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Weld County Sheriff John Cooke. News organizations routinely shrug off criticism from Colorado Media Matters because the website operates from a liberal perspective — something its overseers don’t hide. Yet CMM frequently finds examples of journalistic errors and oversights that should dismay anyone, no matter their ideological bent. Example: An…

Hillary Clinton loyalists continue to prowl. “I don’t like Obama because he beat Hillary Clinton,” my daughter said. She’s precocious, but not astoundingly so. This is a girl who’d rather watch Dora the Explorer than Olbermann, rather listen to Music Together than Air America. “So I’m voting for McCain.” Four…

Sir Mix-A-Lot understands the appeal of a little extra “back.” The October 30 Rocky Mountain News article “Many Obese Women Sexually Active, Study Finds” isn’t quite as stupid as the moronic headline placed on it. The piece doesn’t begin and end with the assertion that women considered to be medically…

Barack looks pretty needy in this shot. Yesterday, I, like untold thousands of other Americans on Barack Obama’s e-mail list, received a message from his wife, Michelle. The subject line read, “What Barack needs.” No, I didn’t open it — because there are things between a husband and wife that…

This is not the David Cooper who was tried in connection with the sexual assault and stabbing death of his ten-year-old daughter. All newspaper mistakes are unfortunate, but some of them are more unfortunate than others — and the one featured in the corrections section of today’s Denver Post goes…

It has the trappings of a standard-issue get-out-the-vote video, but the above clip is just a sign of more to come. The video, which shows Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper introducing and chatting with Barack Obama, apparently was culled from footage shot by the mayor’s cousin George Hickenlooper, a documentary filmmaker…

I’m sure it looks better in person. Hold on — more blogs are comin’. Today in Cafe Society: • Veggie Girl takes a bite out of Osteria Marco. • Fritangas shuts down as Las Parrallida prepares to debut. • An organic look at Naturally Boulder 2008. • Offering a chile…

Robo-calling gone amuck. This week, there’s a robo-call targeting residents of Colorado (as well as other swing states) from an organization called Americans in Contact. And like most robo-calls in this hotly contested election cycle, they’re insulting, annoying and misleading. You know, exactly the sort of tactics we’d want to…

So there’s this election next week, and apparently Colorado is playing some sort of important role. Not sure how it works, but it seems there’s a good chance that lady from Fargo will be coming through to make her pitch again. And if she does, she’ll have one damn cool…

No human feces spotted here — yet. After several days of stepping over piles of human feces at the properties owned by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino — the subject of “Welcome to Hotel Martino: The Homeless Love It, the Neighbors Hate It, an October 30 Westword feature…

Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. Is it any wonder that Halloween and Election Day fall so close together on the calendar? The two holidays are so similar. First there’s the heavy reliance on yard art. Both require months…

Bob Schaffer speaking in Montrose earlier this week. Republican senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer needs a game-changer right now, given the size of Democratic opponent Mark Udall’s lead in most polls. So why not imply that liberals wanted to mollycoddle the Third Reich? That’s the apparent strategy behind his comments in…

Boo! — Joel Warner…

DeAngelo Starnes’ Facebook photo. DeAngelo Starnes apparently didn’t enjoy landing on page one of the October 28 Denver Post — and that’s no surprise. After all, “Ex-Union Advisor’s E-mail ‘Crude,'” the article in question, focused on an embarrassing note in which he went after Amendment 47 co-author Ryan Frazier, an…

Meow, meow, meow. Black cats are mysterious, alluring and surrounded in superstition. But they can also be targets during October, which is why local animal shelters limit or even prohibit their adoption during the season of ghastly ghouls, creepy crawlers and trick-or-treaters. “Cats are often the victims of cruel pranks,…

The fat cat seen in this Jim Davis image is sitting pretty at the Rocky. In “The Rocky Mountain News Throws Garfield in the Litter Box,” an October 2 blog, I took great delight in noting that the Rocky had booted the enormously lame strip “Garfield” from its comics pages…

Michael Johnston at Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts. With less than a week before polling places close on November 4, the Barack Obama campaign spent more than $3 million on a thirty-minute prime-time infomercial last night. The feel-good address included moving clips of Obama’s speeches set to music and…

Shhhush… We’re taking a few seconds off from political ads. With just days to go before the election, the number of political ads appearing on TV screens throughout this swingin’ state is unprecedented, as is the vileness of all too many spots. But Channel 7, Denver’s ABC affiliate, is offering…

BBC journalist Greg Palast in Colorado, in an image from a Rolling Stone video. Greg Palast, a BBC investigative journalist and co-author (with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) of “Block the Vote,” a damning voting-system story in the October 30 edition of Rolling Stone, isn’t shy, as his interview with Westword…

Colorado Common Cause’s Jenny Flanagan during an appearance on CBS4. (Her name is misspelled in the station graphic.) The main headline on today’s Denver Post front page reads “A Win For Purged Voters” — and that’s true to a point. Colorado Common Cause, Mi Familia Vota and a number of…