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 So bad that at a meeting earlier this week, the executive board rescinded its endorsement of her candidacy for…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…
Last week, Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org ran afoul of a legislator during his testimony protesting the removal of tax exemptions for bull semen, among other things. Representative Joel Judd all but tossed him out of a committee hearing. But Arnold is fighting back — with a little help from his…
Our roundup of blogs about Denver includes blogs about other places in Colorado, too. The Ralphie Report’s irish1611 wins the prize for today’s biggest understatement in a headline for this banner: “Media Not Too Impressed by Buffs’ 2010 Recruiting Class.” Maybe that’s because the top players who committed early to…
One Colorado, a new statewide gay-rights organization that’s actually an umbrella for a trio of organizations including an advocacy group, a non-profit education group and a political action committee, is attempting to use 53 questions, in the form of a survey, to answer one: What is it like to be…
On January 13, Colorado Ethics Watch, which recently shared its list of the top five ethics scandals of 2009, made a bid to kick off its 2010 roster. The organization filed a complaint against Representative Steve King to determine if money he got from the state to cover travel expenses…
Behold: three blogs written about Denver stuff today. T.J. Johnson at Mile High Report crunches the numbers pertaining to Tony Scheffler, Brandon Marshall and Elvis Dumervil — all players the Broncos might lose this off-season. His conclusion? “Letting go of Scheffler is bearable. Letting go of Marshall is not preferable…
Yesterday, we told you about the objections of the ACLU’s Judd Golden to a proposed nudity ordinance slated for its first reading before the Boulder City Council. At the session, portions of the measure dealing with what Golden previously described as “measurements to see if the areola of a woman’s…
Is the media beating this whole Jersey Shore thing to death? Definitely. Are we here at Westword going to join in on beatin’ up the beat? Damn right. Being the thoughtful and responsible journalists that we are, we decided to use the “Jersey Shore Nickname Generator” to create Guido and…
