“James Dobson’s Political Surrender,” a piece by Dan Gilgoff, U.S. News & World Report’s “God & Country” blogger, contains several fascinating excerpts from the good doctor’s Focus on the Family radio broadcast. Of course, Dobson stepped down as chairman of the Colorado Springs-based outfit in late February — but he…
Before Bill Ritter co-hosted a tribute to MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton, who’s hardly a fan of his policies, he appeared at a photo opportunity with a dog. Yep, Ritter joined Dealer, a Miami border collie, at the dedication of a solar-panel installation at Nestlé Purina’s…
Meet Ethan. He’s nine and in Mr. Kimmal’s third-grade class at the Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment in west Denver. He likes soccer, football, baseball, basketball, swimming and skiing. But his favorite thing to do after school is read, especially the Harry Potter books. Oh, and tomorrow at noon…
Our daily blog roundup. Check it. And send your own blogs to round up. Senate! Candidate! Ryan! Frazier! Loves! Him! Some! Exclamation! Points! (Colorado Pols) Rockies fans take to blogosphere to get manager Clint Hurdle fired. (Hurdling to Rock Bottom via 5280) The state of Colorado’s “liberal infrastructure,” as seen…
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…
Our daily tour of the Colorogosphere. Send some links, yo. Guns, tobacco, liquor and Joe the Plumber, all at the same event? Count me the hell in. (Colorado Independent) Mark Udall continues to fight for credit-card reform, and the Post continues to (basically) ignore him. (Colorado Pols) More on the…
You might be second-guessing that vacation to Mexico now after hearing that most U.S. airlines have suspended flights to the country during May and June in the wake of the pig-flu shitstorm. United canceled all of them leaving from Colorado . But don’t send that week of margaritas, Jet Skis…
Our daily rundown of local blogging. Send links. Republicans sequestered themselves in the Brown Palace to debate their failures. You have to wonder if Bob Schaffer brought the margaritas. (Colorado Pols) It’s not all rosy in Colorado’s higher-education system. Not that you’d know that from reading the Post. (Face the…
Cruising the local blogosphere for s#$t worth reading. Send tips this way. Breaking down the Rockies’ mediocrity by the dollar. (Purple Row) The drama around the CSU-chancellor search won’t fade. (Colorado Independent) “The Senator who saved the Death Penalty.” How’d you like that on your tombstone? ( Face the State)…
Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in the press release available…
Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn’t be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll’s suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote…
You got to love the way officials in this state think. According to this item in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Department of Corrections has decided to ban visitors and volunteers from state and private prisons for at least a week, describing the move as a “precautionary” step to…
Despite Monday’s move to strip a death-penalty ban out of legislation designed to divert funds to investigating cold cases, Morgan Carroll, a state Senator sponsoring the bill, isn’t giving up. As the current session ticks toward its conclusion, she plans to reintroduce the original language with the hope of bringing…
Yesterday afternoon, as I was driving home, I found myself behind a truck sporting a license plate very much like this one (which I made using a website accessible by clicking here): It read, “ILVPIGS.” At a time when swine-flu fears can get anyone who sneezes in public branded as…
You’ve got to admit it was a legislative masterstroke. As a House-passed bill to end capital punishment in Colorado and use the approximately $900,000 in savings to investigate so-called “cold cases” neared a Senate vote, opponents led by Democratic senator John Morse and Republican senator Josh Penry came up with…
Translated, the main rallying cry at a Latino unity march in Greeley on Saturday was this: “A people united will never be defeated.” More than 200 people shouted it enthusiastically — “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” — as they walked through the rural town under an overcast sky, past…
Over the past few years, Greeley has become a hotbed for immigration issues in Colorado. In 2006, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Swift meatpacking plant there, arresting more than 250 people, many of whom were detained and separated from their children. And last year, local law enforcement, led…
Since leaving Congress earlier this year, past Westword profile subject Tom Tancredo has been taking his immigration-reform crusade to locations around the country — and as documented in Alan Prendergast’s April 15 blog “Obnoxious North Carolina Students Leave Tom Tancredo Speechless,” he hasn’t always been greeted with kind words and…
Hey, dog lovers. Hey, dog haters. Hey, dog-poop haters and uh, dog-poop lovers. You have until 5:30 p.m. today to answer the city’s 44-question dog park survey and help determine the future of Denver’s fledgling canine hangouts. Not to mention the future of the poop in said hangouts. The survey…
As the swine flu scare spreads across the country, people are desperate for answers. They’re looking for experts to give them direction, context and reassurance about this strange new terror gripping the globe. Turns out I’m exactly who they’re looking for. Google search “swine flu” and, as of Monday evening,…
A tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Obama education adviser Michael Johnston wants to replace Senate President Peter Groff. But is he too white? (Colorado Independent) When it comes to torture, the Conservadems are more “conserv” than “dems.” (Colorado Pols) The $10 cigarette pack: Coming to a 7-Eleven near…
A bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado passed the House by a single vote today. HB 1274, which would use the cost savings of eliminating the death penalty to fund a cold case unit, is on its way to the state Senate. The vote was 33-32, just as…
