WTF?/DNC/GOP

Umm, sirs, that doesn't look like Barack Obama

By Joe Tone
Aug 26, 2008

Some local street artists -- I'm told they go by "Jher451" and "el mac" -- had the audacity to paint this totally Obama-less mural on the side of the La Boheme strip club this week. It seems the portrait artist, el mac, was all Obama'd out. OK, fine. But could...
Alaska gets the shaft

By Joe Tone
Aug 26, 2008

It's all about who you know. What did Alaska do to piss off the DNC? Its delegation has worse seats at the Pepsi Center than Guam, which, for those of you who started skipping geography in first grade, isn't even a state -- and it's a helluva lot smaller besides...
Pepsi Center danger: spigots

By Joe Tone
Aug 26, 2008

Scrub up, politicos. Water stations have been placed at several locations around the Pepsi Center during DNC week -- the idea being that delegates can refill their bottle rather than pitching it and opening up another one. Also included: hand sanitizer mounted on the side -- because shaking hands with...
Recreate ’08: Snowballs!

By Michael Roberts
Aug 11, 2008

Is it the Denver Public Library or the Way-Bac Machine? A couple of blocks from the downtown Denver Public Library, they’re already shutting down and removing the mailboxes outside of the 14th Avenue post office because of “security concerns” during the upcoming DNC. They’re putting special locks on fire hydrants,...
The Potential Horror of the 2008 Colorado Ballot

By Michael Roberts
Aug 6, 2008

You civic-minded types out there have no doubt heard by now that the 2008 Colorado ballot could be the largest in the state's history. But hearing about it and seeing an approximation of what we could be facing in the voting booth in November are two very different things. Ballotpedia.org,...
Graduation Day: Obama and Bush in Colorado

By Patricia Calhoun
May 28, 2008

Colorado hosts two graduations with major policy speeches today: one by a current president looking back and one by a (possible) future president looking forward. Barack Obama will host an invitation-only town hall meeting at 11:30 a.m. at Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA) in Thornton, where he is...
Up Late with John McCain

By Cory Casciato
May 28, 2008

For all the talk about John McCain being too old to run for president, the guy sure seems to stay up awfully late. No four-thirty dinners at Furr's Cafeteria for this guy—that is, unless he's planning on supplementing that diet with a 1 a.m. "fourthmeal" from Taco Bell. This is...
Alternate Soundtrack to the 2008 Campaign

By Dave Herrera
May 23, 2008

This has been a groundbreaking and altogether interesting election process, but the music, as per usual, is bland – do presidential candidates listen to music? Do we really want to elect someone without knowing their tastes? You could all win my vote if you switched some things up...
Carded: Supreme Court OKs Voter Photo ID

By Sean Cronin
Apr 29, 2008

On Monday, the Supreme Court voted to uphold an Indiana law that requires voters to show a photo ID to cast a ballot. The ACLU and Indiana Democrats had challenged the state law, passed along party lines in 2005 by a GOP-controlled legislature, which opened the debate on increasingly restrictive...
Thanks Bob!

By Sean Cronin
Apr 18, 2008

Thanks, Bob Schaffer, for not condemning the contemptuous ad campaign done by a 527 out of Virginia (who better to know about Colorado politics, after all?) that uses the pride that kids have for their school to make them into shills for your political aspirations, based on a record that...
Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson: Strange Couchfellows

By Sean Cronin
Apr 17, 2008

If you were to walk down the beach somewhere and see a couch, you might think "how odd…a couch on the beach." But if, as you got closer, you realized that upon that couch, dressed in suits, were the Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, you might think: "Yep. I've...