Colorado Governor Bill Ritter is hardly the only local official in these parts staring at ugly budgets. Case in point: Boulder City Manager Jane Brautigam, who’s sent a budget to the city council featuring $13 million in reductions, achieved by, among many other things, slicing 26 jobs from the payroll…
Our daily slog through through local blogosphere. Tips would be appreciated. Denver: A great place to date in a recession. Allegedly. (5280) The West — in fact, the entire National League — could be won in Colorado. (Purple Row) Cory Gardner, congressional hopeful from Yuma, isn’t quite sure Barack Obama…
Representative Jared Polis’ decision to beer bong a Coors Light during a Monday appearance on The Colbert Report was hilarious, but it also carried the risk of political consequences. As of yesterday morning, commentators in politically correct Boulder were mostly taking Polis’ stunt in stride — but not KHOW conservative…
Our daily search for decent local bloggage. Fill our in-box. Just because your shit’s organic doesn’t make it okay to be an asshole. As Whole Foods is quickly learning. (Colorado Pols) The humor of Jared Polis’s beer bong seems lost on the Denver Post. (Colorado Independent) Seriously, Brandon Marshall: I…
In the past year or so, a number of state and local agencies in Colorado have begun charging members of the media higher fees for completing public-records requests. Take the Denver Police Department, which used to make copies of daily reports and put them in a press room where journalists…
The Obama administration talks tall about its fresh ideas and new directions. Especially at the Department of the Interior, where Secretary Ken Salazar has vowed to change course from the Bush years and develop sound public-land policy based on science, not political influence — as detailed in my April feature,…
Yesterday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter presented a new budget that includes nearly 300 state job cuts and the early release of some prisoners, among other politically toxic proposals. In an effort to sell it, Ritter penned (or at least authorized) an op-ed for the Denver Post entitled “This Budget Minimizes…
One more quick hit about Jared Polis’ beer-bonging appearance on The Colbert Report. On his Twitter feed earlier this week, host Stephen Colbert tweeted the following: “Can’t believe Jared Polis called me gay. Ridiculous. In other news, totally fired up for Project Runway premiere this week!” You and me both,…
Representative Jared Polis beat Doug Lamborn and Betsy Markey to the healthcare-town-hall punch, staging a session on Monday. Not that the event got much attention. After all, that evening, Polis starred in the first “Even Better-er Know a District” segment on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, during which he and…
Like fellow representative Doug Lamborn, whose healthcare town hall was frenzy-free (because pretty much everyone agreed that ObamaCare is awful), Betsy Markey, who represents Colorado’s 4th District, managed to keep her own get-together about reform from deteriorating into a remake of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. However, she had to work…
Congressman Doug Lamborn, a Republican representing Colorado Springs, has found the key to keeping town halls about healthcare relatively free of rancor and ideological clashes: Stage them in districts where most people, including the star of the show, are metaphysically opposed to reform, and then let attendees spend an hour…
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Douglas Bruce is a victim. At least that’s the story he told yesterday at a news conference in Colorado Springs, where he complained about the city violating his constitutional rights. The Springs’ sin? Handing Bruce and a buddy a trespassing ticket for insisting on collecting signatures for a ballot proposal…
Before Congressman Jared Polis’ constituents got a chance to see him do a beer bong with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report last night, they had the opportunity to watch him do something else unusual — host a healthcare town hall that didn’t deteriorate into scarlet-faced, neck-tendon-displaying sound and fury…
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEven Better-er Know a District – Colorado’s 2nd – Jared Poliswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep It’s one of those TV moments when you’re thinking, “He won’t do that. He wouldn’t possibly do that.” And then he does it anyway! Second District Congressman…
At this moment in our country’s history, celebrity can land on people like a terrible, swift sword — or the satisfying embrace of a loving reach-around. University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn is experiencing the latter, figuratively speaking, with the conservative media giving him a lingering hand for…
Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Let us know about good destinations. The Broncos have traded for yet another Patriot, defensive end Le Kevin Smith. Weird, huh? (Mile High Report) The Denver Archbishop chimes in on health care. (Colorado Independent) Scott McInnis is missing in action. Why are people…
Good news for those of you who’ve always felt something stinks at the Colorado Judicial Building, where the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are housed: Today, even Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey agrees with you. She’s closed the structure until further notice due to a sewer break…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In the wake of President Barack Obama’s town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter got some spotlight time on the next day’s edition of Meet the Press, claiming that Obama’s mediocre poll numbers relating…
It’s Friday. You ain’t got shit to do. You ain’t got no job. So let’s… read some blogs! And then send us more! Dispensaries giving new meaning to the term “High Country.” See what I did there? (Colorado Independent) (Even) more on Scott McInnis’s rage against the KHOW machine, which…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis came uncorked while defending his allegedly broken pledge to use leftover 2004 campaign funds for breast-cancer research during a Wednesday appearance on the KHOW talk show hosted by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. At one point, McInnis even accused Caplis of ganging up on him…
Tomorrow, President Barack Obama will visit Grand Junction for his next healthcare town hall, where he’ll likely encounter folks like the ones in the video accessible here, caught in action during a GJ rally in late July. (Really dug the sign that read, “D.N.C. Lies: Grandma Dies.”) But in the…
