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...1960s when a brand-new ranch house with a one-car garage was all a suburbanite could hope for. The more affluent left it behind over the years for wealthier counties like Douglas, which is where Eng's Republican opponent has set up his headquarters. To get to Mike Coffman's office in Highlands Ranch, you have to drive past mile after mile of McMansion developments with names like Berkshire Residences and soon-to-be-opened box stores that still have the plastic wrap on. In the late 1980s, the area was home to just a few hundred residents; today...
Neither the plan nor its proponents were universally loved. Critics pointed out that gas-team member Rutherford had briefly been a lobbyist for a TransCanada subsidiary. And stiffer resistance came from economic conservatives. Representative Mike Hawker says that by cutting Big Oil out of the pipeline, Palin's team "endangered the state's economic future. It's a classic case of biting the hand that feeds...
...equal proportions by their Big Red. Embarrassed after being smacked around by Yale in a 51-12 drubbing last season, Cornell’s defense unleashed a relentless attack that left five sacks worth of bruises on the Bulldog quarterbacks’ bodies and pride and stumped the great Mike McLeod, Yale’s juggernaut of a running back. The result was a 17-14 Big Red win and a dumbfounded look on the face of the Ivy League pundits.Predictions be damned.Having said that, here are mine:HARVARD (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) AT LAFAYETTE (3-0)Lafayette...
...biggest one-word comment. No one is going to help me if I have problems with my company. Especially considering the huge amounts of money these companies were paying themselves, it's really obscene." Another St. Helena resident, Paul Tuttle, a registered Republican, peppered his Representative, Democrat Mike Thompson, with anti-bailout e-mail. "I think it was bad legislation," says Tuttle. "You're socializing risk. It's like creating the U.S.S.R. under the U.S. flag." Thompson voted against the measure. Says Tuttle: "We have a perfectly valid branch, the FDIC, there to take care of problem banks. Let them...
...Steve Schmidt, has managed to run consistently ahead of the Republican brand. The campaign's top brass, meanwhile, remains unapologetic about its risk-taking approach and undaunted by the odds. "We would have packed up the tent four months ago if we didn't like daunting challenges," says Mike Duhaime, the campaign's ground-operations chief. McCain, as well, has been unapologetic about the moves his campaign has made, often comparing himself to his role model, Teddy Roosevelt. "I am a betting man," McCain recently told NBC News...