It's been an exciting first week of blogging here at 5280.com. Thank goodness this coming week will be a quiet one; we need the rest. What? An election? Great... If this is your first visit to our blog, here's a fast recap of just some of the stories we posted this week:

• A Colorado Avalanche
• The Missing Absentee Ballots
• Marilyn Musgrave's "Ghost Suite"
• Welcome!
• Reminder: Have You Been Purged?
• Another Dive Bites the Dust
• Voting on Retention of Judges
• Why Drew T. Durham?
• Denver to Receive Less in Anti-Terrorism Funds
• More Backlash Against the Post
• Denver Post: We Get Letters
• More National Media Focus on Colorado
• What Liberal Media?
• "How Kerry could win it and still lose it, or lose it and still win it."
• Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004
• Have You Been Purged?

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