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Posts by Bob Spencer

No investigation in District 2 County Commissioner primary switcheroo

By | 08.19.08 | 3:05 pm

Two recounts, one in front of judges from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, put Interim Commissioner John Cordova on the ballot for the Democrats in Pueblo’s County Commissioner race.

Guantánamo comes to Denver

By | 08.17.08 | 1:10 pm

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…

Pueblo’s new health department HQ may sell its name for furniture

By | 08.16.08 | 1:01 pm

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.

Blowing it: McCain and Obama swept up in copycat TV ads.

By | 08.14.08 | 3:30 pm

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…

WTF is up with these license plates?

By | 08.08.08 | 11:35 am

 

Watch out texters, the Colorado authorities in charge of license plates have deciphered your cryptic codes. 


WTF, the three-letter abbreviation for What the f*#@, popular with tech-savvy youth, has been banned from car bumpers…

Heartless hikers fail to help injured man

By | 07.28.08 | 8:00 pm

If a tree falls in the forest and lands on a guy, shouldn’t you call for help?


A 37-year-old-man from Austin, Texas, was airlifted to a Durango hospital Saturday more than 24 hours after after being…

Who says gas doesn’t grow on trees?

By | 07.24.08 | 4:45 pm

The Fort Collins Coloradoan is reporting that a professor at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) may have found part of the answer to the U.S. energy crisis … in trees, and the Colorado Office of Economic Development…

There’s no bunk in the Colbert bump

By | 07.23.08 | 8:28 am

According to an article published in July’s issue of PS: Political Science & Politics, an appearance on Comedy Central’s late-night political parody show the Colbert Report equals extra cash…

GOP struggles to alienate what’s left of its base

By | 07.19.08 | 8:45 am

In a move that is sure to be heralded by record label executives everywhere, the GOP has threatened to sue CafePress because its users are incorporating Republican elephants and the initials GOP…