An image from Heritage United Methodist Church’s website. Here’s a voting update from my wife, Deb, who cast her ballot at the Heritage United Methodist Church on South Simms in Littleton. As the principal of a school, she gets to work early, so she always arrives at the polling station…
It’s Judgment Day. The Moment of Truth. The Tuesday That Will Determine Whether Or Not All Those Threats to Move to Canada Will Make You Into a Liar, or Maybe a Canadian. Anyway, it’s big — which makes it as good a time as any to get drunk with friends…
Okay, the Highland line isn’t quite this long — but it’s getting there. I’m waiting to vote at the United Way on the edge of Highland. People started arriving at 6 a.m., there were thirty in line by a quarter of seven, and another thirty showed up in the last…
It’s a deal. To conclude our Buttoned Up series of political-campaign pins, here’s a vintage item that’s more timely than ever. On election day 2008, with George W. Bush’s eighth year in office winding down, I think the idea of no third term is something ballot-casters of all descriptions can…
Jack Black posing with a photo of Tenacious D after a press conference at the Fillmore Auditorium this afternoon. Fall back on the following blogs. Today in Backbeat Online: • Tenacious D and the Beastie Boys want you to get off your asses and vote. • Patrick Park and Andy…
The $140,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino was not paid to the City of Denver Treasurer’s office by the Friday, October 31 deadline. How do we know? The debt on the nineteen parcels along Welton Street near Five Points has been posted…
Two Walsh, Colorado residents are seen chatting in an NPR image. At midday on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, National Public Radio’s home page spotlighted an unlikely place: Walsh, Colorado, located in the southeast corner of the state. Why? NPR correspondent David Greene uses the community (population: 700)…
Face the State’s Brad Jones. Face the State, a news website with a conservative edge, has been getting plenty of attention in mainstream newspapers of late. Check out “Were Democrats Dumb Enough to Write This ‘Idiot’ Memo?,” an October 8 Message column, which deals in part with a story that…
Nick Roberts. Much has been written about the enormous volunteer army assembled on behalf of Barack Obama in swing states; this Los Angeles Times story about Ohio is only one example. But judging by the campaign’s focus on making sure that my nineteen-year-old son Nick votes, the stories may actually…
“Say ‘hello’ to my not-so-little friend…” Whenever and wherever people dress up in bizarre costumes and let it rip, you can bet Westword will be there — and we were this weekend. Check out our huge slideshow commemorating Halloween at Beta Nightclub (with DJ Pete Tong) as well as an…
How will the election turn out? The Post is 68 percent sure. The folks at the Denver Post must have some incredible sources. On Saturday night, November 1, a reader visiting the paper’s election-data site, DenverElections.com, discovered that partial results in a slew of races had already been published –…
Eddie Royal was bummed during Sunday’s faceoff with Miami, even though he had a better game than most of his teammates. On Sunday, the Denver Broncos had a home game against the Miami Dolphins — a team they should have beaten like the presidential candidate for the Prohibition Party. But…
The line at the 2099 Wadsworth voting center on October 31. Those of you who cast your ballots during the first portion of the period set aside for early voting likely found it to be as quick and convenient as did our own Jonathan Shikes, who chronicled his experiences in…
This pin’s not exactly a case of truth in advertising. Editor’s note: To get you in the mood for ballot-casting, The Latest Word is kicking off each weekday between now and the November 4 election with Buttoned Up, a look at political buttons from my family’s extensive collection… Today, a…
Is that one o’ them Three Tenors? Below: sweet blogs that won’t rot your teeth. Today in Cafe Society: • La Sandia Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar comes to you courtesy of Richard Sandoval and Placido Domingo. • Dazzle offers a dazzling Halloween deal. • Tambien and Mezcal feature lively…
Jon Parsons When they hand out the good Karma awards, Jon Parsons shouldn’t hold his breath. The 36-year-old Fort Collins man had stopped his 1999 Pontiac Firebird on the shoulder of I-25 about fourteen miles south of the Wyoming state line on October 25. But when a Colorado state trooper…
Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers. When I first read in Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s October 25 column about the paper’s plan to celebrate its 150th anniversary with a 150-day series spotlighting significant front-page stories published during its history, I thought it was a great idea –…
Mike Coffman On Wednesday, an agreement was reached by a trio of local watchdog groups and representatives of Mike Coffman, Colorado’s Secretary of State, that reinstated the voting rights of around 30,000 people whose names were purged from the state’s rolls — but they’ll have to vote provisionally, as pointed…
It’s getting close. Denver election officials know all to well about the difficulties that some people had with mail-in ballots this year after the city’s hired printing company, Sequoia Voting Systems, failed to process more than 18,000 of them until early this week. But Adams County has had problems of…
Cinderella City’s old “Blue Mall” fountain. Eerie, isn’t it? We’ve all read about Denver’s haunted places. The same old stories get trotted out every year about this time, and they can be fun. But they tend to lose their zing the fourteenth time you hear about the ghosts of the…
Go west, young bus. You can find anything out there on the open road, but as a Westword operative recently discovered in Nebraska, some things seem more out of place than others. In this case, it was a shuttle-sized RTD bus heading westbound on Interstate 80 near the town of…
A remote possibility. Stop the blogosphere presses, for I actually have something nice to say about Comcast. No, that is not a misprint. While I typically place Comcast behind only Qwest and Hitler for sheer, unfiltered evil, today I have come across a compliment that I would like to purvey…
