Joe Garcia

Colorado gun-control laws: Here's why 55 sheriffs think they're illegal

As we noted last week while covering the tragic death of Anastasia Adair, who accidentally killed herself with a new assault rifle, Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith and 54 colleagues have joined a complaint against newly passed Colorado gun-control laws, including a ban of all magazines that can ... More >>

THC driving bill up for final reading, activist fears passage after previous failed attempts

Yesterday, most of the drama at the State Capitol involved an Amendment 64 repeal proposal that fell short. But while that was happening, a THC driving standard proposal that had apparently been killed by a Senate committee last month not only rose from the dead but passed two readings. It's headed ... More >>

Rhonda Fields on boycott over gun laws, charges for e-mail attacks, Obama visit

Yesterday, we spoke with Representative Rhonda Fields about the THC driving bill she's co-sponsoring; the measure received a favorable report from the House Appropriations Committee and should reach the floor this week. But during our conversation, we also touched on several other topics, including ... More >>

Sand Creek Massacre and John Chivington's explosive actions 151 years after Glorieta Pass

The explosions outside the State Capitol yesterday startled people from downtown to Capitol Hill. But unlike so many other explosions today, these were planned. Artillery blasts marked the 151st anniversary of the Battle of Glorieta Pass, on March 26, 1862, when Colonel John Chivington led the First ... More >>

TBD Colorado collecting online opinions on transportation, education

When all the smoke clears over the gun debate, Colorado will still have other tough issues to tackle. What's the future of this state? That's what TBD Colorado wants to determine. Last year, the non-partisan nonprofit -- "No state dollars are being spent on TBD Colorado," its website promises -- h ... More >>

Joe Garcia will continue as Colorado's coolest lieutenant governor

Joe Garcia, Colorado's coolest lieutenant governor, won't be going to Washington, D.C. -- not now, at least, and not as the head of the Department of Labor. Yesterday, the White House announced that Tom Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, will take that post. Like Garcia, ... More >>

Year in Review: The strangest people and events of 2012

See also: Year in Review: The 2012 Hall of Shame

Where's the Colorado connection in One Book, One Denver? Maybe a Bear Ate It!

John Hickenlooper's bloopers prove he's vice presidential material

National pundits have been touting John Hickenlooper as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, with perhaps a slot as Barack Obama's 2012 running mate as a warm-up. And lately, Hick's been sounding very vice-presidential -- if Obama is looking for a veep as gaffe-daffy as Joe Biden.

Greg Brophy may choose to lay low on Pro-Choice Lobby Day

Timing is everything in politics, and in birth control -- especially in the bad old days of the rhythm method, which it seems like some pols would like to return us to. In honor of Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Colorado Legislature today, state senator Greg Brophy should choose to keep a low profile.

John Hickenlooper for vice president...and brewmaster? Hick brings in beery good press

They like us! They really like us! Denver has long seemed like the Sally Field of cities, eager for any national recognition. And this past weekend, Denver got plenty, for everything from its beer to its beer-drinking governor....especially its beer-drinking governor.

Joe Garcia is Colorado's coolest lieutenant governor...if not a sex star

There is no question that Joe Garcia is a cool guy, as Governor John Hickenlooper pronounced in his State of the State speech; he called his lieutenant governor the "ever-cooler." And he's probably the coolest Colorado lieutenant governor ever, as Hickenlooper has suggested. No insult to Barbara O'B ... More >>

Tom Massey wins Governor's Hall of Fame Award for showing movies love

Tom Massey.​ Local filmmaker Daniel Junge was a big winner last night, snagging an Oscar for his documentary, Saving Face. But before the crowd at the Denver Film Society's Oscar Night America party erupted in cheers, movie lovers gave a round of applause to Representative Tom Massey, who won ... More >>

John Hickenlooper: If he can become governor, there's no limit to Colorado's future

