Environment Colorado endorsed U.S. Rep. Mark Udall for the U.S. Senate citing his record of leadership in building the New Energy Economy as the energy debate in this race heats up.

“Our nation is at a crossroads on energy policy, and we need a bold new direction. This is not the time to beat around the bush. . From the starting line to the finish line, Mark Udall is Colorado’s champion to build the New Energy Economy, and now more than ever we need to aggressively move in this direction,” said Pam Kiely, Legislative Program Director of Environment Colorado.

“When the going gets tough in Congress, he’s been the go-to guy on renewable energy, and now is the time for the bold action and the new solutions that Rep. Udall brings to the table,” continued Kiely.

His career so far has produced a consistently strong environmental record. Rep. Udall has a lifetime environmental voting record of 99% according to the League of Conservation Voters, and scored 100% in 2008 according to Environment Colorado.

The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown and environmental collapse. That is the message from the report of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development, a major new report by over 400 scientists which is launched today.

The assessment was considered by 64 governments at an intergovernmental plenary in Johannesburg last week.

The authors' brief was to examine hunger, poverty, the environment and equity together. Professor Robert Watson Director of IAASTD said those on the margins are ill-served by the present system: "The incentives for science to address the issues that matter to the poor are weak... the poorest developing countries are net losers under most trade liberalization scenarios."

Denver - A man linked to a 1995 sexual assault case through Denver’s Cold Case Project has pleaded guilty in

connection with the case.

James Scott (07-19-61) pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault (F2). He is scheduled to be

sentenced on June 6, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. in Denver District Courtroom 10 where he faces 16 to 48 years

in prison.

Scott pleaded guilty in the January 1995 kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman on the Clayton

College campus in Denver. Scott, who has been convicted for sexually assaulting five other women,

also is a suspect in a 1979 murder that occurred in Denver.

The Cold Case DNA project is an ongoing collaborative effort involving Denver Police detectives, the

Denver Police Department Crime Lab and the Denver District Attorney's Office with grant funding

through the National Institute of Justice.

It was reported repeatedly in 2006 that the link between mercury-containing vaccines and autism has been disproven. Yet if one looks at the most recent research coming from some of our major universities, one may draw the opposite conclusion.

What we have learned in the last couple of years is that the underlying medical condition of autism is neuroinflammatory disease. In a study conducted at John Hopkins University, brain tissue from deceased autistic patients was examined. The tissue showed an active neuroinflammatory process and marked activation of microglia cells. Neuroinflammatory disease is synonymous with an activation of microglia cells.

Chairman Schumer, Vice Chairman Maloney, Representative Saxton, and other members of the Committee, I am pleased to appear before the Joint Economic Committee. In response to deterioration in the near-term outlook for the economy and intensified strains in financial markets, in recent months the Federal Reserve has eased monetary policy substantially further and taken strong actions to increase market liquidity. In my remarks today, I will first offer my views on conditions in financial markets and the outlook for the U.S. economy, then discuss recent actions taken by the Federal Reserve.

Although our recent actions appear to have helped stabilize the situation somewhat, financial markets remain under considerable stress. Pressures in short-term bank funding markets, which had abated somewhat beginning late last year, have increased once again. Many lenders have been reluctant to provide credit to counterparties, especially leveraged investors, and have increased the amount of collateral they require to back short-term security financing agreements. To meet those demands, investors have reduced their leverage and liquidated holdings of securities, putting further downward pressure on security prices.

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Out goes Republican hatchetman (see the law skirting Trailhead 527) and nice guy oilman Bruce Benson as head of the Denver Public Schools Foundation. And in comes self-described homemaker Kristin Richardson, another major Republican donor to head a foundation that ostensibly supports an overwhelmingly poor Hispanic and urban school district in very Democratic Denver.
Richardson has donated $25,000 to the Republican National Committee, along with checks to Pete Coors, Bush-Cheney, the American Renewal PAC,and Rick O'Donnell. The American Renewal PAC has a track record of supporting the most conservative Republican canidates for federal office.