During yesterday’s announcement about her intention to retire in November, Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey said a vigorous campaign against her and three other justices had nothing to do with her decision. That’s Mullarkey malarkey, counters Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org, the organization spearheading the Supreme crusade. “Any claim…
In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn’t challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak. Now, at last, Romanoff’s come clean –…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there’s increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the faltering Coloradoan out of the spotlight and find other, less compromised figures…
The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak — one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter — might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. So it’s no surprise that controversial ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo would pile…
It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-hatted bureaucrat who blusters about keeping his foot on the neck of British…
While many of America’s celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado’s most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together…
Across the country, major party candidates who’ve been associated with the so-called establishment have had a far tougher time than anticipated. No wonder Republican Scott McInnis asked Margo Knutson, a member of a grassroots Douglas County 9.12 Project group, to place his name in nomination for governor at the party’s…
Update, 7:48 a.m., May 28: The Hickenlooper campaign has responded to this post. See how after the original item, published at 3:27 p.m. on May 27. The latest assault on Democratic guv candidate John Hickenlooper from the Republican Governors Association is at least novel. It features part of an ad…
Shocking news: Immigration critic Tom Tancredo’s not impressed by President Barack Obama’s plan to send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. In two tweets on his Twitter feed, Tancredo writes, “Govt of Mexico just issued following statement: ‘The GOM expects that Ntl Guard..will NOT…conduct activities directly linked to the… enforcement…
A July 2008 Greeley Tribune article predicted that “an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, a flashpoint of controversy when it was proposed three years ago, will open this fall in Greeley.” Wrong. It took nearly two more years before the Greeley branch officially opened yesterday. Such public events are rare…
The anti-incumbent mood of last weekend’s state Republican Assembly may spread to this weekend’s wedding of party chairman Dick Wadhams to Wendy Evans… As seen above, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes, who cultivated Tea Party support to gain top gubernatorial primary ballot placement, will no doubt score another shocking upset when…
It’s official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than original estimates. In a teleconference with journalists this morning, United States…
After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it’s easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished on the criminal justice front in the legislature this year. Yesterday, Ritter signed into a law a package…
Shortly after Colorado media outlets like Channel 4 caught on to GringoMask.com, the site went from being an amusing satire of Arizona’s controversial immigration law to a much less funny protest against it. The site, created by Miami’s Zubi Advertising, originally featured very Caucasian masks that folks worried about police…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow — serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, “signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict…
As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recent weeks to the spreading slick won’t be tried after all. A couple of weeks ago, stories like…
Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton spent much of last week dishing about wannabe veep Sarah Palin, who was said to be planning a Norton endorsement during her Magness Arena appearance in Denver on Saturday. Problem is, the Republican assembly was taking place earlier that day — and…
Update, 1:58 p.m.: We’ve now received a statement from Joyce Foster and interviewed Kathleen Chippi, who was identified as the senator on KHOW — and since our 12:05 p.m. update, Chippi has tracked down figures to back up her assertions about missing children. Find the new material below the original…
In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watching out for consumers, championing the environment and crafting a workable medical marijuana policy. But he’s not shying away from hitting Suthers…
Senator Joyce Foster’s last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364, which allowed sex offenders to choose among three treatment options, stirred plenty o’ controversy, owing largely to her subsequent admission that the action was inspired by her brother-in-law, Julian Newman, who has a sex-offending past. KHOW’s Peter Boyles, in particular,…
Like Republican senatorial hopeful Ken Buck, Dem Andrew Romanoff is in a strange position vis-à-vis his party’s assembly this weekend: He’ll win, but that doesn’t mean most people think he can defeat his better-heeled opponent — in his case, Senator Michael Bennet — in the August primary. Romanoff remains confident,…
The cover photo for the album pictured above was taken just before Ken Buck and Jane Norton started their 2010 Senate campaigns. Back in 2009, they were two peas in the same conservative pod. The guy from Greeley and the gal from Grand Junction were dubbed the “Duo of Disenchantment”…
