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Michael Hancock celebrates 100 mostly sunny days in a "world-class city"

Michael Hancock.​Michael Hancock has good timing. He was in the right place, right time when Denver voters were looking for someone, anyone but Chris Romer to be mayor, and managed to edge out James Mejia, the other leading someone. And even as Snobama was descending on the city, Mayor Hancoc ... More >>

Jeffrey Campos, ex-head of Denver's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, gets our nod for shmuck

Jeffrey Campos.​The documents have been sealed, and neither the defendant nor the alleged victim are talking, but Jeffrey Campos, the now-former head of Denver's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, certainly hasn't done his organization any favors. Campos was arrested July 14 and charged Thursday wi ... More >>

Crisanta Duran donated to Michael Hancock before she endorsed Chris Romer

Crisanta Duran.​Turns out that Tom Tancredo was not the only Michael Hancock supporter to start shouting "Viva Romer." State representative Crisanta Duran gave $100 to the Hancock campaign, a donation recorded on May 10 -- the day before she endorsed Chris Romer and became deputy manager of h ... More >>

The Denver mayoral race turns into a tempest in a Tea Party pot

Mayoral debate: Chris Romer ruffles feathers, Michael Hancock plucks a few

Update, 8:52 a.m. Friday: Laura Chapin, Romer's campaign spokeswoman, sent over a very short video clip from the debate regarding Hancock and creationism. See it at the bottom of this post. ____________________________________ ​"You're the fun cousins," radio host Dan Caplis told the Denver Re ... More >>

Denver Paid Sick Days Initiative: Are the costs too high to offer paid sick days to all employees?

​Yesterday, Campaign for a Healthy Denver launched what it's calling the 2011 Denver Paid Sick Days Initiative, which would mandate paid sick days for all non-governmental workers in Denver, be they full-time or part-time employees. But given the state of the economy, isn't this a terrible tim ... More >>

Thomas Wolf is the risk and return candidate for Denver mayor: Kenny Be's Speed Candidating

​ Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election were mailed out to voters late last week. With nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a "cheat sheet" handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the political rhetoric to reveal the risk and return spectrum of ... More >>

Carol Boigon's new TV ad says marijuana dispensaries "not a jobs plan" (VIDEO)

Video below.​ The first line of Carol Boigon's new ad is this: "Whether you support medical marijuana or not, putting dispensaries everywhere is not a jobs plan." Why did the mayoral hopeful, whose slogan is "Boigon Means Business," mention pot? "There's a number of my colleagues on the counci ... More >>

Doug Linkhart first Denver mayoral hopeful to hold fundraiser at a medical marijuana center

Doug Linkhart.​Doug Linkhart is definitely the most openly pro-medical marijuana of the candidates for mayor. Hence, his endorsement by the Teapot Party and embrace by local MMJ businesses. Now, the next step: This evening, Linkhart will headline the first-ever fundraising event for a Denver m ... More >>

Chris Romer wins Denver Post mayoral endorsement -- but does that mean anything?

Chris Romer.​Yesterday, the Denver Post officially endorsed former Senator Chris Romer in the Denver mayor's race, calling him a "dynamo of ideas" who would bring "the critical eye of an outsider" to the gig, since he's never worked for the city. But in today's shifting media environment, doe ... More >>

Tom Tancredo is once again a Republican, but he's not a party guy

Tom Tancredo​Tom Tancredo is busy these days. He just wrote the April Fools' edition of Ask a Mexican. He has a real new job, as a marketing exec with a local investment company, so that others won't lose their nest eggs to a Bernie Madoff character, as he did. He's repairing the damage done b ... More >>

Michael Hancock's new commercial the ad to beat in Denver mayor's race (VIDEOS)

Videos below.​To date, Denver mayor's race commercials have ranged from the slick predictability of spots for Chris Romer and James Mejia to the unintentional humor of Carol Boigon's clip, in which she spends as much time talking about John Hickenlooper as herself and ends with the line, "I'll ... More >>

Marcus Giavanni files complaint over exclusion from Denver mayoral ballot: Read it here

Marcus Giavanni.​The morning after ten Denver mayoral candidates qualified for the ballot, Marcus Giavanni, whose petition was deemed "insufficient," said he would file a complaint about his exclusion -- and he's done just that. The document, on view below, targets Denver clerk and recorder S ... More >>

Battle: Los Angeles trailer to boost UFO believer Jeff Peckman in Denver mayor's race? (VIDEO)

Video below.​Battle: Los Angeles topped the weekend box office, bringing in an estimated $36 million. But will it also improve Jeff Peckman's chances of becoming Denver's mayor? He hopes so. Peckman appears in numerous spots hyping the alien-invasion flick, including a featurette with assorted ... More >>

Paul Noel Fiorino on failing to make mayors ballot & why he's running as a write-in candidate

Paul Noel Fiorino.​Paul Noel Fiorino was among six mayoral hopefuls who didn't collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot -- although a whopping ten others managed to do so. But unlike Marcus Giavanni, Fiorino isn't contesting this decision. Instead, he plans to run as a write-in, ev ... More >>

Chris Romer, Doug Linkhart among 7 mayoral hopefuls deemed "sufficient:" How many more?

