Subject: American Civil Liberties Union

• Recreate 68 Offers Rhyme (Sort Of) With Reason

  December 20, 2007

• The Pen is Mightier Than the Pen

  January 17, 2008

• Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID

  April 29, 2008

• ACLU Files DNC Lawsuit Against Feds

  May 2, 2008

• Slots Announced for DNC Protest Marches

  June 19, 2008

• Democratic National Convention In-Security

  July 8, 2008

• Dani Newsum to Leave Colorado Inside Out

  July 23, 2008

• Some Notable Facts from the DNC Security Trial

  July 29, 2008

• Redacted: Denver jail loves its Sharpie

  July 31, 2008

• "Sloppy Police Work" and the Denver Jail

  August 11, 2008

• Off Limits

  February 18, 1999

• Politics get raw at the Hamburger Mary's debate

  October 15, 2008

• Blinded by Science

  Boulder throws another Barbie on the fire.

  March 8, 2001

• Best Bet for Adults With DPD Spy Files

  April 4, 2002

• Off Limits

  November 28, 2002

• Wake-Up Call: More scary stuff at DIA

  The devil horse. The one-world murals. The underground tunnels where aliens (the extraterrestrial ones) hang out. Yes, Denver International Airport has a lot of scary stuff. Starting with the name of its terminal: Jeppesen. It was supposed to honor pioneering aviation navigator Elrey Jeppesen, who founded the Colorado-based Jeppesen Company and was a truly remarkable man. (Robin Chotzinoff profiled him in a Westword story that, sadly, predates our online archives.) But Jeppesen is gone now, a

  February 12, 2009

• The Gangs All Here

  June 3, 2004

• Follow That Story

  December 2, 2004

• Recreate '68 Plans to Do Just That

  October 25, 2007

• Fight for Your Rights

  February 21, 2008

• Cycle Killer

  Why is the city putting the brakes on the Derailer Bike Collective?

  July 20, 2006

• Watch and Learn

  Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

  June 8, 2006

• Critical Mess

  Denver bicyclists get taken for a ride.

  May 4, 2006

• Evolution's Merry-Go-Round

  Modern Muse forcefully revisits the suddenly timely Inherit the Wind.

  September 1, 2005

• Off Limits

  Burn, baby, burn

  July 15, 2004

• The Message

  Art of the Matter

  January 22, 2004

• Read Alert

  Shusshhhh! Librarians turn a page in the Patriot Act.

  September 25, 2003

• Freedom Fleet

  Liberty Ride n' Rod rocks for a good cause

  July 3, 2003

• Embracing the Future

  Traveling out of DIA continues to be a frisky business.

  November 14, 2002

• Last But Not Yeast

  The DPD's binge-and-purge problem continues.

  September 19, 2002

• Smart Bombs

  There's nothing intelligent about the way the DPD kept its spy files.

  August 22, 2002

• Target Practice

  A class-action suit becomes a vehicle for racial justice.

  January 25, 2001

• The Boys Next Door

  In the rush to ban sex offenders, cities and counties may inadvertently be creating more of them down the line.

  June 15, 2000

• Throw the Bums Out

  Merchants battle transients on the mall.

  December 9, 1999

• SLAPP Shot

  The ACLU jumps into Warren Hern's battle with Ken Scott.

  April 3, 1997

• Letters

  January 16, 1997

• Strange but True

  December 26, 1996

• This Jail for Hire

  Colorado's cheap solution to prison overcrowding has cost inmates plenty. It could cost the state millions.

