new york times
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Weiser’s office refers complaint against Boebert on use of campaign funds to revenue, labor agencies, Boebert calls it ‘another swing and miss’
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Colorado’s Attorney General has referred a complaint to the Department of Revenue and Colorado Department of Labor and Employment over the use of campaign money by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Silt, for mileage claims. Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for the the Department of Law, said the agency “received an investigation request. We referred it to…
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Denver judge dismisses Jan. 6 participant’s lawsuit against news anchor
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A Littleton man who posted online that he either was – or was with – the “first guy to storm” the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 failed to show that 9News anchor Kyle Clark defamed him in the course of his reporting, a Denver judge ruled on Monday. District Court Judge Ross B.H. Buchanan granted Clark’s…
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Walker Stapleton comments on an ancestor’s ties to the KKK following NY Times story
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A lot of people have ancestors who said or did things that make their descendants cringe. But there’s an extra burden if your name is Walker Stapleton, a candidate for governor and scion of a proud family with a last name written large in Denver’s history. The New York Times wrote an article Tuesday that…
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Hickenlooper says moderation is best path for Democrats
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was in the New York Times Sunday talking about how out-of-power Democrats could take advantage of the national mood. They do it by being moderate, he said. (And that describes Hickenlooper, too.) If Democrats do pick up seats in red states, they’re certain to face hostile Republicans they’ll have to negotiate…
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Toda puts a -30- on a career in journalism and politics
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It was fitting that the way most of the Capitol press corps learned of the departure of House Democratic spokesman Dean Toda was by press release – one he penned himself. “Dean Toda hangs up his spikes today,” he wrote. The sage of the statehouse is retiring after seven sessions. A former editor at the…
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INSIGHTS | Serving up politics with food’s a tradition
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COLORADO SPRINGS – On a rainy Saturday at the foot of Pikes Peak, hundreds of politically engaged Coloradans gathered for politics slathered in tradition to hear candidates for governor answer questions. We had a Colorado Civic Barbecue on May 19, presented by the El Pomar Foundation’s Forum for Civic Advancement, The Gazette and Colorado Politics.…
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LOMAX: The New York Times hailed the benefits of fracking. What’s left for anti-oil and gas groups?
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How often do you think the New York Times and a Colorado Springs conservative ever agree, about anything? That’s the question I was asking myself after reading recent news coverage in the Times about the geopolitical importance of U.S. oil and natural gas production. The Jan. 28 story explained how much diplomatic and economic leverage we now have over countries like…
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Mike Coffman donates campaign cash from GOP colleague who settled sexual harassment complaint
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A Democrat challenging U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman on Wednesday called on the Aurora Republican to unload $10,000 in campaign contributions from a fellow GOP lawmaker under fire for settling a former aide’s sexual harassment complaint with taxpayer money – but a Coffman spokesman said he’d already donated the funds earlier in the day to a local…
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Cynthia Coffman appeals to disappointed Hillary Clinton voters in New York Times column
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Sometimes you have to see your reflection, Colorado, to know what you look like. That was the case in the New York Times Sunday Review when op-ed columnist Frank Bruni reflected on the state of our political landscape. The piece, titled “The State Where Everyone Wants to be Governor,” is an interesting read for Mile…
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BIDLACK: The media as public enemy — and other dangerous notions
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When a president, or anyone for that matter, does something that no president has ever done before, there are usually two possibilities: First, that the individual in question has come up with a brilliant idea never before considered by his predecessors, or two, that he has come up with a bad idea, never adopted by…
