This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democratic National Convention, an event that made Denver the center of the media universe for several unforgettable days. To mark the occasion, we’ll be offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today’s item: The story of an artist whose flyers about potential police…
It was a correction of a kind, albeit a notably nutty one that says more about the power of the person making the request than it does about the original item…. On Sunday, the Denver Post published a profile of Kelly Brough, the former chief of staff for Denver Mayor…
Despite signs earlier this month that Bob Beauprez was itching to take on Michael Bennet in the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate, the former congressman and failed gubernatorial hopeful has decided against taking the plunge. Still, it’s clear that the temptation to run was strong. Yesterday afternoon, he filled…
When he’s not doing beer bongs with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, Rep. Jared Polis has been staging health care town halls during the August recess — more of them than colleagues such as Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn. And while it’s far too early to say…
Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), which ran a successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana in Denver, has long been the merry prankster of Colorado weed activists — a prankster who knows how to have serious impact. When…
Cory Gardner, who’s running for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is under liberal attack for playing coy when asked at a town hall this week if he thinks President Barack Obama was born in the United States. As Colorado Pols points out this morning, his subsequent response to the Denver…
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter is hardly the only local official in these parts staring at ugly budgets. Case in point: Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam, who’s sent a budget to the city council featuring $13 million in reductions, achieved by, among many other things, slicing 26 jobs from the payroll…
Our daily slog through through local blogosphere. Tips would be appreciated. Denver: A great place to date in a recession. Allegedly. (5280) The West — in fact, the entire National League — could be won in Colorado. (Purple Row) Cory Gardner, congressional hopeful from Yuma, isn’t quite sure Barack Obama…
Representative Jared Polis’ decision to beer bong a Coors Light during a Monday appearance on The Colbert Report was hilarious, but it also carried the risk of political consequences. As of yesterday morning, commentators in politically correct Boulder were mostly taking Polis’ stunt in stride — but not KHOW conservative…
Our daily search for decent local bloggage. Fill our in-box. Just because your shit’s organic doesn’t make it okay to be an asshole. As Whole Foods is quickly learning. (Colorado Pols) The humor of Jared Polis’s beer bong seems lost on the Denver Post. (Colorado Independent) Seriously, Brandon Marshall: I…
In the past year or so, a number of state and local agencies in Colorado have begun charging members of the media higher fees for completing public-records requests. Take the Denver Police Department, which used to make copies of daily reports and put them in a press room where journalists…
The Obama administration talks tall about its fresh ideas and new directions. Especially at the Department of the Interior, where Secretary Ken Salazar has vowed to change course from the Bush years and develop sound public-land policy based on science, not political influence — as detailed in my April feature,…
Yesterday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter presented a new budget that includes nearly 300 state job cuts and the early release of some prisoners, among other politically toxic proposals. In an effort to sell it, Ritter penned (or at least authorized) an op-ed for the Denver Post entitled “This Budget Minimizes…
One more quick hit about Jared Polis’ beer-bonging appearance on The Colbert Report. On his Twitter feed earlier this week, host Stephen Colbert tweeted the following: “Can’t believe Jared Polis called me gay. Ridiculous. In other news, totally fired up for Project Runway premiere this week!” You and me both,…
Representative Jared Polis beat Doug Lamborn and Betsy Markey to the healthcare-town-hall punch, staging a session on Monday. Not that the event got much attention. After all, that evening, Polis starred in the first “Even Better-er Know a District” segment on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, during which he and…
Like fellow representative Doug Lamborn, whose healthcare town hall was frenzy-free (because pretty much everyone agreed that ObamaCare is awful), Betsy Markey, who represents Colorado’s 4th District, managed to keep her own get-together about reform from deteriorating into a remake of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. However, she had to work…
Congressman Doug Lamborn, a Republican representing Colorado Springs, has found the key to keeping town halls about healthcare relatively free of rancor and ideological clashes: Stage them in districts where most people, including the star of the show, are metaphysically opposed to reform, and then let attendees spend an hour…
Interview with Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.Our daily search for local bloggage. E-mail recommendations. Scott McInnis is being a real McInnis these days, isn’t he? (Colorado Pols) Where has Melo’s money gone? (5280) Meet the future Rockies. (Purple Row)…
Douglas Bruce is a victim. At least that’s the story he told yesterday at a news conference in Colorado Springs, where he complained about the city violating his constitutional rights. The Springs’ sin? Handing Bruce and a buddy a trespassing ticket for insisting on collecting signatures for a ballot proposal…
Before Congressman Jared Polis’ constituents got a chance to see him do a beer bong with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report last night, they had the opportunity to watch him do something else unusual — host a healthcare town hall that didn’t deteriorate into scarlet-faced, neck-tendon-displaying sound and fury…
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEven Better-er Know a District – Colorado’s 2nd – Jared Poliswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep It’s one of those TV moments when you’re thinking, “He won’t do that. He wouldn’t possibly do that.” And then he does it anyway! Second District Congressman…
At this moment in our country’s history, celebrity can land on people like a terrible, swift sword — or the satisfying embrace of a loving reach-around. University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn is experiencing the latter, figuratively speaking, with the conservative media giving him a lingering hand for…
