How dizzying is the budget crisis looming over Denver? So dizzying that city officials don’t even know what day it is anymore. On Friday, July 10, Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office sent out a press release featuring the ominous headline, “City of Denver Must Cut $120 Million to Balance Budget Over…
The headline of last week’s blog “Josh Penry About to Announce Gubernatorial Bid?” didn’t really need a question mark. It was abundantly clear from the lead-up to his Saturday appearance at the Mesa County Courthouse in Grand Junction that only a bizarre cataclysm — like an earthquake that suddenly swallowed…
Our daily roundup of local linkage. Send tips. All aboard! Colorado discussing plan for high-speed rail line to El Paso and other exotic locales. (5280) A bill to regulate hydraulic fracturing is doing some political fracturing of its own. (Colorado Pols) How much revenue is Colorado really losing? Depends who…
“I’m extremely proud today,” writes Ross Kaminsky, a local libertarian columnist and blogger, about taking the bronze in MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” list this past Wednesday night. Kaminsky got the dubious award for a 4th of July post he wrote under the pseudonym Rossputin…
In recent years, most rulings about communication from courtrooms have centered on the use of cameras or laptops — but that’s so last generation, technologically speaking. Today, it’s all about phones like the one Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has been given permission to tweet updates from during the impending…
We cruise the local blogosphere for decent linkage. Missing something? Send it our way. Canada: It’s the new Colorado! (Colorado Pols) Wind: The new solar! Maybe! Okay, probably not! (Colorado Independent) Matt Barnes: The new Dahntay Jones? (Denver Stiffs)…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cBurka Banthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorEconomic Crisis Last night, Comedy Central aired a repeat of the July 1 Daily Show that included a segment with comedian Kristen Schaal (whom you might recognize from her role as obsessive fan Mel on…
Who says folks at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Colorado office don’t have a sense of humor? They’ve just launched a page that asks the burning question, “Are you qualified to censor vanity license plates for the State of Colorado?” Included is a game that satirizes the decision by employees…
According to Grand Junction’s Daily Sentinel newspaper, state senate minority leader Josh Penry, who represents GJ, is planning an announcement on Saturday, July 11, in regard to speculation that he will run for governor — and there are three big indications that he’ll officially enter the fray: 1) He let…
StimulusColorado.org, a new website co-sponsored by Associated General Contractors of Colorado, the Colorado Association of Mechanical and Plumbing Contractors, Colorado Contractors Association, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, aims to inform the populace about how much the state is receiving from the American…
Every day, we sift through local blogs in search of links worth clicking. What’d we miss? Send links this way. Channing Frye and other potential free agents that could sizzle for the Nugs. (Denver Stiffs) Rep. Betsy Markey: She’s a maverick! (no, really!) (Colorado Pols) Senator Bennet engages religious leaders…
When politicians make a gaffe, an army of online smart asses is ready, willing and able to make them feel stupid about it. Witness Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, whose website went live with a photo on its home page picturing an area near Canada’s Lake Louise Ski Area rather…
Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement on Friday that she’ll be leaving her office eighteen months early because — well, just because — distressed many of the GOP faithful. But it didn’t upset Adam Brickley, the Colorado blogger credited with helping to land Palin on the 2008 Republican ticket alongside…
We went blog picking. These, as always, are the fruits of our labor. If we left something delicious hanging on the branch, drop it in our basket. My god, this metaphor is tired. Will the Birdman fly the coop? Here’s hoping no. (Pickaxe and Roll) Independence Day: A lovely day…
There’s not much respect and affection to be found between former colleagues David Shaklee and Jim Hibbard. The controversial Adams County coroner whose strained dealings with other agencies and his own staff is the subject of this week’s cover story, “The Body Shop,” Hibbard used to work for the county…
Today, former Saturday Night Live castmember Al Franken is the toast of the Democratic Party after the Minnesota Supreme Court confirmed his ultra-narrow November 2008 senatorial victory over Republican Norm Coleman, who’s finally conceded defeat. Given the hoopla, it’s easy to forget how shaky his status has been, in both…
Yesterday, Colorado Ethics Watch, a nonprofit watchdog group, leveled a formal complaint against Aurora City Council member Ryan Frazier with the to-do of a major political bombshell. Noting they’d filed a compliant with the Aurora City Clerk accusing Frazier, an up-and coming GOP hotshot who’s aiming for Michael Bennett’s Senate…
James Dobson’s February decision to step down as chairman of Focus on the Family doesn’t mean the organization is abandoning its ideological agenda. Indeed, his minions are as busy as ever attacking governmental actions that don’t represent Focus on the Family values, including pretty much anything having to do with…
If you think it’s time-consuming to maintain your own Facebook page, imagine how Mayor John Hickenlooper must feel. The guy’s got nearly 5,000 “friends” — or at least he will until the end of the day Tuesday, when they will all become simply “fans.” “I am deleting this personal profile…
Another look at local blog goodness. Missing something? Send links here. If you thought you were rid of the folks behind last election season’s anti-abortion movement, then…. Who am I kidding? We all knew they’d be back. (Colorado Pols) Rep. Betsy Markey probably didn’t mean she she reads the entire,…
A Flickr photo. Last year, Colorado lawmakers passed a bill calling for a biennial teacher survey they hoped would help them make decisions about school financing and education reform. The first statewide results of that move — dubbed the Teaching, Empowering, Leading & Learning Initiative, an incredibly long name predictably…
Rep. Laura Bradford has a pitchfork in her pantsuit, and she’s not afraid to use it. Our daily cruise through what’s decent in local blogs. What’d we miss? Tell us here. Republicans are breaking out the pitchforks over new drilling regulations. Hey, better than Palin and her shotgun. (Colorado Independent)…
