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Photos: Black voter turns white in campaign flier opposing bill NAACP supports

At 4 p.m. today, the Senate's State Affairs committee is scheduled to consider House Bill 13-1303, a measure intended to make it easier to vote in Colorado. The NAACP Colorado Montana Wyoming State Area Conference has endorsed the proposal even as it decries one particular attempt to rally oppositi ... More >>

Franklin Sain's racist and sexist anti-gun control e-mails are protected free speech, attorneys say

Franklin Sain, the government contractor arrested last week after sending racist and sexist e-mails to Representative Rhonda Fields, a prominent backer of gun-control legislation (see our previous coverage below), has now been formally charged with two counts, including harassment-ethnic intimidatio ... More >>

Gun control: Senator Morgan Carroll on disruption at Aurora town hall

The debate over gun control continues to get ugly. The same week Franklin Sain was arrested for sending Representative Rhonda Fields allegedly harassing, racist e-mails vocal, pro-gun audience members at an Aurora Town Hall meeting antagonized Senator Morgan Carroll, who felt the need for a securit ... More >>

Franklin Sain, accused of racist threats against gun-control backer, should be fired, says NAACP

As we reported yesterday, CEO Franklin Sain was arrested over threatening e-mails to state rep and gun-control advocate Rhonda Fields; see examples below. (Warning: They're explicit.) The firm for which Sain works has now suspended him, but that's not enough for the region's NAACP affiliate. The org ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 opponents lying, intimidating supporters, says Mason Tvert

For months, there's been tension aplenty between supporters and opponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act -- and with the election a week away, it's still rising. Example: The No on 64 campaign says claims by backers don't hold up under scrutiny, prompting proponent Mason Tv ... More >>

Marijuana Majority website boosts Amendment 64 with power of celebrity, social media

Last week, we noted that actress Susan Sarandon is voicing robocalls on behalf of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Now, a new website, MarijuanaMajority.com, is pushing such measures here and elsewhere using the words of other notables who've questioned drug policy, including F ... More >>

Marijuana community divide on Amendment 64 deep, wide, often nasty

Update below: Think everyone in the marijuana community is behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act? Think again. The measure has pitted advocates against advocates, frequently in online combat of the sort that recently turned the Coloradans 4 Cannabis Patient Rights Facebook gro ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 is a social-justice issue, says NAACP

At 10:30 a.m. today, the NAACP's Colorado/Montana/Wyoming conference will formally endorse Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Rosemary Harris Lytle, communications director for the local branch, who's among the speakers at the event, taking place in Denver's Five Points neighborh ... More >>

A tradition of keeping African-Americans voters from the polls

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall.

Weekend's best party bets: Greatest Show on Turf, Queenz of Hip-Hop and more

You wanna party? Oh yes you do. It's Friday and you don't have anything better to do! It's the third day of the Greatest Show on Turf celebrating DJ Ktone's birthday, the Analog Space crew is getting down at Meadowlark, there are tons of reggae parties tomorrow, as well as hip-hop house parties galo ... More >>

Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act: Mason Tvert on campaign's allies, challenges

Update: Now that the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act has been approved for the November ballot (get more details below), proponent Mason Tvert is busily lining up allies for what should be among the season's most interesting campaigns -- and at a 2 p.m. news conference, he'll be introducing thre ... More >>

Fake meat to coffee crotch: Our top five favorite restaurant lawsuits

​Dunkin' Donuts is being sued again. Danielle Jordan, 47, a diabetic, alleges that the cup of coffee she ordered from her local DDs was laced with sugar instead of the artificial sweetener she'd asked for, and is seeking "unspecified damages" (code for a shload of coinage) after allegedly exp ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary bans pass in Aurora, Dougco: Fuel for legalization fight?

Brian Vicente.​Update: The Sensible Colorado staff has been hard at work trying to determine if any of the community or county attempts to ban medical marijuana dispensaries were unsuccessful -- and they've found seven bright spots amid the disappointments in places like Aurora and Douglas Cou ... More >>

Douglas Bruce wins 60-61-101 case, but lawyer says order to testify "smacks of Big Brother"

Douglas Bruce.​The resolution of the latest case against tax-hater Douglas Bruce has been portrayed by the press as a mixed bag. True, Bruce wasn't held in contempt for not testifying in a lawsuit involving Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 -- but the judge ordered him to testify about ... More >>

Jon Caldara, Tom Tancredo, Andrew Breitbart & Independence Institute demonic convergence

Jon Caldara.​Jon Caldara's Channel 12 show is now called Devil's Advocate, and plenty of politicians are dancing with the devil. Not only did Caldara get his job as head of the Independence Institute after Tom Tancredo moved on to Congress, but Tancredo was at the Institute's annual ATF party ... More >>

Tom Tancredo got idea for civics literacy tests critics call racist from an immigrant

Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo loves this flag -- and he wants voters to know what's behind it.​Last week, ex-Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, delivering the keynote address at the First National Tea Party Convention, drew accusations of racism when he suggested ... More >>

Ranking the 2009 Holidays: the Childless Dirtbag Edition

As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most ro ... More >>

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Letters to the Editor

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With several controversial cases coming up, Colorado's death-penalty decision moves to a three-judge panel.

Target Practice

A class-action suit becomes a vehicle for racial justice.

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UNDER HIS SKIN

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS

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