Monday: Driving around, white hair flying
In a , Denver psychotherapist Carol Leavenworth wrote about how a generation that sought to change sexist and racist attitudes now confronts another form of prejudice: ageism. “Perhaps what we need now is a consciousness-raising movement for the elderly,” she wrote.
Day’s best: A narrow victory in Greek elections by the New Democracy party provided a that the country will stick with austerity measures and avoid sending markets into a tizzy.
Day’s worst: Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., who is unhappy with media coverage of his appearance on a Gazette online video interview, two fellow Republicans to cancel interviews with the news organization.
Tuesday: Level playing field on campaign finance
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., , saying, “We cannot afford to let special interests drown out the voices of regular folks in our presidential elections.”
Day’s best: Jim Moscou, chief executive of Sir Richards Condom Co. in Boulder, as part of the company’s plan to match sales with donations in developing countries in hopes of reducing HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
Day’s worst: Convicted child abusers Christine and Randall Arnold had their sentencing hearing delayed after they apparently .
Wednesday: Hickenlooper’s surprising centrism
“(Gov. John) Hickenlooper ran for governor as a centrist on energy policy. I wasn’t sure whether to believe him. Eighteen months into his term, it’s clear he meant it,” Vincent Carroll wrote .
Day’s best: Good news for iPhone owners constantly on the prowl for an outlet: Colorado-based Ascent Solar Technologies said it has for its solar-powered cases. The initial order is for Asia, and the product can’t get to the U.S. fast enough for many of us.
Day’s worst: With Major League Baseball’s worst starting pitching, the Colorado Rockies announced they would go with a instead of five, and opt for more long relief. When does NFL training camp open?
Thursday: Fast, furious and secret
, we said the Obama administration needs to turn over requested documents to Congress in the investigation into the botched Fast and Furious gun-smuggling investigation.
Day’s best: In what may have been a first, there was , or CBMS, which is used to administer Medicaid, food stamps and other programs. A fix that cost $17 million received glowing reports in a Joint Budget Committee hearing.
Day’s worst: Michael Maher, arrested on suspicion of felony theft for presenting himself as a firefighter at the High Peak fire, . Items recovered at Maher’s Denver apartment are suspected to have been stolen from the Lower North Fork fire in Jefferson County in March and from other agencies.
Friday: FCC should back off on obscenity
The obscenity police at the Federal Communications Commission got a rap on the knuckles when the U.S. Supreme Court to punish networks for a couple of stray F-bombs and a bare posterior briefly shown on broadcast television. They should focus on more important things, we said in an editorial.
Day’s best: With Merida, the heroine of the animated film “Brave,” Pixar studios finally has its first female protagonist. As The New York Times pointed out, it took the studio only 17 years — and 12 box-office hits — to enter “the big business of little girls.”
Day’s worst: The Twitter “fail whale,” which greets users of the popular social-media site when it’s not working, appeared far too often as the service experienced several outages.
