Mark Udall

Rockies prove to be Giants killers -- sort of

Denver blog posts really mean it. Purple Row's Jay Tymkovich thinks the Rockies' series win over the San Francisco Giants makes a statement. Colorado Pols thinks the lack of viable Republican candidates to challenge Governor John Hickenlooper or Senator Mark Udall means the GOP has no bench. Denv ... More >>

Denver Post showing liberal slant by calling Mark Udall "privacy watchdog"?

Denver blog posts have had a helluva day. Colorado Peak Politics goes after a Denver Post article in which Senator Mark Udall is referred to as a "privacy watchdog." Denver Egotist on kicking balls and taking names -- at an upcoming kickball tournament. Free Range Longmont's Ann Kibbey asks: Why ... More >>

Video: Mark Udall says people should know how government is monitoring phone calls, e-mails

How much access should the government have to Americans' phone calls and e-mails -- and should Congress and the public know how people are being monitored? Senator Mark Udall addressed these questions of surveillance in a lengthy floor speech yesterday, calling for better privacy protections and mor ... More >>

Jon Embree firing as CU Buffs coach has turned into a black-and-white issue on talk radio

Denver blog posts are a rainbow coalition. South Stands Denver's Colin D. on how race has impacted talk-radio coverage of CU Buffs coach Jon Embree's firing. Square State's Zappatero on the media, lies and the fiscal cliff -- which may or may not be looming. Colorado Pols posts the odds of Mark U ... More >>

16th Street Mall's 30th birthday not exactly celebrated by the New York Times

Every party has a pooper, and in the case of the 16th Street Mall's thirtieth anniversary party, that would be the New York Times, which published an article on Tuesday's celebration -- both online and in print -- that some boosters think made the event look a lot like Mayberry, BFD.

Jessica Peck not losing sleep over Colorado Ethics Watch complaint

Denver blog posts love you for your mind. The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic digs into the scrap between Jessica Peck's Open Government Institute and Colorado Ethics Watch. Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Broke touts the free Clement Park concert series. Colorado Pols: Guess who's no ... More >>

Mark Udall wind-tax-credit plan: Address Senate every day 'til he gets it

This could get tiring. Senator Mark Udall has announced that he will head to the Senate floor every day to push the same piece of legislation -- the Wind Production Tax Credit -- until Congress responds and passes it. That means speech after speech after speech on the same issue, until, you kno ... More >>

Fire bans in Boulder and Golden as Lower North Fork Fire blazes out of control

The Lower North Fork Fire has already resulted in two fatalities and remains uncontained at this writing -- and the conditions that have fueled it are clearly not lost on officials in other communities. Below, see information about newly announced fire bans in Boulder and Golden, as well as a releas ... More >>

Mark Udall proud The Daily Show's Jon Stewart agrees with him (VIDEO)

Video below.​Politicians featured in comedy bits on The Daily Show don't usually draw attention to their appearances, given that they tend to come across as clueless bozos. But Senator Mark Udall's office actually wants constituents to watch the following video, about a provision of a defense ... More >>

Mark Udall hitting the panic button about debt-ceiling issue -- but are other politicos listening?

Mark Udall.​Three Denver blog posts: our gift to you. Colorado Independent's David O. Williams on Mark Udall's call for senators and reps to do stop fiddling before the U.S. credit rating burns. Denver Egotist offers a way to do Legwork Studio a solid. Free Range Longmont's Mary Pitt on the ... More >>

Tim Tebow: Did someone put Hulk arms on this photo, or are those his real muscles?

Tim smash?​Denver blog posts ahoy! Mile High Report links to a Yahoo! item debating whether Tim Tebow's guns in this tweeted pic were Photoshopped. Your call? WhoSaidYouSaid thinks Mark Udall is missing some of us in the great outdoors. Denver Egotist has something for spamees and e-mail th ... More >>

Rockbar welcomes spring with new beer garden: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration...Figure 97a. City Park: Twelve lovely pilsners growing on a fence.​ The photograph of the impaled beer bottles above proves that yard art is as popular with hotel guests as it is with homeowners. And it can also be said that the c ... More >>

