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POLIS PERSIAN FLIP FLOP: Against Military Strikes Under Bush, For Military Strikes Under Obama
Hallelujah! A Colorado paper has finally hired a real reporter to cover Washington, DC. The Colorado Observer's new reporter, Mark Stricherz, catches Boulder Congressman Jared Polis flip-flopping on military strikes in Iran. Under President Bush, Polis was against...
UN-SUCCESS-FUL LEADERSHIP: House Dems Defy Ferrandino On SUCCESS Act Committee Vote
Mark Ferrandino's fearless House Democrats are at it again. When we say fearless, we mean they are without fear of offending their caucus leader for ignoring his will. This time, Ferrandino's caucus crossed his leadership on a bipartisan bill that sources say...
DAILY CAMERA KILLING IT: CU Investigative Stories Should Be Model For Mainstream Media
We're pretty harsh on reporters we think are terrible (see: Allison Sherry), but there are some great scribes out there doing bang-up investigative work that deserve recognition. Brittany Anas of the Daily Camera has been killing it lately, exposing pension double...
Obama’s Failed Resets
By Kelly Sloan Three stories of an international nature caught the eye this week. The first is the ongoing dilemma in Syria, where the Assad regime continues to murder and torture its way into prominence among the worst tyrannies in modern history. The Syrian...
RACIST! Denver City Councilwoman Wants To Vote For People Who “Look & Talk Like Her”
Denver City Councilwoman Debbie Ortega thinks we should judge candidates based on how they look and speak. In other words, she is a racist. Or to put it even more bluntly, she shames the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. whose dream was to one day have a world where...
CAVALRY COMES FOR TIPTON: American Action Network Spending Money On Phones, Mail For Incumbent
The American Action Network (AAN), a conservative outside group who played heavily in the 2010 midterms, is joining the fight in Colorado's CD3, coming to Scott Tipton's defense on Medicare reform. The group is spending $1.2 million across 27 Congressional...
SEO SHENANIGANS: Brandon Shaffer Has A YouTube Problem
A few months ago a Google Alert email popped up for Senate President Brandon Shaffer. A video naming him had appeared on Youtube, though when we clicked on it, it wasn't what anyone might expect. First of all, it was in Japanese. Secondly, Brandon Shaffer's...
FasTrack’s flawed sales tax increase unfair to ‘burbs
As RTD considers doubling its FasTracks tax to fulfill its first tax promise, the suburbs are left over a barrel. In 2004, RTD promised that for a mere four cents on every 10 dollars in sales, heavy and light rail trains would fan out across metro-Denver. Turns out,...
HYPOCRISY WATCH: Shaffer’s Budget Bill Contradicts Shaffer’s Redistricting Bill
Senate President Brandon Shaffer is running a bill to demand the Legislature pass a budget on time, or be docked pay, but last year Shaffer himself failed to live up to a Constitutional duty of the Legislature: pass a redistricting map. Did he think we would forget he...
THE MISSING MEDIA: On The Abound Solar Meltdown Mainstream Press Has Been Conspicuously Absent
Governor Hickenlooper make another sexualized slip of the tongue? Get a reporter on it. A green energy company backed by Colorado Democrats' personal sugar momma lays off 70% of its staff after getting nearly half a billion in tax dollars? Let the bloggers handle...