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Nuclear workers' searing cry for help

The U.S. Department of Labor, if you can believe it, refused to talk to Rocky Mountain News reporter Laura Frank during the investigation that led to this week's series Deadly Denial - her description of grotesque red tape and foot-dragging inflicted upon those who once built nuclear arms for this country and who have been struck down since with terrible diseases.

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Oil and water

Anyone who is in favor of petroleum development in the Western United States should be prepared to ask the oil companies where the necessary water will come from. Who will be denied their water rights so that oil companies can operate drilling rigs?

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POINT/COUNTERPOINT: Is biggest plan best for VA?

In 1865, standing on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, Abraham Lincoln vowed to heal a nation torn by the Civil War and "to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan." Lincoln's pledge to honor and serve the veterans of his time, has, over the past century and a half, become our nation's vow to those who have answered the call of duty in all times and all wars.

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KOPEL: Papers mishandle Bruce allegations

In the past half-century, there has perhaps been no legislator who is disliked by such a broad, bipartisan coalition of legislators as Douglas Bruce, the state representative from Colorado Springs. His abrasive, uncollegial personality is the opposite of what it takes to make friends at the Capitol - or with the media. That said, the media have been deficient in their handling of a false and vile accusation made against Bruce.

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