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June 6, 2012
Colorado Supreme Court to decide if foster parents can intervene in abuse hearings
When and how should foster parents intervene in court cases involving the children in their care? That's the question at the center of a case that the Colorado Supreme Court will hear tomorrow. It could be said the case started five years ago when the Montezuma County Department of Human Services go ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
Child near-fatalities: Bill requires state to review them and release info -- with exceptions
Lawmakers have passed a bill that would require the state to review cases of abuse that result in the near-fatality of a child. The bill also requires review of "incidents of egregious abuse or neglect," a more amorphous category that the state Department of Human Services, which backed the bill, sa ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Michael Bennet's appearance on Peter Boyles's radio show a last-minute campaign disaster
Michael Bennet.Down the campaign stretch, Republican Senate hopeful Ken Buck's been up to his neck in controversy, while incumbent Dem Michael Bennet has mostly avoided big mistakes -- until yesterday. That's when Bennet appeared on Peter Boyles's KHOW talk show under the illusion that the T ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Cory Voorhis, ex-ICE agent, sort of running for under sheriff job in Adams County
Cory Voorhis.Cory Voorhis is still fighting to get his job back after being fired as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent for blowing the whistle in controversial fashion on a plea-bargaining practice. But he's also got his eye on a new gig. He's actively campaigning on behalf of Jam ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Ken Buck would be easier to beat than Jane Norton, says Colorado Dem's Pat Waak
Ken Buck.Proof that Ken Buck, once thought to be an also-ran in the U.S. Senate race, is now perceived as a serious threat: He's the target of attacks from fellow Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton as well as Pat Waak, head of the Colorado Democratic Party. Waak believes current frontrunn ... More >>
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May 7, 2010
Cory Voorhis, ex-ICE agent, loses initial bid to get his job back
Cory Voorhis has lost round one.Former ICE agent Cory Voorhis's 2006 decision to access a restricted database and give materials to gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez wound up having unexpected repercussions years later. Some observers feel fallout from this action contributed to Governor B ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Mark Udall confirms arrangement with Senator Jeff Sessions over Stephanie Villafuerte nomination
Mark Udall supports an inquiry into the Cory Voorhis case.Still no resolution in the case of ex-ICE agent Cory Voorhis, who's fighting to get his old job back years after being sacked for passing information from a restricted database to gubernatorial candidate Bob Beaprez. But an interesting ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Dan Maes, maverick gubernatorial candidate, on Peter Boyles, Cory Voorhis, Scott McInnis and winning tonight's preference poll
Dan Maes isn't going down without a fight.For Dan Maes, who's running for governor with more support from Tea Party groups than the Republican Party, it's a very important day. This evening, caucuses will be held in homes, schools and churches all over the area, and Maes isn't just hoping to ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
Dick Wadhams: Amendment 54 deserved to die -- and so do other campaign-reform measures
Dick Wadhams isn't shedding any tears over Amendment 54.Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams isn't shy about speaking plainly. Note that as other leaders were tip-toeing around the controversy involving Governor Bill Ritter and his U.S. Attorney nominee, Stephanie Villafuerte, Wadhams ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
Dean Singleton calls for marijuana, gay marriage to be legalized, sees Barack Obama as one-term president, believes Bill Ritter's reasons for quitting
Dean Singleton's got opinions -- and he's not shy about sharing them.Denver Post owner/publisher Dean Singleton seems to have trouble with the word bankruptcy, especially when it pertains to his company, MediaNews Group. But he's extremely loquacious about other topics, as he's proving this m ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
Cory Voorhis plans future court action over his firing
Cory Voorhis is playing the waiting game -- again.Last week, ex-ICE agent Cory Voorhis made his case for why he should get his old job back during a two-day hearing; click here to read J. David McSwane's account of the first session and here for his take on the second one. But even as he wait ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Cory Voorhis hearing, day one: Fired ICE agent battles to get his job back, boss Tony Rouco fumbles again
Cory Voorhis is finally getting a chance to be heard.Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from a restricted database to Republican Bob Beauprez's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, began making his case to get his job back before a federa ... More >>
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January 25, 2010
Cory Voorhis-Stephanie Villafuerte music video: Colorado's a "State of Corruption"
Update, 9:10 a.m.: Appeared on Peter Boyles' morning show moments ago -- and he told me some viewers thought the photo of me in the video above was actually "the Romanian" who allegedly threatened Governor Bill Ritter's life. For the record, I'm Italian and am too much of a pussycat to threaten an ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Bill Ritter's pull-out: Which Democrat will want to try to clean up this mess?
