The nasty spat between senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton, sparked in part by a planned Saturday appearance by super-Alaskan Sarah Palin, has rumbled throughout the week preceding tomorrow’s Republican state assembly in Loveland. Norton’s skipping the bash, having decided to petition her way onto the ballot. But Buck…
Yesterday, former congressman Tom Tancredo tackled accusations that the organizer of an Arizona event at which he’s scheduled to speak has unsavory ties to neo-Nazis. He argued that the impetus for the controversy was really his decision to break ties with a fellow immigration-reform advocate who’d demanded that South Carolina…
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil slick disaster, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is barreling ahead in his efforts to reform the embattled Minerals Management Service, the once-obscure agency responsible for overseeing offshore drilling. Yesterday’s announcement that Salazar is splitting MMS into not two, but three separate…
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Action are not one and the same. The former is a 501(c)(3) founded in 1977 by the Reverend James Dobson to promote family values from a Christian perspective. The latter is a 501(c)(4) created in 2004 to serve as…
Yesterday, we told you about bickering between Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton over Sarah Palin’s Denver appearance on Saturday. Buck said it would be rude of Palin to endorse Norton, which the grapevine says she plans to do, the same day as the Republican state assembly, which…
As the immigration issue continues to heat up, Tom Tancredo is finding himself in one controversy after another. Remember his call for civics literacy tests? Former House majority leader Dick Armey’s claim that he is bad for the Tea Party movement? His suggestion that Barack Obama be sent back to…
It’s a tough real estate market — but the City of Denver is still hoping to unload Cableland, a spectacular mansion donated by the late cable magnate Bill Daniels to serve as the official mayoral residence. Not that either Wellington Webb or John Hickenlooper chose to live there. Instead, the…
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Republican senatorial candidates Ken Buck and Jane Norton are fighting over Sarah Palin in the strangest kind of way. During a Monday radio appearance on KRAI radio in Craig,, Buck seemed to say Palin would be “rude” if she endorsed Norton during a Saturday event at Magness Arena — the…
In the wake of the worst American offshore oil disaster in decades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scrambling on several fronts to address the perception that his administration has been more occupied with eco-spin than actual environmental reform. Having announced a plan to split the Minerals Management Service,…
Back in 1977, Scott McInnis was the hottest new act in Colorado. He was the state’s first successful crossover artist, largely due to his ability to sing out of both sides of his mouth. The title of his third album, pictured above, humorously referred to the delicacy of his effort…
For years now, Bobby Clark has been a warrior for the political left via his position as executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, and he’s still on the job. Earlier this week, he shared a list of winners and losers of the 2010 legislative session. If you’re having a hard time…
Matt Arnold doesn’t shy away from a fight. The Arnold-fronted ClearTheBenchColorado.org, an organization lobbying against the retention of four current Supreme Court justices, was recently targeted by a campaign-finance complaint from Colorado Ethics Watch. But rather than backing down, he dismissed the move as a “pathetic political ploy” to Westword…
Two weeks ago, after a nine-hour public hearing on House Bill 10-1364, industry experts thought they’d successfully stomped out an effort to remove the words “no known cure” when referring to sex offenders. Ninety percent of the people who work in the field agree that there’s no cure for extreme…
Back in 2008, when 21-year-old Kristi Burton was pushing her “Personhood Amendment” — an aggressively anti-abortion measure that claimed “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point — even normally anti-choice Republicans couldn’t get on board. But two years and some heavy anti-Dem blow-back later, the Grand Junction Daily…
In the wake of the offshore rig explosion and massive oil spill threatening the Gulf Coast, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced a major shakeup of the Minerals Management Service, the agency responsible for overseeing drilling safety and royalty collection — a move that will add yet more…
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Fort Collins Coloradoan editor Bob Moore’s blog is a must-read for anyone interested in Northern Colorado politics — and his post about congressional wannabe Cory Gardner’s latest attack on incumbent Betsy Markey shows why. This morning, Gardner’s campaign sent out an e-mail blast touting the launch of ebetsy.com, which purports…
Yesterday, we told you about gubernatorial hopeful Jason R. Clark’s quixotic search for a running mate via a Craigslist ad. He’s exploring this option because, as an independent, he must find a Lieutenant Governor candidate registered as unaffiliated prior to June 15, 2009 — and that’s proven to be more…
Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a piece about local disenchantment with our current crop of sad-sack incumbents, headlined “Democrats See Hopes for West Dim in Colorado.” GOP Senate candidate Jane Norton was so delighted with the article that she linked to it on her Facebook page, introducing…
The controversial Arizona immigration bill hasn’t stopped any folks from coming into this country illegally yet. After all, it won’t take effect until July. But it’s certainly led to a bumper crop of proclamations, including denunciations by Denver Public Schools and the City of Boulder — with the latter prompting…
Looking for a fun new board game to while away these lovely spring afternoons? Anti-immigration firebrand Tom Tancredo has the perfect suggestion. As the Colorado Independent first reported, Tancredo fired up his Twitter account last week and tweeted to his followers, “Check out the new illegal immigration game at http://www.illegalimmigrationgame.com/default.aspx…”…
