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May 24, 2012
"Big Bitch" policy divides DA candidates George Brauchler, Leslie Hansen
This week's feature, "Sucker Punch," traces how an assault at a heavy metal concert turned into a habitual criminal prosecution in Arapahoe County, with one of the defendants facing a mountain of time while the other got probation. In the three-way race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial Dis ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
John Hickenlooper, Mike Coffman could see political fallout, pollster says
John Hickenlooper and Mike Coffman aren't exactly ideological twins. But at the end of this big political week in the State of Colorado, they both face political fallout, albeit for very different reasons: a special session that failed to pass civil unions and comments questioning Barack Obama's bir ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
THC driving bill killed in plot that snuffed out civil unions measure
Last night, as One Colorado's Jace Woodrum noted during a talk with supporters, GOP leaders in the House sacrificed dozens of other measures in order to kill a civil unions bill. Prominent among them was the controversial THC driving bill, a version of which died last year. The result was a stunning ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier wants to be Aurora's next mayor
Ryan FrazierPerennial politician and former Westword cover boy Ryan Frazier has done what many people expected and joined the race to become Aurora's next mayor. Four other candidates have already announced their intentions: Debbie Stafford, Steve Hogan, Sheilah Thomas Davis and Jude Sandvall ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
"Stoner" misspelling honors "Westworld"
Ryan FrazierPerennial politician and former Westword cover boy Ryan Frazier has done what many people expected and joined the race to become Aurora's next mayor. Four other candidates have already announced their intentions: Debbie Stafford, Steve Hogan, Sheilah Thomas Davis and Jude Sandvall ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Osama bin Laden death celebration at Mesa State College in Grand Junction (VIDEO)
Video below.In our post about how Osama bin Laden's death was experienced by the Facebook generation, we noted that localizing this story was unnecessary, because it impacted all of us, wherever we were. Which is why spontaneous celebrations broke out in New York City, Washington, D.C. -- an ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Carmelo Anthony is high-maintenance superstar & other things we've learned since Knicks trade
These Denver blog posts materialized before our very eyes. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein shares what we've learned since the Nuggets dealt Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks -- including that Melo is a high-maintenance superstar. To say nothing of LaLa. WhoSaidYouSaid spotlights a mom who real ... More >>
News
December 16, 2010
DIA needs to allow craft beer as a carry-on
These Denver blog posts materialized before our very eyes. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein shares what we've learned since the Nuggets dealt Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks -- including that Melo is a high-maintenance superstar. To say nothing of LaLa. WhoSaidYouSaid spotlights a mom who real ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Muhammad Ali Hasan: The newly minted Democrat has some other surprises
Ali Hasan.Muhammad Ali Hasan is older and wiser. There is less swagger and more introspection when he talks. He's a Democrat now. And interfaith, reaching out to Jews and Christians as well as Muslims. Oh, and he's changing his name -- to Muhammad Miguel Ali Hasan -- in order to honor his rec ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
Ken Buck and Dan Maes know who caused them to lose election: Those damn Republicans!
Ken Buck.A triumvirate of Denver blog posts. 5280's Michael de Yoanna writes that Ken Buck and Dan Maes blame election-day losses on Republicans. Mmm-kay. Mile High Hockey's David Driscoll-Carignan notes that the Colorado Avs are hurting -- physically, that is. Ouch. Square State's Bill Eg ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2010
Michael Bennet the next Al Franken?: Read Republican Party chair Michael Steele's op-ed
Michael Steele.Michael Bennet's camp knows turnout will decide if he retains his Senate seat or loses it to Ken Buck -- and so does Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele. In conjunction with the launch of NoMoreFrankens.com, a website using the SNL performer turned Minnesota s ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
Dan Maes worse than Christine O'Donnell?: National press pummels GOP guv nominee
Dan Maes.These days, Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes isn't getting much love in Colorado, where one poll shows him with just 5 percent support, to the delight of Tom Tancredo. But the national press he's getting of late may be even uglier, with one major source wondering if he's the ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Dan Maes says he's staying in race despite bankruptcy revelation, alleged bribe to quit
Dan Maes.Another week, another series of disasters for the Dan Maes campaign. First came photos of Maes collecting cash in a burlap bag, in apparent violation of campaign rules (but beyond the statute of limitations). Next? News that he'd filed for personal bankruptcy in 1989 -- the sort of i ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2010
Dan Maes spokesman not worried about falling below 10% support, thinks TV ad may turn tide
Dan Maes.Last week, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams said he wasn't worried about Dan Maes falling beneath 10 percent support. But plenty of other folks seem to be, judging by today's Denver Post, which outlines the prospect of the GOP winding up with minority party status if Maes ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2010
John Hickenlooper's race for guv not close at all despite Tom Tancredo surge, says head Dem
Pat Waak.Yesterday, state GOP chieftain Dick Wadhams weighed in on the upcoming election, predicting much ugliness for Democrats. Shockingly, head Dem Pat Waak has a very different take. She doesn't foresee the kind of Democratic apocalypse plenty of pundits are predicting.
