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Friday Cemetery Blogging: Riverside Cemetery, Pt. 2

Published on October 17, 2008 By spyderkl

Yesterday, I started talking about our “field trip” to Riverside Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Colorado. The real fun started when we left the office and headed out to the gravesites. As I said yesterday, School Girl was way too excited about taking pictures. She was immediately attracted to the “coup-in” style of gravesite, as [...]

Registered Yet?

Published on October 2, 2008 By spyderkl

Almost every state has their voter registration deadline sometime in the next week or so. Here in Colorado, the cutoff date is October 6. Are you registered yet? You might want to check your voter roll/record to make certain (here’s the link for the county clerk and recorder’s offices in CO). This year in particular, [...]

Even more about personhood

Published on August 28, 2008 By spyderkl

As well as something that never even occurred to me – at first… Wendy Norris is liveblogging a talk at The Big Tent today about Amendment 48. It’s really interesting stuff, if a little (well, now, maybe not just a little) scary. I know that there is the strong possibility that women (like me) who [...]

The primary’s over

Published on August 13, 2008 By spyderkl

Yesterday, Colorado had their primary elections. We didn’t vote for a Presidential candidate – that was the purpose of the caucus back in February – but there were elections for just about everything else, including for various Congressional seats. The big news? Jared Polis won. Polis is running in CO-02, which includes the city of [...]

More about “personhood”

Published on August 12, 2008 By spyderkl

In part 2 of Wendy Norris’ Colorado Independent piece about Amendment 48, there is a striking bit of history that I had never known: Colorado has played a prominent role in the abortion debate since 1967, when the state was the first in the nation to legalize abortion in cases of rape, incest or danger [...]