He looked shmucky enough at the end of the regularly scheduled session of the Colorado Legislature when he pointed the finger at Democrats for not pushing the civil unions bill earlier, then delivered his own lethal injection when he sent the proposal to a "kill committee."

And then whoops, House Speaker Frank McNulty did it again.

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Today was a good day for Aurora tourism -- and not for the same reason as on November 28, 1979, when a mysterious Hollywood stunt man showed up with a plan to build a massive amusement park called Science Fiction Land. Today's good news came courtesy the Colorado Economic Development Commission, which selected a proposed 1,500-room hotel in Aurora to receive millions of dollars in state tourism incentives.

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Stoner MacGyver.

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Aqua Lab Technologies Mini Showerhead Vapor Tube

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Albus Brooks.

On Monday, Denver City Council voted 9-4 to pass an urban camping ordinance, and the meeting wasn't pretty: Opponents shouted "Shame!" at the councilmembers, turned their backs on the proceedings and launched a sit-in outside council chambers. From there, roughly fifty protesters followed the pro-ban council members to their cars, where they shouted lines such as "See you in hell!" as police officers cleared the way for ordinance sponsor Albus Brooks and others to leave the building.

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With a scribble of his ceremonial pen this morning, Governor John Hickenlooper set Colorado on a path not unlike that of the Iron Man himself, Robert Downey, Jr. No, our fair state isn't going to rehab. Instead, lawmakers, film-industry insiders and Colorado boosters hope that the beefed-up film incentives package Hick signed into law today will cause the Centennial State to once again reign as king of the silver screen. Or at least the Iron Man of the silver screen.

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Troy Tulowitzki.

Denver blog posts root, root, root for the home team.

Purple Row's Bryan Kirkpatrick notes that interleague play for the season pits the Rocks against the "offensively inept" Seattle Mariners. Hope they stay that way.

Denver Infill's Rick Anstey checks in with the 100th update on Union Station construction. Whew!

Denver Frank: Who are you talking to Bike Prom?

Still rockin'.

In most instances, a thief without a gun would be considered less dangerous than one with his itchy finger on the trigger. But the escalating bad behavior of a rock-brandishing bandit who's shaken down businesses and pedestrians has Colorado Springs police working to locate and neutralize Mr. Blunt Object before somebody gets seriously messed up.

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Hickenlooper.

John Hickenlooper and Mike Coffman aren't exactly ideological twins. But at the end of this big political week in the State of Colorado, they both face political fallout, albeit for very different reasons: a special session that failed to pass civil unions and comments questioning Barack Obama's birth records, respectively. Will they be hurt by these events? Quite possibly, says Floyd Ciruli, Colorado's preeminent pollster.

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With about 55 percent of more than 93,000 medical marijuana patients with a red card designating someone to grow for them, finding a caregiver clearly isn't that hard of a task in Colorado.

But how do people who aren't part of the cannabis community or simply don't have the right connections find someone to help grow their medicine?

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Ever since we published our collection of favorite "You know you're from Colorado when...." punchlines, we've had readers posting their suggested variations on the theme.

Here's one we absolutely loved.

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Guy Cruz is no longer a probation officer for the 4th Judicial District, and neither he is a high school tennis coach, the next gig he took up. But the Pueblo resident is in big trouble for allegedly threatening a parolee with jail or a loss of access to her son if she didn't get horizontal with him -- something she reportedly proved was happening via use of a video camera.

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Felisa Cardona.

In our interview with the Denver Post's Tina Griego, whose decision to accept a severance package originally intended to reduce the copy-editing staff by two-thirds could lead to the paper being metro-columnist free until 2013, we noted that several other writers would also be leaving. We've now ID'd three, all veterans of the staff: Ann Schrader, Margaret Jackson and Felisa Cardona.

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Hate crime, attention-getting fraud or something else entirely?

That's the question surrounding the Douglas County Sheriff's Office decision to charge partners Aimee Whitchurch and Christel Conklin with painting "Kill the Gay" on their residence and then reporting it to authorities as a potential act of retaliation against them -- because they're lesbians.

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Earlier this week, when we published our list of the ten most notable people to die in Colorado, we asked you to let us know if we'd forgotten anyone -- and thank goodness you did, because we made a number of hefty oversights. We're highlighting the ones most frequently mentioned in this sequel list, which also includes a slew of other fascinating personalities who shuffled off this mortal coil right here. Count them down below.

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Yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of our Mile High Murder archive -- and on that day, the first murder in year four took place.

The victim was the owner of a store on East 64th, who died in what appears to be a robbery attempt.

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Today, the state's Economic Development Commission will choose which, if any, of six projects that applied will get subsidies under the Regional Tourism Act. Eco devo chief Ken Lund has recommended that just one be granted incentives: Gaylord, which wants to build an Aurora hotel/resort complex.

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Update: As we reported in our original coverage below, 6th Congressional District rep Mike Coffman made the wrong kind of news via audio of him questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States; hear it below. That's the kind of ammo prized by election opponents. And Joe Hamill, campaign manager for Joe Miklosi, who'll be facing off against Coffman in November, takes great pleasure in firing it.

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In most instances, breaking and entering involves a thief smashing a window or kicking in a door. But Michael Vidal and three compatriots are accused of taking B&E to the next level -- by gaining access to a building into an exterior wall with a stolen car and taking loot through the hole. And Colorado Springs cops suspect they may have done it more than once.

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Green Dream.

Back in the day, there were fewer greater feelings for a young cannabis user than finding a new connection. Finding that steady hookup of sticky green bud was one you cherished as your friends were picking seeds out of brick. I hadn't thought about that sensation in a while, what with so many MMCs and herb growers everywhere. But Green Dream Health Services brought me back to those days, because just about everything I saw on the shelves made me want to bring it home.

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Jared Polis.

Representative Jared Polis wants to introduce legislation that promises to reverse Congress's controversial decision to keep pizza lsbeled a "vegetable" in school lunches. "What Congress has done, believe it or not, is defied logic," Polis said in front of a crowd of lunchtime students at Louisville Middle School on Monday. "Congress said that eating pizza is the same as eating peas, or green beans, or broccoli."

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