According to the New York Times, Colorado is America — at least when it comes to our opinion of health-care reform. Which ain’t too positive right now. “In Colorado, Craving Reform of Health Care and Congress,” published yesterday, quotes an array of average folks in Denver and Fort Collins with…
Senate candidate and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton is the latest GOP leader to blast Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s proposed energy reforms. The vitriol is pretty shrill — she refers to “new, draconian reforms,” as if the government was about to start beheading oil executives. Yet it’s also…
If Denver mayor John Hickenlooper decides to run for governor (as Ken Salazar, among others, would love for him to do), he’ll have plenty of campaign web addresses from which to choose, thanks to Andrew Hudson. “Basically, my thought was, that’s probably the last thing on John’s mind,” says Hudson,…
Last year, ethics in Colorado improved by 50 percent — at least judging by Colorado Ethics Watch’s list of the year’s top ethical standards. After all, the 2008 edition was ten items long, but the 2009 sports just five. “We realized it had been a slow year,” says new CEW…
Welcome to Denver Blogs. Take a load off and read a while. Mile High Report’s Emmet Smith sees Eddie Royal’s sunny side, despite his sophomore slump. For one thing, he’ll probably be around next year, unlike a guy who spells his name Brandon Marshall. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic notes…
Update, 12:41 p.m.: John Hickenlooper has now released a statement regarding Ken Salazar’s endorsement of him as a gubernatorial candidate. Read it below the original item. At least Ken Salazar didn’t keep us guessing about his campaign intentions for long… Today, Salazar released a statement saying he wouldn’t return to…
By now, the rest of the country knows that Colorado Democrats are either very tired or have fat butts. They must, because they keep talking about benches — deep ones. “The Colorado Democratic Party has a deep bench, there are a lot of people who are able to step in…
Protests continue around the country over the Bureau of Land Management’s ongoing roundup of 2,500 wild horses in Nevada, including a rally scheduled for January 7 in downtown Denver. Groups outraged by the roundup, which they claim is unnecessary and is injuring and destroying horses, have released images of mustangs…
Surprise: Colorado Democratic Party chair Pat Waak’s take on Governor Bill Ritter’s decision not to run for reelection is considerably different from the one offered earlier today by her Republican counterpart, Dick Wadhams. But she does concede that the out-of-the-blue declaration takes some of the steam out of the Dems’…
Update, 2:26 p.m.: Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton has jumped into the commenting-on-Bill Ritter fun. Look below for her take. Update, 2:13 p.m.: New statements just in about Ritter’s withdrawal from Senator Mark Udall and Representative Ed Perlmutter, who actually says he’s going to consider running for governor. Read them…
For your pleasure: The fruit of three Denver bloggers’ labor. T.J. Johnson’s season-ending Broncos stats roundup for Mile High Report argues that during the second half of the season, the team “were killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom.” If only it had been the hallucinatory kind. Over at the…
Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams plans to attend the 11 a.m. press conference today at which Bill Ritter is expected to announce that he won’t be a candidate for governor in November, in part to bid farewell. “After we get done with the press conference, Bill Ritter will be…
Sean Duffy, spokesman for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, wants to make sure his guy gets a good share of the credit for Bill Ritter’s impending announcement that he’s going to pull out of the governor’s race. As he puts it, “We beat the varsity team a little earlier than…
At this time yesterday, did you think the big news in Colorado would be Governor Bill Ritter’s impending announcement that he won’t run for reelection in November? If your answer is “yes,” you’re lying. Not that Ritter was looking bulletproof. Far from it. He’s proven to be a politically clumsy…
Former ICE agent Cory Voorhis’ name was in the news throughout December thanks to the troubled nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney. Representative Mike Coffman cited Voorhis in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation of Villafuerte in connection to the improper accessing of a criminal…
You might think that the departure of a rising star among state Democrats would be a bigger deal than this Post story suggests, but state representative Kathleen Curry and party leaders seem eager to downplay Curry’s decision to change her voter registration from Dem to unaffiliated. The move will strip…
The Governor’s Energy Office will consider a protest by a nonprofit agency into the state’s decision to award a $9 million weatherization grant to a rival organization. Rocky Mountain SER, which provides training and jobs for disadvantaged segments of the population, complained after GEO announced on December 1 that it…
Jared Polis is both a politician and a poet — and he sent two self-penned poems with his holiday greetings. The first, which you can read here, is a retrospective look at 2009. The second comes with this message from the congressman: “May 2010 bring Comprehensive Immigration Reform to our…
Last night, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, popularly known as DRCOG, held a public hearing on the Jefferson Parkway, a controversial toll road that may take commuters for a ride of a different sort, as Jared Jacang Maher documented in a January feature. Golden mayor Jacob Smith, a Parkway…
Surf the web globally; read blogs locally. The Nuggets will turn to Anthony Carter to fill in during the short term for groin-injured Chauncey Billups, says Nick Sclafani of the Nugg Doctor. Hope that prescription won’t have to be renewed. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic screens University of Denver professor…
Ever since Stephanie Villafuerte removed herself from the U.S. Attorney sweepstakes via an angry letter in which she expressed frustration about “a needless and extraneous political fight” that has “completely overshadowed the deliberative and independent assessment of my qualifications for this important office,” observers have speculated about the conversations between…
Weeks before a scheduled government roundup of 2,500 wild mustangs in Nevada, horse advocates are bringing out the big guns in an effort to stop or delay the operation. They’re filing lawsuits and staging protests, bringing in scientists and animal welfare experts to decry this assault on one of the…
