In which the Washington Bureau Chief skews the dataset

by Eileen McGuire-Mahony | 9:00 am, January 16, 2012

FaceBook, a privacy-raping death beast of wide fame, has partnered up with Politico, an semi-upstart publication for Washingtonians and others whose libido is sadly misdirected at subcommittee hearings and such. No, you can’t opt out. What’s being handed from FB over to Politico are your status updates.  In theory, all status updates containing the name [...]

PPC’s Top Colorado Political Stories of 2011

by elpresidente | 5:40 am, December 30, 2011

Last week, People’s Press Collective put out a call on Facebook for our readers’ suggestions for top political stories in the state of Colorado for 2011. Several dozen stories were crowdsourced, and I took the additional editorial step of combining similar stories into single entries, such as our first place story for 2011, the decennial [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 6, Having Fun on the Campaign Trail

by elpresidente | 1:00 pm, December 29, 2011

Part of the residual effect of having been a professional journalist and blogger is the credibility and the credentials to hit the campaign trail and cover prospective candidates. It just so happened that several candidates for the highest office in the land managed to traipse their way through Colorado in 2011, stumping and picking up [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 5, A Fistful of Pace

by elpresidente | 12:00 pm, December 29, 2011

This one is more of a peering-into-2012 story. If this doesn’t end up as a campaign ad, our side will be negligent in their duties. Aspiring 3rd Congressional District Democratic candidate, former House Minority Leader Rep. Sal Pace (D-Pueblo) had some strong words for those who might oppose unions and their Big Labor agenda way [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 4, Driving a Stake Into Prop 103

by elpresidente | 11:00 am, December 29, 2011

Conventional wisdom be damned. When you have the opportunity to really kill a tax increase, GIVE IT EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT. Given the Colorado Model and the mixed results of what should have been a great year in the 2010 midterms, nothing should be taken for granted in this state. Probable defeat by dougle-digits? Make it [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 3, The Battle of BlogCon11

by elpresidente | 10:00 am, December 29, 2011

MIC CHECK!!! Turning briefly from straight-out investigative reporting or blogging, one of the highlights of my year was working with the fabulous Tabitha Hale, formerly New Media director at FreedomWorks, to put together a panel on ‘Building a State Blog Network’ for the group’s BlogCon11 conference held fortuitously in Denver in November. Simply being listed [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 2, Exploding The Myth of Green Jobs

by elpresidente | 9:00 am, December 29, 2011

Challenging the myth of former Gov. Bill Ritter’s fabled “New Energy Economy” was no small task, but thankfully this endeavor paid off more than its fair share of earned media dividends, and cemented my collaborative efforts with one of my favorite writers and mentors, Amy Oliver. Way back in February, a hot tip was passed [...]

EP’s 2011 Recap: Part 1, Surging Independents

by elpresidente | 8:00 am, December 29, 2011

It has been a long year. Rather than an exhaustive recap, allow me, if you will, to take a quick look back on the top stories that came across my virtual workdesk in 2011–stories of original research, investigation, or reporting that I published on the pages of People’s Press Collective, Independence Institute/Townhall, National Review Online, [...]

Ranking the Top Political Stories in Colorado for 2011

by elpresidente | 6:21 am, December 22, 2011

People’s Press Collective has thrown together a quick, informal, and non-intended-to-be-scientific-but-fun-anyway survey for our readers to rank their Top Political Stories in Colorado for the past year. There have been some doozies, which would be an understatement.

Occupy Denver at BlogCon11: More Video, Blog Roundup

by elpresidente | 11:09 am, November 12, 2011

Breitbart TV has a great roundup of a bunch of videos from yesterday’s festivities when #OccupyDenver tried to take on #BlogCon11. Ed at Hot Air provides a link roundup, and Jim Hoft points out the teacher from Denver who thought it was a good idea to bring students down to experience democracy. More at memeorandum. [...]

keep looking »

Featured Posts

• Ga. Court Rules Obama Eligible to Run; Appeal Slated

  It was too easy for the Georgia judge to hide behind another court’s questionable ruling. I think the Liberty Legal Foundation may be onto something. At least on appeal the court won’t be able to throw it out on procedural grounds. Stay tuned…

• Printing Money Doesn’t Work in Britain Either
• Oklahoma’s Constitutional Amendment Would Pit Taxpayers Against Unions
• Friday’s Unemployment Numbers: Correcting the Corrections
• Romney Woos Grand Junction, Earns Sen. King’s Endorsement
• The Borking of Netflix: movie service finds privacy law to be an inconvenience
• Rich Americans Are Fleeing the Country