While Colorado officials fret over whether drilling regulations are too tough, this month Wyoming will become the first state to require energy companies to disclose what’s in the mysterious, highly toxic fluids they pump into the ground to extract oil and gas. Yes, that’s right. Wyoming, bastion of Dick Cheney…
Embattled Republican guv candidate Dan Maes and incredibly lucky Democratic opponent John Hickenlooper agree on a couple of things — the number of debates they’ll stage (ten) and a focus on the issues, not personal attacks. Presumably Tom Tancredo will take part in the sessions, too, but no promises. Get…
While most of us relaxed and had fun on Labor Day, approximately sixty people affiliated with organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee and Comite en Defensa del Pueblo protested immigration policy at Aurora’s GEO Detention Center, as they’ve done since last year. Click to check out a post…
Given that Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher must certify the lineup for the Colorado ballot by 5 p.m. today, the pressure on embattled Republican guv candidate Dan Maes to drop out will grow by the hour. And the strain could be increased by Tea Party, 9.12 Project and other…
Memo to process servers: The best place to find Douglas Bruce over the next few days is the Denver courtroom of Judge Brian Whitney. That’s where Bruce sat this morning, listening to process servers explain their attempts to deliver subpoenas to the anti-tax activist — part of a larger struggle…
Dan Maes might have some fight left in him after all. Amid Hank Brown’s retracted endorsement, campaign financing malaise and allegations that he exaggerated his responsibilities as a member of a Kansas police department, Maes today tweeted from the storm. And he didn’t need anywhere near 140 characters…
According to a spokesman, Dan Maes wasn’t trying to pretend he was Jason Bourne when discussing supposed undercover work he did with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation during his two-year stint as a cop. But he’s going to need some of Bourne’s skills to survive the bad PR currently raining…
The apparently damaging attacks on Republican guv candidate Dan Maes just keep coming. Hot on the heels of a front-page Denver Post story about allegedly catastrophic fundraising difficulties, which prompted Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams to call Maes opponent John Hickenlooper the luckiest guy in the world comes a Post…
At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, some party members derisively passed around shots of Scope to wash the bad taste from their mouths following the presidential nomination of former Republican, Bob Barr. It wasn’t just that Barr was seen as an impure strain of Libertarian; some members felt…
Proposition 62, the latest iteration of the Personhood Amendment, which would give the unborn constitutional rights in Colorado, has been approved for the November ballot — and opponents launched their campaign today with a boisterous rally at the State Capitol. Westword photographer Johnny Molfetta was there. Page down below to…
At this point, Dan Maes has the Republican governor’s nomination, endorsements from conservative heavy hitters like Hank Brown and not very much money — which is why Colorado Republican Party head Dick Wadhams’s $250 donation made local news. But while consultant Katy Atkinson suggested in July that Maes might drop…
The Dan Maes campaign may think his comments about Denver’s B-Cycle program being a United Nations plot have been overblown by the media — but they aren’t going away, as our slideshow of the Denver Cruisers’ UN-inspired bike ride proves. Still, the funniest iteration thus far is a mock-Maes commercial…
Andrew Romanoff, who came up short in his bid to defeat Michael Bennet in the Democratic Senate primary, is the guest of honor tonight at a party (details below) to celebrate his 44th birthday — and to help retire his campaign debt, which would be even more oppressive if he…
As Patricia Calhoun noted earlier this morning, Ron Perea won’t be headlining a Citizen Oversight Board forum tonight as planned — because Perea resigned on Monday amid controversy over the alleged police beating of Michael DeHerrera. Now, KHOW’s Peter Boyles and the Denver Post have obtained Perea’s resignation letter, a…
Today, Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin notes that guv candidate John Hickenlooper wouldn’t be running ads depicting him taking a shower with his clothes on in a normal campaign — an observation reinforced by Hick’s latest spot, which shows him saving money by using tap water and making double-sided copies…
If high-energy prop-comic John Hickenlooper is willing to shower in his clothes to tout that he is running a “clean” campaign for Colorado Governor, then just imagine what he will won’t be wearing to emphasize his administration’s promise to “establish a system of transparency and open government…” (Warning! Drawings below…
Last Friday, AM 760 afternoon-drive host Mario Solis-Marich spent part of his broadcast talking up Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Randy Parraz, who’ll be facing John McCain in November. Indeed, he even encouraged Colorado listeners to contribute to Parraz’s campaign, for which Solis-Marich said he’s been paid to work. Anything hinky…
An unusual land swap deal on the Western Slope orchestrated by Representative John Salazar, one that would benefit his largest campaign contributor, is starting to draw scrutiny well beyond disgruntled hunters and activists in Gunnison County, who claim the public is getting the short end of the transaction. The Wall…
Did you know that the Supreme Court Nominating Commission is interviewing candidates today to fill the vacancy on Colorado’s top court to be left by retiring chief justice Mary Mullarkey? Even if you did, which is doubtful, you couldn’t attend, since the process is closed to the public and so…
Earlier today, Patricia Calhoun told you about American Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo choosing former state rep Pat Miller as his running mate. How does previously announced lieutenant guv hopeful Doug “Dayhorse” Campbell feel about that? Very good, thank you…
With the deadline for printing Colorado’s ballot fast approaching, Tom Tancredo will have to move fast if he wants to replace Doug “Dayhorse” Campbell, the American Constitution Party lieutenant governor candidate he inherited when he took the top spot. The name of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin stirred interest — and…
On Thursday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that it plans to transform the 1885 Emerson School in the Capitol Hill neighborhood into a model for greening historical buildings…
