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The money is in the bank from the Q4 fundraising period (well, unless you're Scott Gessler , that is, so it's time again to present our Winners & Losers from the last quarter of 2009. WINNERS Sen. Michael Bennet (D) One year ago, many voters in Colorado were still trying to figure out who Bennet was, let alone why he was suddenly a U.S. Senator. But regardless of your opinion on ...
Colorado Pols - 1:28 a.m.
Rumors that the Denver-based company---worth about $20 billion---could be swallowed by a corporate predator have been swirling for some time, but talk has turned increasingly serious in the past few weeks....
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m. - 2 clicks 
It waded outside the usual bounds of provocative and fun, into the stuffy worlds of religion, morality, and politics. Yet Focus on the Family's ad featuring Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow wasn't the no-holds-barred, anti-abortion screed many expected....
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m. - 2 clicks
Little, a running back with the Denver Broncos from 1967-75, was up for his last shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame---and finally made the cut....
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m.
A loud boom thundered about 8,000 feet above Boulder Saturday as two small planes collided, killing three people: pilot Bob Matthews, 58, a longtime Boulder lawyer, his brother, Mark A. Matthews, 56, and Evergreen pilot Alexander Howard Gilmer, 25....
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m. - 2 clicks
State House Speaker Terrance Carroll, the first black speaker in Colorado history, shoots back that there's a reason Tancredo's remarks are being viewed racially: "He's saying them in relationship to Barack Obama. What does he expect people to think?"...
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m. - 2 clicks
Let's hope Denver can get healthy for tomorrow night's game against the Dallas Mavericks, one of the Western Conference's most potent teams....
Elevated Voices - Mon 4:23 p.m. - 3 clicks
As the Pueblo Chieftain reports: Greenwood Village Republican Walker Stapleton said he's the best choice for state treasurer based on his education and professional background. The grandson of historic Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton and cousin to former President George W. Bush made a campaign stop at Pueblo County Republican headquarters Saturday. As treasurer, Stapleton said he'd wisely mana...
Colorado Pols - Mon 3:08 p.m. - 3 clicks
The latest poll in the U.S. Senate race in Colorado shows Democrat Andrew Romanoff leading by seven percentage points relative to incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet against presumptive Republican nominee Jane Norton. Romanoff trails Norton by seven points, Bennet by fourteen. Early polling doesn't mean much. But, Romanoff's polling lead counterbalances the fact that Romanoff has a far smaller c...
Wash Park Prophet - Mon 12:10 p.m. - 2 clicks
The AP reported Friday: President Barack Obama's visit to Denver later this month has some Democrats upset. The president is headed to Denver Feb. 18 to raise money for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. Bennet's primary challenger, former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, says the state party should insist the president hold an event for Romanoff supporters, too. "Many of my supporters were among...
Colorado Pols - Mon 11:25 a.m. - 4 clicks
We have to believe that the Colorado Springs Gazette's Tom Roeder was at least a little bit embarrassed as he wrote this report : Every year, El Paso County lawmakers lead legislative lambs to the slaughter: bills so unlikely to pass that they're considered all but dead upon introduction. The flock has only grown as the mostly-Republican delegation has fallen deeply into the General Assemb...
Colorado Pols - Mon 8:24 a.m. - 2 clicks
. As a member of the biggest Third Party in the country, the American Constitution Party, I believe in a lot of the same conservative principles that the Tea Party - 9/12 movement stands for. Or so I thought. I went to check out the group, and to hear the folks running for the Senate for the two major parties. 5 people competing for the GOP nomination showed up. There wa...
Colorado Pols - Sun 9:06 a.m. - 5 clicks
Good morning, and I'm getting impatient. Welcome to Saturday Morning Garden Blogging. We've had another week of calm weather here in Denver - highs in the 40s, lows in the 20s. The storm that's hitting you Easterners blew through here on Thursday. We got a bare trace of moisture, just enough to dampen the blacktop. The snow is gradually retreating on the grass patch in the bac...
SquareState - Sat 8:45 a.m. - 3 clicks
Romanoff may not need to worry about 'how long he can keep the lights on' according to a new poll for the Colorado Senate Race: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Rasmussen released the results of a new Colorado Senate poll Friday, and the news is particularly bad for incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet. According to the telephone survey, Bennet now trails likely Republican nominee Jane Norto...
