At 2 p.m. today, Denver City Council members will be voting on a 384-bed expansion of the Smith Road jail, a bond-fueled construction contract worth about $25 million. But expect at least one strongly dissenting vote from Councilman Doug Linkhart…
According to the Denver Post, Republican guv hopeful Scott McInnis’s fundraising numbers during the second half of July plunged in the wake of his plagiarism problems — i.e., revelations about the $300,000 he accepted for writing water articles partially nicked from a Colorado Supreme Court justice. But that’s not the…
Reading the Denver Post has been a good news-bad news experience for Andrew Romanoff lately. On Sunday, the paper shared poll results showing Romanoff ahead of Senator Michael Bennet in the Democratic Senate primary race. But the paper’s editorial board called an ad attacking Bennet over the top (see it…
Instead of asking city departments to continue cutting their budgets due to lower tax revenues, Businessmayor® John Hickenlooper should be encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit. Asking city employees to look for ways to save money actually prevents them from providing city services. Why not create some cash flow by marketing a…
Remember John Hickenlooper? He’s running for governor — but you’d hardly know it given how much attention has been paid to his opponents: alleged plagiarist Scott McInnis, accused lousy businessman Dan Maes, and party-busting Tom Tancredo. Not that he or his spokespeople are complaining…
Back in April 2009, a trailer for Hick Town, a proposed documentary series focusing on John Hickenlooper during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, featured the mayor telling an anecdote that ended with the line, “You fuck the press!” Hickenlooper’s cousin, filmmaker George Hickenlooper, took the trailer offline shortly after an…
Tom Tancredo may not believe Dan Maes is a viable candidate for governor — but someone apparently does. Why else would Maes be the target of robocalls saying that he’s abandoning his bid for the Republican nomination in order to support alleged plagiarist Scott McInnis? No wonder Maes’s new spokesman,…
There are a couple of ways to read the news that U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff sold his Denver home to help fuel his grassroots, take-no-PAC-money campaign. At first glance, unloading his house in one of the worst real-estate markets in history, for almost twice what he paid for it…
This morning, we caught up with candidate for governor Tom Tancredo doing something that should prepare him for the campaign to come — picking up trash in his backyard. There’ll be more rubbish in his future, no doubt. But he takes a moment to discuss his formal entry into the…
Despite a federal judge’s decision halting a roundup last year, the Bureau of Land Management is once again seeking to “zero out” a small herd of wild horses in Western Colorado, triggering fresh protests. The West Douglas Herd, located south of Rangely, is comprised of approximately 100 horses distinct from…
In April, Senator Mark Udall marked the anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide with a strongly worded statement. But these words didn’t satisfy Rocky Mountain Hye Advocates, an organization trying to get all members of the Colorado congressional delegation to support a national Aremenian genocide resolution…
In recent days, Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams has been eager to chat about Tom Tancredo. On Friday in this space, Wadhams blasted Tancredo’s planned run for governor, and he gave Tancredo an earful on a radio talk show yesterday. But now that Tancredo is in the race, Wadhams…
Even before alleged plagiarist Scott McInnis released a statement refusing to kowtow to Tom Tancredo’s high noon ultimatum to drop out of the governor’s race, Tancredo had already told the Denver Post that he would launch his own gubernatorial bid. And although it’s not official, the American Constitution Party’s Doug…
Some of you may think Scott McInnis is a plagiarist — but he can sure as hell tell time. Just after noon , when Tom Tancredo demanded that McInnis and Maes promise to quit the governor’s race if they’re trailing in the polls after winning the August primary or else…
The major GOP races in Colorado don’t want for drama this year — or comedy, depending on your perspective. Tom Tancredo’s high noon ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes was followed by Ken Buck’s “Weld County bullshit” statement and another comment in which he called Tea Party birthers “dumbasses.”…
Out in the real world, “there ain’t so such thing as a free lunch,” but don’t tell that to Denver City Council. Mayor Hickenlooper has asked every department in city government to reduce their budgets by ten percent. City Council has only been able to find a 4 percent savings…
Shocking news: Dan Maes isn’t accepting Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum that he and embattled candidate Scott McInnis pledge to drop out of the governor’s race if they’re not ahead in the polls after the August 10 Republican primary. His statement describes the plan as “arrogant and absurd” — Dick Wadhams uses…
There’s a lot of bullshit in Colorado politics lately. Mere days after senatorial candidate Ken Buck boasted that he wears cowboy boots “with Weld County bullshit, not D.C. bullshit,” Tom Tancredo uses the same word to characterize Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams’ criticism of Tancredo’s ultimatum to severely damaged Republican…
Dick Wadhams, head of Colorado’s Republican Party, doesn’t mince words when it comes to Tom Tancredo’s ultimatum to Scott McInnis and Dan Maes. Instead, he slices, dices and purées the very notion of a Tancredo candidacy in stronger language than he usually deploys against Democrats…
This past weekend, Tom Tancredo told Patricia Calhoun that with a few days, he’d make some kind of announcement about the governor’s race, which is a mess on the Republican side thanks to Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems and Dan Maes’s assorted challenges. And that’s one campaign promise he’s kept. He…
A few days ago we told you that members of the Hasan family, grantors of a $300,000 fellowship for “water musings” by (or allegedly by) Scott McInnis, are also the largest reported donors to three tax-cutting initiatives on the November ballot. But their $10,000 is a pretty modest gesture compared…
Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems sent his campaign into a tailspin — and with competitor Dan Maes mired in troubles of his own, Colorado Republicans like Senator Greg Brophy are scrambling for a fix. Still, Republican consultant Katy Atkinson believes McInnis isn’t necessarily doomed — although he’s got a big mountain…