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Tom Tancredo, Dog the Bounty Hunter & Sheriff Joe Arpaio draw a bead on John Hickenlooper
Tom Tancredo.Against all odds, Tom Tancredo seems to be gaining momentum in his third-party gubernatorial run. With pundits essentially writing off Republican nominee Dan Maes, whose recent attempt to raise $500,000 in a day fell over $400,000 short, Tancredo operations manager Cliff Dodge is ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
DREAM Act rejection will come back to haunt Republicans, warns CO immigrant advocate
At the rally.On Monday, advocates rallied at North High School in favor of the DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to citizenship for undocumented graduates from U.S. high schools. (See a recap and photos here.) But yesterday, Senate Republicans stalled the measure, likely killing it ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Ali Hasan's mom, Seeme Hasan, tells Talking Points Memo she may leave Republican Party
Ali Hasan.While Ali Hasan -- wearing a bolo tie as well as "Muhammed" in front of his name -- proudly proclaimed himself a Republican as he pushed for the controversial Muslim community center/mosque project near Ground Zero on Fox News last week, his mother was telling Talking Points Memo th ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Tom Tancredo issues a challenge as Wayne Allard and Hank Brown get behind Dan Maes
Tom Tancredo.Update below: As big-name Republicans begin to rally 'round gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes -- former senators Hank Brown and Wayne Allard signed on yesterday -- any GOP hopes of Maes stepping aside evaporates. So while today is the deadline for Maes's lieutenant governor pick, ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Dan Maes's lieutenant governor wish list, from Tea Party leader Lesley Hollywood
Lesley Hollywood at April Tax Day rally.Update below: It's deadline day for Dan Maes to announce his choice for lieutenant governor, and speculation continues among his followers about who'll get the nod. But you can cross one buzzed-about name off the list: Lesley Hollywood, director of the ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
Scott McInnis finally concedes to Dan Maes in primary for Republican governor nomination
Scott McInnis.Last night, most of us knew that plagiarism-troubled Scott McInnis had narrowly lost the Republican governor's nomination to Liberty Movement favorite Dan Maes -- but he put off conceding. Now, however, he's finally grasped reality after several hours of folks like GOP boss Dick ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Hasan Family Foundation's trickle-down economics: Will Scott McInnis drown in them?
Ali Hasan.Money can't buy you everything -- although it can certainly smooth the way for a while. The Hasan family fortune provided the base for the Hasam Family Foundation, which paid $300,000 to Scott McInnis for his "Musings on Water." And it also helped fuel the political ambitions of so ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Tom Tancredo's advice to President Obama about how to solve illegal immigration
Tom Tancredo.Strange but true: Former congressman Tom Tancredo agrees with something in President Barack Obama said in his immigration-reform speech at American University yesterday -- specifically, his assertion that "our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Teabaggers, Muslims and other name-calling in Jane Norton's Senate race
Based on early returns, the U.S. Senate race in Colorado this year is shaping up to be one gloriously ugly mudwallow, with GOP candidate Jane Norton painting the opposition as terrorist-loving pansies and the Dems firing back with clips that depict Norton as a Tea Party nutjob.