Colorado Pols - Fri 4:16 p.m. - 9 clicks
Romanoff may not need to worry about 'how long he can keep the lights on' according to a new poll for the Colorado Senate Race: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Rasmussen released the results of a new Colorado Senate poll Friday, and the news is particularly bad for incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet. According to the telephone survey, Bennet now trails likely Republican nominee Jane Norto...
SquareState - Fri 3:52 p.m. - 10 clicks
Gallup neatly sums up the political leanings (liberal v. conservative), partisan leanings (Democrat v. Republican), and intensity of religious leanings (is religion an important part of your daily life; how often do you attend religious services) for non-Hispanic whites, Hispanics, non-Hispanic African Americans and Asian Americans, with a focus on Asian Americans. When data isn't available, mo...
Wash Park Prophet - Fri 3:25 p.m. - 3 clicks
The amount of oil and natural gas drilled out of the ground in Colorado increased in 2009 from 2008 . This occurred in the face of the Great Recession. This occurred despite new rules that Republicans wanted to convince voters would "kill jobs". If the Cons want to blame something for the loss of jobs, maybe they should look to the oil and gas corporations instead of the Democrat in ...
SquareState - Fri 3:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
The Denver-based mixed-martial-arts fighter isn't incredibly imposing at 6-feet-tall and 185 pounds, but the guy is a bruiser and will likely prove it again tomorrow during the Ultimate Fighting Championship 109....
Elevated Voices - Fri 2:03 p.m. - 3 clicks
Colorado's top Democratic politicians will gather in Washington, D.C., next week for a fundraiser to back Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, while Republican Scott McInnis is taking the advice of Denver's Patti Shyne, an image coach who has worked with dozens of celebrities....
Elevated Voices - Fri 2:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
Follow our determined and talented hero as he avoids the creative pitfalls developed by the celebrity judges, as well as the general bitchiness of the other contestants....
Elevated Voices - Fri 2:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
National outlets are dissecting a recent scandal in New York, while a couple of Colorado's own sex offenders make local headlines for similar reasons....
Elevated Voices - Fri 2:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
While awareness of the dome's damage certainly is not new, Colorado Preservation Inc.'s assessment is harsh, making it seem as if safety inspectors could walk in any day now and shutter the dome....
Elevated Voices - Fri 2:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
A headline that can only end badly, cue Media Matters: And then, something really odd happened, mostly because I think that we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country. People who could not even spell the word "vote," or say it in English, put a committed socialist idealogue in the White House, name is Barack Hussein Obama. Presumably, he means ...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:09 p.m. - 4 clicks
When fundraising numbers for Colorado's U.S. Senate candidates were all announced earlier this week , it continued a rabid conversation about what individual reporting numbers mean for each campaign. Less discussed, but no less important, is whether or not each campaign is raising enough money just to keep the lights on. As we've said before, fundraising reports are normally a reliable indicator...
Colorado Pols - Fri 12:09 p.m. - 2 clicks
It seems that much of the suspicion surrounding Tom Wiens' bit of ambiguity concerning Q4 was more than justified. Here's a snippet from CQ Politics posted yesterday afternoon: http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/ey... Former Colorado state Sen. Tom Wiens (R) was the source of almost nine out of every 10 dollars that went into his U.S. Senate campaign in late 2009. Wiens' campaign said in a Feb. 2 r...
Colorado Pols - Fri 10:23 a.m. - 4 clicks
As so many of you predicted, the 2010 election season is now in full swing on the proxy battlefield of the Colorado General Assembly. There are a number of in-points for today's discussion, we'll start right off with gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper's remarks when asked about the budget yesterday--as reported by The Spot : Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is running to become gove...
Colorado Pols - Fri 9:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
A mix of policy moves in Colorado have put far more students on track to graduate from high school. Aurora Public Schools saw a 23.7 percent increase in 12th-graders, Denver a 23.6 percent jump and Adams Five Star a 20 percent boost. . . . [In Denver:] • Overall high school attendance is up 5 percentage points over the past two years to 87.5 percent. • The number of ninth-graders after on...
