Opinion & Commentary

There are a lot of weird religious stories coming out of Colorado Springs — the city that two decades ago set out to recruit religious-organization headquarters as an economic development move. But this could be the weirdest. Looks like it’s time to change that sign on the stretch of I-25…

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family. He must have a cause to which he is devoted even unto death, for this is written into the fabric of his being. Listen carefully now: you…

Colorado gets an A in “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future,” a new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. According to “F as in Fat,” 38 states have adult obesity rates above 25 percent — when in 1991, no state…

Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, with the 19th Annual Colorado Book Awards announcement in Aspen last Friday just offering more proof. For starters, the main speaker was John Hickenlooper, the former geologist turned brewpub-owner turned Denver mayor who’s now running for governor. No author could concoct that character!…

Jane Norton isn’t the only one gunning for Ken Buck. Colorado’s rogue Republican candidate for Michael Bennet’s U.S. Senate seat became the subject of some national target practice yesterday, in a Politico piece headlined “Primary Words Haunt Ken Buck.” Words like “Social Security,” which Buck once called a “horrible policy.”…

Jane Norton has taken the kid gloves off, and delivers a major smack to Ken Buck, the Weld County District Attorney who’s challenging her for the Republican Senate nomination, in a new radio commercial that’s airing on KHOW this morning. There’s even an ominous link to the Clinton administration. Whack!…

Early on April 26, the Denver Police Department got a report of a fight at CityPub, the watering hole at 3575 South Yosemite Street that’s a sibling to CityGrille. In the bar, the officers found 41-year-old Steven Minturn unconcious. He was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where he was declared…

It’s been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year — including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office — are nothing compared to what 2012…

The new issue of Rolling Stone has yet to hit the stands, but already the focus of Michael Hastings’s story, General Stanley McChrystal, has resigned after yesterday’s meeting with the head wimp among the “wimps in the White House” who were the general’s real enemy. As this saga unfolds, three…

5280 is out with its annual Top of the Town issue, and Michael Roberts — the powerhouse behind the Latest Word — has been named the town’s Top Blogger. He deserves the honor…and then some. He’s made this blog the talk of the town…

Industry insiders have predicted that Colorado’s new medical-marijuana laws might nearly halve the number of dispensaries in the state, and some of Denver’s dispensaries are on the hit list. But since new laws were instituted in Los Angeles, the reduction has been far more dramatic, with hundreds of dispensaries required…

Cafe Society served up just three Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, from the sliders at this still-unidentified steakhouse to the tacorito at Holly Inn West to the marrow bones at Brasserie Ten Ten. For correctly identifying that dish, Kelly wins a DINR deck. Kelly, send your contact info…

Graeme McDowell may have won the U.S. Open, but in a far more inexplicable Pebble Beach victory, Ken Ross, the CEO of Pinnacol Assurance, was named Business Person of the Year by the Colorado chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The award cited his “communication skills.” And he…

Colorado candidates cowboyed up this week, riding into the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association annual convention in Pueblo to tout their ties to rural Colorado. And in the southeastern quadrant of the state, no topic causes more of a rural row than the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The…

Thanks to the Anubis statue now standing guard outside Denver International Airport, all those conspiracy theories about DIA have taken off again — and they’ve landed the airport smack-dab in today’s edition of USA Today. “Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside…

And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden — and was…

PETA isn’t chickening out on its push to put “McCruelty,” a 250-pound, bloody and bandaged chicken sculpture, on the 16th Street Mall — and today could be decision day for the City of Denver. PETA has filed all the required applications for the “temporary display of a sculpture…as part of…

While Facebook entries will come back to haunt college students of today, earlier generations get to hide their more humiliating chapters — unless, of course, they worked on their college papers, as Andrew Romanoff did. Not only do those papers mean hard copies of history exist, but so do the…

“Politics isn’t about left versus right,” says Jim Hightower. “It’s about top versus bottom.” The populist progressive will give the bottom line on cleaning up political campaigns tonight at the Hightower Lowdown Hoedown…