Tag: Mike Littwin

Yeah, the same gay-bashing, Pussy Riot-jailing, Super-Bowl-ring-lifting, ex-KGB, loves-to-watch-old-clips-of-Khruschev-and-his-shoe Russian leader -- he's now our guy, the indispensable man in the unsolvable Syrian mess.

In filing suit yesterday against Denver County over its 2011 election plan, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has raised the specter for the second time since he took office in January that he is using his position as head of elections not to expand but to suppress voting in the state.

Mike Littwin, the former Rocky Mountain News columnist who's now at the Denver Post -- one of the few lucky transplants -- weighs in this morning on Boulder Rep. Jared Polis' comment about new media's killing the News and stating that was "mostly a good thing." Littwin is justifiably offended. His paper died. Many of his hardworking and talented colleagues and friends are out on the streets, and that is a tragedy. But Littwin is playing at naif -- and that won't work.

Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin takes a look at the recent history of the property tax freeze in Colorado and reminds us that...