Nation IN BRIEF : COLORADO : Mayors’ Conference Joins State Boycott

The nation’s mayors canceled plans to hold their annual conference in Colorado next year because of that state’s passage of an anti-gay rights law. The U.S. Conference of Mayors’ executive committee said it would select a new site for its June meeting, planned for Colorado Springs. Its mayor, Republican Robert Isaac, is a past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and had pushed for years to have the group meet in his city. The weeklong conference regularly attracts the elected leaders of the nation’s largest cities.