Memorial Day is still three days away, but all week I have been carried away by memories. The extended Westword family lost one of its members this week when Chris Power Bain, who’d served as advertising manager in the early ’80s, passed away. There’s much more to her story than…
“Viva Romer!” That was the word from Tom Tancredo yesterday morning on Peter Boyles’s radio show, responding to the dirty-tricks campaign designed to turn Latino voters against Michael Hancock by claiming that Tancredo has endorsed Hancock. Except, of course, that Tancredo has never endorsed Hancock…
In a Denver mayoral campaign that was supposed to be so clean, the dirtiest deed yet is tied to a man who does not even live in Denver and has not actually talked to either candidate. “That’s what you get for going to lunch with Peter Boyles,” says Tom Tancredo…
Just when you thought this mayoral campaign couldn’t blow any harder, Tom Tancredo enters the ring. Not that the five-term congressman, one-time presidential aspirant, one-time gubernatorial candidate and all-time House Crazy asked to get in on the action. But once the negative ads start, how much lower can you go?…
My official ballot for the City and County of Denver’s municipal run-off election was shoved through my mail chute yesterday and I picked it up gingerly, wondering if the slime would come off on my hand. Increasingly, this campaign has made me long for a John Hickenlooper-like no-negative-campaigning shower…
“Police Brutality is Killing Us.” That was the stark message, laid out in black-and-white, in the editorial pages of the Denver Post yesterday. But this wasn’t an editorial: It was an ad placed by the America Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, part of a new Race to Justice campaign designed…
The Chris Romer campaign is finally stopping that ubiquitous ad attacking Michael Hancock for voting for a city council pay raise. Pundits are guessing that criticism from Governor John Hickenlooper, name-checked in the commercial, inspired the move; the Romer campaign is saying that the ad had simply run its course…
Let the guessing games begin! “The Most Awkward Meeting” in today’s Wall Street Journal outlines how elevator technology in certain high-rises has changed business etiquette, almost eliminating the “elevator pitch,” as execs are dispatched to their own cars — and, in one Denver building, keeping attorneys separate from IRS agents…
Visit Denver just rolled out its $2 million summer tourism campaign, tagged “Denver’s Summer of Adventure,” which touts the opportunity to have both an urban and an outdoor adventure when visitors come to this city. And so far, the target markets look like easy pickins: Kansas City, Dallas and Phoenix…
While Denver City Council’s vote to raise councilmembers’ salaries continues to raise questions — and tempers — on the Denver mayoral campaign trail, an activist in cash-strapped Aurora has determined that retiring councilmembers there will get an even bigger payday…
While Governor John Hickenlooper was wrapping up his first legislative session and Tom Tancredo was riding the right-wing blogosphere last week, the also-ran in that race, Dan Maes, was demonstrating that if you only get 11 percent of the vote, it doesn’t matter if you topple a thicket of political…
In the beginning, Michael Hancock had a very good start to Thursday: Coming off a smooth performance in a bumpy mayoral debate, he survived an appearance on Peter Boyles’s show and then learned he was ahead of Chris Romer in two polls — one by RBI, one by his own…
“You’re the fun cousins,” radio host Dan Caplis told the Denver Republicans, hosts of last night’s mayoral debate between Michael Hancock and Chris Romer. But this discussion was not all fun and games; while Romer said (over and over) that as mayor he would “ruffle feathers,” Hancock plucked plenty with…
Before there was an Internet, there were people with long memories — and two of them, former lawmakers John Bermingham and Jerry Kopel, have amazing stories of the last time Colorado grappled with the issues of adultery and fornication — if there is any difference between the two…
Pardon our dust! Boulder County has signed off on a controversial deal that brings the proposed Jefferson Parkway closer to concrete reality. And that worries LeRoy Moore — because the deal involves buying a corner of land right by Rocky Flats…
At 8 a.m. yesterday, Michael Hancock was going mano-a-mano against Chris Romer in the first debate of the mayoral runoff. Twelve hours later, he was pressing the flesh at a packed Cinco de Mayo party at Lola. And his day wasn’t done yet: After months of slogging through the political…
Update: Who will get the Latino vote now that James Mejia is out of the race for mayor? That was the question on Colorado Public Television’s Studio 12 last night. But following this morning’s e-mail blast in which Mejia told supporters he’s officially bowing out, the real question is: What…
Wanda James, who owns 8 Rivers Cafe with her chef/husband, Scott Durrah, isn’t the only entrepreneur upset with the Yelp review filter. A couple of other restaurateurs have weighed in on Laura Shunk’s story about her campaign against Yelp, including Leo: I would love to join a class action lawsuit…
Two Colorado boys made very good yesterday — and no, I’m not talking about Chris Romer and Michael Hancock. If all politics is local, art can be out-of-this-world, as shown by The Book of Mormon, created by former University of Colorado students Trey Parker and Matt Stone…
Colorado has awarded its new tourism contract — and surprise, surprise, a Colorado company has the key role in a deal that’s now been split between several companies: Karsh/Hagan, founded in 1977, when John Denver tunes were enough to attract tourists…
In just over 36 hours, the polls — or at least the hands collecting mail-in ballots — will close, and this first, endless round of the municipal election will finally be over. And then it will start all over again, as we move on to round two and the runoff…
In early 2010, the media circus surrounding the trial of Willie Clark for the murder of Darrent Williams completely overlooked a real show in a nearby courtroom — but law-enforcement authorities didn’t miss the irony. The case of Eric Torrez and his crimes against Kristen and Will Stillman was worse…
