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Thomas F. Schaller
How the West will be won - August 26, 2008 - In the 1930s, Colorado officials realized they were facing a long-term water problem because the Continental Divide channels about 80 percent of rain and snowmelt westward toward neighboring states and, ultimately, the Pacific Ocean. But most of the population of the state lives east of the Rockies, in the Front Range. So Colorado politicians decided to dig tunnels through the Rockies, creating man-made arterials that redirect waters eastward to those burgeoning, thirsty counties. The Colorado-Big Thompson Project solution ranks among the greatest public works feats in the history of the American West.
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C. Fraser Smith
She's going the extra mile (or so) for Barack Obama - August 24, 2008 - She's not Obama Girl, but Cheryl A. McLeod may be the essence of the national phenomenon generated by Sen. Barack Obama.
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Ron Smith
Skipping the conventions as they skimp on substance - August 27, 2008 - The first and only time I went to the national political conventions was in 1996 - first to San Diego for the GOP conclave, at which the elderly U.S. senator from Kansas, Bob Dole, was nominated to run against President Bill Clinton in his re-election bid. I remember that Mr. Dole was such a boring old politician that the Republicans were thrilled that he selected Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills quarterback and proponent of "supply-side" economics, as his choice for vice president. Mr. Kemp, it was thought, would bring some zest to the campaign. As you may recall, it remained remarkably zestless.
Andrew Ratner
Obama bests McCain in battle of Web sites - July 13, 2008 - The allure of Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy to people nimble with the Internet was clear long before he became his party's front-runner. A Web designer produced an online video mimicking a famed Apple Computer commercial to mock rival Hillary Clinton before the first primary vote was even cast.
