Subject: Bernie Buescher

• News Flash: No Rise in Trangender Bathroom Attacks

  June 27, 2008

• TV host Aaron Harber on why he should be Colorado's next Secretary of State

  Aaron Harber. At present, twenty people have submitted applications for Colorado's Secretary of State job, including several big-name politicos: Andrew Romanoff, the term-limited speaker of Colorado's House of Representatives; Ken Gordon, the majority leader for the state senate; Rosemary Rodriguez, the chairwoman of the Election Assistance Commission, Representative Bernie Buescher, a Grand Junctionite who was just defeated in a re-election bid, and more. However, there are some surprising

  November 19, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Mr. Salazar goes to Washington?

  Suddenly, all the political pundits are talking about a Salazar going to Washington. Not Ken Salazar, who'd apparently rather stay in his Senate seat than move to the Cabinet (but might be up for a future opening on the Supreme Court, where he'd be the first Latino justice), but his brother, John. And the talk isn't just of John Salazar possibly becoming Secretary of Agriculture, of course, but what would happen to his third district congressional seat if he does. Democ

  December 4, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, December 15-21

  While the Obama cabinet carousel -- Ritter! Salazar (Ken)! Salazar (John)! Michael Bennet! Salazar (Ken, again)! -- continues to go 'round, with a name thrown out each week (although now, with Ken Salazar back in the ring for Interior, we're on repeats) -- Colorado's top Dems will gather at the Governor's Office to help make Obama's win official, as the state's nine presidential electors cast their ballots. Then it's back to business -- or the lack thereof, which will become more co

  December 15, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Ritter's vote is in for Colorado Secretary of State

  At 9:30 a.m. this morning, Governor Bill Ritter will announce Colorado's next secretary of state, the culmination of a six-week process that officially started on the night of November 4, when Mike Coffman was elected to replace Tom Tancredo in the sixth congressional district. Although Ritter had the power to pick Coffman's replacement at any time (and a good candidate: term-limited legislator and runner-up to Coffman for the secretary of state seat in 2006), he instead established a task forc

  December 19, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Building -- and budgeting -- for the future

  The holidays push most action off the public calendar this week. Tonight at 5:30 p.m., Denver City Council will start the process of stuffing someone's stocking with coal: Over the next few weeks, councilmembers will decide whether to grant landmark status to two, '60s-era Hornbein and White buildings on the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Unless they come up with a very clever compromise (say, save one, the old daycare center), their decision is bound to piss off S

  December 22, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Watch the fireworks...over the Senate nomination

  Denver's fireworks display won't officially start until 9 p.m. December 31 (with a repeat performance at midnight), but there have already been plenty of explosive discussions over who, exactly, Governor Bill Ritter should nominate to fill Ken Salazar's soon-to-be-empty Senate seat -- and what coveted slot might then be empty. So far, the most talked-about spots are the first congressional district seat now occupied by Diana DeGette -- which could be vacant if Ritter buys DeGette's argument t

  December 29, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Batting clean-up before the legislative session

  Now that Michael Bennet has been named to take over for Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate (no cowboy hat required), Colorado pols can get back to the business of running the state (at least until it's time to start running for whatever seat may be in play in 2010). Today, the Denver Board of Education will start looking for a new superintendent to replace Bennet. Hey, Andrew Romanoff is still looking for a job -- if he hasn't already been tapped to become the next coach of the Broncos. And o

  January 5, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: New jobs for Andrew Romanoff

  On November 5, the day after Democrats scored such a stunning upset in Colorado, I spotted affable, outgoing Colorado House of Representatives speaker Andrew Romanoff at the Saucy Noodle, of all places. He was on the phone with Bernie Buescher, the Grand Junction rep who'd looked to be next in line as speaker -- until he lost his seat on November 4. Six weeks later, Romanoff was one of three finalists for the Colorado Secretary of State's job -- and lost it to Buescher. And last week, he lost

  January 7, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Naming names for U.S. attorney

  Right before he headed into his lovefest/confirmation hearing for the Secretary of the Interior post, still-Senator Ken Salazar and new Senator Mark Udall sent President-elect Barack Obama the names of three candidates for U.S. attorney, since that post generally goes with the winning party, and Republican Troy Eid has tendered his resignation (he's planning to run for Colorado attorney general). The names: William "Bill" Thiebaut, former legislator and current Pueblo district attorney; John Wa

  January 16, 2009

• Over and Over Again

  Spending half a billion dollars on new prisons won't solve the state's biggest crime problem: the staggering failure rate of parole.

  April 6, 2006

• Get a Job!

  You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your lieutenant governor.

  January 27, 2000

• Denver Blogs: Sometimes you feel like a Nut

  ​Where, oh, where did those little blogs go? Show us. The Rockies may have lost 7-zip to the Phillies last night -- but hot prospect Christian Friedrich struck out ten in less than six innings for the class-A Modesto Nuts. Glass half full! Glass half full! (Inside the Rockies) Secretary of State Bernie Buescher drops the rulemaking process for controversial (and likely doomed) Amendment 54. As thanks, will a lobbyist give him a pricey gift? (Face the State) The Broncos will scrimmage at

  August 6, 2009