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The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels wrote Saturday for The Spot: You’ve got to hand it to Scott McInnis’ campaign for its clever jab at Democratic rival John Hickenlooper as told by Larry the Lynx and Grizwald the Bear. McInnis, one of two Republicans running for governor, managed to combine Hickenlooper’s gubernatorial campaign open house today […]

As the Denver Post reports: A state senator said Thursday he wants to ask voters to impose a special tax on medical marijuana. Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, said he intends to amend a bill that creates regulations for medical-marijuana dispensaries to include a provision that places an excise tax on medical marijuana, similar to the […]

Why that would be gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis of course, “the nation’s biggest ‘Tea Party’ candidate™!” That according to the semper fidelis American Spectator: Democrat Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has formally announced that he’ll jump into Ritter’s boots. But to attain the governor’s office Hickenlooper will have to beat the Republican who would have been […]

Strange editorial today in The Denver Post about “reconciliation” on the health care debate: Most Americans want Congress to start over on health care reform, but it seems Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet would rather jam it down our throats. Ignoring the message that voters sent in Massachusetts [Pols emphasis], and shedding any notion that he […]

Given an easy chance to equivocate and get defensive, like a Democrat making an appearance in hostile El Paso County might be expected to do, Governor Bill Ritter held his own yesterday in defense of recent painful budget cuts and fee hikes–as the Colorado Springs Gazette reports: Ritter said he knew that the budget cuts […]

(We’re going to start posting the best and worst of the decade starting next week, so you’ve got another chance to give us your thoughts. – promoted by Colorado Pols) With the inaugural decade of this new millennium coming to a close in a few weeks, it’s time to take a look back at the […]

That is, a shift of opinion on a hot-button wedge issue having nothing whatsoever to do with primary opponent(s) on his right–as the Denver Post reports: Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said last week he opposes abortion, but in Congress he earned a reputation as a moderate and a maverick on the issue. He voted against […]

To be honest we don’t any more, so we’ll just throw up the latest report from the Colorado Springs Gazette and hopefully one of you in-the-know types can tell the group. Unionized grocery workers in Colorado are questioning why their international union has not yet approved a strike against Safeway despite assurances last week by […]

“We really are on the precipice right now, or a crossroads or whatever you want to call it.” Wow, if it wasn’t for the KOSI soft rock in the background, we could use that for a sleep timer. We’re not sure the word “uninspiring” quite does this justice–was she trying for that effect? A poll […]