Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. At Colorado Independent, John Tomasic talks to Daniel Hayes about his so-called “impound initiatives,” part of Hayes’s crusade against illegal immigrants in Colorado. Critics think Hayes is a racist; Hayes thinks his critics are racists. On the Huffington Post’s Denver site, Alexia Parks reports…
Moments from now, Mayor John Hickenlooper will be meeting with the media to talk about a revision in his budget plan — additional bucks to save the Byers library , which had been marked for closure, and keep other branches open for longer hours. And where is he getting the…
State representative Glenn Vaad was appalled to discover recently that corrections officials have delayed opening a $200-million supermax because of Colorado’s fiscal woes. There’s nothing that offends Vaad, a Republican who represents the Greeley area, more deeply than the idea of a brand-new lockup sitting empty, forlornly bereft of the…
Our daily gathering of local bloggage. On the Huffington Post’s local page, Jim Thomas makes the case for changing the name of Columbus Day. And unlike most of the things written on the topic, his take is reasonable and measured. Colorado Pols breaks down (in their Colorado Pol-y way) the…
Other people in Colorado write blogs, too. Here are three of them. The Colorado Independent’s Kate Redding covers protests about the Obama administration’s expansion plans for the GEO Group’s Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center. That’s cold as ICE. Find tributes to the late radio host Russ Johnson, along…
Our daily collection of local blog decency. At HuffPo, Jason Salzman rekindles the idea that the Rockies are winning for Jesus. (Whatever it takes, right?) Colorado Pols says Congresswoman Betsey Marky will be tough to beat next year, and they’ve got video evidence. Mile High Report has an exhaustive look…
Since Dick Wadhams was named the State Chairman of the Colorado Republicans, the party has lost control of the state Senate, the state House of Representatives, the Governorship, one U.S. Senate seat and one U.S. House of Representative seat. But Dick is not depressed. He is energized! Like General Motors,…
In a teleconference with reporters today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar declared that his department’s wild-horse management program “is simply not working” and proposed a new way of dealing with the surplus of horseflesh that is devouring millions in taxpayer dollars. Secretary Salazar wants to head ’em up and…
Our daily perusal of local web goodness. At HuffPo Denver, Alan Gottlieb writes that we need to demand more of our teachers — and compensate them accordingly (H/T Education News Colorado). With Dems in control, Congresswoman Diana DeGette might finally be in position to save some wilderness, Colorado Independent reports…
Glenn Spagnuolo and Mark Cohen — they’re baaaaaack. Yes, the two local lefties behind Re-create 68 — whose Weather Underground rhetoric and overblown protest predictions before the Democratic National Convention allowed the Denver Police Department to work itself into an orgy of security spending — have re-emerged with something called…
While crowing earlier today about an Institute exposé focusing on uncompleted conflict-of-interest forms that embarrassed the Bill Ritter administration, the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara scoffed at the notion that Colorado Ethics Watch might take action against the Democratic governor’s office. “They file complaints on any Republican at any time,” he…
Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter’s cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyone do so — a Todd Shepherd-penned piece that led directly to Ritter issuing a new…
Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism–it’s been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wilson,…
Another week, another five days of cruising the local blogosphere for decent reading. Today’s edition: Purple Row makes an excellent observation: Not only did the Rockies threaten to win the division, but that division was much less sucky than predicted this season. Fellow 45-and-unders: Dick Lamm, the former Governor, is…
Most of Attorney General Eric Holder’s prepared remarks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference today are of the attaboy variety: At one point, he says, “I have come to Denver today with one simple message from Washington: ‘We got your back.'” But there are also plenty…
Happy Friday. Celebrate by wasting time with these local links. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic tracked down the above video — of Michael Bennet talking about health care — and did a nice distillation to boot. (Via Colorado Pols) Are bank robbers keeping the West wild? Over at HuffPo Denver, Lise…
Mayor John Hickenlooper wants to use $2.3 million from Denver’s general fund to continue his quest, announced circa 2005, to end homelessness here in ten years. The move appears to have plenty of support on city council, even though the current budget is in such grim condition that Hick threatened…
We cruise the local blogosphere daily for links worth linking to. Today’s batch: Mile High Mamas ask: “Are you ready to become a social media ‘expert’?! I’ll let you know as soon as I finish typing this on my IBM Selectric. Environmentalists are hiking up their efforts to fight a…
Senator Michael Bennet’s appointment to a plum Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee seat once filled by the late Ted Kennedy is widely seen as more indication that President Barack Obama really, really wants him to hold serve in the 2010 election. But if Andrew Romanoff shares this view, his…
“Before I came to Washington, I used to wonder a lot, as a lot of people who are in public education do, as to why the federal government seemed so mean,” says Senator Michael Bennet, who’s been chosen to sit on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, filling…
Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Over at Denver Stiffs, Nate Timmons has a nice little look at why Nene will help the Nuggets back to the playoffs this year. 5280 is counting the ways that Bill Ritter has pissed off Labor. There seem to be many. If you…
Our daily search for worthy local bloggage. The Pols react to Douglas Bruce’s tax-slashing plan for Colorado. As you might suspect, they don’t like it. (Colorado Pols) The Nuggets start training camp this week, so Andrew Feinstein is wondering aloud: “Are we in a good place?” (Denver Stiffs) John Bena…
