Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, who spent much of last week traipsing around the Denver area declaring that there’s a new sheriff in town, has taken what he calls “an important first step” in restoring balance to federal public lands policy — pulling the plug on a…
Since figuratively getting their heads handed to them during last November’s election, Republican operatives have been trying to figure out how to get off the mat prior to the next big vote less than two years from now, thereby setting the stage for a real comeback in 2012. According to…
As you can see, the logo of the Denver Newspaper Agency declares the business to be “The Publisher of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News” — but evidence uncovered by indefatigable Rocky business scribe David Milstead suggests that DNA officials are already preparing for the day when that’s no…
Kent Denver Prep School students, assisted by Senator Jennifer Veiga, have introduced legislation that aims to save the environment by placing a six-cent tax on every plastic grocery bag. It has inspired 7th-graders across the city to pen more new legislation…..
All the Rocky Mountain News had to do was spend a couple of months teetering on the edge of oblivion to find out how many people in the community care about it. On the day after last Thursday’s well-attended candlelight “migil,” an anonymous benefactor dished up a midday feed to…
Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson probably cringes every time he gets a phone call from Channel 9 reporter Deborah Sherman. Twice in recent days, questions she’s posed to him related to an identity-theft story have made him, and the DPD as a whole, seem like Keystone cops. The tale…
The Bell Tower is the most talked-about building in Denver that’s yet to be built. Ever since local real estate developer Buzz Geller proposed the strikingly angled 34-story condominium at the corner of Speer Boulevard and Market Street, folks have been buzzing about it — some grumbling, while others saying…
Last night, your Denver Nuggets defeated the San Antonio Spurs, one of the NBA’s elite franchises. But afterward, coach George Karl (pictured) blistered his players in private before expressing his disappointment in their performance to the collected media. And good for him. First of all, the Nuggets were at home,…
As pointed out in this morning’s Wake-Up Call, ex-Senator Wayne Allard has taken a job with a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, The Livingston Group. But in reporting about this development, neither the Denver Post, which blurbed the item, nor the Rocky Mountain News, which published a slightly larger offering that’s…
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the day the music died. But don’t blame us. Today in Backbeat Online: • Herman Gauche delights and disgusts equally. • Jim Dalton joins Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. • Good morning, America. Today’s the Fray. Today in Cafe Society: • Are you the best…
Behold, our daily tour of the local blogosphere. Send tips. Colorado Republicans react to new GOP boss. They seem to like him. Weird, eh? (Mount Vitrus, via Slapstick Politics) Stimulus money will not keep that highway from crumbling beneath your tires. (Colorado Independent) Builders are totally over the whole rent-control…
It’s a well-known fact that behind every great artist’s print, there’s usually a great printmaker to serve as master technician, problem-solver and perhaps as a muse, too. We Coloradans have been lucky enough to count one of them, Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink studio in Lyons, as one our own…
A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center — and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn’t among them. To those who know anything of Van Cise’s remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that the…
Local television stations have been hard hit by our current economic meltdown; as evidence, note that Channel 9, whose newscasts have topped the ratings for the better part of three decades, recently declined to renew the contracts of two prominent personalities, anchor Bob Kendrick and forecaster Nick Carter. And the…
A Harlequin Reassignment Romance: Transgender to the Touch. — Kenny Be…
I was driving on Speer Boulevard near 12th Avenue when I spotted this tricked-out 2005 H2 Hummer with a very unadorned “FOR SALE” sign taped to the back. I just had to get a photo. Talk about a sign of the times. It reads: “Factory build-off truck. 1 of 2…
The January 27 blog “Timing Dubious in Push to Raise FasTracks Taxes” suggested that area mayors were exhibiting political tone-deafness by promoting a tax hike to pay for completion of the FasTracks system amid the worst economic downturn in years. But not so fast. As noted in reports by the…
Oh, hell. Sunshine Megatron, millionaire titan of obnoxious Internet humor, name-changing scoundrel of dubious sanity and random Denver transplant is closing up shop on T-Shirt Hell, his notorious and wildly successful T-shirt site. That’s bad news for all those hoping to stock on up casual wear emblazoned with the likes…
The 2006 Message column “She’s Back” begins like so: “There was never any danger of the Rocky Mountain News underplaying the August 16 arrest of alleged child-porn fan John Mark Karr in the 1996 slaying of JonBenét Ramsey. After all, the paper’s previous coverage of this tragic episode had exhibited…
Even those public-radio fans who financially support their favorite stations tend to despise fundraisers that eat into regularly scheduled programming — particularly the ones that stretch out for the better part of a week, if not longer, as is usually the case at Colorado Public Radio, which is currently prepping…
This morning, both Denver dailies feature page-one stories about Agile Group, a Boulder wealth-management firm with a couple of notable local clients — KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen and former congressman Tom Tancredo — who say they’ve lost a bundle. Predictably, the Rocky Mountain News focused on Rosen, who writes…
Blogs guaranteed to appeal to your groundhog. Today in Backbeat Online: • Spinning the wheel. • Charles Spearin: The Happiness Project. • Live review: Hot Congress Show 1 at Moe’s Original Barbecue. • The Boss was made for loving you. • See video of Reno Divorce at the Ogden Theatre…
