Denver Blogs: Broncos get some love — two of them, anyhow

Reading blogs about Denver is good — and good for you. Kyle at Broncos Talk shares news of the Broncos landing two players on the first-team All-Pro list: Ryan Clady and Elvis Dumervil. The team also put dozens on the staying-home-in-January list. From Colin at South Stands Denver: The Nuggets…

Diana DeGette + John Hickenlooper = Ellen DeGeneres

An early strategy being used to undermine John Hickenlooper in his run for the governorship is actually an old favorite — portraying him as too liberal. That’s the theme of the video above, put together by WhoSaidYouSaid.com, a humor-oriented political website overseen by Republican stalwarts Kelly Maher and Mary Smith,…

John Hickenlooper to run for governor, multiple reports say

At this hour, multiple news agencies, including Channel 4 and the Denver Post, are reporting that Denver mayor John Hickenlooper will run for Colorado governor, with an announcement anticipated this afternoon. The move is the biggest surprise since the sun came up this morning. It’s been abundantly clear that Hickenlooper…

Denver Blogs: Is it John Hickenlooper or John Hickenritter?

Despite what Craig Ferguson says, reading Denver blogs won’t make you poop funny. Colorado Pols sees plenty of signs that John Hickenlooper will soon launch a bid for Colorado’s governorship — including Republican boss Dick Wadhams dubbing him “Hickenritter.” Which is not nearly as funny a name as “Dick Wadhams.”…

Who hates health care reform in Colorado? Everybody!

According to the New York Times, Colorado is America — at least when it comes to our opinion of health-care reform. Which ain’t too positive right now. “In Colorado, Craving Reform of Health Care and Congress,” published yesterday, quotes an array of average folks in Denver and Fort Collins with…

Jane Norton has trouble with the S-word — as in Ken Salazar

Senate candidate and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton is the latest GOP leader to blast Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s proposed energy reforms. The vitriol is pretty shrill — she refers to “new, draconian reforms,” as if the government was about to start beheading oil executives. Yet it’s also…

Denver Blogs: At least Eddie Royal’s not a freakin’ diva

Welcome to Denver Blogs. Take a load off and read a while. Mile High Report’s Emmet Smith sees Eddie Royal’s sunny side, despite his sophomore slump. For one thing, he’ll probably be around next year, unlike a guy who spells his name Brandon Marshall. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic notes…

Ken Salazar won’t run for governor, endorses John Hickenlooper

Update, 12:41 p.m.: John Hickenlooper has now released a statement regarding Ken Salazar’s endorsement of him as a gubernatorial candidate. Read it below the original item. At least Ken Salazar didn’t keep us guessing about his campaign intentions for long… Today, Salazar released a statement saying he wouldn’t return to…

Protesters cheer stallion’s escape from roundup

Protests continue around the country over the Bureau of Land Management’s ongoing roundup of 2,500 wild horses in Nevada, including a rally scheduled for January 7 in downtown Denver. Groups outraged by the roundup, which they claim is unnecessary and is injuring and destroying horses, have released images of mustangs…

Bill Ritter, Scott McInnis and Ken Salazar’s statements: Spin-a-go-go!

Update, 2:26 p.m.: Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton has jumped into the commenting-on-Bill Ritter fun. Look below for her take. Update, 2:13 p.m.: New statements just in about Ritter’s withdrawal from Senator Mark Udall and Representative Ed Perlmutter, who actually says he’s going to consider running for governor. Read them…

Denver Blogs: Broncos season kills brains dead!

For your pleasure: The fruit of three Denver bloggers’ labor. T.J. Johnson’s season-ending Broncos stats roundup for Mile High Report argues that during the second half of the season, the team “were killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom.” If only it had been the hallucinatory kind. Over at the…

Scott McInnis’s spokesman: We’re ready for the b-team

Sean Duffy, spokesman for Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis, wants to make sure his guy gets a good share of the credit for Bill Ritter’s impending announcement that he’s going to pull out of the governor’s race. As he puts it, “We beat the varsity team a little earlier than…