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If you have a mother-in-law who needs to get Kimboed, make your way to the I-25 South Broadway entrance ramp. This gentleman is eager to help. — Joe Tone…

Say it ain’t so, Naughty! Things don’t look good for the Sheriff of Naughty-ham. The Denver-based Chief Federal Judge Edward Nottingham is in serious hot water now that 9NEWS has revealed that the Justice Department and the FBI are looking into allegations that he told a former prostitute to lie…

John Temple. If some press observers were surprised that the Denver Post endorsed Barack Obama for president despite de facto owner Dean Singleton’s rightward leanings (which led the broadsheet to support George W. Bush last time around), plenty of others were likely just as startled that the more conservative Rocky…

Dan Haley. In 2004, the Denver Post gave George W. Bush the most intellectually contorted endorsement imaginable, in part because MediaNews Group head man and Post publisher Dean Singleton, a personal friend of Dubya, more or less big-footed the editorial board into boosting his pal. (“Choice Cut,” an October 2004…

Slide show It was a perfect weekend for staggering lifelessly through downtown. After the jump, see what you missed this weekend while whacking that moose…..

Mike Coffman. Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman’s been on a roll lately. First, his office didn’t respond to a New York Times article claiming that thousands of names may have been illegally stricken from Colorado’s voting rolls — a public-relations botch he subsequently chalked up to “miscommunication.” Shortly thereafter,…

Bob Beauprez. We haven’t heard much from former Congressman Bob Beauprez since the Republican got crushed in the 2006 gubernatorial race won by Democrat Bill Ritter. So imagine my surprise Sunday afternoon when I picked up the phone and there he was. Of course, he was recorded, and of course,…

“Hey, this isn’t the carpool lane!” Intrepid city gazer/DenverInfill blogger Ken Schroeppel spotted a curious scene this morning. According to Ken, the car seen here was unoccupied; the owner parked on Central Street above the highway to pop into Masterpiece Deli for some grub. Unfortunately, he left his car in…

Denver Health, the city’s safety-net hospital, has been operating its ambulance service under an inadequate response-time standard, according the city watchdog. The Denver Auditor’s Office on Thursday issued an alert to Mayor John Hickenlooper and various Safety Department agencies, warning that Denver Health paramedics are striving to hit response-time goals…

Conor Oberst in concert. We’ve got your pre-weekend bloggery all lined up. Today in Backbeat Online: • Conor Oberst, of Bright Eyes fame, captured on stage at the Ogden Theatre. • A live review of M.A.N.D.Y. at Beta. • Our Friday Rap-Up feature, spotlighting nerdcore rapper ytCracker. It’s crisp. Today…

Bryan Coe. As noted in “Glacially Paced Investigation into DNC Visitor Gabriel Pico’s Death Finally Moving Forward,” the Denver Police haven’t exactly set any records when it comes to charging someone in the August 30 incident that took the life of Gabriel Pico, 41, a member of California’s Pechanga Tribal…

“I’m Mark ‘Frenchie’ Udall and I approve zis message!” The strangely cheery flier appeared in the mail last week. “Europe, it sure is a nice place to visit…” read its cover, emblazoned with pretty pictures of beautiful tourists spots across the pond. By golly, it sure is! The flier was…

The Sports Guys, Sandy Clough and Mike Evans. Last week, when I spoke to FM 104.3/The Fan’s program director, Tim Spence, for a blog entitled “What’s behind Irv and Joe’s move from 104.3/The Fan to ESPN Radio?,” Spence made it clear that the Denver Post’s Jim Armstrong, who had been…

See the Obama T-shirt slide show Of all the Obama T-shirts being slung during the Democratic National Convention, it was the one above that stood out to me (and many of the people who saw our Obama-shirt slideshow). Designed by Denver DJ and musician Dameion Hines, it depicts Obama on…

“Hi, my name is Robbie, and I’m with the John McCain campaign…” Yesterday, Shannon Barbare of Greenwood Village visited the Huffington Post and stumbled upon a Sam Stein piece entitled “Wave Of McCain Robocalls Reported, Some May Violate State Law,” which warned about an initiative launched yesterday “to alarm voters…

Judge Edward Nottingham in an image from KnowYourCourts.com. “Convergence” is a term used in journalistic circles to describe quasi-formal content-sharing relationships between news organizations operating in different mediums — like, for example, the one linking the Denver Post and 9News. (Read more about it in “Let’s Get Together,” a 2002…

After his near-fatal attack at Comedy Works South, Adam Cayton-Holland has cougars on the brain. So, he presents … The Top Ten Signs You’re a Cougar 10. Given the choice of marinating chicken breasts in Italian dressing or barbecue sauce, you chose AXE Body Spray. 9. You’re in real estate,…

Gabriel Pico died outside the Diamond Cabaret just over a day after the DNC concluded. Democratic National Convention visitor Gabriel Pico, 41, a member of California’s Pechanga Tribal Council, died during the wee hours of August 30 following a scuffle outside the Diamond Cabaret. Since then, news about the investigation…

Mike Coffman. On October 9, the New York Times published a startling article claiming that 37,000 people had been purged from Colorado’s voting rolls since July 21 — a charge to which Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, who’s running for Congress in the safest district imaginable, didn’t respond prior…

Bob Schaffer. In Wednesday’s Rocky Mountain News, Republican senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer insisted that his race against Dem Mark Udall isn’t over despite polls showing him trailing his opponent by a gaping fourteen points. But according to The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, the National Republican Senatorial Committee disagrees. In “NRSC Pulling…

The West Bowles Avenue side of Light of the World Catholic Church in Littleton. From 1925 until 1963, Burma-Shave, a then-popular shaving cream, promoted its products using sequential highway road signs that drivers could eyeball as they motored past. For example, one six-sign pitch from 1952 read as follows: “The…