Update, 2:27 p.m.: New info below the original 1:37 p.m. item. While Republican Ken Buck used the caucus system to transform himself from a senatorial dark horse into a frontrunner (the kind now getting attacked by the likes of Politico), Andrew Romanoff, the champion Dem at the caucus level, seems…
Nothing moves swiftly in the upper echelons of government decision-making — especially when the decisions have to do with a tiny rodent that can stall development projects. Today marks the public-comment deadline on the proposal for critical habitat designation of the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse. But don’t expect the battle…
Earlier this month, we told you about a dust-up involving Fountain City Councilman Harold Thompson that ended with medical marijuana advocate Al Lender taking an elbow to the mouth — after he called Thompson a son of a bitch, that is. Now, a special prosecutor says no charges should be…
Former state lawmaker Ken Gordon is a passionate advocate of online communication, particularly emerging social media, as a powerful tool in the service of democracy. In bursts of electronic energy, known as “e-mails,” he’s reached out across cyberspace to encourage citizens to get involved and start tweeting their elected representatives…
Proof that Ken Buck, once thought to be an also-ran in the U.S. Senate race, is now perceived as a serious threat: He’s the target of attacks from fellow Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton as well as Pat Waak, head of the Colorado Democratic Party. Waak believes current frontrunner Buck…
A U.S. District Court ruling yesterday ensures that Kathleen Curry’s name won’t be on the ballot for her House District 61 reelection bid. But unlike La Plata County commissioner Joelle Riddle, whose lawsuit she joined, Curry’s not dropping out. Instead, she’s moving forward with one of the most challenging chores…
In our continuing analysis of the water musings cranked out by Scott McInnis during his two-year, $300,000 fellowship, one inescapable question emerges — the same question that confronts the weary slush-pile editor after wading through stacks of really bad writing: Has anybody else ever tried to read this stuff?…
Hurray for capitalism! Without it, we Americans wouldn’t have such a rich panoply of consumer items — including a slew of stuff available through Amazon.com that will allow you to express your love for, or hatred of, Tom Tancredo. But lovers have more choices beyond this “There Is No Shame…
Republican congressional candidate Cory Gardner may have a very colorful skeleton in his closet: As a student at Colorado State University, it appears he was an official Ram Handler, one of the chosen few in charge of primping and pimping the school’s official mascot, CAM the Ram…
World famous wrap-artist Christo is in Denver tonight to drum up support for his Arkansas River cover-up project. The sold-out Seawell Ballroom event kicks off a four-city lecture series announcing the 45-day public comment period required after the BLM releases the environmental impact statement of the project on July 15…
If elected, Scott McInnis pledges that he will be a jobs governor. But if those jobs are related to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, he — or at least his spokesman, Sean Duffy — isn’t all that interested in talking about them these days…
At 7:30 a.m. this morning, just over three months after his rib-rattling bicycle accident, Governor Bill Ritter is scheduled to talk about Bike to Work Day at the Civic Center breakfast station at Civic Center Park. No, we don’t anticipate that he’ll collapse in hysterics from a bad case of…
We may never know what inspired the Hasan Family Foundation to shell out $300,000 for a series of remarkably slipshod “Musings on Water” by Scott McInnis. But as I pointed out in the first installment of our probing analysis, the candidate’s soggy prose offers clues about the kind of governor…
Brightonator Real Name: Teri G. Sanchez; Occupation: Empire Builder; Suburb of Operations: Brighton; Hair: Electric; Eyes: Bright Suburban superhero skills: Brightonator is a mutant with the superhuman ability to brighten the lives of all the people she coordinates at the Small Business Assistance Center of the Brighton Learning and Resource…
Ken Buck’s looking more and more like your likely Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and the national media establishment is starting to notice. No less a magazine of record than Time is wondering if he’s the latest Tea Party star — and if onetime frontrunner Jane Norton will wind…
The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a series of eye-glazing articles about Colorado water issues. Political junkies everywhere want to know what the Hasans…
Rep. Steve King appeared at a 9.12 Project event over the weekend — but not at a planned fundraiser for Cory Gardner, who canceled after King played the race card in comments about Barack Obama. What’s Gardner’s campaign got to say about the accusations of political correctness and timidity that…
Taking a cue from the Rambo fantasies of Gary Brooks Faulkner, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton has revamped her website to suggest she’s ready to bring us the head of Osama bin Laden. And that of Barack Obama. And all those liberal milquetoasts in Washington who’ve sold us down the…
Note: This story cartoon will appear in this week’s issue of Westword. Politicians and tarot decks are amazingly similar. Both were created for trick-taking games, and both are largely used by the foolhardy to foretell the future. The personalities of Colorado’s most widely known politicians correspond remarkably well to the…
The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama’s lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum “pay” for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests the administration is finally starting to look at poor regulation of oil-and-gas drilling in…
On Sunday, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank weighed in on his “prickly” former editor at the Yale Daily News: one Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who’s challenging incumbent Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, may have left journalism behind, but he still knows how to edit an upstart…
Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration’s various “job offers” (some would say “bribes”) to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there’s another job opportunity waiting in the wings: The Honorable Mary…
