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Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recalls getting "a feeling in the pit of my stomach" when he learned that the Rocky Mountain News was shutting down. "Even when they were uncovering corruption in the city, even when they were embarrassing us or causing us discomfort, they were making the city better," he says. "It's a huge loss." The grim echoes of the nearly 150-year-old paper's demise Friday could be heard in newsrooms and communities across the country. Although the Denver Post will still cover Hickenlooper's region, some cities -- most notably San Francisco -- are facing the prospect of life...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Seven-time Pro Bowl safety Brian Dawkins had a hard time not looking back Saturday after signing with the Denver Broncos following a 13-year run with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Coyote bites woman, attacks dog in SE Denver The woman, who lives in the 3900 block of South Oneida Street, told authorities she was walking her 75-pound Labrador retriever when they were surrounded by three coyotes. Two of the coyotes attacked the dog, and the owner intervened. As she tried to defend the dog, a coyote scratched and bit the woman, according to a new release from the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The unidentified victim was treated at Swedish Medical Center and released. The dog was taken to a veterinary hospital, said Jennifer Churchill, a DOW spokeswoman. Details on the...

Gov. Bill Ritter called it "a very, very sad day." Ritter was speaking to newspaper executives at a luncheon today at the Governor's Mansion when the news came. Someone in the audience stood and said it was official: The Rocky Mountain News was closing. "We're losing a Colorado icon," Ritter said of the nearly 150-year-old newspaper. "We're losing a newspaper that has helped create history." Ritter expressed dismay over the crumbling state of the newspaper industry, saying blogs with anonymous contributors are no substitute for reporters and editors that public officials know by name and can actually contact. "I hope...

DENVER – A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. ">snip<"

Colorado's oldest newspaper will publish its final edition Friday. The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, will be closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful, the E.W. Scripps Co. announced today. "Today the Rocky Mountain News, long the leading voice in Denver, becomes a victim of changing times in our industry and huge economic challenges," Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Scripps, said in a prepared statement. "The Rocky is one of America’s very best examples of what local news organizations need to be in the future. Unfortunately, the partnership’s business model...

Denver's event coordinated with the Santelli inspired Chicago Tea Party. To be held Friday, February 27, 2009 at 10:00 A.M. mountain time on the east steps of the Capitol building, downtown Denver.

Multiple arrests were made this morning following a three-year investigation into a violent gang operating in metro Denver. The gang has an estimated 6,000 to 10,000 members in at least 42 states and the District of Columbia. Their threat is highest in the western and northeastern parts of the country, according to the FBI. Members of the Salvadorian MS-13 street gang, their associates, and their sources of illegal drug supply were arrested early this morning based on two federal grand jury indictments, the Justice Department and the Metro Gang Task Force announced.

Holding signs reading "Stimulate Business, Not Government," "Families Against Porkulus" and "Say No To Generational Theft," protesters opposed to the $787 billion stimulus package have been mobilizing across the country. It started last Monday in Seattle, then moved Tuesday to Denver, where President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. That was followed by another one in Mesa, Ariz., where Obama unveiled a mortgage rescue plan. Another protest was planned for Saturday outside the office of Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, Kan. The Democrat voted for the stimulus. His office didn't return calls seeking comment. A New Populism? As...

It’s time again for the Wynkoop—one of Denver's most venerable microbreweries—to select its Beerdrinker Of The Year, a crown that comes with it all the pomp and honor of being recognized as an unexcelled expert in the field of beer-drinking. The final round of competition kicks off at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the LoDo institution, and for the first time one of the three finalists is a Denver native: local software engineer, home-brewer, and beer educator Cody Christman. The Wynkoop regular took a break from his rigorous training and spoke with Decider about—what else?—his favorite malty beverage. Denver's own Cody...

