Jon Caldara

Peter Boyles reportedly out at KHOW after incident with producer

Update below: As we've noted, KHOW morning-drive staple Peter Boyles has been off the air since an incident involving longtime producer Greg Hollenbeck on May 23. Yesterday marked the beginning of the second full week without a Boyles appearance on the station, and sans an explanation about his futu ... More >>

Federico Pena = Mitt Romney, says Jon Caldara about Obama for America co-chair

Federico Pena -- one-time state legislator, mayor of Denver from 1983-1991, and former director of both the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy for President Bill Clinton -- is now in private business. But as national campaign co-chair for Obama for America, he'll join ... More >>

Ann Coulter and Jake Jabs, together again for the first time

Denver blog posts-o-rama. At People's Press Collective, Jon Caldara touts next month's founder's night dinner, co-starring Ann Coulter and...Jake Jabs? Unseen Denver features a shapely Capitol Hill skeleton. At Colorado Education News, Vinny Badolato thinks standards will take charter schools to ... More >>

Kyle Orton number one QB on 1st official Denver Broncos depth chart: Sorry, Tim Tebow

Kyle Orton.​Sidle up to these Denver blog posts. Mile High Report's Colby peruses the first official Denver Broncos depth chart of the season, which places Kyle Orton squarely in the top QB slot over Tim Tebow. Colorado Pols' FrenchFinn on Scott Tipton's town hall. At People's Press Collect ... More >>

Tim Tebow's the Broncos' QB future, but in a lockout-shortened season, start Kyle Orton

Kyle Orton.​Denver blog posts? Got three right here. Mile High Report fan poster graff_stuff690 thinks that if the next NFL season is just eight games long, starting Kyle Orton could help the team and up his trade value. Free Colorado's Ari Armstrong plays "spot the economic fallacies" in a ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony & other CO celebs who should be shot into space: Kenny Be's Fotoshop Friday

Full space flight crews shown below.​Boeing announced on Monday that it would be entering into a partnership with space tourism company Space Adventures to offer tourists rides on its CST-100 spacecraft. The rides will begin in 2015 and Boeing estimates that a passenger ticket on the spacecraf ... More >>

John Elway for governor -- a Hail Mary for the Republicans

John Elway.​"Is there anything we can do to win the governor's race?" asked registered Republican Jon Caldara, moaning and grabbing what would be his hair, during yesterday's taping of Devil's Advocate (the show airs tomorrow on Channel 12). Well, yes, I told him: You can convince John Elway, ... More >>

Dean Singleton says Dan Maes "probably isn't competent to be dog catcher"

Dean Singleton.​In late July, after a Denver Post editorial argued that he wasn't qualified to be governor due to his poor business record, Dan Maes suggested that he might limit the Post's access if it didn't begin to cover his campaign more evenhandedly. But Post publisher and MediaNews Gro ... More >>

Tom Tancredo always takes credit for what he says, even the outrageous

Personhood amendment backers consider suing over ballot-petition procedures, too

The personhood amendment is probably coming to a ballot near you.​On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over ballot-petition rules filed by attorney David Lane on behalf of advocates as varied as the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara and SAFER's Mason Tvert. It's possible the group of pl ... More >>

Marijuana advocate Mason Tvert on why he joined a ballot-petition lawsuit -- and the future of his marijuana-legalization initiative

Mason Tvert doesn't think many current rules about petitioning make sense.​On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over the rules pertaining to ballot initiatives that's supported by some strange bedfellows -- among them the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara and Mason Tvert, the marijuana a ... More >>

Marijuana and right-wing politics get together: Mason Tvert and Jon Caldara sign on to lawsuit about ballot petitions

"I agree with Mason Tvert about something? AARGH!"​At first blush (and second) (and third), marijuana advocate Mason Tvert and Jon Caldara, frontman for the conservative Independence Institute, are strange bedfellows. But today, they're partners in a legal love match. They're among the plaint ... More >>

From the week of November 26, 2009

From the week of November 19, 2009

Chantell Taylor: Colorado Ethics Watch really is nonpartisan!

Chantell Taylor.​While crowing earlier today about an Institute exposé focusing on uncompleted conflict-of-interest forms that embarrassed the Bill Ritter administration, the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara scoffed at the notion that Colorado Ethics Watch might take action against the De ... More >>

Sick response to Obama's speech to kids

A banner from the Independence Institute's "Ed Is Watching" website.​ Our item yesterday about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch a Tuesday speech to the nation's schoolchildren by President Barack Obama has been followed by plenty of mainstream cov ... More >>

KOA's Colorado Morning News letting its bias show in Tea Party coverage

Today's tax-day Tea Party protests are predictably hypocritical: I don't seem to remember any conservative talk-show hosts leading State Capitol rallies when the George Bush administration pushed through the free-spending Troubled Asset Relief Program just a few short months ago. Still, the presen ... More >>

From the week of February 26, 2009

Timing dubious in push to raise FasTracks taxes

Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District took the wraps off an RTD-financed survey in which more than 60 percent of respondents said they'd "generally support" a tax increase to complete current FasTracks exansion by 2017. This info spawned prominently placed stories in the Denver Post and ... More >>

Meet Kristi Burton, the 21-year-old pro-lifer behind the Personhood Amendment

The story behind Channel 12's empty-chair debates about amendments 47 and 49

Clear Channel stations at the DNC: What'd he say?

Independence Institute Seeks Investigative Reporter

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 2/28/2008

Absinthe Absent From Shelves

The wormwood wonder may be legal now, but good luck finding any in this city.

Trigger Happy

The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara shoots from the lip. Again.

Bill O'Reilly is Donald Duck

Fear Factor

In his first week running his new website, Brad Jones crashed a state representative. What will he do for an encore?

Mud Flies

Foothills hosts a big ceramics show, while clay artist Tsehai Johnson takes a turn at +.

Strange but True

A year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.

Take Your Best Shot

Throwing a few back for Katrina relief.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of November 18, 2004

The Alternative Voter’s Guide

The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

Shotguns, Scotch and Stogies

The Independence Institute raises funds the American way

The Message

Hard Progress

Off Limits

Think big

Minor Irritants

A declaration from independents.

Off Limits

Deck the halls...

Road Warriors

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

Strange but True

Off Limits

A Helping Handout

To win underwriting contracts, bond houses provide campaigns with free political pros--but taxpayers wind up carrying the load.

Off Limits

Letters

Get Stuffed

Spinning Their Wheels

A guide to surviving the light-rail info war

Off Limits

It's the Rail Thing

For some Lakewood homeowners, RTD's proposed light-rail line looms too close for comfort.

RUNAWAY TRAINCONGRESS SPURNED IT, STATE LAWMAKERS SCORN IT, BUT CAN ANYBODY PUT THE BRAKES ON LIGHT RAIL?

SICK TRANSIT

HE'S LEFT A TRAIL OF ANGRY CREDITORS AND ONCE SUED THE STATE AFTER FALLING OFF A BRIDGE. DAVID SHORTRIDGE SAYS HE'S A NATURAL CANDIDATE FOR THE RTD BOARD.