Ken Salazar gets lots of gas for rising gas prices

There must be days when Ken Salazar wished he’d stayed in the U.S. Senate, rather than joining the Obama administration as Secretary of the Interior. There must be entire months like that. March, for example, when Mitt Romney called for Salazar to be fired…

LoDo parking on Rockies opening day: How high will costs rise?

LoDo is one of Denver’s great success stories. While other historic parts of downtown were literally wiped off the map by urban “renewal” in the ’70s — which turned Victorian-era buildings into parking lots — lower downtown is full of turn-of-the-last-century warehouses, all now repurposed for this century. Now you…

Speak English, cabron!

Dear Mexican: Stop using Spanish in your column.  I like reading your column, but when every other word is in Spanish, I don’t know what the hell is going on. It makes you sound like that nerdy kid who uses big words to try and sound impressive. Don’t be lazy, and…

Will Mexicanos ever see Chicanos as equals?

Dear Mexican: I was born in Los Estados Unidos, my father is from Tamaulipas, and my mother is a third-generation Chicana. I’m married to a Mexicano, and we recently vacationed in his home town of Apatzingan, Michoacán. It was my first time meeting my in-laws and everyone from his colonia…

Cory Gardner talks energy prices, takes lobbyist cash

This past Saturday, Colorado Representative Cory Gardner, a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, was tapped to offer the Weekly Republican Address on skyrocketing energy costs. But at the same time, a CBS report showed that he’s been expending lots of gas on another topic…

America is obsessed with Mexis instead of Canadian illegals

Dear Mexican: I work for a major news organization and often have heard the figure of 10 million illegal Mexicans. Unofficially, I have been quoted the number 20 to 25 million illegals, most of them not Mexican. From experience with the government, I would say these numbers are low. Why…

Greg Brophy may choose to lay low on Pro-Choice Lobby Day

Timing is everything in politics, and in birth control — especially in the bad old days of the rhythm method, which it seems like some pols would like to return us to. In honor of Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Colorado Legislature today, state senator Greg Brophy should choose to…