As President Barack Obama's pen touched paper today to make the federal stimulus bill law, hundreds of people rallied on the west side of the Colorado Capitol to decry the stimulus as irresponsible. Protesters chanted, "No more pork!" and a few wore costume pig noses. They waved giant $30,000 novelty checks, representing the amount they said the stimulus would cost individual taxpayers.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is poised to sign into law the most sweeping economic package in decades, a rescue plan designed to create millions of jobs, spur consumer spending and revive the nation's outlook. ... The setting, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is meant to underscore the investments the new law will make in "green" energy-related jobs. Ahead of Obama's arrival in Colorado, the White House went live with a Web site, http://www.recovery.gov,

This morning on Fox News, Glenn Beck mentioned that our President is going to waste 10,000 gallons of jet fuel to fly to Denver to sign the stimulus bill. Then he is going to waste another 10,000 gallons of fuel to return to Washington. On the way to school this morning, my 16 year old son mentioned the cost is actually double because another jet usually goes up with Air Force One. So the cost for Obama to fly out to Denver is actually double? Anybody know what jet fuel is going for today? We should be outraged!

"Colorado Americans for Prosperity is organizing a protest countering President Obama’s visit to the city to sign the porkulus legislation at an exclusive, invitation-only event at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park. Protesters will gather at the west steps of the Capitol (Lincoln Street, between 14th and Colfax) from 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mountain time." "I am making good on my promise to deliver a roasted pig to the event."

WASHINGTON, USA (AP) - President Barack Obama headed to the American West yesterday to sign the $787-billion economic stimulus package and to tackle the home mortgage foreclosure crisis, signalling his determination to sidestep the partisan fires still raging in the capital. The president will sign the stimulus bill into law in Denver today suggesting that he will continue taking his economic message to the American people, who are giving him high marks for handling the crisis. The symbolism is obvious for Colorado, where a growing green-energy industry will draw major benefits from the stimulus. Passage of the stimulus - unprecedented...

Liberalism has wussified and californicated the once rough and tumble frontier town of Denver. Effete metrosexuals have reduced the city to to a shivering, piddling down its leg inbred toy dog cowering at the foot of the Rockies. Buffalo Bill is rolling over in his grave. AURORA | A Cherokee Trail High School senior who had a ROTC-style drill team rifle in the back of her car has been suspended from school and will face expulsion, officials said. Marie Morrow, 17, a member of the Douglas County Young Marines, said she brought a wood and duct tape reproduction of a...

Lisa Jones of the web news site The Examiner has a great piece that exemplifies what I have been saying for a long time: unions are antithetical to good government. Jones details a story of the incestuous relationship between anti-democratic union thugs and the city government in Denver, Colorado. Her sad tale of inside dealing and graft concerns the story of a law firm that promulgates the interests of Big Labor and members of Denver government that tends to make a mockery of the people's interests by using subterfuge and lies to further the goals of Big Labor over that...

DENVER (AP) ― Denver's mayor and workers at about a dozen businesses are wearing pajamas to work Thursday to raise awareness about homelessness.

Rocky Mountain News owner E.W. Scripps Co. said Wednesday it will accept bids for the struggling newspaper through the close of business Friday. Scripps then will review any offers "as quickly as possible, but there's no specific timetable for completing that process," spokesman Tim King said. Wednesday's announcement, made among increasing speculation about the future of the News, marks the first time that Scripps has set a specific deadline for dealing with the 150-year-old newspaper. The Cincinnati-based media company had said last month that it would try to sell the News through mid-January, at which time it would explore other...

Longer duration for yellow signals in Denver, Colorado brings 90 percent reduction in violations. Increasing the duration of the yellow signals has had a greater safety impact than the use of red light cameras in Denver, Colorado. These facts emerged from a Rocky Mountain News investigation that also discovered that city officials and police made no effort whatsoever to track the performance of their public safety program beyond counting the 11,200 tickets worth $840,000 that had been issued between June and November. Redflex Traffic Systems, the Australian company that operates the automated ticketing machines at four intersections in return for...

