Ernest Luning

McInnis warned Schaffer against misplacing mountains last year

Last spring, when U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer hastily pulled a campaign ad picturing Alaska’s Mount McKinley and replaced it with one featuring Colorado landmark Pikes Peak, Scott McInnis didn’t have much sympathy, but he did have some stern words of warning for his fellow Republican.

“Such mishaps tend to accumulate, said former 3rd Congressional District U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, a Grand Junction Republican.”

Candidate McInnis moves mountains — from Canadian Rockies to Colorado

What is it with Colorado politicians and their mountains? No, Mount McKinley isn’t Pikes Peak, and the Canadian Rockies are nowhere to be found in the Centennial State.

Hours after launching his campaign Web site to much fanfare, official Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis yanked from the site a prominent graphic featuring a vista of Lake Louise, a resort nestled in the Canadian Rockies. The Canadian terrain appeared behind the question, “What do you want for the future of Colorado?”

Early Bird Special: Fourth of July freedom of the open road edition

Amid one of the slowest news weeks of the year, here’s our tribute to some of the automotive news around Colorado that caught our attention:
• Colorado drivers sure love their Ford pickup trucks. That’s according to an exhaustive analysis performed by Channel 7’s news team, who examined all 5,086,672 car registrations in the state (as [...]

GOP targets Markey — and Obama — for vote on ‘national energy tax’

As predicted, Republicans are hitting freshman U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey for her vote Friday favoring the sweeping energy bill narrowly passed by the House. The National Republican Campaign Committee on Wednesday unveiled a robocall set to start ringing on telephones in the Fort Collins Democrat’s 4th District, part of a campaign aimed at Markey and [...]

Early Bird Special: Panhandling remains legal in Grand Junction

Here’s our daily roundup of some of the news around Colorado that caught our attention:
• It’s not illegal to ask for spare change on the streets of Grand Junction — at least not yet, anyway, the Daily Sentinel reports. The town’s city council shot down two proposals at its Monday meeting. One would have criminalized [...]

Isgar creates Senate vacancy with appointment to USDA rural post

Term-limited state Sen. Jim Isgar won appointment as the U.S. Department of Agriculture state director of rural development, Mile High Politics first reported Tuesday morning. The Hesperus Democrat, whose Senate District 6 covers eight counties in the southwest corner of Colorado, plans to step down in about three weeks, he told Jeremy Pelzer, creating the need for a vacancy committee to fill the final year of his term.

Tancredo: Beat swindler Madoff with baseball bat, sell tickets

After losing his entire life savings to the Bernie Madoff con job, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has a better idea for punishing the 71-year-old convicted swindler, who was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison for masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

“I think I probably would’ve sold tickets and let the highest bidder come beat him up with a baseball bat and then divide up the money among all the people that he stung,” Tancredo said Monday “with a laugh,” 9News reports.

Early Bird Special: Jackson’s death could cost Anschutz some big bucks

Here’s our daily roundup of some of the news around Colorado that caught our attention:
• Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz could take a serious bath on the $85 million worth of Michael Jackson tickets sold — but not fully insured — before the superstar expired last week, the Wall Street Journal reports. AEG Live — the [...]

Polis to talk LGBT issues on Hardball

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis will trade wits on MSNBC’s Hardball show Monday night, the Boulder Democrat tweeted. Polis will be discussing LGBT issues, and there should be plenty to talk about.

Early Bird Special: Cops return pot to clinic, Aurora cops tow lawyer’s car

Here’s our daily roundup of some of the news around Colorado that caught our attention:
• Boulder police returned two 20-gallon drums of marijuana that were stolen from a medical-marijuana clinic last week, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Police had held onto the pot until lawyers for four robbery suspects could have it tested. Owners of [...]