Governor John Hickenlooper met with newspaper reps in town for the Colorado Press Association's annual convention at the Governor's Mansion yesterday. There, he talked about Iowa, Christo, the coolness of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia...and how Westword was a very good neighbor during the Wynkoop B ... More >>

Remedial college courses: More Colorado students need them, report shows

More Colorado college students are taking remedial courses once they arrive on campus, according to a report released today. In the 2010-11 school year, 31.8 percent of recent high school graduates were placed into a remedial course, as opposed to 28.6 percent in 2009-10. The remediation rate for st ... More >>

Ernest House Jr. back at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs

Ernest House Jr.​It turned out to be tempest in a teepee. Two months after Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia removed Carol Harvey as executive secretary of the Colorado Commission or Indian Affairs, which his office oversees, Ernest House Jr. has been ratified as the new executive secretary. An ... More >>

John Hickenlooper: Hat's off to Colorado's entrepreneurial spirit

John Hickenlooper might not like wearing a tie, but he has a thing about hats these days. He donned a giant cowboy hat for his speech at the Citizens of the West dinner Monday night (scary photo at right and below); he modeled a Denver Broncos cap during his State of the State speech yesterday. But ... More >>

Carol Harvey dismissal: Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs looking for her replacement

The e-mails were flying before last Wednesday's Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs meeting, which had one agenda item: the dismissal of executive secretary Carol Harvey, who'd been on the job since March 2010 and was let go in early November. But during that conference-call meeting, two Colorado ... More >>

Billionaire Ted Turner offers a herd of bison to the city of Boulder

Carol Harvey's ouster from state Commission of Indian Affairs unanimously validated

Carol Harvey.​Update: The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs conference-call meeting this morning was crowded, despite the fact that there was only one item on the agenda. But since that item was the dismissal of commission executive secretary Carol Harvey, there was plenty of interest in h ... More >>

Carol Harvey out as Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs' executive secretary

Carol Harvey.​If Thanksgiving is approaching, it must be time for another controversy at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, which is overseen by the state's lieutenant governor. Back in 1988, then-lite guv Mike Callihan created a ruckus with his plans for a feast in a Mayflower moving ... More >>

Letters: Late-night LoDo has nothing on the Bumuda Triangle

John Hickenlooper's cabinet shacks up student style: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

Come and knock on our door! Laughter ensues when Governor Hickenlooper's Cabinet members live as roommates in the Colorado Governor's Mansion... Reeves: "Who used all of my walnut and shiitake shampoo?"​ In the shower shenanigans shown above, Depart of Local Affairs Executive Director Reeves ... More >>

John Hickenlooper: Coining a new governor at the State Capitol, and keeping the change

Hickenlooper.​The most moving sight in a day filled with eye-popping activities surrounding the inauguration of John Hickenlooper: the lineup of former governors -- Dick Lamm, Roy Romer, Bill Owens, Bill Ritter (and on video, John Vanderhoof) -- on the stage of the Fillmore Auditorium. The od ... More >>

That Can-Do Spirit

Two-fer: Joe Garcia could pay off for John Hickenlooper

...If he picks up a cabinet job as well as the lite-gov post.

John Hickenlooper introduces Lieutenant Governor choice Joseph Garcia as a "shredder"

Joseph Garcia.​A short time ago, Joseph Garcia was officially announced as John Hickenlooper's running mate for governor. But while the presumptive Democratic standard-bearer could have limited himself to praising Garcia's stint as president of Colorado State University-Pueblo, he branched out ... More >>

From the week of December 18, 2008

Sandwich Time

Adam Mali’s peachy-keen idea.

Outta Here

One Emogene closes, while another restaffs.

This Old Housing Project

To save East Village, is it necessary to destroy it?

Letters

LORDS OF THE RING

NINE-YEAR-OLD JOE SILVA WAS READY TO FIGHT--UNTIL POLITICS GOT IN THE WAY.LOW BLOWS EVERYONE IN COLORADO'S FIGHT GAME LOVES A GOOD BRAWL--FROM THE LITTLEST BOXER TO THE TOP OFFICIAL.

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