Welcome to Denver Blogs — your one-stop shopping place to find blogs about Denver. Kyle at Bronco Talk has three words for the prospect of Denver drafting Florida QB Tim Tebow: “Just Say No!” And his reasons don’t have anything to do with Tebow’s Focus on the Family Super Bowl…
Earlier this week, Republican State Representative Tom Massey called a press conference for 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, to announce legislation aimed at regulating Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. Since Massey was the bill’s sponsor — and was the one who called the press conference — he belonged at the event, naturally…
Former Wesword profile subject Tom Tancredo’s well known for his ability to stir things up — even at already controversial events like at the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where his keynote remarks prompted the New York Daily News to publish an article headlined, “Tea Party Convention’s…
Editor’s note: The author, comedian Mike Polk, is a producer for Break Media and the somewhat demented mind behind the “Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video” and the “One Semester of Spanish Spanish Love Song.” With his approval ratings suffering, his agenda stalled and his party scuffling, it’s becoming increasingly clear…
Last week, Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org ran afoul of a legislator during his testimony protesting the removal of tax exemptions for bull semen, among other things. Representative Joel Judd all but tossed him out of a committee hearing. But Arnold is fighting back — with a little help from his…
Our roundup of blogs about Denver includes blogs about other places in Colorado, too. The Ralphie Report’s irish1611 wins the prize for today’s biggest understatement in a headline for this banner: “Media Not Too Impressed by Buffs’ 2010 Recruiting Class.” Maybe that’s because the top players who committed early to…
One Colorado, a new statewide gay-rights organization that’s actually an umbrella for a trio of organizations including an advocacy group, a non-profit education group and a political action committee, is attempting to use 53 questions, in the form of a survey, to answer one: What is it like to be…
On January 13, Colorado Ethics Watch, which recently shared its list of the top five ethics scandals of 2009, made a bid to kick off its 2010 roster. The organization filed a complaint against Representative Steve King to determine if money he got from the state to cover travel expenses…
Behold: three blogs written about Denver stuff today. T.J. Johnson at Mile High Report crunches the numbers pertaining to Tony Scheffler, Brandon Marshall and Elvis Dumervil — all players the Broncos might lose this off-season. His conclusion? “Letting go of Scheffler is bearable. Letting go of Marshall is not preferable…
Yesterday, we told you about the objections of the ACLU’s Judd Golden to a proposed nudity ordinance slated for its first reading before the Boulder City Council. At the session, portions of the measure dealing with what Golden previously described as “measurements to see if the areola of a woman’s…
Is the media beating this whole Jersey Shore thing to death? Definitely. Are we here at Westword going to join in on beatin’ up the beat? Damn right. Being the thoughtful and responsible journalists that we are, we decided to use the “Jersey Shore Nickname Generator” to create Guido and…
It’s Denver Blogs, our daily roundup of locally oriented bloggery. Over at Bronco Talk, Mr. East offers a hilarious diatribe about all the Broncos jerseys he’s purchased shortly before the players in question have been sent packing. His latest buy? A Brandon Marshall. Lookin’ like another bad move, pal… Rocky…
Last month, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett (who weighs in today about medical marijuana) argued that the Boulder City Council should pass what he called “a simple public-nudity ordinance” regarding participants in events like the World Naked Bike Ride and the Naked Pumpkin Run. That way, scofflaws wouldn’t be charged…
Last week, ex-ICE agent Cory Voorhis made his case for why he should get his old job back during a two-day hearing; click here to read J. David McSwane’s account of the first session and here for his take on the second one. But even as he waits for Merit…
In January, we introduced you to Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org, who thinks four of the state’s Supreme Court justices shouldn’t be retained because of the way they’ve twisted the spirit of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, better known as the TABOR amendment. Our headline begins: “Throw the Bums Off the…
Gather ’round, kids, and read these three Denver blogs. Over at Bronco Talk, Mr. East wonders whose Pro Bowl vote is it anyhow? Along the way, he writes, “One could even argue that Kyle Orton deserves a go instead” of David Garrard, who made the cut. For the first half…
Back in December, Scott McInnis took fire for an appearance on Fox News that portrayed him as the choice of tea party groups in the state — an assertion excused away by McInnis’s camp even as it was disputed by Lesley Hollywood, spokeswoman for the Tea Party of Northern Colorado…
In the second day and final day of a hearing before a federal administrative judge (read day one coverage here), Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from restricted databases to Bob Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, says he sought to expose “potentially illegal”…
Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from a restricted database to Republican Bob Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, began making his case to get his job back before a federal administrative judge Wednesday. The Denver hearing encapsulated the dramatic twists and embarrassing turns…
Like sands through the hourglass, so go the blogs of Denver. Colin at South Stands Denver sifts through the various rumored destinations for Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall, including St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas and New England — but not a penitentiary. Hey, he’s been on his best behavior lately! Colorado Pols…
As President Barack Obama prepares to make his first State of the Union address tonight, the promise of a health-care bill actually earning passage looks pretty sick thanks to the election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown — a man who Colorado candidates Scott McInnis and Jane Norton desperately wish to…
Update, 3:45 p.m.: Ward Churchill has responded to the use of his name and image in Tom Lucero’s campaign commercial — and Lucero’s camp has responded to the response. Get fresh info below the original item. Former CU regent Tom Lucero is running for Congress — and in his first…