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Meet Lu Busse, chair of the 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition
And on the seventh day, Glenn Beck rested. And it was good.ProgressNow Colorado is on the warpath against tea party organizations and other "far right extremists;" read the liberal outfit's recent warning about them at the bottom of the blog linked here. But Lu Busse, chair of the 9.12 Proje ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2009
Tom Tancredo: "I fully intend to run" for governor
Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo wants to run for all the right reasons.A short time ago, Tom Tancredo was at Denver International Airport. "I'm going to Houston," he said. "I have a speech I'm making to the Texas Coalition for Immigration Reform, or something like that." But Tancredo took ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Denver Blogs: Sperm Egg doesn't equal big donations
Destination: Ovum!Local blogs for locals like you. Former Colorado Independent staffer Wendy Norris launches Western Citizen, her new online news project, with a story about the tough financial times being faced by backers of the latest personhood amendment. Fetus don't fail them now. John ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2009
Wake-Up Call: Marilyn Musgrave fights Bill Owens (no, not that Bill Owens)
Marilyn Musgrave's political career rose from the dead last week, as the former Colorado congresswoman and current director of the Susan B. Anthony List's Votes Have Consequences project campaigned for the election of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate running for the 23rd Congres ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Momentum keeps building for Josh Penry
Josh Penry."Time For Josh Penry to Make His Move in Republican Guv-Nomination Race," a blog published about this time yesterday, noted that Penry seems to be filling the GOP vacuum that his principal rival, Scott McInnis, has left gaping thus far. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza apparent ... More >>
News
July 9, 2009
Ali Hasan could be a Colorado leading man
Josh Penry."Time For Josh Penry to Make His Move in Republican Guv-Nomination Race," a blog published about this time yesterday, noted that Penry seems to be filling the GOP vacuum that his principal rival, Scott McInnis, has left gaping thus far. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza apparent ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2009
Pro-Palin blogger Adam Brickley still in SarahCuda's corner
Adam Brickley on "The Colbert Report" last year. Alaska governor Sarah Palin's surprise announcement on Friday that she'll be leaving her office eighteen months early because -- well, just because -- distressed many of the GOP faithful. But it didn't upset Adam Brickley, the Colorado blogger credit ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2009
Sheriff Salazar stalled by posse politics
Republicans rallied the troops in the Senate this morning and managed to block the much-delayed confirmation of David Hayes, Ken "New Sheriff in Town" Salazar's choice to serve as his top deputy at the Department of the Interior. In a crucial test of whether the new administration's bold break wit ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Ryan Frazier throws his hat into the Senate race
Ryan Frazier Two-term Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has announced that he's formed an exploratory committee for the Colorado 2010 U.S. Senate Race. The development, which Frazier will announce today at a Grand Junction tea party rally, makes the 31-year-old Frazier the first Republican to tak ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2009
The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 4 edition
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
Scott McInnis prematurely pisses on GOP's grave
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2008
Did you know Mike Coffman was running for Congress?
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2008
John McClane for President
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2008
Hand Puppets Call for "Total Destruction" of DNC
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2008
The Straight-Talk Express Goes to Utah. And Europe.
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2008
Fate of the Union
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
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January 24, 2008
Donkey Business
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2007
Rudy Giuliani for the Low, Low Price of $1000
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-'90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of "You Found Me." • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society: • Vesta ... More >>
News
September 28, 2006
Wed Alert
Marilyn Musgrave will be singing a different tune.
News
August 29, 2002
Letters to the Editor
From the week of August 29, 2002
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April 9, 1998
Life of the Party
Winning the Governor's Mansion could be a religious experience for the GOP.
News
July 31, 1997
Rules Made to Be Broken
Confusion reigns on Amendment 15, and the secretary of state takes heat for her campaign-finance edicts.
News
June 7, 1995
AGAINST THE WIND
CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.
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December 28, 1994
THE YEAR IN REVIEW
CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, GALE NORTON'S QUEST FOR THE SENATE WILL BE ANYTHING BUT A BREEZE.
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October 12, 1994
OFF THE RECORD
WHOSE DIVORCE RECORDS ARE SEALED? READ ALL ABOUT IT.
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