Amnesty international will bring a life-size re-creation of a maximum security Guantánamo Bay detention cell to Denver during the Democratic National Convention to call attention to "the harsh realities of illegal detention and prolonged isolation." The cell is outfitted with a video camera to record [...]
Barack Obama has been fielding plenty of criticism these days for letting Bill and Hillary Clinton play a big role in Denver's upcoming Democratic National Convention. Maureen Dowd, a columnist for The New York Times, expressed her disgust at the Clintons' major speaking slots at the convention in a [...]
According to a report in the Pueblo Chieftain, representatives from the local health department went before the Pueblo County Board of Commissioners Thursday to ask permission to sell naming rights of their new headquarters.
Department officials are confident the building’s construction will come in under budget, [...]
Don’t get on the wrong side of Mike Huckabee.
He will send Chuck Norris after you or, if you are Mitt Romney, try and sabotage your chances at being vice president.
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Here’s a post-primary detail to ponder: Even after Democrat Vince Chowdhury choked and slapped his daughter and pleaded guilty to third-degree misdemeanor harassment charges — and after he withdrew from the race — 596 people still voted for him to represent [...]
While Denver officials are preparing a voter registration registration drive for the city's homeless during the Democratic National Convention, the city of Telluride, about 360 miles southwest of Denver, may approve a plan that could keep the homeless from voting.
According to The Telluride Daily Planet, the Telluride Town Council [...]
A story this week on the media being stretched thin by back-to-back Olympic Games and national political conventions in Forbes has stirred up the ever-cantankerous press corps who live by the motto: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. [...]
Perhaps John McCain shouldn't have been so quick to scold celebrities.
Following Paris Hilton's hilarious foray into national energy policy last week, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert weighs in on the ridiculous "drill here, drill now" mantra featuring a formidable debate with himself on offshore drilling and oil shale.
From the Aug. [...]
With the first day of classes quickly approaching, administrators at the University of Colorado at Boulder are doing their best to quell the school's notorious reputation as party central. CU and the city of Boulder recently announced a "walkabout" program to take place Friday night, in which interim city manager [...]
A campaign trail dispatch from our Washington Independent colleague Sridhar Pappu.
It is true that in the rare instances when I actually look up from my laptop, where I spend most of time doing political research or working hard to meet the standards set by you, my loyal readers, I [...]
Fresh polling that shows Rep. Mark Udall leading his Republican opponent former Rep. Bob Schaffer was released today.
The poll, commissioned by CBS4 Denver and the Rocky Mountain News, puts Udall ahead by 6 points [...]
Just when you thought John McCain and Barack Obama would never agree on anything, they come to a consensus on energy policy -- well, their commercials do anyway.
Alert YouTuber Verne Carlson noticed that both McCain and Obama used the same stock footage in their commercials.
“I thought [...]
The owners of Grand Junction’s paper of record, the Daily Sentinel, are putting the publication up for sale in an effort to divest themselves of their traditional newspaper holdings.
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When news broke this week that part of John McCain’s speech on Russian-Georgian relationships was similar to passages found on the Web-based Wikipedia, you can imagine bloggers and other press would jump on it.
But how big of deal is it, really?
Before the conflict [...]
CBS News Wednesday declared Colorado the state to watch in this year’s presidential race. The network noted that Colorado has slowly been trending toward Democratic candidates and predicted 2008 could be the year this traditionally red state turns blue.
Three key elements will determine whether Colorado’s nine electoral votes [...]
Initiative 100, the Denver ballot measure that mandates that cops impound vehicles of unlicensed drivers, passed during last night's primary with a relatively large margin of 54 percent to 46 percent.
The initiative's backers, many of them with ties to anti-immigrant groups like the Colorado Minutemen, [...]
Activists protesting marijuana prohibition will be holding both a rally and march at the Democratic National Convention this month.
The events are being organized in part by Denver Chicano activist Miguel Lopez and legalization advocate Robert Chase to take advantage of the convention's media spotlight.
On the Friday [...]
Denver officials weren't planning to reveal details about where activists would be detained in the event of mass arrests during the Democratic National Convention until after the event had started, but those plans were quickly dashed this week when CBS 4News reporter Rick Sallinger not only revealed that [...]
Incumbent Rep. Marilyn Musgrave will be with Vice President Dick Cheney today for a private fundraiser at a residence in Littleton.
Our Washington Independent colleague Mary Kane may be on to something ...
An unofficial measure of what's going on with the economy is the Latte Index, or trends in discretionary spending when it comes to Starbucks. When people cut back on pricey, frothy coffee drinks they probably didn't [...]
On Sunday, The New York Times released a guide to the Mile High City called "36 Hours in Denver" and boy, does it differ from what Denver officialdom wants visitors to see during the Democratic National Convention.
Granted, the snarky article does take the reader to Denver tourist [...]
Initiative 100 on the Denver ballot would force police officers to impound vehicles of people driving without licenses. Drivers would be subject to a $2,500 fine, which they forfeit if someone without a license is caught driving the vehicle within a year. Brought forward by Arvada resident Daniel Hayes, the [...]
In this largely Democratic district that includes Boulder and mountainous points west, Joan Fitz-Gerald, Jared Polis and Will Shafroth duked out a close primary election night to replace Rep. Mark Udall, who is running for the U.S. Senate. Tonight’s winner, Jared Polis, will likely go to Washington in November. Read [...]
Freshman Rep. Doug Lamborn won this Republican stronghold in south-central Colorado in a squeaker of a five-way race two years ago, and Jeff Crank and Bentley Rayburn have returned for a grudge match. This year’s race has been all about style, as in, who has the leadership to best represent [...]
