Teri G. Sanchez is suburban superhero Brightonator: Kenny Be’s Hip Tip

Brightonator Real Name: Teri G. Sanchez; Occupation: Empire Builder; Suburb of Operations: Brighton; Hair: Electric; Eyes: Bright Suburban superhero skills: Brightonator is a mutant with the superhuman ability to brighten the lives of all the people she coordinates at the Small Business Assistance Center of the Brighton Learning and Resource…

Ken Buck a new Tea Party star, says Time magazine

Ken Buck’s looking more and more like your likely Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and the national media establishment is starting to notice. No less a magazine of record than Time is wondering if he’s the latest Tea Party star — and if onetime frontrunner Jane Norton will wind…

Scott McInnis: The waterlogged years (Pt. 1)

The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a series of eye-glazing articles about Colorado water issues. Political junkies everywhere want to know what the Hasans…

G.I. Jane Norton ready to kick some terrorist ass

Taking a cue from the Rambo fantasies of Gary Brooks Faulkner, U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton has revamped her website to suggest she’s ready to bring us the head of Osama bin Laden. And that of Barack Obama. And all those liberal milquetoasts in Washington who’ve sold us down the…

Colorado politics 2010 tarot deck

Note: This story cartoon will appear in this week’s issue of Westword. Politicians and tarot decks are amazingly similar. Both were created for trick-taking games, and both are largely used by the foolhardy to foretell the future. The personalities of Colorado’s most widely known politicians correspond remarkably well to the…

Ken Salazar getting tough with BP: Too little too late?

The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama’s lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum “pay” for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests the administration is finally starting to look at poor regulation of oil-and-gas drilling in…

Andrew Romanoff edits his former reporter, Dana Milbank

On Sunday, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank weighed in on his “prickly” former editor at the Yale Daily News: one Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who’s challenging incumbent Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, may have left journalism behind, but he still knows how to edit an upstart…

If Andrew Romanoff wants it, there’s a Colorado Supreme Court seat open

Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration’s various “job offers” (some would say “bribes”) to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there’s another job opportunity waiting in the wings: The Honorable Mary…

Andrew Romanoff gets boost from White House job controversy

In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn’t challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak. Now, at last, Romanoff’s come clean –…

Ken Salazar still in hot seat — but with lots of company

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there’s increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the faltering Coloradoan out of the spotlight and find other, less compromised figures…

Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?

It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-hatted bureaucrat who blusters about keeping his foot on the neck of British…