Subject: Morgan Carroll

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, February 16-21

  The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service before the DNC, at the inconvenience of the museum, which had to close for a day). Although Colorado, even with all its shovel-ready public projects, isn't expected to get a huge share of that cash,

  February 16, 2009

• Denver Blogs: The pharmaceutical industry is overmedicated

  Denver Blogs brings you blogs from Denver. If you'd like to bring more of them to us, send linkage here. Sen. Morgan Carroll faces off against pharmaceutical lobbyists. Someone needs to take a pill. (SquareState.net) A Broncos blogger still thinks Pat Bowlen is a great owner -- but like Rachel Maddow, he might need to be talked down. (Mile High Report) Dying pine trees could fuel a green-energy revolution in Vail -- although it sounds more like brown-energy to us. (Colorado Independent)

  February 16, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 26 edition

  Hosea Rosenberg. Let it snow? Let it snow? Let it snow? Today in Cafe Society: • Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg spreads the wealth. • Updated: Other stirring events, now that "Soup for the Soul" is cancelled. • Desperately seeking volunteers for the IACP conference in Denver. • Co-op grocery looking to open in Five Points. • The Rock N Soul Cafe is at a turning point. • No "Soup for the Soul" tonight. • Our Weekly Bread: Quiznos, yeah, Quiznos. • Udi's Granola puts Stephen Colbert o

  March 26, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 7 edition

  Wipe that Homer Simpson drool off your face... Eat healthy, live healthy. Today in Cafe Society: • Beer AND donuts at Watson's? Oh, why do you toy with my emotions! • Sip and slip into spring at Tamayo. • Coffee Spot: Aviano Coffee. • V.G. Burgers currently homeless as well as meatless. • Primebar poised for a May opening in the former Palomino space. • Vita ditches brunch and moves to lunch. Today in Backbeat Online: • Denver-based Max3 launches artist-friendly digital distro w

  April 7, 2009

• After vegan requests LVTOFU license plate, the DMV reveals its dirty mind

  April 9, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Ladies and gentlemen, your Denver Broncos... get arrested a lot

  Why am I so surprised Broncos have been arrested twice as many times as Raiders since 2000? (Mile High Report) Funding education starts... in prison? Yes, according to smokin' State Senator Morgan Carroll. (SenMorganCarroll.com, via Colorado Pols) When it comes to making laws, you, dear reader, have way too much power. (Colorado Independent)

  April 16, 2009

• Death-penalty bill: Politicos willing to raise taxes to keep the killing option open

  A Flickr photo You've got to admit it was a legislative masterstroke. As a House-passed bill to end capital punishment in Colorado and use the approximately $900,000 in savings to investigate so-called "cold cases" neared a Senate vote, opponents led by Democratic senator John Morse and Republican senator Josh Penry came up with a compromise: Keep the death penalty and finance a cold-case team via an additional $2.50 surcharge on those convicted of a crime. There's another vote today, and suppo

  May 5, 2009

• Prediction: No nails to be bitten in impending death-penalty vote

  Senator Morgan Carroll. Despite Monday's move to strip a death-penalty ban out of legislation designed to divert funds to investigating cold cases, Morgan Carroll, a state Senator sponsoring the bill, isn't giving up. As the current session ticks toward its conclusion, she plans to reintroduce the original language with the hope of bringing her moribund measure back to life. "We have a shot," she told the Denver Post. "But it will be a close call. It's a nail-biter." Doubt it -- and the reason

  May 6, 2009

• Nails were bitten in yesterday's death-penalty vote

  A Flickr photo Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn't be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll's suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote shy. Howard Morton and other members of his non-profit Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons organization, whose campaign to shift death-penalty funding to investigate cold cases has been c

  May 7, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: All aboard for a wonky week

  I'm looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the "Travel by Train" sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years. And some day there will be a lot more of them, if current plans for the revelopment of Union Station play out -- plans that would have the light-rail terminus blocks away from the station, giving travelers a hefty walk, but also giving developers some golden opportunities. But first, they'll have to get the cr

  May 18, 2009

• Senator Morgan Carroll tries to explain Pinnacol

  Senator Morgan Carroll.​Senator Morgan Carroll, an Aurora Democrat who heads the interim committee looking into the 800-pound gorilla known as Pinnacol Assurance, knows plenty about the enterprise, which the Denver Business Journal describes as a "state political subdivision that operates as a mutual insurance company and serves as the workers'-compensation policy provider of last resort." As the Denver Post points out, she's an attorney who handles more than her share of workers' compensa

  August 12, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Romanoff on the range

  ​"What's he doing in the Senate?" "Why, it's an honorary appointment. He's an honorary stooge." Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was on TCM yesterday afternoon -- just the thing to warm up the set (and the sofa) before Jake Cutler returned to Mile High, particularly given all the buzz that Andrew Romanoff, former Colorado Speaker of the House, might jump into the U.S. Senate race, challenging Michael Bennet in the Democratic primary for the seat that he's held for all o

  August 31, 2009