Cruising the local blogosphere for s#$t worth reading. Send tips this way. Breaking down the Rockies’ mediocrity by the dollar. (Purple Row) The drama around the CSU-chancellor search won’t fade. (Colorado Independent) “The Senator who saved the Death Penalty.” How’d you like that on your tombstone? ( Face the State)…
Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in the press release available…
Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn’t be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll’s suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote…
You got to love the way officials in this state think. According to this item in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Department of Corrections has decided to ban visitors and volunteers from state and private prisons for at least a week, describing the move as a “precautionary” step to…
Despite Monday’s move to strip a death-penalty ban out of legislation designed to divert funds to investigating cold cases, Morgan Carroll, a state Senator sponsoring the bill, isn’t giving up. As the current session ticks toward its conclusion, she plans to reintroduce the original language with the hope of bringing…
Yesterday afternoon, as I was driving home, I found myself behind a truck sporting a license plate very much like this one (which I made using a website accessible by clicking here): It read, “ILVPIGS.” At a time when swine-flu fears can get anyone who sneezes in public branded as…
You’ve got to admit it was a legislative masterstroke. As a House-passed bill to end capital punishment in Colorado and use the approximately $900,000 in savings to investigate so-called “cold cases” neared a Senate vote, opponents led by Democratic senator John Morse and Republican senator Josh Penry came up with…
Translated, the main rallying cry at a Latino unity march in Greeley on Saturday was this: “A people united will never be defeated.” More than 200 people shouted it enthusiastically — “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” — as they walked through the rural town under an overcast sky, past…
Over the past few years, Greeley has become a hotbed for immigration issues in Colorado. In 2006, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Swift meatpacking plant there, arresting more than 250 people, many of whom were detained and separated from their children. And last year, local law enforcement, led…
Since leaving Congress earlier this year, past Westword profile subject Tom Tancredo has been taking his immigration-reform crusade to locations around the country — and as documented in Alan Prendergast’s April 15 blog “Obnoxious North Carolina Students Leave Tom Tancredo Speechless,” he hasn’t always been greeted with kind words and…
Hey, dog lovers. Hey, dog haters. Hey, dog-poop haters and uh, dog-poop lovers. You have until 5:30 p.m. today to answer the city’s 44-question dog park survey and help determine the future of Denver’s fledgling canine hangouts. Not to mention the future of the poop in said hangouts. The survey…
As the swine flu scare spreads across the country, people are desperate for answers. They’re looking for experts to give them direction, context and reassurance about this strange new terror gripping the globe. Turns out I’m exactly who they’re looking for. Google search “swine flu” and, as of Monday evening,…
A tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Obama education adviser Michael Johnston wants to replace Senate President Peter Groff. But is he too white? (Colorado Independent) When it comes to torture, the Conservadems are more “conserv” than “dems.” (Colorado Pols) The $10 cigarette pack: Coming to a 7-Eleven near…
A bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado passed the House by a single vote today. HB 1274, which would use the cost savings of eliminating the death penalty to fund a cold case unit, is on its way to the state Senate. The vote was 33-32, just as…
Our daily Denver blog round-up. Send tips. How do Democrats see Ritter’s reign? (Colorado Pols) Bob Schaffer is either stereotyping Latinos, shamelessly shilling product, wisely courting the Hispanic vote or… doing all three at once! (Colorado Independent) Crocs: Are they on their last comfortably supported leg? (5280)…
Flowery dresses, drum circles, nut butter, bubbles, climb trees, passing out, so much weed, planes, just doob it, people. Those are all the notes I managed to take while on assignment blowing off a staff meeting to take in Boulder’s version of 4/20. Campus police estimated that 8,000 to 10,000…
For photos from yesterday’s afternoon ode to herb in Civic Center Park, see slideshows from Joshua Duplechian and J. Knight (NSFW). Or, to smell the smoke for yourself, watch the video above…
Despite the obvious enthusiasm for its legalization — see today’s rallies in Denver, Boulder, Santa Cruz and other hemp-friendly havens — marijuana is still technically illegal. So it behooves us to consider that it might sometimes be advisable to, you know, hide it. Many have tried. And many have failed…
Two-term Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has announced that he’s formed an exploratory committee for the Colorado 2010 U.S. Senate Race. The development, which Frazier will announce today at a Grand Junction tea party rally, makes the 31-year-old Frazier the first Republican to take official steps towards what’s likely to…
Tom Tancredo cut short a planned speech on immigration at the University of North Carolina on Tuesday after a group of protesters sparked what the former congressman has described as a “small riot.” Tancredo’s appearance, at the invitation of a student organization called Youth for Western Civilization, was greeted with…
FollowTheMoney.org, a website associated with the Montana-based National Institute on Money in State Politics, tracks spending on campaigns across the country, and the data on Colorado confirms that agenda-driven greenbacks flooded the state last year at an unprecedented rate. Here are some bullets assembled by NIMSP’s Mike Wessler: • Colorado’s…
After the Independent Ethics Commission failed to censure 6th District Congressman Mike Coffman, Colorado Ethics Watch director Chantall Taylor issued a statement expressing disappointment that the IEC had let Coffman off the hook so easily. Not surprisingly, Coffman’s own response to the ruling is considerably different. Instead of taking satisfaction…