This four-way blitz has Wil Armstong, Mike Coffman, Ted Harvey and Steve Ward battling for the GOP nomination to replace retiring Rep. Tom Tancredo. This is another Republican-dominated district, south of Denver, and the winner will likely head to Washington. Keep reading for Tuesday night updates.
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You know Barack Obama and John McCain are widely using new technology this election cycle when CNN political pundits can’t keep up and email is Obama's choice to release his veep choice.
On Monday, when speaking about the Obama campaign releasing his vice presidential [...]
Jim Pfaff, the former director of the Colorado Family Institute (CFI), is endorsing Wil Armstrong in the four-way race for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District, but his former organization wasn’t too pleased with how the news got out.
The Colorado Family Institute, a pro-life group closely associated with Focus on the Family, [...]
The Lumber Baron, a hotel just northwest of downtown in the Highlands neighborhood, has been staging murder mystery dinners for more than a decade. But in honor of the Democratic National Convention coming to town this month, the establishment has revamped its act into “Candidates’ Night: Campaigns are Murder [...]
There are media programs where radio listeners can hear enlightened and factual discussions about immigration, but "The Peter Boyles Show" is not one of those programs. Last week Lou Pate, a guest host sitting in for Boyles on the local radio program, supported a false assertion blaming undocumented immigrants for [...]
A fresh round of polling by Public Policy Polling shows Barack Obama still leading John McCain in Colorado. And it puts Democrat Mark Udall over Republican Bob Schaffer for the U.S. Senate race, but by a smaller margin than last month.
Obama, [...]
Change is in the air. And the water. And the land. And in that long forgotten take-out container way in the back of your refrigerator.
It's also the subject of a free "Live From Main Street" community discussion Aug. 24 — The Challenges [...]
With so much hype surrounding Obama's candidacy and the Democratic National Convention, it's surprising that more local Democratic candidates haven't hopped on the change bandwagon for their own campaigns. In Denver's House District 6, for instance, the three Democratic primary candidates — Liz Adams, Lois Court and Josh Hanfling — [...]
Last night, the Obama camp sent out an email announcing a decision on a vice presidential running mate was near and offering supporters the opportunity to “be the first to know” by their choice of e-mail or text message.
“You will now be one of the 1st notified when the VP [...]
State Sen. Ted Harvey is already following in the footsteps of retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, even if Harvey doesn’t win Tuesday's Republican primary nomination for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District.
Harvey, R-Centennial, has received an enthusiastic endorsement from a Minuteman Movement political action committee that advocates for border [...]
It seemed more like an exercise in leftist exhibitionism than an earnest attempt to make political change, but that didn't stop a small group of activists from gathering in Denver on Sunday afternoon to beat each other with inflatable “peace” bats.
Meet Colorado's own small contingent of “Yippies,” the [...]
Remember when Erica Corder pulled the old switcheroo — that is, when she swapped out her high school valedictorian speech for a come-to-Jesus pep talk? A year later she sued the Lewis-Palmer School District just north of Colorado Springs for violating her right to [...]
Questions over militarization of security forces at the Democratic National Convention continue to be raised with the discovery that along with renting more than 500 rooms and commandeering a private campus on the outskirts of Denver, the Colorado National Guard is also looking to set up a 24-hour camp in [...]
Though technical security experts warn of a cyber attack during the Democratic National Convention, some say that the convention could be subject to a different type of infiltration. Some hackers engage in social engineering, pretending to be people they're not -- like a janitor or a caterer [...]
As an anticipated 50,000 protesters, thousands of delegates, 15,000 media and tens of thousands of political junkies converge on Denver for the Democratic National Convention (DNC), concerns over security in the Mile High City are high.
Wondering who is paying for all the security and what agencies will be involved?
A specialized [...]
Our Center for Independent Media colleague and resident youth-vote expert Mike Connery writes about an innovative for-credit political opportunity for college students this election cycle. Colorado is among the five political swing states, including New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia, where the program is being launched.
Mike's [...]
Americans overwhelmingly want new energy sources but do not believe conservation is part of the answer, according to a poll out this week.
Or, in other words, America still wants to drive SUVs, live 25 miles from work, never have to use the word carpool, and keep those [...]
Denver City Council members won't get the chance to oversee or approve nearly half of the funds that are being used to pay for security measures for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August, including money that is being used to purchase police equipment.
The Denver Post [...]
In a pattern that appears to be unfolding across the United States, media-shy polygamist Mormons are finally opening up to the press by allowing photographers and journalists into their homes. In July, The New York Times magazine ran a series of photos [...]
The Democratic National Convention isn’t the only large group to infuse cash into the Colorado economy by meeting in Denver this summer.
The American Statistical Association’s 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings kicked off Sunday at the Colorado Convention Center and will go through Thursday. The group’s 5,200 numbers crunchers are [...]
In another move to generate community involvement and overall goodwill, the Democratic National Convention is literally using Goodwill employees to stuff goody bags for delegates and members of the media.
Goodwill Industries will donate the assembling, packaging and delivery services of its developmentally disabled employees to the Denver host [...]
Our friends at Scholars and Rogues.com are compiling the The Scrogue's Guide — an irreverent look at Denver's bars, restaurants and party scenes just in time for the Democratic National Convention.
Need to know the best [...]
The most expensive U.S. congressional primary race in Colorado history officially turned into one of the ugliest Wednesday when former state Senate president Joan Fitz-Gerald threatened to file a misdemeanor complaint with “the appropriate District Attorney’s office” against the Jared [...]