Bill Ritter, looking a bit baffled about how to respond. Today, his fellow Dems know the feeling.At this time yesterday, did you think the big news in Colorado would be Governor Bill Ritter's impending announcement that he won't run for reelection in November? If your answer is "yes," you're ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Dick Wadhams thinks Bill Ritter was done in by sucky poll numbers, a bad environment for Dems -- and the Stephanie Villafuerte nomination?
Dick Wadhams is already consigning Bill Ritter to history's dustbin.Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams plans to attend the 11 a.m. press conference today at which Bill Ritter is expected to announce that he won't be a candidate for governor in November, in part to bid farewell. ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Kenny Be's Colorado Celebrity Holiday Greeting Cards
click image to enlargeEd.: This week's cover story is a cartoon by Kenny Be -- a cutting edge collection of Season's Greetings from Colorado's keenest celebrities. From former U.S. Attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte ... .
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December 17, 2009
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 >>
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December 15, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte's angry exit
Stephanie Villafuerte bowed to the politically inevitable.The Mainjustice.com article about Stephanie Villafuerte, who asked that her nomination as U.S. Attorney for Colorado be pulled back yesterday, sports a telling headline: "Republicans Get a Scalp." Despite all the high-flown talk about ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
Latino support of Bill Ritter remains strong despite Stephanie Villafuerte nomination withdrawal
Polly Baca sees comparisons to the treatment of Stephanie Villafuerte and Sonia Sotomayor.Talk about some potentially awkward timing. The day after Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew her nomination as U.S. Attorney for Colorado, a group of forty Latino leaders is scheduled to endorse the re-elect ... More >>
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December 14, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte removes herself from U.S. Attorney sweepstakes
Stephanie Villafuerte will not be the next U.S. Attorney for Colorado.On Friday, when Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions asked that consideration of Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination as U.S. Attorney be delayed because her record is "incomplete," I wrote that the story was developing at "lightnin ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Smear campaign by Peter Boyles, Denver Post alleged in internal DA's office memo
Peter Boyles isn't shrinking in the face of the latest criticism against him.The war of words continues in the continuing saga of Cory Voorhis and Stephanie Villafuerte. Last week, Colorado GOP head Dick Wadhams sent a letter to Denver police chief Gerry Whitman asking about documentation of ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Read Mike Coffman's letter asking for a Justice Department investigation of Stephanie Villafuerte
Mike Coffman joins the GOP dogpile on Stephanie Villafuerte.The surfacing of an internal Denver DA's office memo attacking KHOW's Peter Boyles and the Denver Post isn't the only fresh development in the matter of Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination as U.S. Attorney. On Wednesday, Representati ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination consideration should be delayed, says Senator Jeff Sessions
The pressure keeps ratcheting up on Stephanie Villafuerte.The Stephanie Villafuerte story is moving at lightning speed. The latest development: Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, has sent a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the judiciary committee, asking that the consi ... More >>
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December 10, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte nomination: A shot across the bow
In a Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, quizzed Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano about the firing of ICE agent Cory Voorhis. (The exchange can be seen in the video above; it begins at approximately the six minute point.) But is Se ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Bill Ritter affair rumors flare up again, this time with a name attached: Stephanie Villafuerte
Bill Ritter is the only the latest Colorado governor to prompt affair rumors.Yesterday, former Denver elections commissioner Jan Tyler, currently a blogger for Examiner.com, penned an item entitled "Is Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Having an Affair with Stephanie Villafuerte?" At this writin ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
Peter Boyles attacked by DA's office chief deputy over Stephanie Villafuerte coverage
Peter Boyles has been leading the charge when it comes to the Stephanie Villafuerte story.A new twist in coverage of Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination as U.S. Attorney. KHOW radio host Peter Boyles has devoted a great deal of airtime to this tale (I've joined him to speak about the subject ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
Peter Boyles fires back at DA's Office letter about Stephanie Villafuerte with a bombshell letter of his own
Peter Boyles fires back against criticism -- and he's got some mighty interesting ammo.Update, 12:14 p.m.: Just received an e-mail from Todd Shepherd, who now recalls Peter Boyles seeing a copy of a February 2008 letter described below around the time of its writing, after at first being unce ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Does Chief Gerry Whitman's letter to Dick Wadhams help Stephanie Villafuerte?
