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7:12 am, May 2, 2005
Proving that people will buy just about anything associated with celebrity, bidding has topped $6,000 on John Elway's old Bronco locker as of this morning. The eBay auction ends just before 8 p.m. tonight, Denver time.
The locker is 8 feet tall, 3'3" wide and has a depth of 4'2." The locker contains a small safe, two shelves, a clothes-hanging bar and the seat lifts up to reveal another storage...
6:37 am, May 2, 2005
It was cold this weekend. I rarely left my house. But 500 souls braved the elements to travel to Colorado Springs to protest Dr. James Dobson and his organization, Family Focus at the organization's campus.The protesters gathered in front of the Focus on the Family campus, holding rainbow flags, multicolored balloons and signs reading "God Loves Justice" and "Love Thy Neighbor." An American...
5:40 pm, May 1, 2005
Here's what went down last week on 5280.com: Some of Our Best Friends Are Conservatives Jail Proponents Raised More Funds Denver Three Update: A Runaround He's a Poet One Participant Identified in Denver Three Episode Best Foot Forward Weekend Getaways Do You See Hip Hop? Colorado Smoking Ban Advances 5280's Best Bets for the week of: April 27-May 4 Table Talk for April 26 Salazar Gains Points...
2:17 pm, May 1, 2005
Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo has a featured op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times (free registration required) in which he supports the Minutemen project and accuses President Bush of pandering to the Government of Mexico:
Bush must have some other reason for continuing to push his ill-conceived proposal for amnesty for illegal aliens and for turning a blind eye to the dangers of open...
12:10 pm, May 1, 2005
Colorado's relatively new practice of allowing jurors to ask questions during trials is under attack by a defendant who says it violates his constitutional right to a fair trial. The Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case Monday. The article reviews the arguments in favor of the practice, but doesn't provide many of the opposing arguments. Here are some of the...
12:09 pm, May 1, 2005
Rick Salinger, reporter for Denver's News4Colorado, has a series of reports this week into possible misconduct by local army recruiters. Part I is here. The question:How far will U.S. Army recruiters go to bring young men and women into their ranks?Knowing that the Army had fallen well below it's recruitment goal in Colorado, David McSwane, an Arvada high school student, went undercover to...
11:40 am, Apr 29, 2005
A tip of the cycling helmet to our pal, Colorado Rep. Greg Brophy, who is profiled in today's Rocky Mountain News.
Brophy, a self-described "ultra-conservative," is pictured wearing a 5280 team jersey.
Who says we can't all get along?
11:19 am, Apr 29, 2005
If the amount of money raised in support of or against a legislative initiative is indicative of its final success, then the Denver Justice Center will be approved May 3 by a large margin. The campaign to build the new jail has received 11 times the amount of contributions raised by opponents of the plan.
The opposition has received only $56,000. in three months. Most of it has been in "in-...
11:18 am, Apr 29, 2005
As the White House today defended the practice of staffers asking people to leave public presidential events because of the staffer's belief that they will disrupt it, the Secret Service began it's backtrack into doublespeak.
Lon Garner, the Secret Service agent in charge in Denver, said he never told the three that the man was "a Republican Party staffer." Instead, he said the man was "a...
8:08 am, Apr 28, 2005
Congratulations to John Davies-Schley, a Denver 2nd grader, who is the national grand prize winner in the 2005 River of Words Contest for grades K-2. His poem, "From My Boat," was chosen from tens of thousands of entries. The River of Words Environmental Poetry and Art Contest is affiliated with the Library of Congress Center for the Book and was co-founded by writer Pamela Michael and poet...
