Last Wednesday, Alan Prendergast wrote about a potential fine against Dan Maes for campaign-finance violations involving mileage reimbursements. The penalties could have exceeded $27,000, but Maes bargained down to $17,500. And now, according to him, it’s all over. Or so he would like it to be…
By any objective standard, the 150 error-ridden pages of “Musings on Water” churned out by Scott McInnis aren’t worth the $300,000 the Hasan Family Foundation paid for them. Now we know, thanks to this morning’s front-page story in the Denver Post, that they’re not even the gubernatorial candidate’s own work…
Update, 4:30 pm: As Mike McKee predicts below, the Inspector General’s report on the lease sales is now posted on the Department of the Interior’s website. For the report summary, go here. Utah County Commissioner Mike McKee wants Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to release an internal report that…
The August 10 primary ballot promises to be a wild one, what with contested races for both the Republican and Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, as well as a GOP face-off for governor and other legislative competitions. But if you’re not yet registered to vote, in order to participate in the…
This week’s cover story, “Signed, Sealed, Rejected,” explores the costs, intrigues and legal hurdles involved in getting citizen initiatives on the ballot in Colorado — and the massive campaign underway to defeat three controversial antitax measures this fall. That effort just got more massive, according to a campaign finance report…
Dan Maes has found novel ways of fueling his dark-horse campaign for governor — so novel that he now faces what could be the heftiest campaign-finance fine against a candidate in state history. According to news reports, Maes could be socked $27,000 in penalties for failing to properly report campaign…
In May, Boulder city manager Jane Brautigam banned official travel to Arizona due to the state’s controversial immigration law, and last night, the city council considered a resolution denouncing the law. But the council wound up tabling the resolution — a move deputy mayor Ken Wilson sees as smart…
Republican Party national chair Michael Steele, who’s taken a pounding for referring to Afghanistan as a “war of Obama’s choosing,” has canceled an Aspen appearance this week. But as far as Colorado Republican boss Dick Wadhams knows, Steele’s still planning to appear at the opening of the state’s campaign office…
In May, we told you about Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam’s authorization of a ban on travel to Arizona over SB 1070, that state’s controversial new immigration law. At its 6 p.m. meeting tonight, the Boulder City Council will decide whether to continue the prohibition and accept a resolution denouncing…
Most locals celebrated the 4th of July weekend with picnics and fireworks. But approximately fifty locals marked the holiday yesterday with a vigil at Aurora’s GEO detention center. There, they decried current immigration policy in Colorado and elsewhere, with a focus on the deaths of two migrants whose deaths haven’t…
Strange but true: Former congressman Tom Tancredo agrees with something in President Barack Obama said in his immigration-reform speech at American University yesterday — specifically, his assertion that “our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols.” But…
If John Hickenlooper has taught us anything, it is that a Denver mayor is not to be judged by his accomplishments, but by his clever campaign photo-op outfits. In keeping with his mayoral magic of gaining attention through gimmicky garments, the goofy geek gets decked out as a sexy babe…
Tax crusader Douglas Bruce headed into a Colorado Springs grand jury room earlier this week defiant and expansive, determined not to be “bullied” or silenced and half expecting to go to jail for taking a stand — by not taking the stand. He emerged with a grant of immunity and…
Unlike the other 200 biennials that take place across the globe, Denver’s Biennial of the Americas was created to showcase the city’s business community — not to promote the talent of its creative class. Businessmayor® John Hickenlooper is hoping to stimulate Denver’s economic development by exploiting the creative class and…
Planning on traveling to Arizona over the upcoming holiday weekend? A fan of dry heat? The American Civil Liberties Union, joined by the Colorado branch, has issued a travel advisory due to the recent passage of SB 1070, which the organization describes as “Arizona’s racial-profiling law.” One reason, says ACLU…
GOP Senate hopeful Jane Norton surely expected to outrage Dems with her video attacking “liberals in Washington” for being soft on terror. But when the founder of Muslims For Bush denounces your tactics as stupid race-baiting, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate. “Nothing has hurt the GOP more than Republican candidates…
Update, 2:27 p.m.: New info below the original 1:37 p.m. item. While Republican Ken Buck used the caucus system to transform himself from a senatorial dark horse into a frontrunner (the kind now getting attacked by the likes of Politico), Andrew Romanoff, the champion Dem at the caucus level, seems…
Nothing moves swiftly in the upper echelons of government decision-making — especially when the decisions have to do with a tiny rodent that can stall development projects. Today marks the public-comment deadline on the proposal for critical habitat designation of the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse. But don’t expect the battle…
Earlier this month, we told you about a dust-up involving Fountain City Councilman Harold Thompson that ended with medical marijuana advocate Al Lender taking an elbow to the mouth — after he called Thompson a son of a bitch, that is. Now, a special prosecutor says no charges should be…
Former state lawmaker Ken Gordon is a passionate advocate of online communication, particularly emerging social media, as a powerful tool in the service of democracy. In bursts of electronic energy, known as “e-mails,” he’s reached out across cyberspace to encourage citizens to get involved and start tweeting their elected representatives…
Proof that Ken Buck, once thought to be an also-ran in the U.S. Senate race, is now perceived as a serious threat: He’s the target of attacks from fellow Republican senate hopeful Jane Norton as well as Pat Waak, head of the Colorado Democratic Party. Waak believes current frontrunner Buck…
A U.S. District Court ruling yesterday ensures that Kathleen Curry’s name won’t be on the ballot for her House District 61 reelection bid. But unlike La Plata County commissioner Joelle Riddle, whose lawsuit she joined, Curry’s not dropping out. Instead, she’s moving forward with one of the most challenging chores…
