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“Balloon Boy” Endnotes

Free-association tests worldwide associate the word “Colorado” with “Balloon Boy” today, something one can only pray will subside over time. Because it’s not looking so good for the world-famous Heene family of Fort Collins, whose day yesterday went from bad to…well, we’re not sure what they were actually thinking through all of this, but the […]

Stopping the Great American Jobs Scam in Denver

For the last month on my morning drive-time radio show on AM760, we have been discussing the Frontier Airline situation, and how it serves as an important microcosm of all the debates about jobs, the economy, public policy, and corporate welfare inherent in Greg LeRoy’s terrific book called  The Great American Jobs Scam – a […]

Kid in a Homemade Balloon Thread

Good God Almighty. UPDATE #3: The Denver Post reporting the boy was hiding in the attic because he thought he had done something bad: “He’s been located! He’s alive! He’s at the house!” Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden interrupted a media update in Fort Collins to announce that the 6-year-old boy thought to be missing […]

A different sort of “congressional spouse” story

When Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, moved to Washington, D.C., earlier this year as the first openly gay man elected to Congress, he didn’t go alone. Accompanying him was his partner of six years, 28-year-old Marlon Reis. While Polis may be in the spotlight, Reis finds himself mistaken for a staffer or someone’s son. Reis offers […]

Durango Loves It When Ritter Flies In

If you’ve never had the pleasure yourself, let us be the ones to tell you: it takes a long time to drive from Denver to Durango. It’s an absolutely beautiful drive that takes one through the wild, craggy heart of our majestic state, but it’s a seven-hour affair on a good day. Fortunately, as the […]

Cheesy Budget Games Continue

The AP reports the latest silliness: Republican state lawmakers say they’re frustrated after Gov. Bill Ritter refused to sit down with them and discuss budget cuts he plans to announce later this month. Last week, Ritter’s chief legal counsel, Trey Rogers, rejected a formal request from Republican leaders for a list of budget cuts recommended […]

Angela Williams on the House District 7 Race

Good morning Colorado House District 7 Democrats: First, let me welcome Jon to the race.  Jon, you join a field of hard-working, progressive Democrats already in the race including Mark Mehringer, Blake Harrison and me.  As is the case with both Mark and Blake, you strike me as a smart, passionate, well-intentioned candidate.  I look […]

Colorado To Maine: Don’t Let TABOR Happen To You

Former Colorado senator Steve Johnson (R) sounds the alarm in the Pine Tree State over their proposed Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), as the Bar Harbor Times reported last week: While supporters of the latest go-round of the taxpayer bills of rights (TABOR II) say it is needed to rein in unchecked government spending, opponents […]

Health Care Reform Bill Passes Committee

From The Associated Press: President Barack Obama says passage of legislation by a key Senate committee is “a critical milestone” toward getting a health care overhaul this year, but that “now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back.” Obama spoke in the Rose Garden on Tuesday about two hours after the Senate […]

Penry’s “Rebuttal” Raises New Questions

Yesterday we discussed the Denver Post’s thorough deconstruction of pet claims by GOP gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry that Gov. Bill Ritter had engaged in a “hiring spree” since taking office. The Post’s analysis shows that the new employees hired by Ritter are a small fraction of what Penry has alleged, and that most of the […]

Penry’s “Hiring Spree” Talking Points Demolished by Post

The Denver Post did their homework for a change, and it’s going to leave a mark: In the Republican quest to show that Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter has mishandled the state budget, no GOP criticism has hit him harder than the contention that Ritter has hired 4,000 employees since taking office. Republican lawmakers have repeated […]

McInnis v. Penry: Now It’s War

Conventional wisdom (which we never subscribed to) held that GOP gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry would post a substantially higher Q3 fundraising total than opponent Scott McInnis. Though we acknowledge the polls that show McInnis in the (very) early lead, we perceived momentum very clearly building for Penry over the last few months at McInnis’ expense. […]

McHoltzman?