Wash Park Prophet - Fri 8:25 a.m. - 5 clicks
The Durango Herald foreshadowed yesterday: State Rep. Ellen Roberts isn't trying to pick on anyone with her health-insurance bill this year, she said. But critics have targeted Roberts' bill for an early death. It faces long odds Thursday in its first committee hearing, but Roberts will argue her bill is necessary to keep insurance costs down for everyone. House Bill 1154 would forbid the...
Colorado Pols - Thu 7:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
We haven't been the only ones confused by Democrat Andrew Romanoff's complete lack of messaging as to why he was running against Sen. Michael Bennet . From day one, Romanoff has been unable to articulate just what he would do differently if you voted for him instead of Bennet, which has always struck us as a remarkably strange deficiency. "What's your message?" is kind of the first or second ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 3:34 p.m. - 5 clicks
Last week, Rep. Jared Polis (CO-02) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME-01) started circulating a letter to their House colleagues to drum up support to include a public option in the reconciliation process being considered by Democratic leadership. (This is what acting on behalf of your constituents looks like, if you were at all curious, Sens. Udall and Bennet.) This week, we have a second exa...
SquareState - Thu 2:03 p.m. - 2 clicks
Rep. Betsy Markey (CO-04) has teamed up with fellow freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (VA-05) to introduce a simple standalone bill to rescind the health insurance industry's anti-trust exemption. "I've heard from tens of thousands of Coloradans across my district, and though people's opinions may vary, the common message is clear: the current health care system is crushing our families and business...
Colorado Pols - Thu 1:12 p.m. - 4 clicks
We had heard previously that new legislation from state Rep. Mark Ferrandino to curb the excesses of the "payday lending" industry, an issue which has turned into a lobbyist bloodbath in recent years as the industry poured money into bitter opposition to any attempts to regulate them, was likely to be introduced later in the session--the Colorado Independent updates: Ferrandino told the Co...
Colorado Pols - Thu 12:46 p.m. - 5 clicks
As the Colorado Independent reports: Colorado Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis's bold move to pass health reform legislation that would include a public health insurance option has gained significant support in the week since he first began circulating among lawmakers and on the web a letter that he co-authored with Maine Democrat Chellie Pingree outlining the idea. Polis sent the letter to ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 11:45 a.m. - 2 clicks
Take a good look at this picture . And this one . And this one . The man in the pictures is Harvey Lesser, a former member of America's middle class. Mr. Lesser is 58 years old. He used to be a software developer for IBM in Boulder, Colorado. He suffers from various medical conditions, including back problems, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Then he got laid off from his sof...
Unbossed - Tue 4:02 p.m. - 7 clicks
The Colorado Independent has in depth coverage of the problems that are caused by payday lending operations which offer short term, very high interest rate loans, and successful efforts in other states to regulate them. In Colorado, Democratic Denver state Rep. Mark Ferrandino has been leading the charge to to rein in the industry. In 2008, he introduced legislation that he said was weakened...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 12:04 p.m. - 3 clicks
Denver FBI statistics show the highest number of bank robberies in the last five years occurred in 2006, with 221 banks hit in both Colorado and Wyoming. But in 2007 and 2008, the numbers dropped to 125 and 150 robberies. At the end of 2009, there were 208 banks robbed in the two states. During 2009's bank robberies, two bank employees were injured, two suspects were killed and one hostage was...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 12:04 p.m. - 5 clicks
Just finished watching the Denver Nuggets pull out an overtime victory over the Sacramento Kings. That's the Nuggets 10th victory in 11 games. The Nuggets tied their largest comeback victory of the season, recovering from a 17-point deficit to win tonight. The Nuggets are in 2nd place in the Western Conference, and 22-3 at home. What's especially amazing about the Nuggets latest ...
SquareState - Feb 1 - 5 clicks
Colorado Springs is the most conservative urban center in Colorado and this conservatism has a strong anti-government, "starve the beast" tenor to it. This is the home of Doug Bruce, the man behind TABOR. Residents has refused to back any kind of tax increase or borrowing. So, spending cuts are the only way that the city can deal with declining sales tax revenues during this recession. The be...
Wash Park Prophet - Feb 1 - 4 clicks
When you pay more to the state government than you did before it's a tax increase. It's a tax increase no matter what Gov. Ritter and the Democrats might say. The Denver Post reports today that the Colorado state house......
Dave Chandler - Jan 30 - 10 clicks
