Just as Governor Bill Ritter has undermined his own political future by his handling of various union-related measures, so, too, has Michael Bennet, who Ritter appointed to the U.S. Senate when Ken Salazar moved to President Barack Obama’s cabinet, given his reputation as a rising young Democratic party star some…
It’s not a lot of fun to be Bill Ritter these days. The governor swept into office with high marks from a broad coalition of voters, but of late, he’s managed to piss off plenty of longtime supporters — including grocery store workers and firefighters, many of whom no doubt…
Among Governor Bill Ritter’s latest politically dubious moves was his decision to create a new chief operating officer gig, with a salary of $146,000, to oversee federal stimulus money. That’s red meat for the GOP, and House leader Mike May chomped into it like a starving Rottweiler, declaring in a…
Governor Bill Ritter’s continued success at turning friends into foes has caused even some supporters to doubt his political aptitude — but no one questions Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s talents in this area. Today’s front-page story in the Denver Post, about his disinterest in offering Ritter a primary challenge, showcases…
Our cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips. How to protect gays from hate-crime violence? Make sure they’re strapped. With guns. (Colorado Independent) Watch for flying skeletons: State wants to open RTD’s closet doors. (Face the State) Polis, DeGette get together on clean-water legislation. (Square State)…
Another addition of our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Send linkable links here. Don’t look now, but the Rockies might not suck as bad as we thought. (Purple Row) When a hospital goes Catholic, does care suffer? (Colorado Independent) Time to clean the junk out of the Capitol building…
Our little ode to local bloggers. Send your own odes here. Colorado labor leaders are, like, totally over Bill Ritter. (Colorado Independent) In Lakewood, it’s the case of the million-dollar vacant lot — and the taxpayers who footed the bill. (Lakewood Edge) On the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion,…
First off, apologies are probably in order. It occurs to me that, over the last six months, you’ve probably managed to wipe clean the stains left on your mind by former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Since her election in 2002, Musgrave’s devotion to squashing women’s rights, gay rights — basically the…
Earlier this week, Governor Bill Ritter got an earful from grocery workers while signing a bill they saw as a full-frontal attack on them at a time when they’re involved in a contract drama with three major chains. Not that all labor organizations were upset with him. On its Employee…
If you’re looking for someone who reads local blogs and then makes dated Dave Chappelle references, you’re in the right place. Send links over here. Face the State dug up the financial disclosure statements for Colorado’s statewide office holders. So we’re linking to it. Unless Michael Bennet doesn’t want us…
The name of the ColoradoSenateNews.com has a wonderfully bland ring to it — one that implies evenhandedness and bipartisanship. But the truth is on view in small print at the bottom of the home page — “An online service of the Senate Minority Office,” the line reads — and in…
Denver-based Archbishop Charles Chaput has grown more political since taking over as head of the city’s archdiocese in 1997 — and he spoke out early and often about the politics of abortion during the run-up to the 2008 presidential vote. As such, even his condemnation of abortion doctor George Tiller’s…
The public-affairs office at Fort Carson hasn’t issued a press release about the Army’s decision not to base an additional brigade there — a move that calls into doubt millions in additional contracts, not to mention even more money in long-term economic impact. The most recent news items on its…
As of this writing, shockingly enough, no one’s uploaded a video to YouTube of angry grocery workers confronting Governor Bill Ritter at a bill-signing ceremony yesterday — but expect it to pop up soon enough, adding one more smudge to the good-guy image that helped get Ritter elected in 2006…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. You could help us remain afloat by sending us good links. Tom Tancredo’s PAC director is apparently racist. And just like that, we need a new Irony Meter. (Colorado Pols) Yet another battle between a rural electric co-op and those pesky environmentalists. (Colorado Independent)…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. Float tips this way. Shockingly, La Raza disagrees with Tom Tancredo’s description of their organization as the KKK without the hoods. And no, it’s not because they actually do have hoods. They don’t. As far as we know. (Colorado Independent) The latest mug-shot fashion?…
Our daily blog round up. Send some tips if we’re missing something. Lawmakers are not coming around on the whole Gitmo-terrorists-to-Colorado deal. (5280) Remembering the flood of ’64. (Buckfifty.org) Five simple rules to help the Nuggets reach the Finals. (Denver Stiffs)…
We here at Westword are quite excited about the possibility of male birth-control meds — mostly because we’ll then get to take all the rubbers people no longer need and wear them on our heads like that old “condom hat” routine Howie Mandel used to do. Seriously, that bit never…
Take a luxurious, four-click cruise through the local blogosphere. Know of something worth linking to? Send it along. For reasons we can’t figure, people really want to run the state’s elections. (Face the State) Tom Tancredo says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. (Colorado Pols) Local ad agency…
Editor’s note: Amy Herdy, a former Denver Post and Channel 9 journalist who’s currently the advisor for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s CUIndependent.com online newspaper, has spent recent weeks in Pakistan under the auspices of the State Department. Her mission: to give students and professional journalists the tools they…
The morning after loading up on barbecue at M&D’s Cafe following a town hall meeting at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (and inadvertently causing Jerri Thiel’s car to be towed), Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver a commencement address to graduates at the Air Force Academy…
No doubt plenty of attendees enjoyed Joe Biden’s town-hall meeting at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science today. But at least one Denverite wouldn’t have minded if the veep had stayed in Washington, D.C.: marketing maven Jerri Thiel. Turns out that Thiel had car problems last night and had…
