Republican Party national chair Michael Steele, who’s taken a pounding for referring to Afghanistan as a “war of Obama’s choosing,” has canceled an Aspen appearance this week. But as far as Colorado Republican boss Dick Wadhams knows, Steele’s still planning to appear at the opening of the state’s campaign office…
In May, we told you about Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam’s authorization of a ban on travel to Arizona over SB 1070, that state’s controversial new immigration law. At its 6 p.m. meeting tonight, the Boulder City Council will decide whether to continue the prohibition and accept a resolution denouncing…
Most locals celebrated the 4th of July weekend with picnics and fireworks. But approximately fifty locals marked the holiday yesterday with a vigil at Aurora’s GEO detention center. There, they decried current immigration policy in Colorado and elsewhere, with a focus on the deaths of two migrants whose deaths haven’t…
Strange but true: Former congressman Tom Tancredo agrees with something in President Barack Obama said in his immigration-reform speech at American University yesterday — specifically, his assertion that “our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols.” But…
If John Hickenlooper has taught us anything, it is that a Denver mayor is not to be judged by his accomplishments, but by his clever campaign photo-op outfits. In keeping with his mayoral magic of gaining attention through gimmicky garments, the goofy geek gets decked out as a sexy babe…
Tax crusader Douglas Bruce headed into a Colorado Springs grand jury room earlier this week defiant and expansive, determined not to be “bullied” or silenced and half expecting to go to jail for taking a stand — by not taking the stand. He emerged with a grant of immunity and…
Unlike the other 200 biennials that take place across the globe, Denver’s Biennial of the Americas was created to showcase the city’s business community — not to promote the talent of its creative class. Businessmayor® John Hickenlooper is hoping to stimulate Denver’s economic development by exploiting the creative class and…
Planning on traveling to Arizona over the upcoming holiday weekend? A fan of dry heat? The American Civil Liberties Union, joined by the Colorado branch, has issued a travel advisory due to the recent passage of SB 1070, which the organization describes as “Arizona’s racial-profiling law.” One reason, says ACLU…
GOP Senate hopeful Jane Norton surely expected to outrage Dems with her video attacking “liberals in Washington” for being soft on terror. But when the founder of Muslims For Bush denounces your tactics as stupid race-baiting, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate. “Nothing has hurt the GOP more than Republican candidates…
Update, 2:27 p.m.: New info below the original 1:37 p.m. item. While Republican Ken Buck used the caucus system to transform himself from a senatorial dark horse into a frontrunner (the kind now getting attacked by the likes of Politico), Andrew Romanoff, the champion Dem at the caucus level, seems…
Nothing moves swiftly in the upper echelons of government decision-making — especially when the decisions have to do with a tiny rodent that can stall development projects. Today marks the public-comment deadline on the proposal for critical habitat designation of the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse. But don’t expect the battle…
Earlier this month, we told you about a dust-up involving Fountain City Councilman Harold Thompson that ended with medical marijuana advocate Al Lender taking an elbow to the mouth — after he called Thompson a son of a bitch, that is. Now, a special prosecutor says no charges should be…
Former state lawmaker Ken Gordon is a passionate advocate of online communication, particularly emerging social media, as a powerful tool in the service of democracy. In bursts of electronic energy, known as “e-mails,” he’s reached out across cyberspace to encourage citizens to get involved and start tweeting their elected representatives…
Proof that Ken Buck, once thought to be an also-ran in the U.S. Senate race, is now perceived as a serious threat: He’s the target of attacks from fellow Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton as well as Pat Waak, head of the Colorado Democratic Party. Waak believes current frontrunner Buck…
A U.S. District Court ruling yesterday ensures that Kathleen Curry’s name won’t be on the ballot for her House District 61 reelection bid. But unlike La Plata County commissioner Joelle Riddle, whose lawsuit she joined, Curry’s not dropping out. Instead, she’s moving forward with one of the most challenging chores…
In our continuing analysis of the water musings cranked out by Scott McInnis during his two-year, $300,000 fellowship, one inescapable question emerges — the same question that confronts the weary slush-pile editor after wading through stacks of really bad writing: Has anybody else ever tried to read this stuff?…
Hurray for capitalism! Without it, we Americans wouldn’t have such a rich panoply of consumer items — including a slew of stuff available through Amazon.com that will allow you to express your love for, or hatred of, Tom Tancredo. But lovers have more choices beyond this “There Is No Shame…
Republican congressional candidate Cory Gardner may have a very colorful skeleton in his closet: As a student at Colorado State University, it appears he was an official Ram Handler, one of the chosen few in charge of primping and pimping the school’s official mascot, CAM the Ram…
World famous wrap-artist Christo is in Denver tonight to drum up support for his Arkansas River cover-up project. The sold-out Seawell Ballroom event kicks off a four-city lecture series announcing the 45-day public comment period required after the BLM releases the environmental impact statement of the project on July 15…
If elected, Scott McInnis pledges that he will be a jobs governor. But if those jobs are related to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, he — or at least his spokesman, Sean Duffy — isn’t all that interested in talking about them these days…
At 7:30 a.m. this morning, just over three months after his rib-rattling bicycle accident, Governor Bill Ritter is scheduled to talk about Bike to Work Day at the Civic Center breakfast station at Civic Center Park. No, we don’t anticipate that he’ll collapse in hysterics from a bad case of…
We may never know what inspired the Hasan Family Foundation to shell out $300,000 for a series of remarkably slipshod “Musings on Water” by Scott McInnis. But as I pointed out in the first installment of our probing analysis, the candidate’s soggy prose offers clues about the kind of governor…
