In debate, Romanoff seeks to highlight differences Bennet calls ‘vanishingly small’

COLORADO SPRINGS– The Democratic primary debate here Friday pitting U.S. Senate candidate and former state House speaker Andrew Romanoff against Sen. Michael Bennet was an odd tug of war. Romanoff argued that there were significant differences between the two candidates but Bennet argued that those differences were “vanishingly small” and suggested Romanoff was stooping to petty attacks to gain traction.

Boulder ranked third-most bike friendly city in the U.S.

Bicycling magazine ranks Boulder No. 3 in a Top 50 list of the most bike-friendly cities in the country. The editors only considered cities with populations greater than 100,000. Denver came in just out of the Top 10 at…

El Paso County sheriff’s office leans on volunteers, saves millions

Cash-strapped El Paso County is leaning heavily on volunteerism, a trend bound to grow as recession-era budget wranglers continue to cut into services. Sheriff Terry Maketa’s Office announced that volunteers logged 91,294 hours last year to save his department $1.2…

Post reports tax-averse Colorado Springs streets to go dark; comments thread lights up

The Denver Post today posted a practical look at the recession reality of anti-tax conservative Colorado Springs. City lawmakers working within the shrinking city budget are shutting down services. Street lights are blinking out; beat cops, vice and burglary…

What a bear! Gazette publisher grapples with Colorado Springs homelessness

In Vail, where Colorado Springs Gazette publisher Steve Pope once published the Vail Daily, homelessness merely referred to ski bums evicted for hosting too many keggers and couch surfing until they landed another condo.

Apparently shocked to encounter actual homelessness…

GOP Rep. Lamborn unironically laments lack of civility at town hall

U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, didn’t join the six other members of the Colorado delegation at a health care town hall on Saturday in Aurora. The starting point of the discussion in Aurora was that the health care…

News Nuggets, 7 August 2009: Anti-health reform demagoguery in Pueblo

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SENIOR CARE: Concerning the GOP/ health industry-backed misinformation and rabble rousing campaign on health reform, it really doesn’t get any more damning than the anti-reform rally held in Pueblo yesterday. The soap-box speaker captured…

Udall wants change to military culture that ‘stigmatizes’ mental health care

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall vowed Thursday to “hold [Army Secretary-nominee John McHugh] to his commitment” to make sure soldiers receive the best mental health treatment available after questioning the New York congressman at a confirmation hearing before the Senate…

News Nuggets: 22 July 2009

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PRIMETIME FACEBOOK PRESSER: Obama is talking to journos Chuck Todd and Jake Tapper about health care right now from a podium inside Facebook. It’s the first-ever White House Facebook health-care press conference. The comments…

Afternoon News Nuggets: 21 July 2009

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ROAD RULES, BOULDER: When Second District U.S. Democratic Rep. Jared Polis wasn’t busy laying waste to the nation’s health-care future and deconstructing politics as we know it, he landed that stimulus money…