In a Senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday, Senator Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, quizzed Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano about the firing of ICE agent Cory Voorhis. (The exchange can be seen in the video above; it begins at approximately the six minute point.) But is Sessions, who tries a…
The debate over how to serve the state’s neediest citizens, including abused children, has come to a head in the weeks since a governor-appointed committee recommended that the state should take over county responsibilities for child welfare and services such as Medicaid and food stamps — an idea that the…
Local blogs: Get ’em while they’re hot. An inspired rant by Mile High Hockey’s David Driscoll-Carignan, who won’t be able to watch tonight’s Avs game at home despite buying a pricey hockey package because “the buffoons who run DirecTV and the pinheads who run Comcast still believe that the only…
In a blog yesterday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy shrugged off suggestions that his candidate was masquerading as having won support from tea party groups — but he added that McInnis was actively courting members of such organizations. That wasn’t always true, says Lesley Hollywood, a spokeswoman for the Tea…
Yesterday, former Denver elections commissioner Jan Tyler, currently a blogger for Examiner.com, penned an item entitled “Is Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Having an Affair with Stephanie Villafuerte?” At this writing, and for well over an hour earlier, clicking on this link has brought up the following message: “Article Not Ready…
Yesterday, we noted with astonishment that Sarah Palin fans were waiting as long as twelve hours on a bitterly cold day to see their heroine at a Colorado Springs book-signing. Turns out a few diehards were even more devoted, spending the previous night in their car to be sure…
Yesterday in this space, we told you about tea party anger directed at gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, who Fox News anointed as a TP hopeful in a Neil Cavuto interview embedded below. But McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy swears McInnis is neither claiming to be the tea party’s choice (see this…
Crisanta Duran recently lost one election — a bid for secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. But she’s got her eye on another office. The 29-year-old currently works there as personal counsel to her father, union boss Ernest Duran Jr., who also lost a bid for…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is upset about the effort by GOP heavyweights to make Scott McInnis the de facto party standard bearer months before the primary — and he says lots of tea party members will express the same sentiment at a December 12 “Defend the Republic Rally” inspired…
Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet guaranteeing no Medicare benefit takeaways because of healthcare reform passed 100-0. Among those voting for it: Arizona’s John McCain, who’s featured in current Benet-targeting robocalls claiming that healthcare legislation would “[cut] vital Medicare coverage for our seniors.” Lauren Weiner, spokeswoman for…
Update, 12:14 p.m.: Just received an e-mail from Todd Shepherd, who now recalls Peter Boyles seeing a copy of a February 2008 letter described below around the time of its writing, after at first being uncertain if that was the case. Read on for details. Earlier today, we shared with…
A new twist in coverage of Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney. KHOW radio host Peter Boyles has devoted a great deal of airtime to this tale (I’ve joined him to speak about the subject on numerous occasions), and as such, he’s become a hero to those who believe Villafuerte…
While talking with Dan Caplis about his life-saving Thanksgiving earlier this week, another subject arose: his current feelings about presumed Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis. Back in August, McInnis treated the GOP-minded Caplis like a hostile interrogator during an appearance on the latter’s KHOW talk show, earning plenty of brickbats…
Updates below: The appearance last month of an anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, prompted plenty of attention and even charges of racism for the way it linked the President (caricatured in a turban) to jihad and the murders at Fort Hood,…
The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn’t supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal database (an act that led to the firing of former ICE agent Cory Voorhis) prompted her to write a letter…
Good news, Denverites! Next year (probably in August), you’ll get a chance to vote on UFOlogist Jeff Peckman’s ballot measure to create an “extraterrestrial affairs commission.” Denver Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley has confirmed that Peckman’s surpassed the 3,974 signatures needed for inclusion. Not that everybody’s cheering. In noting this…
Local blogs need you. Including these three. John Tomasic at Colorado Independent unearths a tribute ditty (to the tune of “My Girl”!) about female Tea Party leaders that includes a shout-out to Colorado-based Michelle Malkin. Who brings sunshine on a cloudy day? SquareState.net’s Wade Norris thinks Michael Bennet is sucking…
The pressure on Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination for U.S. Attorney shows no signs of diminishing. The release of a letter to Senator Mark Udall in which Villafuerte attempted to squash accusations that she’d accessed a criminal database for political purposes (the same act that led to the canning of former ICE…
Today, a ban against texting while driving takes effect in Colorado — not that Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle expects it to have an enormous impact. In widely quoted comments, he called the measure a “feel good” law that would be tough to enforce. State representative Claire Levy, a Boulder…
Local blog-finding just got a lot easier. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets’ home loss to the Timberwolves last night “unacceptable.” And a few other choicer words. Over at Lakewood Edge, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Kevin Flynn describes the traffic woes expected to result from FasTracks work on…
You just can’t please some people, especially if you happen to be the Secretary of the Interior. Sure, the job has some neat perks–all those trips to national parks and press conferences at glaciers and other cool stuff. But there’s no way to manage what amounts to one-fifth of the…
After Tom Tancredo declared that he fully intended to run for governor, Colorado GOP head Dick Wadhams insisted that he was okay with such a challenge to frontrunner (and unity fan) Scott McInnis, announcing in this space, “I’ve always been a proponent — and I’ve said this incessantly — that…