Mark Udall's State of the Union plan has reps looking for dates; Dana Perino calls it "silly"

Mark Udall.​At first, even Colorado's reps weren't sold on Senator Mark Udall's idea about Republicans and Democrats sitting together at the State of the Union speech. Now, as Cokie Roberts noted on National Public Radio this morning, the concept's taken on a life of its own, with elected offi ... More >>

Mark Udall's Congressional team-building game plan: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

Colorado congressional delegation cooperates to contain Washington's hot air.​ Mark Udall, the Colorado senior senator who has recommended a mixed-party seating arrangement to symbolize unity during President Obama's January 25 State of the Union speech, has an extended game plan for continued ... More >>

Mark Udall's State of the Union Kumbayah club: John McCain's in, but not other Coloradans

Mark Udall.​Three Denver blog posts hot off the cyber-press. 5280's Michael de Yoanna notes that John McCain likes Mark Udall's idea of Republicans and Dems sitting together at the State of the Union -- but no Coloradans have signed up. Rude! Colorado Pols: The ever-employable but not all th ... More >>

Mark Udall lovefest and ten other ways Congress could be more civil

​On Wednesday, President Obama called for a new era of civility in light of the tragic Jared Loughner-Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, while Colorado Senator Mark Udall suggested that the members of Congress sit together for the State of the Union address rather than separate by politica ... More >>

Mark Udall thinks Don't Ask, Don't Tell should go to hell

Mark Udall.​These Denver blog posts were just what the web doctor ordered. 5280's Michael de Yoanna notes that Senator Mark Udall hasn't given up on repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Mile High Mamas' Amber Johnson wonders: Should parents be required to buy plane tickets for children under age ... More >>

Mark Udall, Michael Bennet: Will they support Obama's tax-cut compromise or just say no?

Mark Udall.​Looky here: Three Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols weighs the odds of Mark Udall and Michael Bennet backing or attacking Barack Obama's tax-cut compromise. Denver Egotist measures the Mile High City's awesomeness using Westaf's Creative Vitality Index. Get our your slide rule. I ... More >>

Mark Udall called Armenian genocide defector by advocacy group in candidate report card

Mark Udall.​In April, Senator Mark Udall marked the anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide with a strongly worded statement. But these words didn't satisfy Rocky Mountain Hye Advocates, an organization trying to get all members of the Colorado congressional delegation to support a national ... More >>

Tim Tebow's the No. 3 Broncos quarterback: One down, two to go

"I'm strapping it on, boys."​Here's three tasty Denver blog samples. On Mile High Report, NavyBSU_fan comments on a report that Tim Tebow is third on the Broncos' QB depth chart, having passed Tom Brandstater. "In other news," he writes, "dog bites man." Ouch! 5280's Michael de Yoanna notes ... More >>

Immigration reform must happen now, says Denver City Council proclamation

Chris Nevitt has something to proclaim.​The controversial Arizona immigration bill hasn't stopped any folks from coming into this country illegally yet. After all, it won't take effect until July. But it's certainly led to a bumper crop of proclamations, including denunciations by Denver Publi ... More >>

Mark Udall calls Armenian genocide what it was -- "genocide"

Mark Udall isn't into using synonyms.​In politics, a single word can get in the way -- especially when that word is "genocide." During his presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama left little doubt where he stood when it came to the events of April 24, 1915, when Turks exterminated somew ... More >>

Tom Mauser, Mark Udall and the gun-show loophole: Why no deal?

Mark Udall isn't signing on just yet.​Mark Udall seems an unlikely target for Tom Mauser's campaign to close the gun-show loophole -- the subject of full-page ads in the Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera aimed squarely at the Colorado senator. After all, Udall's derided the loophole for at ... More >>

Mark Udall wanted Stephanie Villafuerte nomination to be more open, his aide says

Mark Udall's staffers swear he wasn't trying to hide anything.​Ever since Stephanie Villafuerte removed herself from the U.S. Attorney sweepstakes via an angry letter in which she expressed frustration about "a needless and extraneous political fight" that has "completely overshadowed the deli ... More >>

