Joe Sestak job offer echoes Andrew Romanoff story

For someone who talks a lot — to Meet the Press Sunday, to CNN yesterday — Pennsylvania representative Joe Sestak doesn’t say a lot. Especially when he’s pressed for specifics about who at the White House offered him a job if he skipped the Pennsylvania Senate primary, where he trounced…

Throwing the book at the SportsBook

Even before it opened last fall, we had our doubts about the SportsBook. For starters, a slew of upscale sports bars were suddenly springing up in LoDo, giving this spot plenty of competition. And then there were the servers — dressed as sexy librarians. Well, you can judge this book…

John Hickenlooper is tied with Scott Mcinnis, but still thinking big

John Hickenlooper revealed an updated campaign website yesterday that promises to keep things “positive.” We’ll see how long that lasts with both the Democrats and Republicans holding their state assemblies this weekend, just as a new Public Policy Polling survey shows that Hickenlooper has lost his early lead and is…

Sex offender debate turns into public pissing match

It’s time to expand the discussion of the bill that would continue this state’s Sex Offender Management Board beyond state senator Joyce Foster — who certainly should have revealed that the prime motivator behind her amendment of the measure was her own brother-in-law, a convicted sex offender — and Greig…

Sex offender issue goes to the Supreme Court

The controversy continues to grow over last-minute changes in HB 1364. The measure extends the life of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board for five years, but removes the words “no known cure” — as originally presented, the measure included those words and charged the board to study whether they…

Child-porn fan a good argument for No Known Cure

Even as legislators were spinning their last-second vote that will let sex offenders choose their own treatment, and also removed the words “no known cure” when describing their crimes, Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane was chastising a clearly not-cured child-porn addict. Two years ago, Kane had given Ralph Rausch,…

Frank Sesno discusses the future of news tonight

What’s the future for news? Is there a future for news? Those questions, and more, are all up for discussion tonight when Channel 12 presents “Whose News? How Public Media Can Save Our Lives” with journalist Frank Sesno, currently the director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at…

Brothers v. My Brother’s: See you in court

Oh, brother! Jim and the late Angelo Karagas bought an old saloon at 2376 15th Street more than forty years ago, transforming it into My Brother’s Bar, an institution so beloved in Denver that it needs no sign. But now, another Brothers is entering the market: Brothers Bar & Grill…

Chris Romer’s long, strange trip ends with passage of HB 1284

Chris Romer’s “long, strange trip” is almost over. The state senator who last fall decided to take on the task of shepherding legislation through the Statehouse that defines and regulates this state’s booming medical marijuana industry saw House Bill 1284 pass the Senate yesterday, 26-9, with a major bipartisan push…

The Daily Show set to air its Denver pot piece

“What a long strange trip it has been,” state senator Chris Romer wrote early this morning, at the end of a note with his latest round of proposed changes for the bill that would drastically restructure this state’s medical marijuana industry. The Colorado Legislature has just seven more days in…

SAME Cafe profile serves up a James Beard award

When Brad and Libby Birky opened their restaurant, SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, people didn’t give the venture much of a chance. After all, the name stood for “So All May Eat,” and signaled the couple’s willingness to serve everyone, regardless of how much money the diners had,…

Arizona already sending alien substances across border!

There I was yesterday morning, feeling sorry for all the residents of Arizona who didn’t get a chance to vote on that state’s show-me-your-papers, anti-illegal immigration legislation and are now feeling as ostracized as Coloradans were after the voters of this state did approve the anti-gay-rights Amendment 2. And Colorado…