Subject: Lynn Bartels

• More Messages: Fryar's Club

  January 12, 2007

• More Messages: Winning the Name Game

  October 23, 2006

• Best of Denver Winners from 2000

  January 31, 2008

• 2001 Best of Denver Winners

  February 6, 2008

• Delegating Denver #46 of 56: South Dakota

  June 2, 2008

• Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

  August 5, 2008

• Dick Wadhams Manipulates the Media With His "Ass"

  August 5, 2008

• The Wrong Stuff

  A mislabeled photo, an error-filled column, a missing attribution: The Post is on a hot streak.

  October 26, 2000

• Early reaction to news that the Rocky Mountain News has been put up for sale

  In the hours since the development spotlighted in today's blog "Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale" first broke, I've had the chance to speak with numerous staffers at the paper. The majority chose to talk on background, and with only a couple of exceptions, they had similar reactions to the press release from E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's owner, that's included in the piece linked above. By putting a mid-January deadline on offers to buy the paper, Scripps is signaling that the for-sale announce

  December 4, 2008

• Looking at and listening to staff attempts to save the Rocky Mountain News

  The staffers at the Rocky Mountain News may not be in power positions when it comes to saving the paper, which was recently put up for sale by its parent company, E.W. Scripps. (Read our coverage in the feature article "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down" and two sidebars, "Five Rocky Stars Who Could Be Going Up" and "Denver's JOA Makes for Muddy Reading.") But they're not simply sitting around, waiting for their superiors to decide their fate. Last night, a website called IWantMyRocky.com

  December 15, 2008

• Ethics scandal in Colorado House not exactly in Blagojevich territory

  In today's Rocky Mountain News, Lynn Bartels demonstrates once again why she made our list of the five journalists who the Denver Post should poach first in the event of a Rocky closure -- a sidebar to the feature article headlined "The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down." In her piece "Ethics Charge Filed in Race for GOP Post," she aims her microscope at Centennial representative David Balmer (pictured), who was expected to vie against Frank McNulty, a rep from Highlands Ranch, for the minority

  December 18, 2008

• Best print reporter vs. print reporter feud, second place

  June 29, 2000

• Best Insult of the Denver Post in the Rocky Mountain News

  March 29, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  April 12, 2001

• More scenarios in which Dave Schultheis might not intervene to protect babies

  Dave Schultheis. State senator Dave Schultheis, a Colorado Springs Republican, has long been an expert at saying things that slacken jaws -- but he truly outdid himself yesterday, when he spoke out against legislation that would require pregnant women to receive HIV tests in order to prevent their babies from being infected. He explained his opposition to the Rocky Mountain News's Lynn Bartels like so: "What I'm hoping is that yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when

  February 26, 2009

• Denver Post to add Rocky Mountain News voices

  Photo by Anthony Camera.Kevin Vaughan, a Rocky reporter who'll soon be writing for the Denver Post. Almost two months ago, Michael Roberts offered an all-star list of five Rocky Mountain News staffers that he suggested the Denver Post hire should the News shut down.Now, with the News's last day tomorrow, the Post has announced that it's adding a handful of News employees, and three of them were on Roberts's list: columnist Mike Littwin, workhorse reporter Lynn Bartels, and sports writer Dave Kr

  February 26, 2009

• Highlights from the goodbye-to-the-Rocky Mountain News press conference

  J. KnightE.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne addresses the media after announcing the Rocky would close after Friday's issue. Reporter Lynn Bartels's colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News warned her not to try exiting the Denver Newspaper Agency building through the main lobby. After all, the place was swarming with reporters gathered to attend an upcoming press conference at which E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne -- and, as it turned out, quite a few other executive types -- was going to explain why his

  February 26, 2009

• Ex-Rocky Mountain Newser Tracy Ringolsby carrying on -- after being stranded by Scripps

  Tracy Ringolsby. Lots of folks expected that Hall of Fame baseball writer Tracy Ringolsby would be among the former Rocky Mountain News journalists who'd find a new home at the Denver Post, including us. He was one of the five Rocky stars we thought might soon be moving from one floor of the Denver Newspaper Agency building to another. In the end, however, three of our picks -- Mike Littwin, Dave Krieger and Lynn Bartels -- got the nod, while Ringolsby was left on the sidelines along with ass-k

  March 5, 2009

• Major behind-the-scenes shuffling at the Denver Post

  Photo courtesy of Flickr. The just-published blog "Former Enemies Penny Parker and Bill Husted Finding Ways to Co-Exist at the Denver Post" describes the intriguing repercussions of changes at the broadsheet since the closure of the Rocky Mountain News -- and plenty more are on the way. Earlier today, Post editor Greg Moore sent out a memo describing job and assignment shifts within the paper as a whole. Some noteworthy alterations: Karen Crummy, who's covered state and national politics, has b

  March 9, 2009

• In-state tuition for the children of illegal immigrants and shifting political tides

