Tom Strickland

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 >>

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 >>

Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Letters from the week of April 9

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

The Message

Checks and Balances

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A tale of two Arnolds

You Must Remember This

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

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Can't we all just get along?

Ad Attack

Political commercials outnumber political reports on local television.

Mr. Stanley, We Presume

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

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Spy vs. Spy

What's Left?

The Post denies accusations of slanted coverage.

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TV or not TV

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Prison break

Living in Exile

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

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Who's on First?

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Turf rebirth

Year in Review

2001? What 2001?

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Is that a tuba in your pocket?

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The Blacktop Jungle

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

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.

Big Bang Theory

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Getting a Lift

Environmentalists cry foul over the new federal Ski Fee Bill.

Death of a Salesroom

Letters

Whistle Stopped

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

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Garden Pests

Shelling Out

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

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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.

LETTERS

JUST WHO IS ON THE PAYROLL?

MR. CLEAN

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.

AGAINST THE WIND

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

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