Buy local week continues through December 5. And while, with Barack Obama's appointments announcement today, it doesn't look like many Coloradans will be heading to D.C., there's plenty to do here at home.
Nothing gets the home fires burning like neighborhood fights, and Denver's Neighborhood Stabilization Program -- created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 -- will send its draft action plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today, outlining how i
Punxsutawney Phil saw his own shadow this morning, thereby forecasting six more weeks of winter -- and that's appropriate. There are shadows lurking everywhere, threatening whatever bright spots try to break out of the gloom. Tom Daschle -- who was hailed as the person who might be able to untangle this country's health-care mess when he was appointed to head the Department of Health and Human Services -- is just the latest to have his promise darkened, with the report that he filed amended ta
It's not quite the million-buck-a-year consulting job that Tom Daschle got working with former Tele-Communication Inc. honcho Leo Hindery's InterMedia Advisors, and it may not come with a private car. But former Senator Wayne Allard just took a job with The Livingston Group, a D.C. lobbying firm. Apparently the dog-eat-dog world of influence-peddling really needed an out-of-work vet.
As for Daschle, his failure to pay taxes on the private car provided by Hindery finally drove him out of
With just a week to go until InDenverTimes decides whether to pull the plug or revise its business plan, news comes of yet another paid, online newspaper venture. This one is Journalism Online, another brainchild from Steven Brill, who brought us the magazines American Lawyer and Content (a now-defunct journalism mag that, yes, once profiled me), as well as CourtTV. That's when he first got involved with one of his partners in this latest venture, Leo Hindery, the former head of Telecommunicat