Denver Public Schools superintendent Michael Bennet is expected to be named Saturday as the future U.S. Senate replacement for Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar, according to two Democratic sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to name his U.S. Senate replacement pick on Saturday, ending a brief but frenzied period of speculation about who will take the seat of Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar. The selection would be preliminary, since Salazar is not expected to resign his U.S. Senate seat until sometime after Jan. 15, when he faces a confirmation hearing — and later...

Gov. Bill Ritter is shattering conventional wisdom in tapping the popular but politically untested Michael Bennet, superintendent of Denver Public Schools, as the U.S. Senate replacement for Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar. The surprising move, expected at a state Capitol news conference Saturday, perplexed many political insiders, most of whom considered Bennet the darkhorse candidate in a field crowded with big name, political veterans like Bennet's old boss, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. To some, the reaction wasn't head-scratching. It was jaw-dropping.

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Finding a buyer for the Rocky Mountain News will be extremely difficult, experts said Thursday. "The newspaper industry has these structural problems that are long-term and you add to that a recession, and it's a bit like someone with diabetes catching pneumonia," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "Deals that might have looked appealing in the summer, look less appealing (now)." Rosenstiel said he believes the most likely candidates are local investors who think the Rocky is too vital to vanish, entrepreneurs who might want to elevate their civic profile in the...

When a Jefferson County deputy unleashed pepper spray at unruly protesters on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, he did not know that his targets were undercover Denver police officers. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado is questioning whether that staged confrontation by police pretending to be violent inflamed other protesters or officers during the most intense night of the four-day event. The protest occurred Aug. 25 at 15th Street and Court Place near Civic Center. Police ultimately arrested 106 people, the highest number of arrests in a single day during the convention. According to a...

Via El Marco, this is what was going on at Obama’s festival today in Denver, Colorado.

Students make up a rising percentage of those who apply for benefits The nation's economic downturn appears to be affecting all ages, as even the number of young, single people seeking food stamps is on the rise. With 23,000 Denver residents receiving food stamp benefits, approximately 4,223, or 18 percent, of them are students. Of that number, a growing 22 percent are single adults enrolled in higher education: community college, trade school or university. In 2006, 1,934 students applied for food stamps as the head of the household and in 2007, the number rose to 2,190. Although only up 1...

100,000 at Obama Rally? CBS News says 100,000 greeted Obama at a rally in Denver today: Barack Obama drew a crowd of 100,000, according to police estimates, in his third visit to Colorado since the Democratic Convention. Speaking at Civic Center Park in downtown Denver, Obama appeared to be stunned by the sea of supporters. "Goodness gracious! Who are those folks way at the top of the capitol over there? Unbelievable!" he said to cheers. Ben Smith notes, however, this Denver Post dispatch: Denver police estimated the crowd at more than 100,000. Civic Center park holds 34,000, and there...

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Broncos great John Elway will join Sen. John McCain at the Republican presidential candidate's rally tomorrow in Denver. McCain is scheduled to speak around 9 a.m. at the National Western Arena, and the campaign said tickets are going fast. The tickets, which are required for entry, may be picked up at the campaign office at 6334 S. Racine Circle in Centennial. Doors open at 7:30 a.m.

John McCain in Colorado Details: DENVER WHEN: Friday, Oct 24th Doors Open at 7:30 am - Program Begins at 9:00 am WHERE: National Western Arena 4655 Humbolt St. Denver, CO 80216 TICKETS: You must have a ticket to enter the event. Tickets are free and can be picked up at one of the following locations: McCain-Palin 2008 Headquarters 6334 South Racine Cir, Suite 200 Centennial, CO 80111 Open 9:00 am - 8:00 pm daily Colorado Victory Headquarters 5950 S. Willow Dr., Suite 201 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Open 9:00 am - 8:00 pm daily Highlands Ranch Victory Office 9135 Ridgeline...

