The Steamboat Pilot & Today

An anti-war protest march several blocks long makes its way from the Denver Coliseum to the Pepsi Center.

Marilyn Black Elk offers protest marchers relief from the Denver heat Wednesday.

Delaware Senator Joe Biden focused not only on his working class upbringing Wednesday night, but also on the dangerous waters of current foreign affairs. The plotters of Sept. 11, he said, "have regrouped in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan" and are plotting "new attacks" - statements that forecast tough challenges for America's next president.

Delaware Senator Joe Biden wowed a packed crowd at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday night, when he accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president and, speaking of his roots in Scranton, Pa., said he is "here for the cops and firefighters," teachers and factory workers, all "the folks whose lives are the very measure of whether the American dream endures."

Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Daily Kos web blog, talks with a friend Wednesday morning in The Big Tent, a multimedia extravaganza on Wynkoop Street. Daily Kos is one of the tent's hosts, along with ProgressNow.org and Alliance for Sustainable Colorado. The tent's sponsors include Google.

Bloggers from around the country and world turn The Big Tent on Wynkoop St. into a charged, multi-media environment. Wednesday morning, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer spoke in the tent, hours after firing up a Pepsi Center crowd Tuesday night.

Goalkeeper Connor Birch stops a hard shot during Monday afternoon’s practice at Gardner Field. Birch will be one of several veteran players the Sailors will be looking to for leadership this season.

Hayden football coach Shawn Baumgartner, last season’s Class 1A coach of the year, relays instructions to sophomore quarterback Graig Medvesk last week during a practice in Hayden. The Tigers open their season at 7 p.m. Friday against Coal Ridge in New Castle.

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Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue Chief Bob Struble mans the operations desk at the State Emergency Operations Center in Centennial. Struble and Routt County Emergency Management Director Chuck Vale are two of about 70 officials from across the state working at the center that was mobilized for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

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Emlee Reiter, 5, plays Tuesday afternoon while attending Tracy Delliquadri’s Little Bear Child Care, a day care she runs out of her home. County officials have agreed to increase the income limit on a federal and state-funded assistance program.