While other Republicans are starting to cozy up to Dan Maes, there’s no love lost between the Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tom Tancredo, now running for governor on the American Constitution ticket. Tancredo, who’s on KHOW right now, just gave his tax returns to Peter Boyles — authorizing him to…
Update below: This just in — Dan Maes will announce his choice for lieutenant governor during an event at noon today. Will his pick be the sort of person Northern Colorado Tea Party director Lesley Hollywood outlined earlier this morning? Or a person with more standard establishment credentials? We’ll let…
Sources are telling ESPN that Carmelo Anthony has decided to get out of Denver — and while neither Melo nor the Nuggets have made that official thus far, there’s little doubt it’s accurate. In late June, the prospect of Carmelo signing a $65 million contract extension seemed good, particularly with…
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 Northern Colorado Tea Party. Hollywood says Maes hasn’t talked…
Last week, Victoria’s Secret announced a way for men with football-hating significant others to really piss off their ladies: a line of branded clothing with the logos and colors of the Denver Broncos and a dozen other NFL teams. Okay, so the raciest things among the collection of T-shirts and…
Admission-based events are more than likely coming soon to a city park near you! Last Thursday night, the Denver Parks and Recreation Advisory Board approved in a ten-to-seven vote a controversial policy allowing ticketed events in select city parks, including Civic Center, Confluence and Skyline…
Another chapter begins today in the long and tawdry tale of Operation Fortune Cookie, the largest weed bust in Colorado history that imploded in allegations of crooked cops, paid-off politicians and bureaucratic cover-ups. Dan Tang, prominent Thornton restaurateur and the drug ring’s suspected kingpin, heads to prison for eighteen months…
Buildings in Denver don’t implode every day — so Channel 31 got every inch of mileage possible out of yesterday’s demolition of the Colorado Judicial Building, leveled to make room for the new Ralph L. Carr Judicial Complex. Look below to see four separate clips: a full report, followed by…
We found these three Denver blog posts — and we’re sharing. Colorado Pols tells about an offer from PETA to Longmont: We’ll pave subdivision roads in exchange for our name on the pavement. Watch the fur fly. Denver Infill checks in with its thirtieth update on Union Station construction. They’re…
Today, the Office of the Independent Monitor released a report about the April 2009 beating of Michael DeHerrera, with the OIM’s Richard Rosenthal and Manager of Safety Ron Perea coming to very different conclusions about a video of the incident. Rosenthal thinks the two Denver Police officers involved acted dubiously…
Dick Morris, the former Bill Clinton hire-turned-Hillary Clinton loather, is the featured attraction at an August 17 fundraiser for Scott Tipton, who’s running for Congress against incumbent John Salazar. But while Salazar has lately gotten some recent bad press over accusations of his involvement in a land swap that allegedly…
Westword is on top of cheerleading, so to speak. Not only do we bring you a sneak preview of the 2011 Broncos cheerleaders calendar, but we’ve got lots of candid launch party photos by Coleen Whitfield. Also new: the best Mile High Music Festival performers, plus a showcase of the…
Cheerleaders! Something about them makes most red-blooded American males begin frothing at the mouth. It’s ingrained into American culture from the time we’re tykes: boys — like the cheerleaders; girls — be like the cheerleaders. So it’s with mild fervor each fall that the annual cheerleader calendar for the upcoming…
As if the story of Ryan Arnold, the South Dakota man who died at the University of Colorado Hospital after donating part of his liver to his brother, Chad, wasn’t sad enough already… Rod Arnold, Ryan’s brother, had a Vimeo account prior to Ryan’s death, and he posted a video…
Littleton’s Dashawn Longfellow was a U.S. Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, reportedly receiving the Purple Heart during the course of his service. But he died in Thailand, allegedly at the hands of British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse, who may have stalked and then stabbed Longfellow after the latter floored…
Early Sunday morning in Colorado Springs, between ten and fifteen men jumped out of four cars (including two gold Cadillacs), invaded a home and stabbed the occupant, a 44-year-old man. It’s a scenario that screams “gang violence” — and while the Colorado Springs Police Department isn’t confirming that yet, officers…
Coloradans for Responsible Reform has tons of money to fight tax-cutting amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101, not to mention some heavy hitters in its corner; for instance, its spokesman, Dan Hopkins, used to do the same job for Governor Bill Owens. So what’s one of its key strategies?…
When I stepped into my kitchen this morning, I found the cover of the latest edition of 5280 — the one featuring Tim Tebow and the question, “The Second Coming?” — taped to our cereal cabinet along with a Post-It from my daughter that read: “Should we burn it or…
On Monday morning, the Colorado Department of Education will launch its Educator Effectiveness Project. It’s an undertaking made possible by $1 million in grants secured this summer…
Denver Broncos fans have been spoiled for a long time. Football games here sell out every year, so we don’t have to deal with the agony of TV black outs. Ask Chargers lovers in San Diego — where an ocean-full of games have been blacked out over the years because…
While attorney Sean McAllister is taking on Westminster’s medical marijuana dispensary ban in court, the MMJ backers at the Cannabis Therapy Institute is helping those who want to use a petition to challenge a similar prohibition in Broomfield. Advocates have until August 20 to get 1,300 signatures to ask city…
The page for Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the website for KHOW, her broadcast home in Denver, typically features advice of the sort featured on this video co-starring a poodle named Phoebe. But at this writing, the Denver landing spot for the syndicated yapper sports not one but two apologies for…
