixed
Saturday, October 16, 2004
AP's DAVID BAUDER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| The cable pay-per-view company iN DEMAND has backed away from a plan to show a three-hour election eve special with filmmaker Michael Moore that included the first television showing of his documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11."
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Accusations of Fraud Mar Afghan Election
Sunday, October 10, 2004
AP's PAUL HAVEN - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Afghans packed polling stations on Saturday for a historic presidential election that was blemished when all 15 candidates opposing U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai withdrew, charging the government and the U.N. with fraud and incompetence.
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Official: British Hostage Tried to Escape
Saturday, October 9, 2004
AP's NADIA ABOU EL-MAGD - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Kidnappers beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley after twice releasing videos in which he wept and pleaded with Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life. A U.S. official said Friday there was credible information that Bigley had tried to escape with the aid of one of his captors.
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Israeli Missile Kills Islamic Jihad Chief
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
AP's IBRAHIM BARZAK - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed a militant leader and a father and his son, officials said Wednesday, bringing to 75 the number of Palestinians killed in a weeklong offensive aimed at ending Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli towns.
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Unaired Iraq Story Shows Eyes on CBS
Monday, October 4, 2004
AP's DAVID BAUDER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| A postponed "60 Minutes" report about whether Iraq had nuclear capabilities has quickly become CBS's most famous shelved story since the 1995 tobacco piece made famous in the movie "The Insider."
The Ed Bradley story questions a crucial piece of evidence used by the Bush administration to support the war. CBS decided it was inappropriate to air so close to the election.
That prompted an e-mail campaign by supporters of Democrat John Kerry urging CBS to run the completed story.
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7 Palestinians Killed; CNN Producer Held
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AP's MARK LAVIE - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Israelis killed seven Palestinians in attacks Monday, including a Gaza airstrike that killed one militant and wounded a militia commander, who vowed revenge from his hospital bed.
Meanwhile, at nightfall, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a producer for the TV network CNN at gunpoint, the network's correspondent, Ben Wedeman said. In a CNN broadcast from Gaza, Wedeman said the gunmen stopped a CNN van and extracted Riad Ali.
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Attack Kills U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
AP's Stephen Graham - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| An attack on a patrol killed an American soldier, the third U.S. fatality this week in Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday, amid a flurry of attacks that wounded over a dozen Americans in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election.
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Iraq Will Share Spotlight at U.N. Assembly
Monday, September 20, 2004
AP's EDITH M. LEDERER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| For the past two years, Iraq has dominated the annual global gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. But this year it will share the spotlight with the conflict in Sudan, terrorism, the widening gap between rich and poor and the need for new thinking to tackle global crises.
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Coors unveils tax-cut plan
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Republican Senate candidate Pete Coors today proposed trillions of dollars in new tax cuts, saying the move would spur the economy and boost federal tax revenues.
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Bush rallies supporters at Coors Amphitheatre
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| GREENWOOD VILLAGE - President George W. Bush stoked the fire in Colorado's GOP troops Tuesday by defending the war in Iraq and promoting his plan to lower health care costs.
An upbeat Bush went without a tie and shed his sport coat before addressing about 12,000 supporters who packed Coors Amphitheatre for the early morning speech.
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Politics May Affect Pharmaceutical Stocks
Sunday, September 12, 2004
AP's MEG RICHARDS - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| As the presidential election draws near, many on Wall Street are growing nervous about the potential effect of Democratic candidate John Kerry's platform on prescriptions drugs, and how it might reduce the earnings of the companies that produce them. But some analysts say curbing drug prices is bound to become a larger issue in the years ahead, no matter who controls the White House.
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Public response to Army training regimen is heated
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 TOM ROEDER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Toni Shoop of Colorado Springs was angry with the Army on Wednesday.
She wasn't mad at the soldiers at Fort Carson, or even fired up about the war in Iraq, where the casualty toll has mounted in recent days. She says she's pro-Army.
Shoop is simply a goat lover driven to rage by a Special Forces training exercise at the Colorado Springs post that includes soldiers and medics sedating, then wounding and operating on goats.
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Russia Threatens to Strike Terror Bases
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
AP's STEVE GUTTERMAN - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Russia's top general threatened on Wednesday to strike terrorists "in any region of the world," and the Kremlin offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture of Chechnya's top rebel leaders.
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Qureia Says Response Vs. Israel Justified
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
AP's IBRAHIM BARZAK - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia condemned an Israeli airstrike that killed 14 Hamas militants in unusually harsh terms Tuesday, warning the attack will invite a tough response from the militant group and saying retaliation will be "justified."
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Sept. 11 DVDs Present Nation in Mourning
Monday, September 6, 2004
AP's DAVID GERMAIN - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
The span of emotions Americans felt on Sept. 11, 2001, is reflected in a batch of films coming to DVD about the terrorist attacks, whose tones range from communal and hopeful to raw and provocative.
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Gaza Settlement Evacuation Plan Sped Up
Monday, August 30, 2004
AP's MARK LAVIE - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip evacuated at the same time instead of in three stages, officials said Monday, reflecting a major shift in tactics in his pullout plan.
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First lady visits Colorado, tours Lakewood business
Thursday, August 19, 2004 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| First lady Laura Bush touted the president's economic stimulus package Wednesday at a woman-owned engineering firm.
In a Colorado campaign swing for her husband, President George W. Bush, the first lady said women who own businesses are part of a "sisterhood" that is helping drive the American economy out of recession.
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Survivor spreading the word about breast-cancer awareness
Friday, August 6, 2004 BILL RADFORD - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Breast cancer doesn't have to be a killer, Sylvia Smith says.
Not if you're vigilant. Not if you're quick to seek treatment.
"The sooner you take care of it, the sooner you're back on the road to good health," Smith says.
She should know: She's traveled that road twice.
Smith is spreading the word about breast-cancer awareness as a spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Sunday at Fort Carson's Iron Horse Park.
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Cheney focuses on homeland defense during address at Peterson AFB
Tuesday, August 3, 2004 PAM ZUBECK - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Monday at Peterson Air Force Base to cheers from about 1,500 service members and guests who waived flags and chanted "U.S.A., U.S.A."
Cheney's remarks focused on homeland defense a day after the government warned of terrorist plots against East Coast financial districts.
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Initiative would change the way Colorado allocates electoral votes
Sunday, August 1, 2004 Kyle Henley - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| A citizen initiative to reform the way Colorado votes in presidential elections could affect who sits in the White House next year.
On Friday, a citizen group submitted 130,000 signatures to the Secretary of States Office to put an initiative on the ballot that would alter the way Colorado allocates Electoral College votes in presidential contests.
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Springs defense agencies keeping watch over Dem convention
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 PAM ZUBECK - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Colorado Springs is linked to the Democratic National Convention via radar scope and on-the-ground forces.
Officials with U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Peterson Air Force Base, are helping to secure the five-day event in what may be the most sophisticated and thorough coverage of a national event in recent memory.
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Kerry kicks off pre-convention tour in Aurora
Sunday, July 25, 2004
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Colorado Springs Gazette
| Kerry was kicking off his pre-convention tour Friday at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colo., where he was born 61 years ago in December and lived for his first three months. At a speech later in Denver, Kerry planned to talk about the values he learned from his parents.
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