In early May, it looked like a strike against King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons by union employees was a real possibility. Since then, however, the situation has dragged out and out and out, with continued extensions creating little pressure on either side to get something done. Earlier this month, the…
Cory Gardner, who’s running for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is under liberal attack for playing coy when asked at a town hall this week if he thinks President Barack Obama was born in the United States. As Colorado Pols points out this morning, his subsequent response to the Denver…
The latest chapter in the Brandon Marshall Immaturity Follies? Broncos coach Josh McDaniels, who’d earlier relegated the pouty wide receiver to the second team, is now saying he isn’t sure if BM will even play during Saturday’s preseason contest with the Seattle Seahawks. Is this an example of childishness meeting…
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter is hardly the only local official in these parts staring at ugly budgets. Case in point: Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam, who’s sent a budget to the city council featuring $13 million in reductions, achieved by, among many other things, slicing 26 jobs from the payroll…
The last update from Mary Marvin about the condition of her husband, AM 760 host Jay Marvin, who recently underwent an epic surgical procedure to address serious medical issues that have kept him off the air since March, consisted entirely of the photo seen here, of a massive incision in…
With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols — and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan…
Why on earth would a female high-school teacher want to boink a male student? After all, teenage boys are typically terrible conversationalists, are prone to doing stupid things (and then doing them again), and have terrible skin. And who cares if a stiff breeze can give them an erection? Most…
It’s a different kind of boxing day. Today in Cafe Society: • The 10 worst lunch boxes ever — and what they say about the kids who carried them. • Tequila and beer tasting tonight at the Wynkoop Brewery. • Mysteries of Sheehan’s Desk: Day 7. • Silver Mine Subs…
Our daily slog through through local blogosphere. Tips would be appreciated. Denver: A great place to date in a recession. Allegedly. (5280) The West — in fact, the entire National League — could be won in Colorado. (Purple Row) Cory Gardner, congressional hopeful from Yuma, isn’t quite sure Barack Obama…
In the Monday blog “Tom Martino Misidentifies Writer in Westword ‘Exposé,'” we told you about a video the consumer advocate had made about his attempt to ambush writer Jared Jacang Maher, whose article about the connections between Martino and a multi-level marketing company he’d promoted on Martino TV and his…
The social media world was abuzz yesterday after a survey commissioned by CareerBuilder.com reported that 45 percent of HR professionals are looking at your social media profiles before deciding to hire you. Well, duh. We’ve been hearing reports of people fired, censured or chastised for the stupid shit they post…
He’s an animal, that Adam Cayton-Holland. Therefore, the hyphenated one will fit right in tonight, when he headlines this year’s Denver Zoo Comedy Night, which benefits several environmental and wildlife conservation agencies, including the Orangutan Conservancy, Madagascar Faunal Group, WildAid and DECOIN. And although the funny former Westworder will be…
It’s been a big week for local robbers with snazzy names. On Tuesday, the FBI announced it was looking for a scofflaw they’d named the $83 Bandit, since the bank notes he’s used to rob eight Denver area banks since March often included odd numbers that have the numeral 3…
Another change that must be made to the annual gathering to appeal to contemporary audiences and sell more tickets…. Embrace Urban Agriculture: Now is the time to open up the agricultural competitions to include an exhibition for the state’s third-largest crop — marijuana. Along with corn and hay, judges would…
The demise of Colorado Media Matters in March silenced a progressive organization that tirelessly attacked what it described as conservative misinformation in the media. But there’s life after left-leaning advocacy for CMM frontman Bill Menezes. The former Denver Post reporter is now a senior account director for Denver’s VisiTech Public…
I’m guessing the Canadian consulate in Denver, at 1625 Broadway, isn’t a frequent location for major protests — but that changed yesterday, when PETA representatives chose it as the place to complain about Canadian seal harvests. Their approach? Dress up someone in a seal costume, bust a bottle of “bloody…
Sports Illustrated’s Don Banks has assembled an unusual list, albeit one that makes sense following the Philadelphia Eagles’ recent Michael Vick signing. (Who let the dogs in?) Instead of ranking starting quarterbacks, Banks rates the second stringers. And in his view, the Broncos Chris Simms is a top-ten finisher –…
It’s been a year since the Democratic National Convention took over this town — and to mark that anniversary, the Colorado branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has taken two legal actions. In the first, an ACLU lawyer is representing eight people in a suit against the City of…
National August 95ºF from Climate Central on Vimeo. It’s been an unusually cool summer this year — and if the folks at ClimateCentral.org are right, such seasons will become even less common as time marches on. A just-released article declares: “Today, seven cities break 90°F on at least half of…
All signs pointed to Southwest Airlines purchasing Frontier — but despite Southwest CEO Gary Kelly’s optimistic projections in the days before an auction for the Denver-based carrier, a breakdown in labor talks with Frontier pilots presaged an unlikely victory by Republic Airways Holdings. Since then, Southwest has attempted to limit…
The impending trial of Richard Marshall and John Graham for the 1975 murder of Native-American activist Annie Mae Aquash (also known as Annie Mae Pictou Aquash) will take place in South Dakota — but the Denver Police Department’s been invoked by Marshall’s attorney. He accuses the DPD of destroying evidence…
Since asking the most confrontational question at President Barack Obama’s healthcare town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, ultra-conservative CU student Zach Lahn has extended his face time by going on a tour of cable-news talking-head broadcasts. Predictably, Fox News did its best to turn him into a right-wing folk…