It’s a good thing Congre$$man McScandal raised a hefty chunk of change this quarter.  He’s gonna need it.   After a fumbling, bumbling start of his campaign — followed up by his admitted law-breaking on voicemail — then a good ol’ fashioned whoopin’ at the GOP Straw Poll last month, it’s clear the McInnis braintrust […]

Ryan Frazier Interview

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) I got the chance to interview Ryan Frazier yesterday. The gigantic impression I got of Ryan, both at first and throughout the conversation, is he is a really nice guy. That counts for a lot in running for office. (And for those that say nice guys lose – that […]

the Definition of Justice…

When will the time come that Climate Change talks will start considering  Human Rights over Business rights? There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo, Environmental Refugees. Even though there are hundreds to thousands of people currently being displaced by Climate Change, they do not have a […]

Apple Latest Defection from Chamber of Commerce

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has become more and more of an organization that stands on pretty firm conservative Republican positions, refusing to budge on even major issues like Health Care Reform that would seemingly benefit many small business owners. As The Washington Post reports, these hard stances are not helping them maintain their membership: […]

Macon Cowles Interview

Last one!!! (for Boulder) I had lunch with Macon Cowles yesterday at Eben Fine park. Macon is a pleasant thoughtful guy and it was nice to be outside for an interview – good idea on his part. I asked Macon why he is running and he immediately responded that he wants to bring sustainability to […]

Rothenberg Political Report Not There Yet

The Rothenberg Political Report recently released new assessments of Colorado’s Senate race and Governor’s race, and we think they’ve got the assessments a little, um, not correct. Rothenberg lists Sen. Michael Bennet as having a “Clear Advantage for Incumbent Party,” while Gov. Bill Ritter is listed as a “Toss-Up.” We think they’ve got both races […]

Goldman-Sachs owned Colorado Mining Company Wants More Corporate Welfare

(Socialism-IOKIYAR – promoted by ClubTwitty) The Politico is reporting on a little GOP-instituted earmark handing over $3 million in taxpayer dollars to Molycorp, a Colorado-based mining company owned by Goldman-Sachs. A mining company owned by Goldman Sachs and two private equity funds is in line to get a $3 million earmark for work at a […]

About CO Sen. Michael Bennet’s funding sources…

(crossposted at Huffington Post) As many Colorado Democrats know, there is a heated primary shaping up in the Colorado Senate Race between appointed incumbent Michael Bennet and Former House Majority Speaker Andrew Romanoff and this this Denver Post article  raises an important issue about the sitting incumbent. With a push in Congress to reform regulation […]

Industry Embraces New Drilling Regs

Of late, to head off potential federal legislation covering hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the oil and gas industry and its local lobby arm, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association have ’embraced’ new rules in Colorado as sufficient (if not necessary) and sensible (compared to federal legislation).   However COGA is also suing the State of […]

Ominous quality control problems at the Denver Post

(As we tersely mentioned yesterday, nice to see they at least ran a correction – promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Pols recently mentioned a story in the Denver Post about the “early” (as in six months or less, with an intensified supervision program) release of some prisoners due to budget cuts. The story mangled the […]

My Endorsements in the Boulder City Council race

We face an interesting question in this race, should we freeze Boulder in amber or should we continue to have a city that is unique & special, but also evolves as we move forward into the future. Or to put it another way, if NCAR didn’t exist and it was proposed – do we want […]

Are we Democrats failing?

A pair of very interesting articles that speak to the failure of the Democratic party to address the giant problems we face. One from a conservative columnist and one from a liberal columnist. To quote Jon Stewart: The Democrats seems to be the kind of people who switch to Geico and lose money. first from […]

2018 Denver Olympics, Anyone?

Chicago’s loss could be Colorado’s gain, as the Durango Herald reported yesterday: Colorado’s Olympic dreams might rest on Chicago’s success or failure Friday, when the 2016 host city will be chosen. When the International Olympic Committee will vote Friday in Denmark on the location of the 2016 Summer Games, Coloradans will be there, cheering on […]

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