Calhoun: Wake-up Call Archives | Denver Westword https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Colorado Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:16:26 +0000 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:16:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Copyright 2026 Westword. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Westword readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Westword. letters@westword.com (Westword Editor) web@voicemediagroup.com (Westword Webmaster) https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/general-feed-rss.jpg Denver Westword The Leading Independent News Source in Denver, Colorado https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com 144 90 State of the Union: We Watched, So You Didn’t Have to https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/watching-donald-trump-state-of-union-40849160/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/?p=40849160 Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/watching-donald-trump-state-of-union-40849160/#respond Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:11:57 -0700

Thirteen months after Donald Trump moved back into the White House, we're in a state of disbelief.

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]]> https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/watching-donald-trump-state-of-union-40849160/feed/ 0 Denver Westword Denver’s Martin Luther King Jr. Marade Marches On https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-mlk-celebration-and-marade-18859667/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/uncategorized/colorado-mlk-celebration-and-denvers-two-martin-luther-king-statues-18859667/ Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-mlk-celebration-and-marade-18859667/#respond Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:09:00 -0700

Community leaders will gather in City Park by Ed Dwight's statue of MLK, which replaced a more controversial sculpture.

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]]> https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-mlk-celebration-and-marade-18859667/feed/ 0 Denver Westword The Air Apparent: Tina Peters Hangs Over Colorado Like a Brown Cloud https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/cbs-evening-news-stops-in-denver-40829972/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/?p=40829972 Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/cbs-evening-news-stops-in-denver-40829972/#respond Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:08:00 -0700

On a stop at Union Station, the new CBS anchor asked Governor Jared Polis about vaccines, lemonade...and our most famous jailbird.

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Journalism is a rough draft of history. Sometimes very rough, as you'll see on January 13.

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"They’re leaving the state in droves. Bad governor," Trump told Politico last week.

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“Nothing says America First like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in southeast Colorado."

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]]> https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/trump-sends-colorado-governor-to-hell-over-tina-peters-40824748/feed/ 0 Denver Westword 2025: A Bridge Too Far and Other Epic Failures https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/controversial-colorado-stories-of-2025-recap-40819951/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/?p=40819951 Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/controversial-colorado-stories-of-2025-recap-40819951/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:50:00 -0700

Governor Jared Polis brought people together this year...united in their hatred of his Colorado 150 Pedestrian Walkway.

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]]> https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/controversial-colorado-stories-of-2025-recap-40819951/feed/ 0 Denver Westword How Denver Became the “Christmas City of the World” https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-plugged-into-holiday-lights-and-became-christmas-capital-of-the-world-11869009/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/uncategorized/denver-plugged-into-holiday-lights-and-became-christmas-capital-of-the-world-11869009/ Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-plugged-into-holiday-lights-and-became-christmas-capital-of-the-world-11869009/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:02:00 -0700

And so it glows...a century after the city earned that title.

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]]> https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/denver-plugged-into-holiday-lights-and-became-christmas-capital-of-the-world-11869009/feed/ 0 Denver Westword Judge Rules Lindsey Halligan’s Appointment as Interim U.S. Attorney Unlawful https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/trump-appointee-lindsey-halligan-v-almost-everyone-40796163/ https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/?p=40796163 Patricia Calhoun https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/opinion/trump-appointee-lindsey-halligan-v-almost-everyone-40796163/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:06:00 -0700

The Coloradan had secured indictments against James Comey and Letitia James that have now been thrown out.

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"The controversy surrounding the Civil War Monument has become a symbol of Coloradans’ struggle to understand and take responsibility for our past."

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