City councilwoman Judy Montero worked up quite a sweat a couple weeks back over the planned privatization of the La Alma Recreation Center, comparing neighborhood reaction to the “Milagro Beanfield War.” And she got her way: The city will continue to fund the rec center for a year while it…
For decades, energy companies and the federal government have tinkered with ways of trying to extract the vast hydrocarbon fuel reserves buried in rock in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar still has lots of questions about the process — whether the current oil shale…
Our daily round-up of local bloggage. Colorado Pols has an interesting little bit about Josh Penry’s sudden and quite convenient about-face on water projects. He seems to like them better when there are a bunch of water geeks hanging out. And so it begins: 60 percent of Mile High Report’s…
Our daily round up of local bloggage. Mile High Report is geeking out about tonight’s Broncos-Chargers game. As they should be. Betsy Markey’s defense of her congressional seat is shaping up to be one of the most expensive in the country. ColoradoPols breaks down the numbers. Colorado Independent rounds up…
The last of the week’s local-blog wrangling. Happy Friday, all. Senator Mark Udall on HuffPo Denver: “The time has come to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.'” If a Senate candidate (Ryan Frazier) announces he’s now a House candidate and there’s no one there to witness it, does it make any…
Mike May, minority leader of the Colorado House, is coming to the end of what he calls “my eighth and final year down there” — but he’s not going quietly. Yesterday, he introduced the 7th District electorate to Ryan Frazier, who dropped his U.S. Senate campaign in order to run…
Our daily slog through the local blogosphere. Mile High Report breaks down, position by position, how the Broncos match up against the Chargers. Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven chimes in on the Byers Library saga. A Denver Stiffs investigation has revealed that the Nuggets wore throwback uniforms zero times last year…
Earlier today, former U.S. Senate candidate Ryan Frazier officially became current House candidate Ryan Frazier, announcing his intention to challenge Representative Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District during an appearance at, of all places, the Brighton Ford dealership. (The concept: Ford didn’t take federal bailout money. Mmm-kay.) Shortly thereafter,…
The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara last foray into YouTubery was decidedly low rent: He pimped 2008’s Amendment 49 using sock puppets. This time, he’s opted for a more high-tech approach, creating the animated video above to attack the Obama administration’s version of healthcare reform. In his analogy, the public plan…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. At Colorado Independent, John Tomasic talks to Daniel Hayes about his so-called “impound initiatives,” part of Hayes’s crusade against illegal immigrants in Colorado. Critics think Hayes is a racist; Hayes thinks his critics are racists. On the Huffington Post’s Denver site, Alexia Parks reports…
Moments from now, Mayor John Hickenlooper will be meeting with the media to talk about a revision in his budget plan — additional bucks to save the Byers library , which had been marked for closure, and keep other branches open for longer hours. And where is he getting the…
State representative Glenn Vaad was appalled to discover recently that corrections officials have delayed opening a $200-million supermax because of Colorado’s fiscal woes. There’s nothing that offends Vaad, a Republican who represents the Greeley area, more deeply than the idea of a brand-new lockup sitting empty, forlornly bereft of the…
Our daily gathering of local bloggage. On the Huffington Post’s local page, Jim Thomas makes the case for changing the name of Columbus Day. And unlike most of the things written on the topic, his take is reasonable and measured. Colorado Pols breaks down (in their Colorado Pol-y way) the…
Other people in Colorado write blogs, too. Here are three of them. The Colorado Independent’s Kate Redding covers protests about the Obama administration’s expansion plans for the GEO Group’s Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center. That’s cold as ICE. Find tributes to the late radio host Russ Johnson, along…
Our daily collection of local blog decency. At HuffPo, Jason Salzman rekindles the idea that the Rockies are winning for Jesus. (Whatever it takes, right?) Colorado Pols says Congresswoman Betsey Marky will be tough to beat next year, and they’ve got video evidence. Mile High Report has an exhaustive look…
Since Dick Wadhams was named the State Chairman of the Colorado Republicans, the party has lost control of the state Senate, the state House of Representatives, the Governorship, one U.S. Senate seat and one U.S. House of Representative seat. But Dick is not depressed. He is energized! Like General Motors,…
In a teleconference with reporters today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar declared that his department’s wild-horse management program “is simply not working” and proposed a new way of dealing with the surplus of horseflesh that is devouring millions in taxpayer dollars. Secretary Salazar wants to head ’em up and…
Our daily perusal of local web goodness. At HuffPo Denver, Alan Gottlieb writes that we need to demand more of our teachers — and compensate them accordingly (H/T Education News Colorado). With Dems in control, Congresswoman Diana DeGette might finally be in position to save some wilderness, Colorado Independent reports…
Glenn Spagnuolo and Mark Cohen — they’re baaaaaack. Yes, the two local lefties behind Re-create 68 — whose Weather Underground rhetoric and overblown protest predictions before the Democratic National Convention allowed the Denver Police Department to work itself into an orgy of security spending — have re-emerged with something called…
While crowing earlier today about an Institute exposé focusing on uncompleted conflict-of-interest forms that embarrassed the Bill Ritter administration, the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara scoffed at the notion that Colorado Ethics Watch might take action against the Democratic governor’s office. “They file complaints on any Republican at any time,” he…
Late Thursday afternoon, the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank, published an article revealing that only one of Governor Bill Ritter’s cabinet members had filed a conflict-of-interest report despite an executive order requiring that everyone do so — a Todd Shepherd-penned piece that led directly to Ritter issuing a new…
Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism–it’s been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wilson,…
