Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Coyote Gulch Outage? The reboot worked. You have to love OSX (and UNIX). 7:43:41 AM

Coyote Gulch Outage? We're experiencing problems with our news aggregator. We're going to attempt a remote reboot of the server back in Denver. Hopefully we'll be back online soon. 7:04:34 AM

Three terms for Denver D.A.? From today's Denver Post: "The Denver City Council nixed an attempt to change the way some voters elect at-large council members Monday, keeping it off the May municipal election ballot. At-large Councilman Doug Linkhart hoped to split the races for Denver's two at-large seats into separate races and require candidates to win a majority. Currently, all at-large candidates run in a single pool and the two candidates with the most votes get seats. Linkhart said the change would add accountability to the races by - for one thing - allowing candidates to challenge a particular incumbent. But other council members questioned whether the current system was a problem. The effort failed because seven votes are needed for the City Council to put a question on the ballot. The council voted 6-4, with three members absent. "The council approved a different ballot question extending term limits for the district attorney from two terms to three." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News. They write, "Denver voters will decide in May whether the district attorney can serve three terms instead of two, the same as other elected officials in city government. But what voters won't have a say on is whether at-large council candidates should be elected by a majority instead of a plurality. The City Council on Monday unanimously agreed to place the DA's term limit question on the ballot but killed a proposal to ask voters to create an A seat and a B seat for the two at-large posts. Council members in opposition said they were concerned the public hadn't weighed in on the proposed charter change." Category: Denver May 2007 Election 6:16:17 AM

Hickenlooper or Lopez for Mayor? Even though Mayor Hickenlooper has not officially announced his campaign for re-election he's raising dough and spending some, according to the Denver Post. From the article, "Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper has not officially announced his re-election run, but he is sitting on a campaign war chest of about $590,000 and spent nearly $150,000 on the campaign. The Hickenlooper campaign raised more than $112,000 in the month of February alone. The contributions amount to almost $90,000 more than Hickenlooper raised at this point in his 2003 campaign - when he was facing seven other candidates... "Of the $112,000 Hickenlooper raised in February, nearly $60,000 came from outside the city of Denver. Slightly less than $20,000 of that came from outside the state... "The mayor is expected to cruise through this campaign - a poll conducted for The Denver Post at the end of last year showed approval ratings of 70 percent. But he will have an opponent.Dan Lopez, a city of Denver employee, collected enough signatures to be on the ballot. Lopez said he has not raised any campaign money so far. The Public Works employee said that beating Hickenlooper would amount to 'pulling off the biggest upset in the history of politics.' But Lopez is hoping even a meager campaign will allow him to voice frustration about pay for city employees and give any disgruntled voters another choice." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News. Category: Denver May 2007 Election 6:13:29 AM

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