Subject: Domestic Policy

• You Go, Joe

  May 12, 2006

• Sagebrush Bill: The Guv's a Rebel at Heart

  June 12, 2007

• Tancs for the Memories, Tom

  December 20, 2007

• Immigrant-rights activists kick off campaign

  There's a painfully obvious division within the Denver population that's attributable to a broken immigration system, says Julie Gonzales, political coordinator for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. "A lot of people within the immigrant community feel like they have to separate themselves -- like they have to hide. And on the other side, there are a lot of misconceptions, confusion and false information about immigrants that a lot of people believe," she says. "So, that's why we're her

  June 2, 2009

• Obscene and Heard

  What can you get in trouble for saying on the radio these days? Not much.

  December 4, 1997

• No Taxation Without Misrepresentation

  A state property-tax goofup means that a poor Colorado county has to pay back a huge oil company.

  January 15, 1998

• Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

  April 2, 2009

• Life's Little Lessons

  January 27, 2000

• Fire Away

  May 11, 2000

• Letters to the editor

  June 15, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  January 30, 2003

• Off Limits

  May 1, 2003

• Did Governor Ritter flip-flop on needle exchange?

  Photo from Wikipedia Commons.Bill Ritter once supported needle exchange, but now he's silent on the issue. Listen to Ritter's testimony on a 1998 bill seeking to legalize syringe exchange in Colorado. Colorado lawmakers last tackled the legalities of syringe exchange -- the topic of this week's feature "Ahead of the Needle" -- eleven years ago, when they tried to change the state law prohibiting it. They failed. But not before Governor Bill Ritter, then Denver's district attorney, weighed in.

  April 8, 2009

• Is there pork in Denver's parking operation?

  March 19, 2009

• Art in the Cabinet

  February 26, 2009

• The Making of a Pirate

  A radio buccaneer blames politics for turning him into a fugitive from the FCC.

  October 4, 2001

• Net Loss

  The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

  February 14, 2002

• Cesar Chavez Says

  Yes, he was against illegal immigration -- but he was also pro-Aztlan.

  July 3, 2008

• Trial by Wire

  There's lots of cash and carrying on over First Data's south-of-the-border business.

  March 3, 2005

• Fire Sale

  The cost of cigarettes could go up in smoke this November.

  April 15, 2004

• Russian Roulette

  The bride says she married for love; her mother-in-law suspects it was money. The only person who can settle the dispute is dead.

  September 25, 2003

• Armed and Dangerous

  Guns, alcohol and tobacco fuel the sport of politics.

  July 10, 2003

• In Sickness and in Wealth

  April 3, 2003

• Bull's Eyeful

  The sordid legal saga of Katica Crippen, Second Amendment pinup girl.

  February 13, 2003

• Hot Stuff

  A new measuring technique may allow higher broadcast emissions on Lookout Mountain.

  September 26, 2002

• Living in Exile

  Federal prisons are filling up with people whose only crime is the possession of a gun.

  March 21, 2002

• Farmer on the Dole

  Urban cowboys cash a surprising number of federal farm-subsidy checks.

  February 28, 2002

• Crosstown Traffic

  Community-radio advocates and the Colorado Department of Transportation wind up in gridlock.

  December 13, 2001

• Let Freedom -- and Gunshots -- Ring

  In the wake of last week's terrorist attack, local big-gun lovers were deadly serious about staging their Fun Shoot.

  September 20, 2001

• Bleep That

  The FCC's fining of a Colorado radio station is giving broadcasters headaches from coast to coast.

  July 26, 2001

• Road Warriors

  Boon or boondoggle, Bill Owens's highway plan has to get past Douglas Bruce before it goes anywhere.

  October 21, 1999

• End Transmission

  Denver's pirate low-power radio station is pillaged by the FCC.

  July 29, 1999

• The Ten Commandments

  May 6, 1999

• Charlton Heston's NRA Diary: United We Stand

  May 6, 1999

• You Can't Get There From Here

  July 2, 1998

• Someone to Lien On

  January 22, 1998

• No. 1 With a Bullet

  October 16, 1997

• Friendly Fire

  A Colorado gun dealer throws the book at a patriot pal.

  November 21, 1996

• This Property Is Condemned

  The EPA messes with a widow over a Commerce City warehouse and winds up making its own mess.

  August 22, 1996

• Wire Me Up, Wire Me Down

  US West's new cable partner knows how to make sweet deals. Just ask the FCC.

  March 21, 1996

• A SWEET DEAL

  NEED A TAX BREAK FOR THE NEW YEAR? CONSIDER RAISING BEES, DONKEYS, HAY OR, AS A LAST RESORT, A STINK WITH THE COUNTY ASSESSOR.TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE? FOR A SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPER SEEKING A TAX BREAK, THAT'S NO QUESTION. BUT TAXPAYERS GET STUNG.

  January 3, 1996

• HIGH PLAINS GRIFTERS

  July 5, 1995

• LET US SPRAY

  CHEMICAL WARFARE BREAKS OUT ON THE FRONT RANGE.

  June 14, 1995

• GETTING TESTY

  A DISPUTE OVER AIDS TESTING ENSNARES A HEALTH OFFICIAL FROM COLORADO SPRINGS.

  July 27, 1994

• Tom Tancredo continues his free-speech tour at Providence College

  Since leaving Congress earlier this year, past Westword profile subject Tom Tancredo has been taking his immigration-reform crusade to locations around the country -- and as documented in Alan Prendergast's April 15 blog "Obnoxious North Carolina Students Leave Tom Tancredo Speechless," he hasn't always been greeted with kind words and open arms. The video above shows him at a Rhode Island VFW, where protesters greeted him with chants of "Tom Tancredo, go away! Racist, sexist, anti-gay!" Thin

  May 1, 2009

• Read Archbishop Charles Chaput's argument for immigration reform

  Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. Denver Archibishop Charles Chaput is typically thought of as a conservative, and no wonder, since he regularly implies that voting for a politician who supports abortion rights is tantamount to helping the ghost of George Tiller section a fetus in its eighth month. But this weekend, he was among speakers calling for immigration reform at an event organized by Representative Jared Polis, himself a pro-choice politician -- and his call is earning national attenti

  June 16, 2009

• New website charts what parts of Colorado are being stimulated

  A photo from the StimulusColorado.org website. StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, aims to inform the populace about how much the state is receiving from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and how it'll be spent. At this point, there's not

  July 7, 2009

• PETA protesters give Canadian-syrup boycott their seal of approval

  Be careful: Bloody syrup will stain white fur.​I'm guessing the Canadian consulate in Denver, at 1625 Broadway, isn't a frequent location for major protests -- but that changed yesterday, when PETA representatives chose it as the place to complain about Canadian seal harvests. Their approach? Dress up someone in a seal costume, bust a bottle of "bloody syrup" -- maple syrup is one of Canada's most lucrative exports -- and then have participants chant, "Buy American! Boycott Canadian Maple

  August 20, 2009

• Colorado's new Medicaid funding plan will leave disabled adults on the outside

  August 20, 2009

• Your guide to recognizing terrorism: John Elway

  An explosively formed penetrator. Not a marital aid.​ Today, the hoi polloi of American law enforcement -- Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli -- will be in Denver to address the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference. As part of the festivities, Napolitano will join Colorado G

  October 5, 2009