​Thus far, the campaign to become Denver's next mayor is less a race than a scrum. The city's website lists seven candidates whose petitions have been deemed "sufficient," meaning that they featured at least 300 valid signatures: Carol Boigon, Michael Hancock, Doug Linkhart, Danny Lopez, James ... More >>

Mark Gruber: A Denver mayor's race profile

Mark Gruber.​With John Hickenlooper serving as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Mark Gruber. "It's very difficult to get good government whe ... More >>

Vincent Macieyovski: A Denver mayor's race profile

Macieyovski.​With John Hickenlooper serving as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Vincent Macieyovski. "I haven't done any fundraising yet," V ... More >>

Ken Simpson: A Denver mayor's race profile

Ken Simpson.​With John Hickenlooper serving as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Ken Simpson. "I believe that one person can make a differenc ... More >>

Jeff Peckman: A Denver mayor's race profile

Jeff Peckman.​With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Jeff Peckman. "I have spent my whole life tryin ... More >>

Carol Boigon: URL thief strikes Denver mayoral hopeful's campaign

Carol Boigon.​Denver mayoral candidate Carol Boigon sent out a press release yesterday afternoon that included an announcement that her campaign had launched a new website at www.boigonmeansbusiness.com. But when folks plugged the address into their internet browser, they were instead redire ... More >>

Theresa Spahn: A Denver mayor's race profile

Theresa Spahn.​With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Theresa Spahn. "I'm not an elected official," ... More >>

Bill Vidal has said he won't run for mayor, but a petition aims to change his mind

Bill Vidal.​Mayor Bill Vidal made some noise yesterday -- without calling a press conference. It might have been hard to hear over the roaring of all those rescued lions (and the media hubbub), but his recording welcoming travelers to Denver is now live on the train at Denver International Air ... More >>

Dwight Henson: A Denver mayor's race profile

Dwight Henson.​With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Dwight Henson. "A lot of people say, 'Don't ju ... More >>

Gerald Styron, Denver mayoral candidate, once threatened to bring a gun to Westword

Mr. Mayor?​A fourteenth hopeful has entered the Denver mayor's race, and we're disappointed we had to read about Gerald Styron's candidacy somewhere else first. As Facethestate.comreports, when Styron was a write-in candidate for then-incumbent Rick Garcia's District 1 City Council slot in 200 ... More >>

Paul Noel Fiorino: A Denver mayor's race profile

Paul Noel Fiorino.​With John Hickenlooper now Colorado's governor, we know Denver will soon have a new mayor, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Paul Noel Fiorino. "We're trying to become a creative ... More >>

Linda Alvarado: Post reported that she said she was running for mayor, then retracted story

Photo by Celia Alvarez Muñoz​For a while on Friday, it looked like the unbelievably crowded field for Denver mayor was about to get a little larger. A day of buzz about local businesswoman Linda Alvarado jumping in was followed by a Denver Post piece quoting her as confirming it. But that it ... More >>

Eric Zinn, mayoral hopeful, wants Denver to lose a million pounds

Eric Zinn​In a crowded field of folks vying to be Denver's next mayor, Eric Jon Zinn has one particular candidate in his sights that he's hoping to beat: Mayor McCheese. The 17th Street tax attorney wants Denverites to forsake the junk food, get on the bike or into the gym and shed a millio ... More >>

Thomas Andrew Wolf: A Denver mayor's race profile

More pics below.​With John Hickenlooper now Colorado's governor, we know Denver will soon have a new mayor, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Thomas Andrew Wolf. "I'm the only businessperson running ... More >>

Michael Hancock has a lucky address in his run for Denver mayor

Michael Hancock​And they're off! John Hickenlooper won't resign the office of Denver mayor until 8:30 a.m. next Tuesday (ninety minutes before he's sworn in as governor), but the ever-increasing group of candidates who'd like to occupy that office next will be holding open houses over the next ... More >>

Carol Boigon: A Denver mayor's race profile

Carol Boigon.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Carol Boigon. "I'm a person who never ... More >>

Chris Romer: A Denver mayor's race profile

Chris Romer.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Chris Romer. "I'm going to win this rac ... More >>

Michael Hancock: A Denver mayor's race profile

Michael Hancock.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Michael Hancock. "It's not about co ... More >>

Doug Linkhart: A Denver mayor's race profile

Doug Linkhart.​With John Hickenlooper having been elected Colorado's governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor next year, and the race promises to be wild and wide open. To introduce you to the players, we're offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Doug Linkhart. "I want to be ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Whoa for all those would-be mayoral candidates after John Hickenlooper's job

​It may be "giddyup" time for John Hickenlooper, but his announcement that he does not plan to resign as Denver mayor in order to run for Colorado governor put a major "whoa" on all the dark horses already preparing for a run at the top slot at City Hall. And that's a good thing. Here's why: ... More >>

Clyfford Still

Denver Art Museum

Civic Circus

Upcoming changes in and around the Civic Center are being overseen by clowns.

Skyline Park

Along Arapahoe Street

Figures, Facts and Fountains

The human form is in the galleries, while Metro State and the city's fountains are in the news.

The Vision Thing

Landscape paintings and photos are at Robischon, while art and architecture make the news.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of March 17, 2005

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 24

Language Barrier

Denver Public Schools' bilingual-education policy is open to interpretation.

School Pride

Hot coffee and hot words characterize a divisive race for a school-board seat.

!Atencion, Por Favor!

Parents in northwest Denver say the school district doesn't listen--so they're making more noise.