The foyer at Steve Fisher’s home in Breckenridge is crowded with swag from Sims Snowboards, O’Neill, Giro, PowerBar and Sprint, and his fridge is full of beverages from Vita Coco and Anheuser-Busch. Fisher’s dog, Guru, is crazy for the coconut water; the beers come in handy with all the pro…
The debate over how to serve the state’s neediest citizens, including abused children, has come to a head in the weeks since a governor-appointed committee recommended that the state should take over county responsibilities for child welfare and services such as Medicaid and food stamps — an idea that the…
Word that 140 Frontier Airlines jobs will be relocating from Denver to Indianapolis, headquarters of Republic Airways Holdings, which bested Southwest in its quest for the carrier back in October, has been seen as a bummer in these parts. But Frontier spokesman Peter Kowalchuk feels otherwise. “Other than from a…
Social media is a great tool with dozens, if not hundreds, of legitimate, quality uses. It’s an excellent tool for networking, doing all kinds of research, sharing important information, managing collaborative projects and so forth. But unfortunately, that’s not all it’s used for. Not by a long shot. The fact…
Local blogs: Get ’em while they’re hot. An inspired rant by Mile High Hockey’s David Driscoll-Carignan, who won’t be able to watch tonight’s Avs game at home despite buying a pricey hockey package because “the buffoons who run DirecTV and the pinheads who run Comcast still believe that the only…
In a blog yesterday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy shrugged off suggestions that his candidate was masquerading as having won support from tea party groups — but he added that McInnis was actively courting members of such organizations. That wasn’t always true, says Lesley Hollywood, a spokeswoman for the Tea…
Heads have been rolling in the Wilks Broadcasting empire of late — most prominently at The Wolf/92.5 FM, where morning show partners Jesse & Shotgun are out. The twosome has been replaced by Jonathan Wilde, who was originally brought to the outlet in 2007. Wilde subsequently moved to sister station…
Yesterday, former Denver elections commissioner Jan Tyler, currently a blogger for Examiner.com, penned an item entitled “Is Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Having an Affair with Stephanie Villafuerte?” At this writing, and for well over an hour earlier, clicking on this link has brought up the following message: “Article Not Ready…
In the era before folks at daily newspapers were desperate to get anyone to pay for their product, they regularly reached out to kids — the idea being that they’d grow up to be good customers (instead of reading everything on the Internet for free). Today, such tactics have fallen…
Yesterday, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the federal government would devote $40 million to dealing with the bark-beetle problem that’s turned wooded areas in Colorado and other western states from green to brown. Governor Bill Ritter, who wrote a letter to Vilsack making a request for federal assistance…
Since we started our Mile High Murder series in May, we’ve written about 56 homicides in the immediate area around Denver. Unfortunately, many of these slayings remain unsolved at this writing — but arrests have been made in a sizable percentage of them, resulting in the release of photos capturing…
Reports about medical marijuana-related crime are on the rise. Note our interview with Lt. Jerry Schiager, commander of the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force, who cited “at least five armed robberies, seven burglaries and one kidnapping” related to marijuana in the Fort Collins area over the past year and a…
Yesterday, we noted with astonishment that Sarah Palin fans were waiting as long as twelve hours on a bitterly cold day to see their heroine at a Colorado Springs book-signing. Turns out a few diehards were even more devoted, spending the previous night in their car to be sure…
Parting gifts sure can be nice. Ernest Duran Jr., the outgoing president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union (whose recent messy election was the subject of this week’s feature, “Can a Mild-Mannered Bakery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers’ Labor Strife?”), is scheduled to get one at…
Finding the right map for the trip at hand has always posed certain hard choices. Do you go for one heavy on the topography contours, or one with legible road numbers? Hydrographic features or better trail markings? In one of the more practical developments to emerge from Washington, the U.S…
Senator Chris Romer has taken a leading role in writing proposed legislation for the medical marijuana industry — and not all of his ideas are to the liking of people in the business. As he told us in a November 16 blog, he wants more scrutiny for young medical marijuana…
If you’re thinking of renewing your city rec center pass, now is the time. Now, I say! Come January 1, the cost of belonging to one of the city’s (soon-to-be) 25 rec centers will be among the many Denver Parks and Recreation-related fees that are scheduled to increase. Instead of…
Our featured Twit this week is one Patrick Hester, or @atfmb, as he’s known on Twitter. In addition to his very fine hat, Hester is a Denver writer, blogger and Twitter wit who captured our attention with this plea: “How about me?! I’m a Denveridianiteism looking to be a published…
Local blogs want you — to read them. Square State blogger Something The Dog Said recently saw the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas special and concluded the the show is sexist. Guess Santa’s sleigh was pulled by male chauvinist pigs. Allen Iverson loved returning to Philadelphia — but probably not…
View Larger Map The Denver Corner’s Office has made victim identifications in three recent killings. The man slain in Mile High Murder No. 54 on November 18 has been identified as Robert Clarke, who’s also known as Stanley Ledbetter. The woman who died in Mile High Murder No. 55 on…
Yesterday in this space, we told you about tea party anger directed at gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, who Fox News anointed as a TP hopeful in a Neil Cavuto interview embedded below. But McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy swears McInnis is neither claiming to be the tea party’s choice (see this…
Supporters of Sarah Palin reportedly began gathering at a Borders branch at Chapel Hills Mall, 1710 Briargate Boulevard in Colorado Springs, in order to secure a place in line to see Sarah Palin, who isn’t scheduled to begin pitching her new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, until 7 p.m…
