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Homestake Creek seen below Homestake Reservoir south of Red Cliff. The U.S. Forest Service in March approved an application from the cities of Aurora and Colorado Springs for geotechnical drilling in the Homestake Valley. The approval brings the cities one step closer to the construction of a new dam and reservoir. Chris Dillmann/Daily file photo EAGLE COUNTY — Warren Hern says the time for compromise is over. “The public needs to rise up and say ‘don’t do this,'” Hern said Wednesday. The longtime defender of the Homestake valley has rallied his Holy Cross Wilderness Defense Fund to...

"After Tiller" takes the politically divisive, emotionally charged issue of late-term abortions and portrays it with grace, understatement and humanity. Documentarians Martha Shane and Lana Wilson are clearly on the side of the four remaining doctors in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions, a procedure that even some women's rights advocates find troubling. The directors provide us intimate access to their clinics, homes and family lives, showing us the tears of sympathy they shed with despondent women as well as the ethical struggles they face. These are physicians who c...

by Rachel M. MacNair “I have fetus dreams, we all do here: dreams of abortions one after the other; of buckets of blood splashed on the walls; trees full of crawling fetuses,” reported Sallie Tisdale of her time as a nurse in an abortion facility. Writing in Harper’s magazine, she told of dreaming that two men grabbed her and dragged her away. “Let’s do an abortion,” they said with a sickening leer, and I began to scream, plunged into a vision of sucking, scraping pain, of being spread and torn by impartial instruments that do only what they are bidden. I ...

we're back with john walsh and tony langley for more of the politics fix. the white house completed today this perfect execution on the confirmation of sonia sotomayor. how can this same operation that handled that so beautifully, they were told by republicans, do not try to get her confirmed that fast. we will get in the way, they said. they just steam rolled right past them and confirmed her fast. how can that same team be so bogged down on health care reform? >> you know, they got bogged down a little in the beginning about the issues of her speeches and the wise latina remark, la...

we're back with john walsh and tony langley for more of the politics fix. the white house completed today this perfect execution on the confirmation of sonia sotomayor. how can this same operation that handled that so beautifully, they were told by republicans, do not try to get her confirmed that fast. we will get in the way, they said. they just steam rolled right past them and confirmed her fast. how can that same team be so bogged down on health care reform? >> you know, they got bogged down a little in the beginning about the issues of her speeches and the wise latina remark, la...