Bob Ewegen began working at the Denver Post in the early '70s, most recently serving as the paper's assistant editorial-page editor. So his departure from the paper in mid-November should have been a time for tribute. Instead, the paper has responded with near silence, as has Ewegen himself.
Like most Denver football fans, I found the Broncos' humiliating defeat to the San Diego Chargers last night to be painful in the extreme. But there's an additional reason why I'm in agony this morning -- and it centers on Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley, pictured here.
Back on March 31, I wrote "The Post's Bizarre Anti-Broncos Editorial," a blog about "Broncos Taking Hits On, Off Field," an opinion piece that took what struck me as gratuitous and uninformed slaps at our local NF
We all think that our actions have sweeping repercussions -- or at least that's what I tell myself after being admonished by my team of therapists each week. But this time, it seems to me, I really might have, maybe, sort of, spurred last week's sacking of longtime Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan.
Here's the deal.
As pointed out in this morning's Wake-Up Call, ex-Senator Wayne Allard has taken a job with a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, The Livingston Group. But in reporting about this development, neither the Denver Post, which blurbed the item, nor the Rocky Mountain News, which published a slightly larger offering that's not online at this writing, made mention of a whopping irony.
Specifically, Allard twice defeated Democrat Tom Strickland for the Senate seat by painting him as (gasp!) a "lawyer/
Garrison Keillor.
An editor's note by editorial-page editor Dan Haley, featured in the op-ed section of today's Denver Post print edition, reads: "Good news from the right, and left. KOA radio talk show host and former Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Rosen will begin writing his column for The Denver Post Friday. And Garrison Keillor, the popular folk humorist and national radio personality, will write for Saturday's paper."
Clearly, Haley is positioning these additions as an example of bal
Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley.
Of all the major issues the Denver Post editorial page could have chosen to address today, Broncos QB Jay Cutler's maturity, or lack thereof, is among the least important in the cosmic scheme of things. As a result, "The Denver Broncos Deserve a Winner, Not a Whiner," a salvo published today, will likely irk some subscribers, just as I was bothered by a previous pigskin editorial -- "Broncos Taking Hits On, Off Field," published in March 2008. After
Dan Haley.Last year, I wrote a blog needling Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley about a piece that took what I saw as cheap shots at the Denver Broncos. In response, he challenged me to make a bragging-rights prediction about the team's record that season. I foresaw a 10-6 finish and a loss in the first round of the playoffs, while he figured on an 8-8 mark and no playoff participation -- and we all know how that turned out. Hence, my subsequent item, "The Denver Post's Dan Haley
Michael Bennet.Even as Andrew Romanoff readies for a 2010 run for the U.S. Senate, Michael Bennet, the Bill Ritter appointee he'll be challenging, is upping his public profile. Hence, an appearance yesterday on KHOW for an extended conversation with host Craig Silverman and fill-in yakker Dan Haley, the editorial page editor of the Denver Post and fearless Broncos prognosticator. Naturally, the topic of healthcare reform was front and center, and Bennet, like so many other members of his
