Douglas Bruce is a victim. At least that’s the story he told yesterday at a news conference in Colorado Springs, where he complained about the city violating his constitutional rights. The Springs’ sin? Handing Bruce and a buddy a trespassing ticket for insisting on collecting signatures for a ballot proposal…
Before Congressman Jared Polis’ constituents got a chance to see him do a beer bong with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report last night, they had the opportunity to watch him do something else unusual — host a healthcare town hall that didn’t deteriorate into scarlet-faced, neck-tendon-displaying sound and fury…
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEven Better-er Know a District – Colorado’s 2nd – Jared Poliswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep It’s one of those TV moments when you’re thinking, “He won’t do that. He wouldn’t possibly do that.” And then he does it anyway! Second District Congressman…
At this moment in our country’s history, celebrity can land on people like a terrible, swift sword — or the satisfying embrace of a loving reach-around. University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn is experiencing the latter, figuratively speaking, with the conservative media giving him a lingering hand for…
Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Let us know about good destinations. The Broncos have traded for yet another Patriot, defensive end Le Kevin Smith. Weird, huh? (Mile High Report) The Denver Archbishop chimes in on health care. (Colorado Independent) Scott McInnis is missing in action. Why are people…
Good news for those of you who’ve always felt something stinks at the Colorado Judicial Building, where the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are housed: Today, even Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey agrees with you. She’s closed the structure until further notice due to a sewer break…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In the wake of President Barack Obama’s town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter got some spotlight time on the next day’s edition of Meet the Press, claiming that Obama’s mediocre poll numbers relating…
It’s Friday. You ain’t got shit to do. You ain’t got no job. So let’s… read some blogs! And then send us more! Dispensaries giving new meaning to the term “High Country.” See what I did there? (Colorado Independent) (Even) more on Scott McInnis’s rage against the KHOW machine, which…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis came uncorked while defending his allegedly broken pledge to use leftover 2004 campaign funds for breast-cancer research during a Wednesday appearance on the KHOW talk show hosted by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. At one point, McInnis even accused Caplis of ganging up on him…
Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will visit Grand Junction for his next healthcare town hall, where he’ll likely encounter folks like the ones in the video accessible here, caught in action during a GJ rally in late July. (Really dug the sign that read, “D.N.C. Lies: Grandma Dies.”) But in the…
The blogosphere is our crack den. Kick us down the good stuff. Scott McInnis somehow manages to make KHOW’s Craig Silverman seem like a sympathetic character. (Colorado Pols) The Post may be polling you about comics, but that doesn’t mean it cares what you think. (Denver PR Blog) Should the…
Last July, we told you about the case of Carol Kreck, who was ticketed outside a town hall for Republican presidential candidate John McCain for carrying a sign reading, shockingly enough, “McCain = Bush.” Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter then working as a librarian, wasn’t cowed by this treatment,…
Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts — because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell’s 1984. And when the economy turns south, such arguments only intensify. Given that, the only surprising…
Today and tomorrow, political heavy hitters of the progressive persuasion throughout the region are meeting at the Colorado History Museum as part of the 2009 Western Summit, sponsored by Project New West, an organization that describes itself as “the leading authority on the values, issues, and demographics that define America’s…
The crowd outside Representative Mike Coffman’s healthcare town hall in Littleton yesterday wasn’t as scary as some in recent days, for obvious reasons: Coffman, a Republican, is against many, if not most, of the ideas in the current plan, making him an ally of reform enemies who’ve seemed to be…
Can you identify a good blog? Send samples here. Nuggets interested in Wally Szczerbiak. Which, by the way, is a truly horrible idea. (Denver Stiffs) Man. You can’t even screw a cow any more without worrying about catching something. (5280) Scott McInnis: We didn’t name him Shmuck of the Week…
Senator Morgan Carroll, an Aurora Democrat who heads the interim committee looking into the 800-pound gorilla known as Pinnacol Assurance, knows plenty about the enterprise, which the Denver Business Journal describes as a “state political subdivision that operates as a mutual insurance company and serves as the workers’-compensation policy provider…
President Barack Obama will host a healthcare town hall meeting in Grand Junction on Saturday in an attempt to counter disinformation being circulated by citizens who apparently love the fact that millions of people remain uninsured and rates for the rest of us continue to grow at a shocking pace…
Our daily blog foraging. Send tips. Where we’re going (skiing), we just might need roads. Unless we want to catch on fire. (Colorado Independent) A plea for Southwest to fail. (Colorado Pols) The Nuggets bench continues to disintegrate. (Denver Stiffs) How to watch a Broncos preseason game without gouging your…
We’re in the cyber-outfield, shagging links. If we missed any, shout. Can the Rockies (or the Giants) actually catch the Dodgers? It’s not as far-fetched as you think. (Purple Row) Take our police chief. Please! (Lakewood Edge) Let’s go deep: A look at the NBA’s union contract. (Denver Stiffs)…
On Friday, we shared a video in which folks protesting healthcare reform in Pueblo compared Obamacare to Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler — and this brand of overheated rhetoric is hardly isolated to that community. Over the weekend at an event in Brighton, pro-healthcare reform rep Ed Perlmutter was greeted…
No question that the fiscal downturn in these United States has battered Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association, or PERA — and so have critics like the Denver Post’s Vince Carroll, who’s taken on the topic in column after column. As a result, plenty of folks who depend upon PERA are…
