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Yesterday was Budget Day along the Ronald Reagan Highway, as the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: El Paso County commissioners approved a $232.3 million budget for 2009 Monday, holding the line on spending at about the same level as this year by laying off dozens of employees and cutting back office hours and services. Residents will […]

One additional piece of confirmation here, which is that Salazar will accept the position. There was some lingering uncertainly on this point–with today’s report you can consider Salazar’s ascension to Interior a done deal. According to The Denver Post: U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar has agreed to accept a Cabinet appointment as President-elect Barack Obama’s interior […]

Meh, as the AP reports: President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary, according to sources with knowledge of the decision. Duncan has run the country’s third-biggest school district for the past seven years. He’s focused on improving struggling schools, closing those that fail, and getting better teachers… […]

The Rocky Mountain News has the story: Sen. Ken Salazar is expected to become Interior Secretary in President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet, with a formal announcement to come within days, sources told the Rocky Mountain News on Monday. Salazar has long been considered a leading candidate for Interior Secretary, based in part on his past work […]

UPDATE #2 no longer mere speculation. UPDATE: If Mayor John Hickenlooper shows the same indecision about wanting to be Senator that he showed about being Governor, we’re going to get pissed off. Train leaving station shortly. In the absence of much confirmation on the many different possible career moves in the coming weeks based on […]

We have finished repermissioning the accounts for our two new front page guest editors. It’s a great privilege to live in a blog where governments can transition without intrigue and bloodshed, kind of like America itself. Don’t worry, the same anonymous plutocrats will continue to pull the strings behind the curtain, also much like America. […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) [POLS Note: Read the sidebar on the IWantMyRocky site, where it says that they expect to only have until mid-January before the Rocky closes down.] Can’t imagine life in a one-(major)-paper town? Especially if that paper’s the Denver Post? Want to do something more than complain about it here […]

In a reversal from the prevailing conventional wisdom on Sen. Ken Salazar’s future only two weeks ago, the Denver Post reports: U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar is a leading contender to become President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of the Interior, two sources have confirmed. Reuters News Service used even stronger language in a report Sunday, saying Salazar […]

In addition to many other talents, Denver Post editor Dan Haley plays the violin. The liberal blogosphere and online squawkers chattered for weeks about ousted Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave’s decidedly unclassy exit from politics. Musgrave, as you’ll recall, lost to Betsy Markey in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District in one of the ugliest, down-and-dirty contests we’ve seen […]

In an email sent to supporters last night, which may do more harm than good: The Governor’s office has announced the three finalists for Secretary of State.  I am one of them. Mike Coffman will be resigning at the end of the year so the Governor, who makes the appointment, will be choosing the new […]

According to Colorado Independent, PolitickerCO is shutting down: Twelve Politicker political news sites around the country, including PolitickerCO.com in Colorado, were shut down and their reporters unexpectedly laid off Friday morning. The sites, billed as “Inside politics for political insiders,” covered news in 17 states around the country and are owned by the Observer Media […]

The CU Campus Press reports: CU is looking to hire someone for a position unheard of in colleges and universities across the nation: an endowed chair in conservative thought and policy. “It’s a little bit like if we’re hiring someone to teach French,” said CU Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “They don’t have to be from […]

As the Denver Post reports, confirming earlier discussion (before the Ag Secretary rumor heated up): U.S. Rep. John Salazar will accept an appointment to the powerful U.S. House Appropriations Committee, signaling that he is not President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of agriculture. Salazar’s office confirmed late Wednesday that he would take a seat on […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Jeremy Pelzer of PolitickerCO reports: Mary Smith will not be seeking another term as Denver Republican Party chair in local party elections next February, state GOP officials said Monday, and Denver GOP vice chair and state Republican Party legal counsel Ryan Call may be her successor… …Both Call and […]

In a Denver Post guest column published a few minutes ago, outgoing Rep. Marilyn Musgrave expresses gratitude so heartfelt that, well, it took her five weeks of ridicule in national media to find the proper words. Reproduced after the jump in its entirety, because we’ve probably beaten her up enough. Thank you, Colorado I want […]

(Round 2, ding! – promoted by Colorado Pols) On Monday I posted about a lengthy diary at ColoradoPols that, in my opinion, unfairly and dishonestly attacked the United Auto Workers and their members in Detroit’s Big 3. A vigorous debate ensued but it appeared that the diaries author, Laughing Boy, and I had reached a […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) As noted yesterday, Senator Ken Salazar kicked off his reelection bid with one heck of a fundraiser. Now I never thought I’d say this about an event that raised $400,000, but the real story here isn’t the astronomical dollar amount – it’s the big name Republican donors who’ve lined […]

As the Chicago Tribune reports: Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning. Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were awakened in their residences and transported to […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports, scooping the Denver Post yet again: The Newsweek columnist who broke the story of Barack Obama’s presidential bid is betting on Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet as the next U.S. secretary of education. “I have my money on Bennet,” Jonathan Alter writes in the soon-to-be-printed Dec. 15 issue. […]

From the Rocky Mountain News: A search committee is expected to present Gov. Bill Ritter this week with a short list of candidates culled from the 20 people who have applied to become Colorado’s next secretary of state. The conventional wisdom about who most likely might make that list centers around four candidates. In alphabetical […]

The Rocky Mountain News reported last Thursday: The board that governs Colorado State University will hold a “mini-retreat” Dec. 16 to begin the process of replacing former President Larry Penley. Board Chairman Doug Jones said Wednesday he hopes to hire a new leader by July. Among issues before the board is whether to create a […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Jason Salzman posted an