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DEGETTE: She’s Worried About Interns Being Sexually Harassed
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s “Me too” claims registered off-the-charts on the Richter scale of hypocrisy and we missed it. It was a gem snatched up by the Colorado Springs Gazette, in which DeGette detailed an account of sexual harassment from another Democratic lawmaker...
POLITICS OF INTIMIDATION? Steamboat Has its Own Scandal
Steamboat Springs City Councilwoman Heather Sloop is accusing the former council president of intimidation because of an email he sent questioning her education background. Sloop says Walter Magill is trying to silence her on a housing proposal, in which both have a...
BLACK FRIDAY IS FOR AMATEURS: Why You Should be Shopping Saturday
The major stores are reveling today in Black Friday shopping they hope will fill their coffers for the year. They’ve filled our newspapers with bundles of advertisements that required a small forest to produce. And that makes it easy for us to forget there are other...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING: Trump Cites American Bonds of Love, Loyalty, and Affection
This Thanksgiving, Coloradans have much to be thankful for - great weather, a robust bench of candidates for statewide offices, TABOR, upcoming ski season, and, of course, our friends and families gathered today for the sole purpose of consuming mass quantities of...
CHRISTMAS CARD LIST: Add the National Park Service to Yours With This Message
The National Park Service has agreed to give us all an extra month to respond to their fee increase proposal, thanks to demands by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. The feds want to raise daily rates during the peak season to as high as $70 in Rocky Mountain National Park and...
BASE-IC MATH: Just Exactly Who Is Jared Polis’ Base?
A recent Facebook post by a Denver activist and shared by State Board of Education Director (and union apologist) Val Flores revealed some chinks in uber-millionaire and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, who is now the pre$umptive front-runner in the Democratic gubernatorial...
SINGLE-PAYER NIGHTMARE: Why Lynne Wants You to Pay for the Planet’s Healthcare
If you weren’t among the six people who actually turned out for Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne’s health care forum at the University of Northern Colorado's University Center, you missed her endorsement of single-payer health care. Her bizarre reasoning is that if a European...
HER TOO: DeGette Claims Sexual Harassment by Dem Congressman, Did Nothing
Rep. Diana DeGette now says she was sexually harassed by former Democratic Congressman Bob Filner and that he tried to forcibly kiss her on an elevator many years ago. She never said or did anything, she claims, because he was her colleague and she says he held no...
SOCIAL MEDIA MELTDOWN: Top Five Wrongisms in #CODems Chair Morgan Carroll’s Facebook Post
Yesterday morning, Colorado Democratic Party Chair Morgan Carroll posted on Facebook one of the dumbest things she's ever posted. And she's posted a lot of dumb sh!t over the years. She railed against the women who came to Republican state Sen. Jack Tate's defense...
SHE’S BAAAACK: Hillary’s Colorado Tours Smell Like a Campaign
Hillary Clinton is back on the campaign book promotion trail, stopping in Denver just long enough to plug her manifesto of blame excusing her loss in the last presidential campaign and blaming everyone except herself. Her message to followers was to “to keep up their...