Subject: Local Politics

• Help Is at Hand

  January 30, 2007

• Breaking: Mayor's Mouthpiece Resigns

  June 27, 2007

• A Ruby Hill Agreement?

  July 27, 2007

• One More Time for Ruby Hill

  July 31, 2007

• Calling to Collect

  The City of Denver declares war on the state legislature over a telephone bill.

  October 23, 1997

• The Village People

  Arapahoe County's most aggressive town wants to swallow up the area's prime commercial real estate. Can anything stop Greenwood Village?

  December 17, 1998

• An Open Question

  Are Boulder's Open Space Department and its director one and the same?

  September 9, 1999

• The Bum's Rush

  City Hall's plan for dealing with the homeless is very short term.

  April 27, 2000

• Denver Health to City Auditor: You aren't the boss of us!

  Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher presented his office's long-awaited report on the city's emergency medical response system yesterday, saying that the information his team has compiled "speaks for itself." His choice of such a careful phrase to describe the scathing assessment is indicative of the bitter inter-agency politics that have hovered around the audit since it was announced ten months ago. The report concludes that lack of comprehensive oversight of Denver's EMS system has resulted i

  December 19, 2008

• That Doggone Glendale

  March 2, 2000

• The Beatdown

  April 15, 2004

• The long, long journey to an all-inclusive Justice Center

  Philip Van Cise. They're going to need some pretty big signs to hold all the names of the august Denverites honored at the city's new justice complex. After a contentious, sometimes bitter and racially charged process that stretched over several months, the Denver City Council finally agreed Monday night, with one notable abstention, to name various buildings and components of the new complex after six influential figures in the evolution of the city's justice system. "We've received a tremen

  March 17, 2009

• John Hickenlooper and the case of the vanishing F-bombs

  The video above, promoting Hick Town, a proposed documentary/reality series by director George Hickenlooper starring his cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, has been available on YouTube for months. Most of the footage was shot during the Democratic National Convention -- hence the presence of Barack Obama, among other political heavyweights. But in recent days, a much saucier trailer turned up on the website of Epoch Films, a firm with which George is associated. As noted in an Examiner.c

  April 14, 2009

• The Big Cheese

  Making book on the Webb legacy.

  June 6, 2002

• Take Cover

  Ed Thomas shoots from the hip, but this former cop just might have enough brass to be mayor.

  March 22, 2001

• Naked Oppression

  Attention, adult gentlemen! A crusade against strip joints in the metro area may leave Denver the capital of the lap dance.

  February 12, 1998

• Whoops!

  Denver Health finally responds to response-time queries.

  June 12, 2008

• Meltdown

  Keep shoveling, Mayor Hickenlooper. Maybe things will clear up.

  March 8, 2007

• Countdown

  At the Denver Election Commission, there’s no safety in numbers.

  December 21, 2006

• Skin City

  Is Vicki Johnson an enemy of free speech -- or the last person speaking freely in the fight over who runs Sheridan?

  October 30, 2003

• All Together, Now

  Denver's living high on the hug.

  July 24, 2003

• Edifice Complex

  The little guy went big time...and the results are monumental.

  May 29, 2003

• Imagine a Great Mayor

  The candidates are spit-shining their images, trying to prove that, really, they're not all the same person.

  May 1, 2003

• From Locusts to Limos

  By Alan Prendergast

  The rise of the Tea Party

  April 10, 2003

• Best Place to See Politicians Behaving Badly

  Cherokee Dining on 12th Avenue

  March 27, 2003

• Imagine a Great Campaign

  It takes more than money to make a mayor. You have to know your way around Colfax, when to cry Republican and how to handle a drag queen.

  February 27, 2003

• The Meter's Running

  From a world-class city to a world-class pity.

  February 6, 2003

• City Haul

  All you ever wanted to know about the Denver City and County Building.

  May 31, 2001

• Insurrection Rejection

  A new mayor and some Erie politics.

  April 20, 2000

• Off Limits

  On the razor's edge

  March 30, 2000

• Off Limits

  Wellington Webb's party crasher...

  February 10, 2000

• The Glendale T&A Party

  Two years ago they took over their city. Since then, things have just gotten curiouser and curiouser.

  January 20, 2000

• Big Boss Lady

  CRL knows how to buy friends and influence people.

  November 4, 1999

• A Golden Future

  The big showdown out west will come to a head on Tuesday.

  October 28, 1999

• Off Limits

  April 30, 1998

• Plugging In to D.C.

  How Washington lobbyists--and some politicians--cash in on Colorado's local governments.

  April 30, 1998

• If the Shoe Fits

  Critics say the fix is in for Nike in Golden. But it won't be easy for the company to leave its imprint on a local landmark.

  March 12, 1998

• Post Mortem

  March 5, 1998

• Hell to the Chiefs

  What's happening to Colorado's top cops?

  February 26, 1998

• Fightin' Words

  Two small-town newspapers find themselves in an economic war with municipal officials.

  September 11, 1997

• It's the Pits

  Mining made history in Victor. But will a new gold rush devour its future?

  September 4, 1997

• Czar Talk

  June 5, 1997

• Tee Time for Norm?

  Denver's former DA has his irons in the fire at City Park's troubled golf course.

  February 20, 1997

• Thanks a Lot, PAL

  Other summer-league organizers cry foul over the city's new park-permit policy toward the Police Athletic League.

  February 13, 1997

• Mayor Hickenlooper has too many Facebook friends

  Goodbye, friend. If you think it's time-consuming to maintain your own Facebook page, imagine how Mayor John Hickenlooper must feel. The guy's got nearly 5,000 "friends" -- or at least he will until the end of the day Tuesday, when they will all become simply "fans." "I am deleting this personal profile at the end of the day. My apologies to anyone who has sent me a message or a friend request that I have not responded to. Please visit me on my new fan page," the mayor posted on his Facebook p

  June 30, 2009

• Hickenlooper finds more library funding -- by taking a chunk out of his homeless plan

  Jeanne Faatz.​Moments from now, Mayor John Hickenlooper will be meeting with the media to talk about a revision in his budget plan -- additional bucks to save the Byers library , which had been marked for closure, and keep other branches open for longer hours. And where is he getting the dough? Well, over a million is coming from homeless program funding that he announced mere weeks ago. Back then, City Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz was among the few politicos willing to oppose this feel-good

  October 14, 2009

• Can municipalities get away with regulating medical marijuana?

  ​With the Justice Department's announcement last week that it won't be prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states where the practice is legal, the feds loudly and officially passed the buck on the subject. That leaves it up to medical-marijuana states and their municipalities to determine just how to handle all that weed. And there's no other place in the country where the issue's more pressing than Colorado, where vague medical marijuana laws entombed in the constitution have led to a

  October 26, 2009

• Jobbed: John Hickenlooper Wants You (to work for free)!

  Having trouble finding work? You're not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted here: Communications Intern -- Denver Mayor's Office Pay: Unpaid

  November 12, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Putting a lid on the pot party

  ​Welcome to cannabis Colorado. This weekend, at a gathering of publishers from across the country, all the talk was about Colorado and pot -- and they weren't just asking if I was carrying. No, they wanted to know about the booming business in medical-marijuana dispensaries in this state -- and the equally booming municipal monkey business of trying to regulate those dispensaries.

  November 16, 2009

• Knock, knock. Who's there? Interrupting chicken...

  Say, you know what makes a boring city council meeting less boring? Furries. Just ask the Durango City Council, which was visited by a human-sized hen Tuesday night during a debate about a chicken ordinance. Watch the faux feathers fly above. All in favor of live personifications of agenda items laying eggs in city hall? Aye!

  November 19, 2009