View larger image South Dakota Total Number of Delegates: 23 Pledged: 15 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a South Dakota Delegate: Students at Sturgis High School are known as “Scoopers,” and their mascot is always pictured with a shovel. The nickname dates back to the 1880s and was coined by…
Newspapers, including the mighty New York Times, are having great difficulty making money these days. Luckily, a new idea for generating revenue has cropped up: Charge people to hear how bad the news really is. That’s the concept behind a June 10 conference call examining the future of the Times…
This May 27 More Messages blog wagged a finger (guess which one) at the Denver Post for plugging King Soopers in a portion of its Sunday, May 25 front page typically devoted to editorial copy after the company invested in an oversized advertisement that encased the comics section. Cut to…
Christine Smith wanted to be the first female president of the United States, the first Coloradan and the first Libertarian in the Oval Office. And the 41-year-old Golden woman, who ran a principled if underdog-style campaign, thought she had a good chance of winning her party’s nomination at its national…
What an overachiever! The Rudbeckia Denver Daisy, a Plant Select specimen chosen to commemorate Denver’s 150th anniversary, is supposed to take twenty days to germinate, but this seedling (center, above) popped up five days early. In the process, though, it left all its potential siblings in the dust. Literally. I’d…
After twenty years, it looks like the state, local governments, environmental advocates, and business interests may have finally come to an agreement on what to do about the I-70 mountain corridor – and that agreement includes a train. The Collaborative Effort, a 27-member panel of stakeholders, decided Thursday on a…
Still $15 million short of the $40 million they are contractually obligated to raise by June 16, organizers behind the Democratic National Convention are asking the Democratic National Convention Committee to lower the amount of money needed to host the event. Organizers say the $55 million in private cash and…
Ahh, the ice cream truck, symbol of summer, fun and youth, merrily chugging at two miles per hour, bringing joy and cold desserts to masses of neighborhood kids. Bomb pops, fudgecicles, drumsticks, orange dream bars. Ahh, the ice cream truck, symbol of terror, injury and irresponsibility, evilly rumbling through the…
Nearly two-and-a-half years after her death while in the custody of the Denver jail, the family of Emily Rae Rice have reached a settlement with Denver Health Medical Center. After a car accident in February of 2006 in which Rice was driving intoxicated, Denver Health treated the 24 year old…
Jerry Wingren, who lives and works in the foothills west of Boulder, is one of Colorado’s premier contemporary sculptors and any chance to see his work is worth taking. In Black & White at Walker Fine Art, Wingren carries forward his classic reductive approach to carving, in which simple evocative…
The ends, my friends. The ends. Of the 2008 television season, that is. And due to the writers’ strike, they were spread out all over the early months of the year, from January through to the season finale of LOST in this, the last week of May. Some shows broke…
As has been regularly documented in this space, change is a constant at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News these days, with staffers switching titles and, often, careers at a steady clip. Below, find a batch of memos from the past month or so, all of them intended…
His name notwithstanding, Colorado Springs’ Noel Black has been among the most colorful media figures in the state during the past several years. But that’s all over, at least for now. On June 1, the man behind an aggressively twisted alternative publication called The Toilet Paper (read about it here),…
Things aren’t looking too hot right now over at the Bob Schaffer campaign. Dogged by questions about his “fact-finding” missions to the Northern Mariana Islands, mocked for putting Mount McKinley in a campaign ad instead of Pikes Peak, the Senate hopeful has a fresh problem on his hands: the verdict…
Eron Johnson is hosting a grand opening for his new architectural antiques showroom and arts events center by presenting a traveling art show out of San Francisco called “Creativity Explored” www.creativityexplored.org. The exhibit is named for the studio where all the pieces in the show were produced…
At 12:30 a.m. Mountain time, during the wee hours of May 30, David Sirota, a columnist whose work frequently turns up in the physical version of the Denver Post as well as on Politics West, a Post blog that was at the center of a September 2007 Message column, will…
At first glance, the most recent advertisement for Turin Bicycles Ltd. (viewable by clicking here) is thoroughly non-controverial: images of bikes, highways, traffic and various portions of the store’s 700 Lincoln Street headquarters accompanied by a voiceover that touts pedaling as an environmentally conscious commuting choice. Look closely, though, and…
Choosing a Presidential running mate is always a tough thing. Choosing a running mate when you’re the oldest non-incumbent presidential candidate in American history? Well, that’s a whole other kettle of fish. Very old fish. Age is just one of the factors in play to determine who gets the nod…
Eagle County Republican candidate Muhammad Ali Hasan, who is 27, has had his share of road bumps in his quest for House District 56. The flamboyant founder of Muslims for Bush and son of multimillionaire HMO executive Malik Hasan, Ali had to switch races – he originally coveted a Senate…
Locals who consider the Rocky Mountain News to be Denver’s conservative paper and view the Denver Post as its liberal counterpart likely feel that the respective dailies’ May 29 covers confirm their suspicions. The previous day, President George W. Bush and leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama both visited Colorado…
“Kopelgänger!,” Adam Cayton-Holland, May 22 Double Trouble I always wondered what the shine was that was reflecting off of Mr. Kopel’s forehead. Now I know that it comes from the brilliance of Westword’s writers, such as Adam Cayton-Holland and cartoonist Kenny Be. Calhoun has a great crew, and Denver is…
Democratic National Convention souvenirs are now on sale at the Pepsi Center and at www.denverdncgear.com, where the enthusiastic blue-stater can score everything from a $48 Denver 2008 hoodie to a $9 keychain to a $3 recycled (gag) green Frisbee. The site, operated by Stan Kroenke, the Republican who owns the…
