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Federico Pena = Mitt Romney, says Jon Caldara about Obama for America co-chair

Federico Pena -- one-time state legislator, mayor of Denver from 1983-1991, and former director of both the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy for President Bill Clinton -- is now in private business. But as national campaign co-chair for Obama for America, he'll join ... More >>

Michael Tracey, CU prof in Ramsey family-John Mark Karr debacle: Negative job evaluations

Remember Michael Tracey? He's the CU journalism professor whose obsession with the JonBenét Ramsey murder helped lead to a media frenzy over false confessor John Mark Karr back in 2006. Could his apparent disinterest in actual student instruction have finally caught up with him? One possible indica ... More >>

Denver Players prostitution ring: Denver Police release client records in heavily censored form

​In June, political observers wondered if Mayor Michael Hancock would be damaged by alleged links to the Denver Players prostitution ring. But the story petered out, and Denver Police's release of client lists and more, on view below, is unlikely to revive it, for reasons that frustrate Comple ... More >>

Occupy Denver: 11 of 20 weekend arrestees have no criminal record outside of OD protests

​November 17's a day of action for Occupy Denver, which is marking the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. That could mean more arrests, and more suggestions by critics that the protests are dominated by longtime criminals. But a report about the arrest records of OD types busted this ... More >>

Red-light cameras at intersections set to nab people trying to turn right on red?

36th & Quebec.​Cameras at intersections have plenty of detractors, many of whom claim their usage is more about revenue enhancement than safety. Now, a Complete Colorado report offers some numbers to back up this theory. On one day, 94 percent of tickets issued at a major metro intersection ta ... More >>

New taxes on gas, electric cars?: CDOT says it's just talking about them right now

​Is the Colorado Department of Transportation looking at hiking taxes on gasoline and electric cars? That's the implication from an Independence Institute report, which quotes from CDOT e-mails. But spokeswoman Stacey Stegman says there's no proposal yet, and one is unlikely this year.

Brandon Marshall's wife called 911 during fight three months before stabbing him

Marshall.​During his years with the Denver Broncos, receiver Brandon Marshall was hit with numerous domestic violence accusations. As such, it wasn't exactly shocking that in April, after being traded to the Miami Dolphins, Marshall was stabbed by his wife. And now, a newly released 911 report ... More >>

Brenda Stewart: Ex-Denver Players owner cops plea, 69 other counts dropped (VIDEO)

CBS4​Last month, we shared reports that ex-Denver Players/Denver Sugar owner Brenda Stewart would cop a plea -- and at a hearing yesterday, the agreement was formalized. In exchange for her pleading guilty to a single count of tax evasion, prosecutors dropped an appropriate number of other cha ... More >>

Reader: Michael Hancock prostitution story equivalent to hunt for the Easter Bunny

Hancock.​Our post about the Denver Police Department obstacles being thrown in front of Complete Colorado's Todd Shepherd as he tries to get more information on the Michael Hancock prostitution story didn't spawn a lot of sympathy for his plight. Here's one particularly cutting post.

Michael Hancock prostitution story: Do Denver cops have different rules for mayor-elect, press?

Michael Hancock.​Although the uproar over reports allegedly linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution operation has died down, one journalist -- Complete Colorado's Todd Shepherd, who broke the story in the first place -- isn't giving up. But he's hit a roadblock w ... More >>

Michael Hancock prostitution-article reporter waiting for mainstream outlet to pick up story

Michael Hancock.​On Friday, we pointed to a CompleteColorado.com post claiming that mayoral frontrunner Michael Hancock's name and number had been linked to Denver Players, the prostitution ring that ensnared Judge Edward Nottingham. This morning, we'd hoped to talk to the site's Todd Shepherd ... More >>

Scarlet Ranch, Scottie Ewing, Michael Hancock, Denver Players & the swingers story that lives on

Scottie Ewing.​Old swinger stories never die. Late Thursday, Complete Colorado broke a story about Michael Hancock allegedly being one of the clients of Denver Players, the prostitution/escort business that three years ago ended the career of Chief Judge Edward Nottingham -- the only name tha ... More >>

Medical marijuana stats: Is White House looking for link between dispensaries and crime?

Crime center?​Last November, deputy attorney general David Ogden wrote a memo advising U.S. Attorneys in states where medical marijuana has been legalized to give a pass to MMJ businesses following local laws. But now, an e-mail trolling for info about dispensary-related crime suggests that so ... More >>

Brandon Marshall reportedly to be featured in CBS exposé of violent athletes

Rasheedah Watley in a 2009 ESPN report.​Update, May 21, 6:28 a.m.: The violent athletes report described in this item, intially published at 1:19 p.m. on May 20, didn't appear on last night's CBS news broadcast. As noted below, the possibility remained that it could be bumped by breaking news; ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Independence Institute cries foul on cost of public-records request

The logo for the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments.​In the past year or so, a number of state and local agencies in Colorado have begun charging members of the media higher fees for completing public-records requests. Take the Denver Police Department, which used to make copies of dail ... More >>

Independence Institute on jihad against public-art spending in Denver

If we could get a couple more of these, betcha everybody would be psyched.​Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts -- because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell's 1984 ... More >>