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Denver Post slams Tancredo to the mat

By | 10.28.10 | 1:25 pm

The Denver Post today, in what may have been an unprecedented move, editorialized against gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo under the headline: “Colo. can’t afford to elect Tancredo.”

The Post calls out the American Constitution Party candidate and leading challenger to…

Uncoordinated (or how the Colorado Independent reported the Buck rape story)

By | 10.14.10 | 7:19 am

No real reporter likes to be the subject of a story he or she has written, but that is where some part of the rape story I wrote this week featuring U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck has gone and…

Post column gets it wrong: Buck has been talking social issues

By | 09.27.10 | 7:22 am

Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley got a fact wrong in his column Sunday.

He wrote in reference to Colorado’s U.S. Senate race:

“No one in 2010 is talking about social issues except Bennet.”

Most likely, Ken Buck…

Post and (believe it or not) a talk-radio show had most primary election impact

By | 09.07.10 | 6:25 am

Before the memory of the primary elections slips behind us (yes, I know it’s been unforgettable, but still), I wanted to point out the media organ that’s moved off the sidelines to have the second greatest impact on the election.…

Maes: Post articles have been fair despite GOP attacks on paper

By | 07.17.10 | 1:56 pm

CENTENNIAL – Arapahoe and Denver County Republican leaders railed on the Denver Post Friday night, saying the newspaper has been attacking their candidates as part of an orchestrated corporate agenda to take down Republicans. Dan Maes, one of the GOP…

Sportsmen to run ad challenging Salazar to be the next Teddy Roosevelt

By | 05.26.10 | 11:03 am

In a print ad set to run in the Denver Post Thursday, a coalition of hunters and anglers called “Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development (SRED)” essentially challenges Interior Secretary and former Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to be more like…

Lunchtime links: A billowing dark cloud a mile under the sea

By | 05.18.10 | 12:55 pm

This is what it looks like a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil rushing into the sea like nothing so much as the billowing plume of a coal-fired power plant working at full tilt. The footage…

Carroll responds to attacks on voting reform proposal

By | 04.06.10 | 5:50 pm

Colorado House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, appeared uncharacteristically off-balance and back on his heels this morning, reeling from the firestorm of conservative criticism that erupted in the face of his draft plan to cut the costs of and up participation…

FOX News brings out the dirtball in all of us, Leadville discovers

By | 03.19.10 | 8:38 am

Leave it to FOX News to elicit even more stereotyping on a story already loaded with bias.

Denver Post reporter Mike McPhee was discussing the bizarre case of Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, of Leadville – arrested in Ireland in a…

Denver Post ends Gang of Four blogger experiment

By | 01.13.10 | 12:36 pm

The Denver Post will no longer host its “Gang of Four” Politics West commentary blog. The gang included self-styled libertarian Ross Kaminsky, former Colorado senate president John Andrews, progressive pundit and writer David Sirota and progressive…