During a recent visit to Colorado, Larry Schweiger, president and chief executive of the National Wildlife Federation, said Colorado was in the bull’s eye for negative consequences from climate change. What exactly does that mean? Unfortunately, Schweiger has examples aplenty of environmental damage to our square state, and it’s not…
The 2010 census gives states a new option for how to count their prison population, a move that could provide additional political leverage to urban areas — which, in Colorado, means more power to the Front Range and less to places like Fremont, Logan and Crowley counties. In the past,…
On Friday, backers of the Personhood Amendment, which says the term “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point, announced that they’d collected enough signatures to put the measure on the 2010 ballot. Of course, a very similar initiative, promoted by 21-year-old Westword profile subject Kristi Burton, was soundly…
Three Denver blogs for the price of one. Nate Timmons at Denver Stiffs calls the $4.5 million, one-year contract extension the Nuggets just gave coach George Karl a “no brainer.” Agreed. Just hope he doesn’t lose his head and kill J.R. Smith. Becca Blond at the Colorado Independent writes that…
Yesterday, AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota and Colorado Springs city councilman Sean Paige took part in an on-air debate, with the honor of Colorado Springs at stake. But while the program has ended, the scrap isn’t over, with Paige continuing to take swings at Sirota in a new, insult-laden Huffington…
At this hour, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is in Pueblo to make a speech about what he considers to be job-killing tax increases on candy and other items that were passed by the Colorado senate on Wednesday. And according to McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy, he thinks he might have…
Did you know that today is officially Colorado Loves California Day? No joke. Well, actually, it sorta is one. This is the second year that Colorado has proclaimed its lust for the Golden State — the idea being that if we suck up to Cali, businesses there might expand here…
This week’s cover story, “You’re in Bad Hands,” follows a Lafayette woman’s four-year battle with her health insurance company after a devastating car accident left her seriously injured, saddled with hundreds of thousands in medical bills — and a canceled policy because of Assurant Health’s profit-minded approach to the controversial…
How bad is the blood between the current leadership of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Crisanta Duran, former UFCW associate counsel and daughter of ex-union boss Ernie Duran? So bad that at a meeting earlier this week, the executive board rescinded its endorsement of her candidacy for…
Tom Tancredo’s call for civics literacy tests at the first National Tea Party Convention was described as racist in some quarters, even though he says he got the idea for them from an immigrant, and would like to base the questions on the examination immigrants must pass before being granted…
On Monday, we told you about the rhetorical battle between AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota, who thinks Colorado Springs’ conservative fiscal policies are largely responsible for the community’s sizable economic woes, and Springs councilman Sean Paige, who sees Sirota’s views as a cruel attack on a great American town. Since…
This week’s cover story, “You’re in Bad Hands” (click here for the main article, and here for the sidebar), digs into the story behind the whopping $37 million bad-faith verdict a Boulder jury recently awarded to Jennifer Latham, a mother of four who was severely injured in a 2005 auto…
PETA has been trotting out naked ladies to try to drum up sympathy for their cause for years, and often it’s pretty successful, if you consider drawing a few pervs with cameras and the occasional honk from a passing pick-up a success. But yesterday’s “Fur-Out, Love-In” stunt on the 16th…
On Monday, we told you about the face-off between columnist/AM 760 host David Sirota and Colorado Springs councilman Sean Paige over the perception that the Springs’ conservative policies have made bad problems worse during the ongoing economic downturn. Against this backdrop, the Springs council voted 8-1 last night to approve…
Last week, ex-Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, delivering the keynote address at the First National Tea Party Convention, drew accusations of racism when he suggested that President Barack Obama was elected partly because “we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote… People who could…
Check out these three blogs about Denver, why don’t you? The Denver Egotist reports that PETA will sponsor a “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” event at the 16th Street Mall tomorrow. There, “‘sexy activists’ will cuddle up in a bed on a public sidewalk wearing nothing but their underwear…
Democrats’ attempts to remove tax exemptions from everything from candy to bull semen in order to balance the state’s budget has prompted angry cries from Republicans, who insist these maneuvers are actually tax increases. Of course, Dems insist that’s not the case — but today, former gubernatorial candidate turned state…
Late last month, the Denver Post published a piece about Colorado Springs having to cut some basic city services — including turning off a third of its street lights on one day — due to its horrific revenue situation. Since then, the left-wing blogosphere has piled on, with sites like…
Welcome to Denver Blogs — your one-stop shopping place to find blogs about Denver. Kyle at Bronco Talk has three words for the prospect of Denver drafting Florida QB Tim Tebow: “Just Say No!” And his reasons don’t have anything to do with Tebow’s Focus on the Family Super Bowl…
Earlier this week, Republican State Representative Tom Massey called a press conference for 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, to announce legislation aimed at regulating Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. Since Massey was the bill’s sponsor — and was the one who called the press conference — he belonged at the event, naturally…
Former Wesword profile subject Tom Tancredo’s well known for his ability to stir things up — even at already controversial events like at the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where his keynote remarks prompted the New York Daily News to publish an article headlined, “Tea Party Convention’s…
Editor’s note: The author, comedian Mike Polk, is a producer for Break Media and the somewhat demented mind behind the “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video” and the “One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song.” With his approval ratings suffering, his agenda stalled and his party scuffling, it’s becoming increasingly clear…