  August 8, 1996

• LETTERS

  February 22, 1995

• MCCARTNEY'S GREATEST HITS

  November 30, 1994

• FIGHTING IT OUT IN BOULDER

  STREET PEOPLE IN THE COLLEGE TOWN ENLIST HELP IN THEIR BATTLE AGAINST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

  November 23, 1994

• Wake-Up Call: FU, Senator Brophy

  According to state senator Greg Brophy's blog, "he's been called one of the most conservative members of the legislature and a Prius driving, bicycle riding, eco freak. You decide." But first read this, and you might come up with a couple of other descriptors. On April 24, he recounted the tale of the vegan in Parker whose request for a special vanity plate reading ILVTOFU was rejected by the Colorado Department of Revenue because dirty minds might think she loved to fuck, rather than loved t

  May 8, 2009

• Play the ACLU vanity-licence-plate game

  Who says folks at the American Civil Liberties Union's Colorado office don't have a sense of humor? They've just launched a page that asks the burning question, "Are you qualified to censor vanity license plates for the State of Colorado?" Included is a game that satirizes the decision by employees at the state's Motor Vehicle Division to deny tofu-lover Kelly Coffman-Lee the right to slap her car with the letters "ILVTOFU." Surfers are given the opportunity to guess whether twelve different v

  July 7, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 7 edition

  Photo by Cajun BoyMongo meets meat. Everyone form a line. Today in Cafe Society: • Hot Diggity Dog: Denver's Mongo Marquez joined the big leagues at Nathan's on July 4. • Civic Center Eats: Sweet Revenge cookies. • Tonight: Frasca wines paired with small plates from MiniBAR. • Where am I drinking? • Breckenridge Brewery: Yes they can. • Last night's "panic hour" at the Lancer Lounge. Today in Backbeat Online: • Fresh Breath Committee's Purpose getting his Idol on. • Elana Roge

  July 7, 2009

• ACLU sues Denver for alleged false arrests during Democratic National Convention

  Signs of recent times.​It's been a year since the Democratic National Convention took over this town -- and to mark that anniversary, the Colorado branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken two legal actions. In the first, an ACLU lawyer is representing eight people in a suit against the City of Denver and police officials asserting the plaintiffs "were falsely arrested without probable cause and groundlessly prosecuted for crimes they did not commit, in violation of the First

  August 20, 2009

• Gitmo and beer: Together again for the first time

  ​Although ProgressNow Colorado's Michael Huttner lived through a grilling by Fox News' Neil Cavuto, he likely made few converts among the cable net's mondo-conservative viewership. The Colorado branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is hoping for a friendlier audience for "Gitmo Revealed: An Evening of Film and Discussion," which takes place at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Starz FilmCenter, in the Tivoli. In addition to a screening of The Response, an offering described as "a courtroom d

  September 2, 2009

• Court case saves Headed West hookah mural

  The mural in question.​ Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland could hardly be more mainstream. Children of all ages have read it for decade upon decade, Disney made an animated version during the Truman administration, and there'll likely be another burst of interest in the material when director Tim Burton's take on the tale, co-starring Johnny Depp, hits theaters next March. But when Headed West, a shop at 4811 S. Broadway specializing in a certain type of specialty merchandise, covered on

  October 2, 2009

• Headed West owner on the saving of his hookah mural

  Headed West owner Mike Mahaney in front of his mural.​Just because the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Englewood in its effort to get rid of an Alice In Wonderland-inspired mural featuring a hookah-puffing insect doesn't mean Headed West owner Mike Mahaney, the man who commissioned it in the first place, can rest easy. "The city has 45 days to decide if they want to appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court," says Mahaney, who's run Headed West for thirteen years -- and unti

  October 5, 2009

• The Boulder police try to unfriend a Boulder Mall Crawl Facebook page

  October 29, 2009

• Is taking part in the Naked Pumpkin Run a crime?

  During an interview for last week's blog about criticism of the Boulder Police Department's efforts to squelch a revival of the Boulder Mall Crawl this Halloween, Judd Golden, chapter chair of the Boulder County American Civil Liberties Union, mentioned another event expected to bust out that night: the annual Naked Pumpkin Run. Naked Pumpkin Run participants in Boulder circa 2005 showed a lot of cheek.​Golden suggested that the BPD's pledge to arrest participants was over the top given th

  October 29, 2009