Good news for those of you who’ve always felt something stinks at the Colorado Judicial Building, where the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are housed: Today, even Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey agrees with you. She’s closed the structure until further notice due to a sewer break…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In the wake of President Barack Obama’s town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter got some spotlight time on the next day’s edition of Meet the Press, claiming that Obama’s mediocre poll numbers relating…
It’s Friday. You ain’t got shit to do. You ain’t got no job. So let’s… read some blogs! And then send us more! Dispensaries giving new meaning to the term “High Country.” See what I did there? (Colorado Independent) (Even) more on Scott McInnis’s rage against the KHOW machine, which…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis came uncorked while defending his allegedly broken pledge to use leftover 2004 campaign funds for breast-cancer research during a Wednesday appearance on the KHOW talk show hosted by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. At one point, McInnis even accused Caplis of ganging up on him…
Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will visit Grand Junction for his next healthcare town hall, where he’ll likely encounter folks like the ones in the video accessible here, caught in action during a GJ rally in late July. (Really dug the sign that read, “D.N.C. Lies: Grandma Dies.”) But in the…
The blogosphere is our crack den. Kick us down the good stuff. Scott McInnis somehow manages to make KHOW’s Craig Silverman seem like a sympathetic character. (Colorado Pols) The Post may be polling you about comics, but that doesn’t mean it cares what you think. (Denver PR Blog) Should the…
Last July, we told you about the case of Carol Kreck, who was ticketed outside a town hall for Republican presidential candidate John McCain for carrying a sign reading, shockingly enough, “McCain = Bush.” Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter then working as a librarian, wasn’t cowed by this treatment,…
Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts — because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell’s 1984. And when the economy turns south, such arguments only intensify. Given that, the only surprising…
Today and tomorrow, political heavy hitters of the progressive persuasion throughout the region are meeting at the Colorado History Museum as part of the 2009 Western Summit, sponsored by Project New West, an organization that describes itself as “the leading authority on the values, issues, and demographics that define America’s…
The crowd outside Representative Mike Coffman’s healthcare town hall in Littleton yesterday wasn’t as scary as some in recent days, for obvious reasons: Coffman, a Republican, is against many, if not most, of the ideas in the current plan, making him an ally of reform enemies who’ve seemed to be…
Can you identify a good blog? Send samples here. Nuggets interested in Wally Szczerbiak. Which, by the way, is a truly horrible idea. (Denver Stiffs) Man. You can’t even screw a cow any more without worrying about catching something. (5280) Scott McInnis: We didn’t name him Shmuck of the Week…
Senator Morgan Carroll, an Aurora Democrat who heads the interim committee looking into the 800-pound gorilla known as Pinnacol Assurance, knows plenty about the enterprise, which the Denver Business Journal describes as a “state political subdivision that operates as a mutual insurance company and serves as the workers’-compensation policy provider…
President Barack Obama will host a healthcare town hall meeting in Grand Junction on Saturday in an attempt to counter disinformation being circulated by citizens who apparently love the fact that millions of people remain uninsured and rates for the rest of us continue to grow at a shocking pace…
Our daily blog foraging. Send tips. Where we’re going (skiing), we just might need roads. Unless we want to catch on fire. (Colorado Independent) A plea for Southwest to fail. (Colorado Pols) The Nuggets bench continues to disintegrate. (Denver Stiffs) How to watch a Broncos preseason game without gouging your…
We’re in the cyber-outfield, shagging links. If we missed any, shout. Can the Rockies (or the Giants) actually catch the Dodgers? It’s not as far-fetched as you think. (Purple Row) Take our police chief. Please! (Lakewood Edge) Let’s go deep: A look at the NBA’s union contract. (Denver Stiffs)…
On Friday, we shared a video in which folks protesting healthcare reform in Pueblo compared Obamacare to Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler — and this brand of overheated rhetoric is hardly isolated to that community. Over the weekend at an event in Brighton, pro-healthcare reform rep Ed Perlmutter was greeted…
No question that the fiscal downturn in these United States has battered Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association, or PERA — and so have critics like the Denver Post’s Vince Carroll, who’s taken on the topic in column after column. As a result, plenty of folks who depend upon PERA are…
Despite this week’s Westword cover story detailing Sonia Sotomayor’s clear judicial bias against “numchuck sticks,” the Senate still voted to confirm the wise-Latina-loving nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 6. (Apparently the powerful pro-nunchaku lobby was too busy watching ass-kicking Bruce Lee clips on YouTube to mount serious…
Another fascinating look at the healthcare “debate,” this one reportedly from a Patients First rally in Pueblo, in which a speaker claims that proposed legislation would authorize “end-of-life orders” he likens to the atrocities of Pol Pot and Hitler. Does that mean federal stimulus dollars will be going to build…
Remember the Personhood Amendment? Promoted as the brainchild of then-21-year-old Kristi Burton, the subject of a Westword profile, the measure would have established that a human’s life begins at the moment of fertilization — and despite a big effort on its behalf by abortion foes, it was easily defeated in…
Sonia Sotomayor, whose ruling about nunchucks is part of this week’s Jared Jacang Maher feature article about Thornton cop Kevin Orcutt’s police-oriented nunchaku design, hasn’t been officially confirmed as a Supreme Court justice at this writing; Senate president Harry Reid has called for a vote at 1 p.m. mountain time…
Our Monday Denver Blogs post linked a Colorado Pols item about Bob Beauprez, who lost to Bill Ritter in a 2006 gubernatorial bid, and now seems eager to take on Senator Michael Bennet in 2010. A Politico article Colorado Pols references finds Big Bob denigrating the chances that either Aurora…
