The Citizen Oversight Board — the seven-member group set up as a watchdog for the city’s Safety Department — had already changed the venue for tonight’s quarterly public forum to a larger venue. After all, the board anticipated a big turnout and plenty of questions for its guest speaker: Manager…
Dear Mexican: Oye, I’m a Mexican con un pie aquí y un pie allá, and I have to admit that it is difficult to be a Mexican these days. I’d like to make the argument that it is one of the worst times ever to be a Mexican. I even…
The calls and e-mails started coming early yesterday morning, after news broke that Tom Tancredo had chosen a new lieutenant governor candidate: Pat Miller. No, not the Pat Miller better known as the Gabby Gourmet — though that would certainly have broadened the ticket…
Just in the nick of time, Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo has a new running mate on the American Constitution Party ticket. And no, it’s not Michelle Malkin. Former state representative and author Pat Miller will be Tancredo’s lieutenant governor candidate…
The first Justice League of Street Food party on Saturday night was a big hit – almost too big a hit, since the lot at 29th Avenue and Huron Street in the Ballpark neighborhood was jammed, and that was with a long line of people still waiting to get in…
Don’t mess with octogenarians. That’s a lesson that Scott McInnis learned when he threw his 82-year-old “Musings on Water” collaborator under a bus, and it sounds like 83-year-old Freda Poundstone is about to give Dan Maes a swift kick with her sensible shoes this morning…
John Hickenlooper’s first TV ad is out, and it’s just as wacky as the ad that really revved up his run for Denver mayor seven years ago, which showed him suiting up for the campaign. This time, the candidate again goes through several wardrobe changes — all of which wind…
Dear Readers: As you read this, my trusty burro, pigtailed chica and I are crisscrossing Aztlán researching Mexican food. So now is as bueno as any time to do some housecleaning for the columna. Hay que start with a letter from the Mexican’s longtime amigo, William Lobdell. For years one…
American Crossroads, a new conservative PAC getting a big push from Karl Rove, just spent more than $400,000 on a negative TV ad designed to wipe Michael Bennet’s campaign off the map. But then, Rove knows all about that…
Update below: As big-name Republicans begin to rally ’round gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes — former senators Hank Brown and Wayne Allard signed on yesterday — any GOP hopes of Maes stepping aside evaporates. So while today is the deadline for Maes’s lieutenant governor pick, there’s another date that’s even more…
Dan Maes is about to make his first big move as the official Republican Party candidate for governor — and no, it’s not getting out of the race, as all those official Republican Party officials are still hoping, or complaining to the Denver Post about unfair coverage. It’s picking his…
The playbook in which John Elway makes a run for Colorado governor may not be mythical. That’s according to one person who commented on yesterday’s “John Elway for Governor?” post. The claim: A polling firm actually asked about that possibility a few weeks ago…
“Is there anything we can do to win the governor’s race?” asked registered Republican Jon Caldara, moaning and grabbing what would be his hair, during yesterday’s taping of Devil’s Advocate (the show airs tomorrow on Channel 12). Well, yes, I told him: You can convince John Elway, the state’s biggest…
Dear Mexican: As a proud New Yorker, I gotta ask: What the FUCK is up with Mexican food in this city? Sure, we’re used to getting owned by California and Texas and even Chicago when it comes to getting kick-ass, cheap, regional Mexican food. But I just got back from…
In late August 2009, Jane Norton had not yet entered the U.S. Senate race — although her anointment by Republic Party powers was imminent. Former Congressman Bob Beauprez had just announced that he’d decided against a run. That seemed to leave just Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier, since reports had…
Since January 1, 82,000 unaffiliated Colorado voters have switched their registration to an official party — most allying with the Republicans. But that leaves over 750,000 unaffiliated voters who still have a chance to affiliate with a party today…
A third of Denver’s 423,622 registered voters didn’t get mail-in ballots for tomorrow’s primary — not because of any postal snafu, but because these voters are officially registered as unaffiliated, and ballots only went to voters registered with parties that have contested races. Very contested races, as Michael Bennet v…
If you thought Michael Bennet’s Regal Cinema deal for Philip Anschutz was complicated, just try to wrap your brain around the Denver Public Schools financing deal he arranged in 2008. The New York Times did, and just published “Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt.” Here’s the start of…
I love the history of Denver — even though I lost a large slice of my personal view of the past when Denver’s Landmark Commission allowed the destruction of the oldest building on my historic block, which has been replaced by a huge, modern structure going up on the very…
Representative Wes McKinley was standing on the steps of the State Capitol yesterday, discussing the discovery of “breathable particles of plutonium” near the now-defunct Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, when hundreds of bicyclists and a whirring helicopter drowned out the revelations. Calling Dan Maes!…
Dear Mexican: I am a retired gringa living in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. Most of us foreigners here are liberal and sympathetic to the immigration problem, which the U.S. Congress refuses to address in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, I get lots of e-mails from acquaintances “apprising” me of the horrible situation in…
The Libertarian Party — which got its start in Colorado close to forty years ago — has two candidates for governor in the upcoming primary. But you don’t hear David K. Williams, chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado, whining about Tom Tancredo entering the race as a third-party candidate…
