Surprise: Colorado Democratic Party chair Pat Waak’s take on Governor Bill Ritter’s decision not to run for reelection is considerably different from the one offered earlier today by her Republican counterpart, Dick Wadhams. But she does concede that the out-of-the-blue declaration takes some of the steam out of the Dems’…
Update, 2:26 p.m.: Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton has jumped into the commenting-on-Bill Ritter fun. Look below for her take. Update, 2:13 p.m.: New statements just in about Ritter’s withdrawal from Senator Mark Udall and Representative Ed Perlmutter, who actually says he’s going to consider running for governor. Read them…
For your pleasure: The fruit of three Denver bloggers’ labor. T.J. Johnson’s season-ending Broncos stats roundup for Mile High Report argues that during the second half of the season, the team “were killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom.” If only it had been the hallucinatory kind. Over at the…
The debate over whether TSA’s full-body scanners are porn-y or not has been ignited again by reports that one of the fancy machines would have detected an explosive packet carried aboard a Detroit flight on Christmas day. Security folks say the machines are awesome. Privacy folks say they’re intrusive. Take…
Once a year, I get to use Westword’s season tickets to watch a Nuggets game — and I was lucky enough to have drawn last night’s matchup against the Golden State Warriors, when Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony and Chris “Birdman” Andersen were all out with injuries. Don’t assume the word…
It’s semi-official: Mike Shanahan is the new head coach of the Washington Redskins. But while Shanny will certainly be making some nice bank, he must also deal with an enormous headache shaped exactly like Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, who, since acquiring the franchise in 1999, has made a habit of…
Murders were down within Denver’s city limits last year — but the homicide roundup released by the Denver Coroner’s Office yesterday remains a grim roster of pain and death. Below, find an accounting of all 45 homicides totted up by the DCO last year, complete with basic information the victims,…
Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams plans to attend the 11 a.m. press conference today at which Bill Ritter is expected to announce that he won’t be a candidate for governor in November, in part to bid farewell. “After we get done with the press conference, Bill Ritter will be…
Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. Marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture department spokeswoman Christi Lightcap. “It would not fall under this specialty crops…
Sean Duffy, spokesman for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, wants to make sure his guy gets a good share of the credit for Bill Ritter’s impending announcement that he’s going to pull out of the governor’s race. As he puts it, “We beat the varsity team a little earlier than…
At this time yesterday, did you think the big news in Colorado would be Governor Bill Ritter’s impending announcement that he won’t run for reelection in November? If your answer is “yes,” you’re lying. Not that Ritter was looking bulletproof. Far from it. He’s proven to be a politically clumsy…
Grappling with a shortfall in government funding and a rising tide of people displaced by a wretched economy, officers and senior staff of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless will make some tough decisions this evening about what they and their needy clients can do without. Should it be the…
At last night’s Denver city council meeting, the member who seemed to have the most problems with a pot proposal that will get the public-hearing treatment next Monday was Carol Boigon. At one point, Boigon suggested that the council was moving too fast, as Patricia Calhoun reported this morning. In…
Our featured Twit this week is Matt Bernier (@mbernier on Twitter), a local web developer and blogger. Matt came to our attention when he was recommended as someone to watch by a fellow Twit (always a good sign on a medium used first and foremost for self promotion). When we…
Former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post sportswriter Adam Schefter has gone onto bigger and better things, first on the NFL Network and now with ESPN, where his role on football broadcasts would only be more prominent if his name was Chris Berman. But because of his close connections to…
Reading local content is as easy as falling off a Denver blog. Kyle at Bronco Talk thinks Brandon Marshall did a fine job of PR rehabilitation during an appearance on FM 104.3/The Fan earlier today — but he’s “as good as gone” anyway. Can’t wait for him to torch the…
View Larger Map The hard-boiled tale seems straight out of a gripping detective novel: Last night, just a few hours after Denver City Council discussed new regulations for the city’s flourishing dispensary industry, a man was shot dead from what the cops are saying was a medical-marijuana transaction gone awry…
Bernie Madoff’s well-documented financial shenanigans may have landed him in jail, but they’ve also enhanced the marketability of his name. As evidence, note the ad in today’s Denver Post pimping a “BERNIE MADOFF AUCTION” tomorrow at St. Regis Resort in Aspen. What’s the story? The ad’s information number connects to…
The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations… January 5 is considered the last of the twelve days of Christmas. It is the time for the family living in the home pictured above, to reflect upon their unorthodox traditions in preparation for celebrating Epiphany, which begins on January 6. The…
When last we heard from UFO booster Jeff Peckman (on December 2), he was alienated by the suggestion of some Denver council members that the threshold for putting initiatives before city voters needed to be raised because of his success at getting a measure to create an “extraterrestrial affairs committee”…
Former ICE agent Cory Voorhis’ name was in the news throughout December thanks to the troubled nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney. Representative Mike Coffman cited Voorhis in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation of Villafuerte in connection to the improper accessing of a criminal…
