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Moderate Democrats with a frontier feel have made inroads in recent years in Rocky Mountain towns such as Golden, Colo. |
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Why the West is shifting blue
Moderate Democrats appeal to voters rethinkingtheir party loyalties in the West's interior states
Story by Steve Schmidt
STAFF WRITER
Photos by Sean M. Haffey
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
GOLDEN, Colo. – Is the West the new South? In the same way that Republicans rode to dominance in Southern politics four decades ago, Democrats are now carving out their own expanse of territory – in the nation's cactus-and-cowboy belt.
Iraq policy not working, Rumsfeld memo says
Limiting political fallout from 'major adjustment' a top concern
By Michael R. Gordon and David S. Cloud
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.
U-T SPECIAL REPORT
Developer takes high-rise fight to Washington
By David Hasemyer
STAFF WRITER
Armed with high-powered consultants and an aviation lawyer, the developer of a Kearny Mesa high-rise trooped off to Washington last week to convince the FAA that its 12-story building isn't a hazard to airplanes landing at Montgomery Field.
On Internet, citizens turn into sleuths
Pedophilia stings raise concerns of vigilantism
By Jose Luis Jiménez
STAFF WRITER
A New England woman inspired by a television show posed as a 13-year-old girl in an Internet chat room. She was soon sexually solicited by an Oceanside man who later was jailed for the lewd electronic chats.
Wreath-laying at Arlington is branching out
By Marc Fisher
THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – Every year for more than a decade, at the height of the holiday season, Morrill Worcester would pack up a truckload of his Christmas wreaths and head down from Maine to Arlington National Cemetery.