Stephanie Villafuerte's U.S. Attorney nomination just keeps getting more complicated.The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn't supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal data ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Dick Wadhams calls Bill Ritter, Stephanie Villafuerte and the Denver DA's office "liars"
Dick Wadhams has a big stick, and he's not afraid to stir with it.The pressure on Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination for U.S. Attorney shows no signs of diminishing. The release of a letter to Senator Mark Udall in which Villafuerte attempted to squash accusations that she'd accessed a crimi ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte supporters stand tough
Not everyone is out to get Stephanie Villafuerte.Stephanie Villafuerte's nomination as U.S. Attorney for Colorado hasn't gone smoothly. Opponents continue to suggest that she may have taken part in accessing a federal database for political reasons -- the very thing for which former ICE agent ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
Stephanie Villafuerte's latest strategy: simulated openness
Stephanie Villafuerte has a new strategy in her quest to become a U.S. Attorney.The nomination as U.S.Attorney of Stephanie Villafuerte hasn't gone nearly as smoothly as the Obama administration would like, due largely to accusations that she was involved in the political accessing of a feder ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
Wake-Up Call: The next election's a year away, and we're still cleaning up 2006
The 2010 election is less than a year away, and judging from this past Tuesday's vote, things are going to get plenty messy. But here in Colorado, we're still cleaning up after the dirty dealings of 2006. The gubernatorial race was particularly bad, with 527s and party operatives pushing the ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
Fast-track this: Five untapped Colorado energy sources
Thar she blows: The Penry-Huttner Geothermal Project.The Department of the Interior just designated six renewable energy projects, including a 400-megawatt solar tower, as "fast-track" developments deserving of the highest priority. All six of the projects happen to be in California. Hard t ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
Read the order muzzling embattled ICE agent Cory Voorhis
Cory Voorhis, sans a gag.No doubt former ICE agent Cory Voorhis would have loved to comment on an October 23 Denver Post article about Stephanie Villafuerte, a former deputy district attorney and Bill Ritter associate nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. Attorney. Trouble is, Voorhis h ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
The silencing of Cory Voorhis in the dust-up over Obama nominee Stephanie Villafuerte
A judge has zipped Cory Voorhis' lips.This morning's Denver Post features an angry (in a good way) article about Stephanie Villafuerte, a former deputy district attorney and Bill Ritter associate nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. Attorney. Villafuerte appears to have had a significa ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Wake-Up Call: An end to musical chairs
Ken Salazar has been sworn in as Secretary of the Interior. Michael Bennet is now a U.S. senator. Tom Boasberg is taking over as superintendent of Denver Public Schools, promising to "accelerate reform." That leaves just one more chair to fill -- the U.S. Attorney's seat vacated by Republican Tro ... More >>
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January 16, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Naming names for U.S. attorney
Right before he headed into his lovefest/confirmation hearing for the Secretary of the Interior post, still-Senator Ken Salazar and new Senator Mark Udall sent President-elect Barack Obama the names of three candidates for U.S. attorney, since that post generally goes with the winning party, and Rep ... More >>
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