Sinice 2008, Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected personhood ballot measures, each time by wide margins. But another version of the proposal has already been certified for the November 2014 election — and a group of anti-abortion legislators have just introduced a bill, HB 14-1133, with very similar language. A pro-choice…
Immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra, who has been fighting her deportation case for five years, announced a victory today: Federal immigration authorities have granted her a stay of deportation for six months. The mother of four, who is a vocal activist for immigration reform, will be allowed to remain in the United…
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Adam Fox has kept us up to date on pro-Obamacare ads aimed at young, uninsured people — a campaign doubters have alternately derided as “brosurance” and “hosurance” due images of dudes doing keg stands and a babe eager to take advantage of free birth control…
Update: A proposed ballot initiative that would ban concealed handguns on public college and university campuses was given the go-ahead yesterday by a state board that reviews such measures. But that doesn’t mean the initiative will automatically be on the ballot. Starting in mid-January, the proposal’s backers will have six…
Unless you’re a fan of Major League Soccer, you may not have heard of Robbie Rogers, but the speedy winger made big news last February when he came out, and briefly retired, before returning to soccer and being traded to the LA Galaxy; in doing so, he became the first…
They’ve targeted Snooze and the Palm, and now an Occupy Denver-supported coalition of protestors is going after the Tattered Cover Book Store because of the store’s position on Denver’s controversial ban on urban camping — or, rather, because of the Tattered Cover’s lack of a position on the subject. Last…
The video created by the national organization called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to mark the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre on December 14 (see it below) counts 26 school shootings in the year after that tragic day in Newtown, Connecticut. But since the clip was…
As noted in our latest update about Friday’s shooting at Arapahoe High School, the national media continues to closely follow the tragic incident’s fallout — and even though it appears that Karl Pierson legally bought the weapon he used to critically injure fellow student Claire Davis, the attack has motivated…
Earlier this year, we told the story of Imelda Valenzuela Gonzalez, a mother of three who owns a hair salon and is one of a growing number of undocumented immigrants speaking out about their cases in the hopes of stopping their deportations. At a court hearing in April, Valenzuela Gonzalez’s…
Five years ago, a jaw-dropping scandal rocked Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system: A popular judge, known for the tough sentences he handed out to juveniles, had schemed with another judge to take millions in kickbacks from the builder and operator of two private youth detention facilities. Yet behind that brazen bit…
Every bureaucracy needs its whistleblowers and gadflies, its disgruntled ex-gofers and disillusioned ex-go-getters, eager to expose government waste and folly. Without them, the smell would become unbearable, like a public toilet that hasn’t been disinfected in months. And that makes the disappearance of The Real Colorado Department of Corrections, an…
The Colorado Democratic Party is lambasting the Republican candidates for Senate for opposing access to contraception. The Democrats have declared that Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, state Representative Amy Stephens and state Senator Owen Hill “have lined up to support intrusive polices that would restrict a woman’s right to…
The citizens of Deer Trail have yet to vote on a proposed ordinance to allow the hunting of drones within the town limits. The date of the vote has been postponed until December 10 because of legal challenges to the petitions and may be postponed again. But that hasn’t stopped…
With a flood of Kennedy material coming out to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that surreal day in Dallas, brace yourself for plenty of resurgent conspiracy theories concerning who and what was behind JFK’s assassination. Despite its come-on title, JFK: A President Betrayed, a new documentary playing on DirecTV and…
We recently introduced Got Insurance?, a Colorado-based campaign intended to encourage uninsured folks to sign up for health-care coverage. Critics dubbed the first batch of ads “brosurance,” with Congressman Cory Gardner ripping an image featuring a keg stand. Now comes the second wave of spots, which is stirring up more…
If you thought the folks behind the 51st State Initiative were discouraged when only five of eleven counties where the ballot measure ran voted to secede from Colorado, you’d be wrong. The organizers are thrilled by what they describe as an “OVERWHELMING success” (the caps are theirs). They’re also readying…
Yesterday, voters in five of eleven counties considering the question of whether they should secede from Colorado to create a 51st state answered “yes.” The odds of this actually happening are microscopic, since Colorado’s legislature or voters and the U.S. Congress would have to sign off. But the spirit of…
Votes are still being counted, but the suspense when it comes to the two biggest measures on ballots statewide is over — if there was ever any at all. The Denver Post has made the call on Proposition AA, the marijuana tax measure, and Amendment 66, an education proposal, with…
Last week, we introduced you to “Got Insurance?,” a pro-Obamacare media campaign featuring a photo of three aging frat boys wilding out with a keg. The campaign’s Adam Fox told us at the time he was working to push the imagery through various social media platforms — and yesterday, he…
Among the least-insured groups in the country are young men in good health. How to get them to take advantage of the new health-care law, now known by supporters and critics alike as Obamacare? The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and ProgressNow Colorado Education, the folks behind the 2011 Thanks Obamacare!…
What role should mental health play in a discussion of gun-control legislation? Is it possible to limit access to firearms without trampling on the rights of those who battle mental illness? Is a future consensus on gun control within the realm of possibility, or are debates over the Second Amendment…
A new report on access to public records in Colorado scolds state agencies for excessive fees, failing to put records online so more citizens can make use of them, and for “pre-digital age thinking.” On the same day, attorneys for James Holmes file a motion in the Aurora theater shootings…
