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Just a quick programming note:
Air Force One just touched down in Denver, where President Barack Obama will sign the economic stimulus bill, which was negotiated by Congress over the past several weeks, into law.  The Colorado Independent, a Center for Independent Media site, has live coverage.

Early on Obama declared “enough,” and that word resonated throughout his 48-minute speech. So did the phrase “Now is the time.” Those simple sentiments bookended a comprehensive indictment of the presumptive Republican nominee as honorable but clueless and a challenge to his own party.

DENVER — The Center for Independent Media’s network is covering the Democratic convention here this week.
On our Michigan site, editor Todd Spencer covered a discussion between T. Boone Pickens and leading environmentalists.
On the Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman assessed the Democrats’ efforts to engage on national security.
And the Colorado Independent, playing with a significant home field [...]

DENVER — In a speech that lasted only a few minutes to an audience that included fewer than half of the states’ delegations, Culver highlighted Iowa’s role in the nomination of Sen. Barack Obama, but he shied away from making a direct appeal to maintain Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses in future election cycles.