Denver Blogs: It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, BC.​Here are some local sites you might enjoy visiting. A thread on DenverRadio.net's Comments & Rumors board begins with questions about why no local stations have started playing wall-to-wall Christmas music yet -- and ends with news that KOSI has begun t ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Mark Udall promotes the nuclear option

"Trust me, Senator. I have everything under control!"​Local bloggers are easier to love -- because they're so conveniently located. 5280's Michael de Yoanna notes Senator Mark Udall's unstinting support for expanding nuclear energy. It's clean, unless it spills -- in which case it's kinda mes ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Senator calls for end to "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Mark Udall doesn't want to ask, and doesn't want you to tell.​The last of the week's local-blog wrangling. Happy Friday, all. Senator Mark Udall on HuffPo Denver: "The time has come to end 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'" If a Senate candidate (Ryan Frazier) announces he's now a House candidate an ... More >>

Denver Blogs: A nuclear flip-flop

Mark Udall​Our daily cast for tasty blogs. If you don't like them, throw 'em back! Udall, McCain: Let's get nuclear up in this bitch! (Colorado Pols) The Rockies actually lost last night, but the umps are a bunch of pussies and didn't call it. (Did I mention I'm a lifelong Giants fan?) (Insi ... More >>

Do Bennet and Udall heart the NRA?

Is that a gun in your pocket? When Michael Bennet was just a baby/his mama told him, son/always be a good boy/don't ever play with guns. But that (weird, re-imagined-by-me Johnny Cash lyric) didn't stop him from voting for them. Now he and fellow Sen. Mark Udall are in trouble -- at least with ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 24 edition

Dressy Bessy is ready for the weekend.​ Damn it's hot outside. Today in Backbeat Online: -Get your video groove on with Dressy Bessy. -Heavenfest taking shape. Wow, that dude in the front looks like he's going to kill me with his pointer finger. -New Informants album. -Freaky Friday, bad rap ... More >>

Denver Blog: Joe the Plumber? In Denver? A dream come true...

Wikipedia CommonsImagine this guy hammered, with a cig in one hand and a glock in the other. Our daily tour of the Colorogosphere. Send some links, yo. Guns, tobacco, liquor and Joe the Plumber, all at the same event? Count me the hell in. (Colorado Independent) Mark Udall continues to fight for ... More >>

YouTubers ratchet up the guilt on John Elway, other Denver celebs over child soldiers

On April 25, InvisibleChildren.com is staging events in 100 cities to bring attention to the abduction and forced recruitment of child soldiers -- an unspeakably cruel practice that's all too common in many parts of the world. In Denver, participants will gather at the main gate of Coors Field pri ... More >>

Dick Wadhams's formula for a GOP comeback: Hit harder, faster!

Since figuratively getting their heads handed to them during last November's election, Republican operatives have been trying to figure out how to get off the mat prior to the next big vote less than two years from now, thereby setting the stage for a real comeback in 2012. According to "Republica ... More >>

Advice to Mark Udall: Don't take all of Wayne Allard's advice

For the most part, Colorado Public Radio's recent conversation with Wayne Allard doesn't exactly qualify as scintillating: big surprise. But Mike Saccone of Grand Junction's Daily Sentinel, whose "Political Notebook" feature qualifies as one of the better political blogs in the state, zeroed in on ... More >>

Jay Marvin's anti-Mark Udall rant makes the rounds

Jay Marvin was once the fieriest of radio talk-show hosts, as is made clear in our 1998 feature article, "Double Trouble." By the time of a 2007 Message column, "Progress?," which profiled him in the context of his current station, AM 760, he'd mellowed considerably. But the combative Marvin resur ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, December 10 edition

It's beginning to feel a lot like blog roundup time. Today in Backbeat Online: • Twelve things every Wu-Tang Clan fan should own. • Mile High Makeout: Dreaming of me. • An extremely entertaining Q&A with Ryan Hendrix of Colourmusic. • Rap Up: Whygee and Sunken State unite for a free EP. â ... More >>

A vote for Mark Udall is a vote for Europarodo

Mark Udall rides the Twitter bandwagon

The Colorado officials who bucked the bailout -- and those who went along

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Mark Udall and Bob Schaffer: the YouTube wars

Political ads: already out of control

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