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Tom Strickland

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Tom Strickland exits Interior, chased by big bucks

    Tom Strickland.​The news that "lobbyist lawyer" Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum's law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Martin Luther King Jr. a sexual degenerate and Communist, says Greeley school board member

    Martin Luther King Jr.​Check out these three Colorado-centric blog posts. 5280's Michael de Yoanna shares his take on Greeley school board member Brett Reese's radio attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. Will he take down Mother Teresa next? Colorado Pols: The mercurial Tom Strickland is leaving ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle

    Martin Luther King Jr.​Check out these three Colorado-centric blog posts. 5280's Michael de Yoanna shares his take on Greeley school board member Brett Reese's radio attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. Will he take down Mother Teresa next? Colorado Pols: The mercurial Tom Strickland is leaving ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2010

    Michael Brown does a heckuva job explaining the oil-spill conspiracy

    Martin Luther King Jr.​Check out these three Colorado-centric blog posts. 5280's Michael de Yoanna shares his take on Greeley school board member Brett Reese's radio attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. Will he take down Mother Teresa next? Colorado Pols: The mercurial Tom Strickland is leaving ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Ken Salazar's role in BP disaster: More spin than reform?

    Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.​The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    In branding Scott McInnis "McLobbyist," left borrows from right's playbook

    Scott McInnis. Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP's grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest -- and adding that he could h ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2009

    Letters from the week of April 9

    Scott McInnis. Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP's grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest -- and adding that he could h ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

    Scott McInnis. Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP's grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest -- and adding that he could h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    The resurrection of Tom Strickland

    The knock on Tom Strickland, during his two unsuccessful runs for the Senate, was that he was a (shudder) "lobbyist-lawyer." Not as appealing, it turned out, as folksy horse-vet Wayne Allard, whose basic charm seemed to be an almost complete absence of anything that might be described as a fres ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Dear Governor: Why I should be our next Senator

    Dear Governor Bill, I hear the clamor over who gets to replace Senator Ken Salazar, and I feel your pain. Opportunists are crawling out of the rich woodwork at the statehouse, stumbling off the barstools on Wazee and emerging from lavatories at truckstops, hands still moist from underpowered hot-a ... More >>

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Who should replace Salazar in the Senate? Go straight to the Hart.

    Dear Governor Bill, I hear the clamor over who gets to replace Senator Ken Salazar, and I feel your pain. Opportunists are crawling out of the rich woodwork at the statehouse, stumbling off the barstools on Wazee and emerging from lavatories at truckstops, hands still moist from underpowered hot-a ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    The Message

    Checks and Balances

  • News

    August 14, 2003

    Off Limits

    A tale of two Arnolds

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    You Must Remember This

    Holy smokes! Only those with burning ambition will survive the 2002 Year in Review quiz.

  • News

    October 24, 2002

    Off Limits

    Can't we all just get along?

  • News

    October 24, 2002

    Ad Attack

    Political commercials outnumber political reports on local television.

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Mr. Stanley, We Presume

    It's ready, fire, aim for the Libertarian candidate for Senate.

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    Off Limits

    Spy vs. Spy

  • News

    October 3, 2002

    What's Left?

    The Post denies accusations of slanted coverage.

  • News

    September 26, 2002

    Off Limits

    TV or not TV

  • News

    August 29, 2002

    Off Limits

    Prison break

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Living in Exile

    Federal prisons are filling up with people whose only crime is the possession of a gun.

  • News

    February 21, 2002

    Off Limits

    Who's on First?

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Off Limits

    Turf rebirth

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    Year in Review

    2001? What 2001?

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Off Limits

    Is that a tuba in your pocket?

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Off Limits

    Is that a tuba in your pocket?

  • News

    September 18, 1997

    Off Limits

    Is that a tuba in your pocket?

  • News

    June 19, 1997

    The Blacktop Jungle

    Are the series of superhighways inching their way around Denver a "beltway"--or a noose?

  • News

    April 24, 1997

    Roll On, Columbia

    The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is out to flatten its Denver competition. It's already reshaped the world of local health care.

  • News

    December 26, 1996

    Big Bang Theory

    The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is out to flatten its Denver competition. It's already reshaped the world of local health care.

  • News

    October 24, 1996

    Off Limits

    The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is out to flatten its Denver competition. It's already reshaped the world of local health care.

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Getting a Lift

    Environmentalists cry foul over the new federal Ski Fee Bill.

  • Culture

    August 8, 1996

    Death of a Salesroom

    Environmentalists cry foul over the new federal Ski Fee Bill.

  • News

    July 25, 1996

    Letters

    Environmentalists cry foul over the new federal Ski Fee Bill.

  • News

    June 20, 1996

    Whistle Stopped

    A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

  • News

    May 9, 1996

    Letters

    A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

  • Culture

    May 2, 1996

    Garden Pests

    A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

  • News

    April 25, 1996

    Shelling Out

    Tom Strickland's coffers bulge with funds from his law partners and their clients.

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    Off Limits

    Tom Strickland's coffers bulge with funds from his law partners and their clients.

  • News

    February 7, 1996

    OFF LIMITS

    Tom Strickland's coffers bulge with funds from his law partners and their clients.

  • News

    October 25, 1995

    UNDER HIS SKIN

    ADAM'S MARK DEVELOPER FRED KUMMER LOST A $5 MILLION RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION SUIT IN ST. LOUIS--BUT WON $25 MILLION FROM DENVER.

  • News

    October 18, 1995

    LETTERS

    ADAM'S MARK DEVELOPER FRED KUMMER LOST A $5 MILLION RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION SUIT IN ST. LOUIS--BUT WON $25 MILLION FROM DENVER.

  • News

    October 11, 1995

    JUST WHO IS ON THE PAYROLL?

    ADAM'S MARK DEVELOPER FRED KUMMER LOST A $5 MILLION RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION SUIT IN ST. LOUIS--BUT WON $25 MILLION FROM DENVER.

  • News

    October 11, 1995

    MR. CLEAN

    ADAM'S MARK DEVELOPER FRED KUMMER LOST A $5 MILLION RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION SUIT IN ST. LOUIS--BUT WON $25 MILLION FROM DENVER.

  • News

    July 19, 1995

    FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

    THE CITY IS UP TO ITS NECK IN THE OLD ELITCH'S--AND NOW IT'S CLAMMING UP.QUEASY RIDERS THE BATTLE OVER THE OLD ELITCH'S THROWS A CITY COUNCILMAN--AND HIS CONSTITUENTS--FOR A LOOP.

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    AGAINST THE WIND

    CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.

  • News

    April 5, 1995

    OFF LIMITS

    CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.

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