January 14, 2010 10:44 AM UTC

Mercifully, Denver Post Kills 'Politics West' In Favor Of 'The Spot'

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• by: donscottknox

(Politics West was a weird little orphan site, but we have high hopes for “The Spot” – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Now we know why The Denver Post’s PoliticsWest.com website was a virtual ghost town over the past two months …

Denver’s largest newspaper has walked away from its politically themed website, originally undertaken by former Business Editor Stephen Keating. After Keating left the paper last year, PoliticsWest.com became less immediate and less creative, and its already thin traffic trailed so badly that a blog site, ColoradoPols.com, crowed that it had more Web visitors.

So now The Post gives its readers The Spot, which, unlike PoliticsWest, isn’t a standalone site – so there’ll be no more woeful traffic comparisons with Pols, or any other site (State Bill Colorado among them).

Read the full story here: http://www.statebillnews.com/2…