For a basketball backwater, Colorado is well-represented in ESPN's look at the emerging world of Washington pickup basketball.

This ESPN article mentions that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is "not an easy cover" (a description that works well on the hardwood and on the beat)...

Burns
Let it be known that no one from the Denver Post political team played a role in the selection of this morning's front page picture of Gov. Bill Ritter. In fact, we completely missed his impression of Monty Burns of Simpsons fame during yesterday's press conference.

A voter-approved amendment that's helped slow campaign contributions in Colorado was temporarily lifted Tuesday by Denver District Court Judge Catherine A. Lemon, who several times called the rules discriminatory and confusing.
She largely agreed with the collection of business, labor and non-profit leaders who argued that Amendment 54 - approved by 51 percent of voters...

Witnessed Monday just off the Senate floor:

Sen. Michael Bennet came out of the chamber and was waiting for an elevator. A reporter nearby leans over and asks, "Who is that?" and another reporter whispers, "Oh, that's Michael Bennet, he replaced Ken Salazar."

The Colorado Democrat overheard the conversation and as he gets on the lift, he says, "No one can replace Ken Salazar."

After local launches in the City that Never Sleeps and the Second City, the online Huffington Post plans to open a micro site focussed on poltics and opinion in the Mile High City, founder Arianna Huffington said.

The Huffington Post last year launched its first locally oriented site in

It's not that you're doing a bad job congressman, it's just that the system needs changing.

With that co-opting of Obama's change message, Unity Party candidate Bill Hammons announced today that he would challenge Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, in 2010.

Hammons received .63 percent of the vote last November.

"Although Jared is currently representing our District well, he is a part of a...