Hi All, longtime lurker, first time posting. Apologies in advance if I don't do it quite right. Here's a heads up for anyone on Colorado's Western Slope or in Denver who would like to meet & greet Todd Palin tomorrow (Tues 10/21/08)in Eagle, Glenwood Springs or Denver: Todd Palin and former Congressman Scott McInnis Glenwood Springs, Village Inn 8:15 am Eagle, Eagle Diner, 10:00 am then, Todd Palin at: Bass Pro Shop 7970 E 49th Ave Denver, Co 80238 1:30 pm please arrive a half hour early

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

WASHINGTON — Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday. The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington. Their alleged improprieties include rigging contracts, working part-time as private oil consultants, and having sexual relationships with — and accepting golf and ski trips and dinners from — oil company employees, according to three reports released Wednesday by the Interior Department's inspector general. The investigations reveal a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" by...

THE AUSTIN HILL RADIO SHOW -- ON NOW -- 630 WMAL, WASHINGTON, DC DISCUSSING THE 12,000 FLAGS LEFT AT INVESCO FIELD BY THE DEMS AFTER OBAMA'S 'CORONATION' LISTEN LIVE: http://www.630wmal.com/Article.asp?id=453473 http://radiotime.com/station/s_30888/WMAL_630.aspx

AURORA — As new questions arose about the man police say is responsible for the tragedy, several hundred friends and relatives gathered Saturday night outside an ice cream shop to mourn three lives suddenly lost. "It hurts now," said Vito Kudlis, surrounded by friends as he and his wife, Enely, wept for their 3-year-old son, Marten. "It is freaky. It is crazy." Marten, Patricia Guntharp, 49, of Centennial and Debra Serecky, 51, of Aurora all died when a Thursday night collision caused vehicles to careen into the Baskin-Robbins at the corner of South Havana Street and East Mississippi Avenue. Saturday...

THE STORY FROM ABC IN DENVER As many of you have heard, there is a flag controversy between the Republicans and the DemocRATS. The RNC is claiming that it save about 12,000 Americans flags leftover from Invesco Field in Denver. The claim is that they were headed for the dumpster. The DemocRATS are claiming that the flags were "stolen" and never intended for the dumpster. They claim that they were in storage and were either to be used again or donated. If 12,000 flags were stolen, I would think that a police report would have been filed. In a...

In the Denver Post Today: Post Poll - Palin's Speech How would you rate Palin's speech at the RNC? (Read this related story)

DENVER – To say that Barack Obama's speech at Invesco Field in Denver didn't live up to the billing should be to state the obvious. But, unfortunately, too many Obamamaniacs have drunk so much of the Great One's Kool-Aid that he could have come onstage naked and they would have praised his magnificent clothes. The speech was rhetorically solid, though not rhetorically brilliant like some of Obama's other orations. Substantively, Obama didn't offer anything novel. It was the standard liberal fare. I think I was owed a bit more for having waited two hours in line to get into the...

Last Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention, presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to score a political touchdown on the 50 yard line of Denver's Invesco Field stadium. Instead, he won the all-time governmental convention award for the best over-the-top political spectacle of sight, sound, speech and pyrotechnics – complete with superstar performances, Braveheart-like epic music endings and an Olympic-sized fireworks show. For a week prior to the event, newscasters, commentators and pundits were trying to guess what exactly that Greco-Roman, column-structure was that served as a stage backdrop, and what it was supposed to be representing and stating on...

August 31, 2008 DNC Filled With the Same Faces & Ideas By David Broder DENVER -- The Democrats had themselves a successful convention -- at the price of appearing quite conventional. The delegates left here happy and enthused, believing that the divisive nomination fight was finally behind them. But their star, Barack Obama, on the climactic night of the conclave, gave an acceptance speech that was no match for the keynote address he delivered at the 2004 convention in Boston. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, introducing his colleague again here, said that first one "changed politics in America." That is...