  John Andrews. Don't miss "Past Immigrant Tuition Bill Won Votes from GOP," an article by the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels that neatly captures the absurdity over the politics of illegal immigration in this state. Bartels points out that "five years ago, a Republican-controlled Senate approved an amended bill that would have made the children of illegal immigrants eligible to pay in-state tuition" -- and the measure was exceedingly similar to one boosted by Democrat Chris Romer that's likely to ge

  April 6, 2009

• Former Rocky Mountain News reporter Gargi Chakrabarty leaving Denver Post

  Gargi Chakrabarty, left, at a DU awards ceremony last year. When the Rocky Mountain News went down for the count in February, the Denver Post brought aboard a slew of the tabloid's brand names: Mike Littwin, Dave Krieger, Lynn Bartels, Kevin Vaughan, etc. In addition, the paper also reached out to a onetime Rocky reporter who had not yet become a household name: Gargi Chakrabarty. But local journalists weren't surprised that she was singled out. In her nearly six years as a reporter at the Rock

  May 29, 2009

• After the Rocky taps out, the Post acts like it won by a knockout

  March 5, 2009

• Five Rocky stars who could be going up

  December 11, 2008

• Were Democrats dumb enough to write this "idiot" memo?

  October 9, 2008

• Hate State Sets New Record: 365 Days of Rage!

  January 1, 1998

• A Denver Daily Wouldn't Touch Michael Garcia

  February 7, 2008

• The 2007 Hall of Shame

  It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.

  December 27, 2007

• The Message

  Taking a Leak

  April 29, 2004

• Naming Rights

  February 26, 2004

• The Message

  News directors debate what is, and isn't, breaking news.

  March 6, 2003

• Minor Threat

  Libertarian candidates would rather not use stunts to get media attention -- but they will if they have to.

  August 22, 2002

• Post Mortem

  An unpublished column helps wrap up Chuck Green's story at the Denver Post.

  May 30, 2002

• A Failure to Communicate

  Is the media to blame for Tom Sanchez's dismissal?

  February 17, 2000

• ¿Qué Pasó, Denver?

  Despite a potentially huge audience, Denver's Spanish-language radio languishes.

  October 28, 1999

• A Trust Betrayed

  Ashley Gray didn't take candy from strangers. She did from her "Uncle Jon."

  February 27, 1997

• Wake-Up Call: King for a day

  Both Governor Bill Ritter and Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien were out of town yesterday (he to the Western Governors' Association meeting in Utah, she to an education confab in North Carolina). And who did that leave in charge? By the Colorado Constitution, the State Senate President. But Brandon Shaffer, who won that post after Peter Groff resigned near the end of the session, didn't have a chance to pardon anyone or do anything very quasi-gubernatorial during his reign of error. Unless

  June 16, 2009

• Lynn Bartels adds Brandon Shaffer's scalp to her collection

  Lynn Bartels. "Senate to Repay Funds" reads the headline atop the Denver & the West section in this morning's Denver Post -- and there's little doubt Senate President Brandon Shaffer didn't enjoy seeing it. On the very day Shaffer was ostensibly the most powerful elected official in the state (because both Governor Bill Ritter and Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien were out of town), he found himself apologizing for the decision to charge Colorado taxpayers $4,300 for a retreat that only Democ

  June 18, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 18 edition

  Mike Honcho. He's spinning in a better place.... Today in Backbeat Online: • RIP Mike Honcho. • Everything is ridiculous at the Air Guitar Championship. • Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3. • Q&A with the Church's Marty Wilson-Piper. • Q&A with Adam Franklin of Swervedriver. • See the Epilogues for free next Saturday night at Herman's. • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 06.17.09. Today in Cafe Society: • Tonight: Barbecue, beasts and biodynamic wines. • Free beer still flowing for Coors em

  June 18, 2009

• A personhood amendment by any other name....

  Kristi Burton.​Remember the Personhood Amendment? Promoted as the brainchild of then-21-year-old Kristi Burton, the subject of a Westword profile, the measure would have established that a human's life begins at the moment of fertilization -- and despite a big effort on its behalf by abortion foes, it was easily defeated in last year's election. That doesn't suggest a groundswell for its reintroduction -- but it's coming back anyhow. The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports that the title of

  August 6, 2009

• Tom Tancredo, Jane Norton -- and Sarah Palin?

  Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo. Long may he wave.​In an article by ace Denver Post reporter Lynn Bartels, former Congressman Tom Tancredo unloads on fellow Republican (and former Colorado Lieutenant Governor) Jane Norton, saying the only reason she'll be announcing a Senate run later today is because she was talked into it by Arizona Senator and recent presidential nominee John McCain. "Does John McCain have a right to do that? Sure. Do I have a right to bitch about it? You bet," Tancr

  September 15, 2009

• Jon Caldara doesn't like being ignored, Mr. Ritter

  Jon Caldara makes his feelings known.​Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter's cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyone do so -- a Todd Shepherd-penned piece that led directly to Ritter issuing a new measure basically restating the first one, with officials given until October 25 to comply. However, the Institute's

  October 6, 2009