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…
Unless you live in Illinois — and more specifically, unless you live in Illinois on March 13 every year — Pluto is no longer a planet. And now, thousands of future Colorado schoolchildren will never know that it once was…
In case you haven’t heard, the California Supreme Court issued a ruling hours ago upholding Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage, which that state’s voters approved in November. (Read all about the ruling in this Los Angeles Times story.) Gay-rights groups everywhere — including those in Colorado — are calling…
Say what you will about Ed Perlmutter. The 1st term Democrat representing Colorado’s 7th District really knows how to cartwheel for votes, as you can see in the video above. It’s unclear why the crowd at this Memorial Day Parade in the mean streets of Commerce City started chanting “Cartwheel!…
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, is in Pakistan under the auspices of the State Department. Her mission: to give students and professional journalists the tools they need to improve…
Moments from now, President Barack Obama is expected to introduce Sonia Sotomayor as his choice for the Supreme Court, replacing retiring jurist David Souter. And while she may be an unknown quantity for most Coloradans, at least one of our state’s prominent residents has dealt with her in the past…
Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he’ll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it’s because the facility has already received a sort of stimulus…
On this Memorial Day, most of us at Westword remembered that because it’s a national holiday, we didn’t have to come to work. Check back Tuesday for a much fuller, fatter and better tanned Latest Word. In the meantime, here’s a video that commemorates the occasion — a Memorial Day…
Noticed any disturbing anti-meth billboards on your drive home lately? The ads, brought to you by the Colorado Meth Project, began sprouting up alongside Denver roadways — as well as on TV, radio, MySpace and in a few newspapers — earlier this month. They’re aimed at teenagers and feature gritty…
