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From the week of March 2

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 Edu ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: It's on to 2010

The Colorado Legislature just convened yesterday, with four months of hard work and tough budgeting choices ahead. So it's no surprise that in their off-hours, citizen lawmakers would rather ignore this new year altogether and go directly to 2010, which promises plenty of political surprises. Alrea ... More >>

Best Way to Give the Gift of Life

The Colorado Donor Registry

Best News About the 2001 Colorado Legislature

The freshman class

Off Limits

Sugar and spice

Denver Blogs: Obama becomes first black president to help save cute wolves from extinction

Send worthy bloggage here. Obama snuffs last-minute Bush proposal on oil-shale royalties and hooks up endangered wolf in process. I guess he's saving walking on water until day four. (Colorado Independent) Accomplishing nothing is a slow process for the Colorado Legislature. (Face the State) Bu ... More >>

Best Appearance by a Minister Stalking Miss America

Reverend David Meek

Rep. David Balmer's Olde English speech: comedy, lunacy or evidence of drunkenness?

The folks at the conservative website Face the State have lately been watching a lot of the Colorado Channel -- the service that provides video coverage of the Colorado General Assembly -- and thank goodness for that. When it comes to sifting through hour upon painful hour of dry procedural matter ... More >>

Best Correction in the Denver Post

The folks at the conservative website Face the State have lately been watching a lot of the Colorado Channel -- the service that provides video coverage of the Colorado General Assembly -- and thank goodness for that. When it comes to sifting through hour upon painful hour of dry procedural matter ... More >>

Bite Me

So Pho, So Good

Coloradans Take Aim

The Second Amendment triggers dialogue.

Wake-Up Call: Signs of the times

The Rocky Mountain News sign came off the Denver Newspaper Agency building (and how long will it have that name?) on Sunday. But this speedy erasing of the past didn't extend to the Sunday Denver Post, which included numerous reminders of the two papers pairing to promote a charitable endeavors, i ... More >>

Best New Law

"Doggie-Bag" Wine

Best Behind-the-Scenes Political Power Brokers

Jared Polis, Tim Gill, Rutt Bridges and Pat Stryker

Denver Blogs: All eyes on Greeley

What's happening around the local blogosphere: Court is in session: Jury selection starts in the Zapata slaying case. (Colorado Independent) The Colorado Legislature went black, but is it now going back? (5280) Eat this, recession! Buildings keep flying up in Denver (w/pics). (Denver Infill)

From drunk boating to blow jobs, it's all in a day's work

What's happening around the local blogosphere: Court is in session: Jury selection starts in the Zapata slaying case. (Colorado Independent) The Colorado Legislature went black, but is it now going back? (5280) Eat this, recession! Buildings keep flying up in Denver (w/pics). (Denver Infill)

Drink Up!

Lawmakers introduce a liquor loophole.

What's So Funny

Lawmakers introduce a liquor loophole.

House Calls

Consumers should raise the roof over this legislative session.

Checking It Twice

The sex-offender registry brands kids well into adulthood.

Hell, No, We Won't Grow!

A new bill proposes leaving rural areas openand developed areas denser than your average pro-growth legislator.

FINDERS KEEPERS

HAVING YOUR ADDRESS REMOVED FROM PUBLIC RECORDS MAY NOT MAKE YOU AS ANONYMOUS AS YOU THINK.

The Week Ahead: A threepeat for East

Yes, the Nuggets are advancing, but Colorado can already claim a real winning team: the East High Constitutional Scholars, who just won the We the People contest in Washington, D.C. -- for the third year running. The high schoolers are already preparing to make it four in a row, but should be avai ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Mason Tvert on the money

If the Colorado Legislature can tie a debate on the death penalty to the dismal economy, no reason California can't do the same for a discussion of legalizing marijuana. "Well, I think it's not time for (legalization), but I think it's time for a debate," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesda ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Romanoff on the range

​"What's he doing in the Senate?" "Why, it's an honorary appointment. He's an honorary stooge." Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM yesterday afternoon -- just the thing to warm up the set (and the sofa) before Jake Cutler returned to Mile High, particularly given a ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Denver goes to pot today!

