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…
Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams is a guy who loves getting under the skin of his opponents, as in this interview, when he gleefully danced on Bill Ritter’s political grave. As such, he should take it as a compliment that a new (and thoroughly unofficial) pro-John Hickenlooper video, on…
That tea party trouble gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis experienced back in December is getting some national exposure, courtesy of the New York Times. “Republicans Strain to Ride Tea Party Tiger” prominently features Lesley Hollywood, who asserted in this December 9 blog that McInnis was late to the tea party despite…
It’s the first Denver Blogs roundup of the week! In a mock-draft post, Mile High Report’s Sayre Bedinger says it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Tony Scheffler, Peyton Hillis, Chris Kuper and Elvis Dumervil could join Brandon Marshall on the train out of Broncos-ville. Please tell us you’re…
Update, 9:10 a.m.: Appeared on Peter Boyles’ morning show moments ago — and he told me some viewers thought the photo of me in the video above was actually “the Romanian” who allegedly threatened Governor Bill Ritter’s life. For the record, I’m Italian and am too much of a pussycat…
It took the better part of a week, but Matt Arnold, the man behind ClearTheBenchColorado.org, has finally gotten the Denver Post to blink. On Tuesday, the paper published, “AG Suthers May Not Back 3 on State Supreme Court,” citing comments Colorado’s attorney general made about not supporting the retention of…
Yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially gave corporations and unions carte blanche to spend as much as they’d like on campaigns, and to do so directly. Because the ruling conflicts with a voter-passed 2002 Colorado amendment, which prohibited such entities from using revenues for campaign purposes,…
