In May, Denver Paid Sick Days Initiative spokeswoman Erin Bennett predicted that the measure, which would mandate paid sick days for all non-governmental workers in Denver, be they full-time or part-time employees, would strike a chord with voters. And she thinks the number of signatures her group will turn in…
Many people Wells Fargo claims to serve gathered to protest its investment in private prison companies such as GEO, Inc., which owns an Aurora detention center. Protesters marched on an East Colfax branch as part of a national day of action to educate people about the hypocrisy they see in…
We’ve noted in this space before before the tendency among Colorado governors to load up the state parole board with former Denver police officers, as if the job was essentially an $85,000-a-year private security gig. Judging from John Hickenlooper’s new appointments to the board, that streak is very much alive…
Jared Polis and his longtime partner, Marlon Reis, are expecting their first baby this September. But the media and members of the public shouldn’t have any expectations about learning more details. At least not yet…
A week from today, Colorado is cutting — pun intended — Medicaid funding for circumcisions. According to the Associated Press, the state will join seventeen others in making the cost-saving move, which will likely please circumcision opponents, such as Paul Russo, the subject of a 1996 Westword story called “Boys…
Representative Rhonda Fields is out to put a positive face on the youth of Aurora. After hosting the first Teens Turning Political Summit at the Community College of Aurora earlier this month, Fields and her team have created a teen advisory council, composed of eighteen students who attended the summit…
Glenwood Springs’ Strawberry Days festival has been an area staple for more than a century, and this year’s edition featured train rides, a pirate-coloring contest, a pie-eating challenge and a search for a “Glenwood Idol,” among many other scheduled events. But one happening wasn’t announced in advance: a raid by…
I watched Barack Obama’s speech about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan more closely than any presidential address ever — but not for the expected reason. I was a (sober) judge in a speech-related drinking game suggested yesterday by none other than super-conservative Rush Limbaugh — one that produced thirteen minutes-plus of…
On Thursday, June 23, 2011, the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission will explain how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations on the former Lowry Bombing Range comply with Arapahoe County’s 2007 Sustainable Growth Objectives. It will be an easy sell…..
During last night’s sophomore edition of Countdown on Current TV, Keith Olbermann featured an extended segment about Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filing an ethics complaint against Louisiana Senator David Vitter. But the man in the middle of the controversy is former Colorado senator and current Interior…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s announcement of over 2,400 arrests — 81 of them in Colorado and Wyoming — stresses that ICE is focusing on rounding up criminal aliens. This emphasis makes sense given mounting evidence here and nationwide that assorted authorities are going well beyond this mandate…
Outraged by a federal plan to manage two Wyoming herds of wild horses into oblivion by sterilizing hundreds of mares, activists will gather outside a public hearing at the Bureau of Land Management field office in Rock Springs tonight to denounce the large-scale “experimental surgery” — the latest flashpoint in…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has renewed its promise to focus on serious criminals for detention and deportation. “A new policy directs ICE officers and attorneys to use appropriate discretion to make sure victims and witnesses to crimes are not put into deportation proceedings,” the Associated Press reports. But that’s…
As noted earlier, Denver Post editor Greg Moore’s explanation of Michael Hancock prostitution story coverage seemed likely to irk as many critics as it placated — and Dan Maes, the Republican candidate for governor in 2010, proves the point. Maes is upset by the Moore-penned item in yesterday’s edition because…
Unlike former Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple, who penned a weekly column for years, Denver Post editor Greg Moore seldom writes pieces for the paper. But he made an exception Sunday with an item that attempted to explain the Post’s approach to the claims allegedly linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock…
Folks at the Denver Post seem ready to put the alleged link between mayor-elect Michael Hancock and the Denver Players prostitution ring in the rearview mirror after reviewing the candidates cell-phone records. But while the Post accepted the Hancock team’s conditions to examine this data, two major TV stations –…
The latest developments in the story linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution biz suggest that everyone who’s been slimed by it so far wants it to be over immediately if not sooner. And who’s at the front of the the parade along with Hancock himself? The Denver…
The story linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution ring has turned into an absurdist comedy. Note that from 3:35 p.m. yesterday to 12:57 a.m. this morning, a team of ten editors, reporters and researchers from the Denver Post and 9News examined Hancock’s phone records in search of…
When last we heard from losing 2010 gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes, he was calling Tom Tancredo a big bully. Since then, there’s been radio silence — but Maes hasn’t been idle. In the past few weeks, he’s managed to write a book in which he promises to set the record…
Update below: Yesterday, former Denver Players owner Scottie Ewing claimed that “EVERY reporter in Denver” wanted a look at records he said linked mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the prostitution ring that brought down Judge Edward Nottingham — and plenty obviously did. Last night, 7News and Fox31 finally aired stories about…
Swing-club king Scottie Ewing has become a central figure in alleged links between newly elected mayor Michael Hancock and the Denver Players prostitution ring that brought down Judge Edward Nottingham. When the Denver Post reported that a computer and files were stolen from his home on election day, he offered…
In late May, Representative Scott Tipton apologized to the House Ethics Committee for his daughter Elizabeth’s tactic of dropping daddy’s name while seeking clients for Broadnet, the family-related telecommunications firm where she works. Although Tipton’s staff denied that Elizabeth’s actions constituted an ethics violation, political observers suspected that the Congressman…