DENVER--The Democratic Party has boasted that its convention here will be "the most environmentally-sustainable" gathering in the party's history, complete with a director of sustainability, low-power lighting in some areas, and calculations of carbon footprints. Some of the goals include diverting 85 percent of waste that would normally go to a landfill, finding hundreds of people to sort waste into recycling-compost-landfill containers, and devising what The Wall Street Journal described as "lean 'n' green" catering guidelines that say food described thusly must not be fried and shall contain three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple, and white. That...

Pennsylvania's former deputy attorney general and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter Philip J. Berg has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania accusing presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of lying about his U.S. citizenship, which would make him ineligible to be president.Mr. Berg is one of a faction of Clinton supporters who haven't heeded the party's call for unity, filing the suit just days before the opening of the Democratic National Convention, which will nominate Mr. Obama as the party's presidential candidate. ... Mr. Berg has posted documents on his Web site, ObamaCrimes.com, he says back up...

Transcript Barack Obama’s Acceptance Speech Published: August 28, 2008 The following is the transcript of Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions.

Earlier on FishbowlDC: "ABC News Producer Arrested in Denver" We've learned that ABC News' associate producer Asa Eslocker has been advised by his lawyers not to speak about the events of yesterday, when he was arrested for filming outside the Brown Palace Hotel. We've also learned that the hotel today admitted that, no, they don't own the sidewalk, thereby making their arrest of Eslocker all the more suspect. A memo from Eslocker's lawyers, as well as notes from the ACLU and Reporters Without Borders after the jump...

Younger delegates are complaining that most of the songs being piped into the Pepsi Center are not-so-golden oldies from the '80s and earlier. But hip-hop star Big Boi, chronicling the confab for Internet radio outlet Interactive One, went easy on the geezers and wheezers, saying "we may have to ease them into" his 21st century rap music. ***** The American Kennel Club is closely watching whom Barack Obama will pick as his family's canine "running" mate. Obama promised his daughters the family will adopt a dog, but since one of the girls is allergic, it has to be a hypoallergenic...

PHILADELPHIA - A Lafayette Hill lawyer who filed a legal challenge to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential candidacy claiming he doesn't meet U.S. residency requirements had a motion for a temporary restraining order denied Friday.....Though the motion was denied, Berg said he was encouraged that Judge R. Barclay Surrick did not dismiss the lawsuit. The litigation also sought "expedited discovery." "We're still waiting to serve the senator," Berg said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Discovery would include examining the candidate's birth certificate and adoption papers, among other documents, Berg said.Besides Obama, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Federal Election Commission (FEC)...

Wednesday in Denver Inside the Pepsi Center Democrat National Convention "John Edwards couldn't be here tonight..." Bill's on the tube. The Dem Convention isn't exactly Chills, Spills and Bill, but it is the center of the media universe until late tonight. CLICK images to enlarge. Our man, RidesAPaleHorse, DBKP Special Roving Convention Correspondent, files his report from Denver, assisted by "his friend Kevin", who shot the pix Wednesday. 22 scenes from inside the Democrat National Convention in Denver. Some Dem Mayors Get TogetherPutting on the RitzGlitzThe paparazziExcitement inside the Pepsi Center11 more from Wednesday--including Fearless Leader. Look for more pix...

The Washington Times reports: In retrospect, maybe the Democrats should have included Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput in their convention activities after all. The party was accused of deliberately snubbing the outspoken archbishop by failing to invite him to lead prayers or participate on its religion panels. Archbishop Chaput is the leader of Denver´s estimated 385,000 Catholics, the area´s largest religious denomination. But Archbishop Chaput may have gotten the last laugh. Democrats are doing a slow burn over the archbishop´s headline-grabbing criticism of party bigwigs and his decision to schedule major events this week during the convention´s prime-time speeches. Gosh,...