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Asset Bill opens up rift among Hispanic Republicans in Colorado

In 2010's mid-term election, roughly 80 percent of Hispanic voters in Colorado voted for Democrat Michael Bennet for the U.S. Senate over Republican Ken Buck. Obama today is leading strongly among Hispanics.

Bernie Madoff art auction set for posh Vail hotel on Saturday

On Saturday, just a week after the suicide in SoHo of Mark Madoff, Vail’s Sonnenalp Hotel will host a “Bernie Madoff Auction of fine art, jewelry, rugs, bronzes and more due to losses causes by” the infamous Ponzi schemer now serving 150 years in prison.

Rosen says McInnis, Churchill not comparable, others disagree

It seems like an age has gone by since the Denver media, gamely led by the bygone Rocky Mountain News, was in full-bore media...

Denver wingnut radio audiences shrink under new ratings technology

Americans love the hate radio... Or maybe a lot fewer people love it than we've been led to believe. The Denver Post reports that Arbitron,...

Early Bird Special: State workers will get unpaid furlough day Sept....

Here are some of the day's news items that caught our attention: • Colorado government will grind to a virtual halt the day after Labor...

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.

Mike Rosen argues for ‘royal privilege’ over Electoral College reform

As someone who was fortunate to twice win Electoral College elections, I took great interest in Denver Talk Radio host Mike Rosen’s recent defense of the current system. His attack on the principle of “One Person, One Vote“ embodied in Democrats’ attempts to secure a majority of Electoral College votes for whomever wins the national popular vote borders on bizarre as he attempts to defend a system based, in part, on concepts of the privilege of royalty (e.g., the U.S. Senate paralleling the English House of Lords).

Ritter responds to GOP on Gitmo: ‘They’re just making stuff up’

Gov. Bill Ritter's office pulled no punches Tuesday morning responding to a report that the communication arm of the Colorado Senate Minority Office edited a radio interview to make it seem as though Ritter had changed his position on housing Guantanamo detainees in Colorado. "They're just making stuff up," Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer wrote in an e-mail to the Colorado Independent. "Nothing new for them, though."

50,000 Watts of Hate: Santa vs. global-warming deniers

Mike Rosen may think he has a friend in Santa and the polar bears but climate scientists? Eh, not so much. From our friends at Colorado Media Matters, Newsradio 850 KOA talker Mike Rosen's gone off a polar ice cap once again when it comes to global warming.

Gunny Bob, Caldara, Rosen try to tie Obama to Blagojevich

In their latest extensive — can we say exhaustive? — compilation of jaw-drop-inducing yakking of right-wing radio heads, Colorado Media Matters lays out recent ad hominem efforts to tie Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to President-elect Barack Obama, despite U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s specific caution to "not cast aspersions on people" named or discussed in the criminal complaint against Blagojevich.