​Charlie Brown's proposal to regulate the city's medical marijuana dispensaries will be presented to the full Denver City Council at tonight's meeting. Since the council's Safety Committee first started considering his proposed ordinance in November, the number of sales-tax licenses issued to ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Putting a lid on medical marijuana dispensaries

​Despite suggestions that he hold his horses and wait to see what the Colorado Legislature does, Charlie Brown pressed on with his proposal to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Denver, and that proposal will go to a vote of the full council tonight, after a two-hour public ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Where there's smoke, there's ire at Denver City Council's medical marijuana hearing

​Our throats were dry, our eyes were red. Blame it on pot. Specifically, on listening to four hours of pot testimony and discussion -- on top of the salute to the National Western Stock Show and another hour of civic housekeeping -- at last night's Denver City Council meeting. But there was ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Colorado Legislature goes to pot

​The Colorado Legislature officially went to pot yesterday, when Senator Chris Romer finally introduced what remains of his medical-marijuana proposal: Senate Bill 109, which would put a strict lid on the relationship between a doctor and a would-be medical marijuana patient. The Colorado hea ... More >>

Please give peas a chance

​A bill has been introduced at our esteemed Colorado Legislature that will formally establish a Colorado Food Systems Advisory Council, the better for the advancement of healthy food policies. And to what do we denizens of Denver owe this piece of puff pastry? Is it because for the last hund ... More >>

The Daily Show set to air its Denver pot piece

​"What a long strange trip it has been," state senator Chris Romer wrote early this morning, at the end of a note with his latest round of proposed changes for the bill that would drastically restructure this state's medical marijuana industry. The Colorado Legislature has just seven more day ... More >>

Pot, education and more: The Colorado House has two days to do the math

​By statute, this session of the Colorado Legislature must end on May 12. Lawmakers have a lot of work to do before then. The two hottest measures of this legislative session -- medical marijuana regulations and the education reform bill -- will both hit the House today. In the case of pot, t ... More >>

Democratic candidates: You are where you eat

Bob Marley gets 8 River's vote.​If you're a Democrat who hasn't voted yet, you might want to digest where some of the candidates are throwing their primary-night parties before you give them your support. In the down-and-dirty Senate race, Andrew Romanoff will be at City Hall, 1144 Broadway, w ... More >>

Marijuana grow houses are a growing controversy at Denver City Council

​In the fall of 2009, Denver City Council rep Charlie Brown realized that the city had to get a handle on the booming medical marijuana dispensary industry -- and even as the Colorado Legislature was just starting to discuss MMJ, Denver was signing off on its ordinance. But now the city needs ... More >>

3.2 beer was a way to get liquor quicker, but it's time to prohibit Prohibition beer

​The brewhaha at the Colorado Legislature is more heated than last call in LoDo. But all the testy talk avoids the real issue: 3.2 beer is stupid, and so are the laws that have been crafted around its outdated existence.

Colorado budget's $1.1 billion shortfall: Backseat Budgeter offers taste of task facing legislators

​The Colorado Legislature is wrestling with dozens of messy problems, including that endless, ugly battle between convenience stores and liquor stores. But there is no problem messier than untangling the state budget.

Free 3.2 beer! It's time to issue a last call for the archaic contrivance of low-alcohol beer

​The Colorado Legislature is wrestling with dozens of messy problems, including that endless, ugly battle between convenience stores and liquor stores. But there is no problem messier than untangling the state budget.

Adultery and fornication: Can Coloradans tell the difference?

​Before there was an Internet, there were people with long memories -- and two of them, former lawmakers John Bermingham and Jerry Kopel, have amazing stories of the last time Colorado grappled with the issues of adultery and fornication -- if there is any difference between the two.

How Walmart makes money off of high schools

​Before there was an Internet, there were people with long memories -- and two of them, former lawmakers John Bermingham and Jerry Kopel, have amazing stories of the last time Colorado grappled with the issues of adultery and fornication -- if there is any difference between the two.

Reader: Wild horse management shouldn't devolve into wild horse torture

​Alan Prendergast's latest wild-horses post juxtaposes a tribute to a stallion named Cloud, seen here, with the Colorado General Assembly's support for Bureau of Land Management herd-thinning policies. One reader supports wild-horse management, as long as it's done humanely.

Newhouse Hotel reportedly sex offender central & conveniently located opposite Capitol

9News​The most recent sweeps period, when ratings determine TV ad rates, ended in May -- but last night, 9News unleashed a blockbuster anyhow. The station reports that the Newhouse Hotel, across the street from the State Capitol, is the registered home of no fewer than eleven sex offenders.

Liberty Watch announces ten Colorado Republican leaders as Guardians of Liberty

Don Beezley.​Colorado Republicans are the Guardians of Liberty, according to Liberty Watch, an organization holding elected officials accountable for the organization's proposed "Principles of Liberty." Early this morning, Liberty Watch held an awards ceromony honoring ten Republicans from t ... More >>

Laura Bradford: Denver Police apology for special treatment step toward openness

Laura Bradford.​Update below: Yesterday's Denver Police news conference was among the odder in recent memory -- but also among the more welcome. The DPD's concession that Representative Laura Bradford had received special privileges rather than being busted for a DUI, and its willingness to of ... More >>

CU Regents support Colorado ASSETS tuition plan for illegal immigrants

​The Colorado Legislature is once again tackling the issue of tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, and yesterday, CU's Board of Regents voted 5-4 to support Colorado ASSET, with Republican Regent Tillie Bishop joining the Democrats. The vote came after much passionate discussion -- ... More >>