Bill Ritter

Abstinence pays off for Joneen Mackenzie and the Center for Relationship Education

​The February 26 Denver Post featured a lengthy article on Joneen Mackenzie and how she became a crusader for abstinence education -- a crusade she leads through her Center for Relationship Education, which is funded by a pair of grants, including one approved by the Colorado Board of Educatio ... More >>

The luckiest political campaign office in Colorado is becoming a fitness center

​Campaigners are getting serious about the next election, but would-be candidates missed a golden opportunity in the Golden Triangle when they failed to lease the space at 1100 Bannock Street most recently occupied by the Michael Hancock campaign.

Michael Hancock, Denver's new mayor, had a good campaign -- and a lucky office

​Michael Hancock wasn't the only big winner last night. His campaign headquarters at 1100 Bannock Street just scored another major victory. This could be the luckiest address in town, a golden spot in the Golden Triangle.

Curious Theatre announces this year's crop of celebrities for Denver Stories

Otis Taylor may or may not be one of them.​In its five years of existence so far, the Curious Theatre Company has lured some pretty prodigious figures into its annual Denver Stories production, where it pairs local celebrities with playwrights and has them produce autobiographical short plays; ... More >>

Bill Ritter announces new home for moon rock: Colorado School of Mines' Museum of Geology

Bill Ritter.​Yesterday, Governor Bill Ritter and Colorado School of Mines President Bill Scoggins revealed the new permanent location for Colorado's "Goodwill" moon rock. From now on, you'll be able to find the once lost and recently found rock at the School of Mines' Museum of Geology.

Death Knell: Colorado wants reforms for its child-welfare system, but the biggest change is off the table

Medical marijuana laws will kill 40 percent of dispensaries, Brian Vicente predicts

Brian Vicente.​Yesterday, with as little fanfare as possible, Governor Bill Ritter signed two bills, HB 1284 and SB 109, designed to regulate Colorado's medical marijuana industry. MMJ advocates like Matt Brown hail the legislation. But Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente sees them as flawed l ... More >>

Does Chief Gerry Whitman's letter to Dick Wadhams help Stephanie Villafuerte?

Stephanie Villafuerte's U.S. Attorney nomination just keeps getting more complicated.​The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn't supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal data ... More >>

Jon Caldara doesn't like being ignored, Mr. Ritter

Jon Caldara makes his feelings known.​Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter's cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyo ... More >>

Shmuck of the Week: Josh Penry

​This week's shmuck is state Senate minority leader Josh Penry of Grand Junction. He's also gunning for Bill Ritter's Governor job, and the short version of the past few weeks' convoluted saga of schmuckitude is that Penry cares a lot more about his political future than his constituents. (Whi ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Same old song

Governor Bill Ritter took a break from his budget-busting business last week to pop by the Paramount Theater, where he presented Loretta Lynn with a plaque commemorating her induction into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame. The Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame? Yeah, I hadn't heard of i ... More >>

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 Rep ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Countdown to a Senate nomination

At gatherings on New Year's Day, the talk was all about when Governor Bill Ritter will announce a new senator -- and, of course, just who his pick will be to replace Ken Salazar, Barack Obama's choice to head the Department of the Interior. Technically, there's no hurry; Salazar's confirmation hear ... More >>

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 Wh ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Building for the future: Who's next for 1100 Bannock?

For lease: the luckiest building in Denver. Four years ago, this space at 11th Avenue and Bannock Street was home to the Ken Salazar for Senate campaign -- a race that Colorado's then-attorney general won easily when the Republicans lined up behind Peter Coors, whose candidacy fell flatter tha ... More >>

Anti-abortion clamor at the Colorado capitol

Another Denver Post anti-Ritter editorial that reads as if Dean Singleton wrote it

Denver Post's Ritter affair fishing expedition goes nowhere

DNC Party Scene: Monday Night

Exploring terrorism at the CELL with Governor Ritter

Bill Ritter and Federico Peña: America's got talent?

Bill Ritter and Federico Peña: America's got talent?

The Obama Ticket Giveaway: What's the Word That Usually Goes With "Cluster"?

The Obama Ticket Giveaway: What's the Word That Usually Goes With "Cluster"?

Governor Ritter for Vice President?

Frontier Cuts to the Core of Colorado

Plane talk about the state's homegrown airline.

Green Machine

Losing our cool over Colorado's Cool Biz.

Ritter Meets the Press

The Bill Ritter Meet the Press Transcript

Bill Ritter Meets the Press in the Post-Russert Era

Commercial Break

Mayor Hickenlooper and Governor Ritter Inhaled!

Putting the high back into the Mile High City.

Pandering Over Parole at the Statehouse

The Roan Plateau: A Guide for the Perplexed

Possible Fallout From the Denver Post's Front-Page Editorial About Bill Ritter

The Post Takes Opinions Above the Fold

For the first time since 2005, the Post's editorial board opines on the front page.

Bill Ritter Blasted in Page One Denver Post Editorial

Sagebrush Bill: The Guv's a Rebel at Heart

Mouthpiece

Onetime Post city editor Evan Dreyer has gone from covering the news to helping make it, as Bill Ritter's communications director.

First Lady Moving and Hauling

Ice, Ice, Baby

Ready, Aim, Fire

All Aboard

The Cold, Hard Facts

Forfeit Me Not

The legislature redefines a public nuisance

Jailbait

Denver's entire law-enforcement community seems to think we need a bigger house. But a few holdouts say that first we need wiser law enforcement

Trial by Ire

The candidates in the Denver's DA's race refuse to come to order.

Off Limits

BRUSH WITH THE LAW

YOUNG DELINQUENTS CHURN OUT ARTWORK TO EARN MONEY FOR RESTITUTION.