The list of names opposing the Denver Paid Sick Leave Ordinance is growing, and quickly. Yesterday, six members of the thirteen-person City Council added theirs to a list that already includes Mayor Michael Hancock and Governor John Hickenlooper. To cement their opposition to the toll the ordinance would take on…
No question, rebranding can be a bitch. Is that Slinky in the CenturyLink commercials really an improvement over the Qwest lightbeam? But nothing quite spells “public relations fiasco” like the U.S. Army’s clueless attempt to change the name of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site to “Fort Carson South,” after years…
Last week, Secretary of State Scott Gessler filed a lawsuit against Denver County in an effort to prevent officials there from sending ballots to voters listed as inactive. He claims he’s merely following state law, which calls for county clerks to contact only active voters, while pretty much every progressive…
An effort to operate a faith-based, residential drug and alcohol treatment program in a vintage mansion in Capitol Hill suffered a major setback yesterday when a Denver zoning official ruled that the area is already overloaded with group homes. Granting a transitional housing permit to Open Door Ministries for 740…
In June, we told you about two men who were questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a carnival connected with Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days festival. One of those men, Julio Alvarez-Cortez, has now filed a lawsuit against the officers involved, including Carbondale cop Alvaro Agon…
Last month, under pressure from Representative Scott Tipton and ranchers in the Pinon Canyon area, Air Force officials backed off a plan to conduct intensive low-altitude training flights over southeast Colorado. But the recently unveiled boundaries for the low, low flights probably won’t cause much joy in Durango, Montrose, Grand…
The news that “lobbyist lawyer” Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum’s law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ,…
A final vote from the Colorado Reapportionment Commission yesterday announced a consensus on the state’s first new legislative maps in the past ten years. The commission is led by its sole politically independent member, Entravision CEO Mario Carrera — and he’s got some ideas about how to make the process…
Corrections officials are understandably defensive about a controversial Bureau of Justice Statistics survey that indicates a high incidence of prisoner sexual abuse in their facilities. But is that any reason for jail bosses to claim that inmates are concocting fake stories of prison rape in order to get cookies, or…
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed 2012 budget was released yesterday and revealed that city government can continue business as usual as long as city employees keep taking furlough days without pay. The complete budget breakdown is shown below…..
Last week, we reported on the mounting criticism of Aaron Million’s proposed 550-mile pipeline to deliver water to the Front Range. The opponents’ campaign is just beginning, though — as new billboards take that message to the public and to water officials considering the Flaming Gorge pipeline at a meeting…
When powerful development forces in metro Denver conspire to drain more water from already depleted Western Slope rivers, there’s only one thing for a self-respecting environmentalist to do: Grab your gear and head to Boulder for The World’s Largest Kayak Drum Circle. At least, that’s what protesters hope a large…
Nederland’s official website declares that the funky mountain burg is a “town like no other.” And the abrupt resignation of Mayor Sumaya Abu-Haidar eighteen months into her two-year term, amid what she describes as a hostile political climate and “extraordinarily rude, insulting and disparaging” e-mails from opponents, seems to underscore…
Will President Obama’s new jobs plan save the country from a double-dip recession or burden our sliding economy with another $400 billion of deficit spending? Below, an easy-to-read chart explains the president’s entire economic stimulus plan in a nutshell…..
As the man in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the 2005 period when Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, Michael Brown knows a thing or two about hurricanes, and the media’s coverage of them. So what kind of grades does the current KOA talk-show host give to…
Chasing wild horses with helicopters has long been a controversial but accepted method in the roundups of mustangs by the Bureau of Land Management. But a federal judge has blasted the BLM after seeing video of a contract pilot hovering over an exhausted horse and appearing to strike the horse…
The Larimer County Republican Party faced massive fines for not filing campaign-finance reports in 2010 — but last month, the Secretary of State’s office reduced the bill from $48,000 to $15,000, leaving critics agog. Now, Colorado Ethics Watch has issued a complaint about what it sees as additional violations…
Politics junkies are already so discouraged by the prospects in the 2012 presidential campaign that they’re looking ahead to 2016, proposing all kinds of unlikely candidates — including Governor John Hickenlooper, who was being measured for a White House run even before his inauguration eight months ago. Yet the buzz…
Pushing a tax hike during difficult economic times might seem like the political equivalent of a suicide mission. But Senator Rollie Heath has taken on the challenge anyway — and this week, Proposition 103, which would earmark the extra funds for schools, was officially approved for the November ballot. Moreover,…
A lesbian woman from Mexico who was facing deportation after a 2008 traffic stop revealed that she was an undocumented immigrant has been granted a reprieve, advocates report. A Denver immigration judge has delayed a ruling in Sujey Pando’s case for five months in light of a new deportation review…
Aurora mayor Ed Tauer’s eight-year, term-limited reign will come to an end later this year, and the race is on to replace him, with a vote coming up on November 1. Six candidates filed to run, all with different backgrounds and different takes on what they believe is important to…
Update: CSU professor Catherine Keske was jailed after being found in contempt of court in relation to a case brought by her ex-husband, Jeffrey Handley. Among other things, he accused her of interfering with his ability to communicate with one of his sons by failing to provide the boy with…
