QUID HAS HEARD of two very ironic Aurora projects with interesting names, aims and ideas. The first project, Westerly Creek Village, in Aurora’s — ahem — less “economically robust” northern neighborhoods was declared blight by the Aurora City Council last week as part of that area’s revitalization. The area will undergo years of rehab that will include tearing down crumbling buildings, adding sidewalks, mowing wild grass, oh, and potentially kicking out more than 500 people who currently live there. Luckily for some of the people who may find themselves without housing, the city opened last week the Village at Westerly Creek. On the opposite end of town, near the old Buckingham mall, the curiously named apartment homes at the village are for low-income seniors who would otherwise be homeless. The city, it seems, gives and takes with very little difference in names.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that the City of Aurora will be taking itself to court soon over foul-mouth, oft-reprimanded, once-fired officer Chris Falco. Last week the city announced that it would be appealing the Civil Service Commission’s ruling to reinstate Officer Falco after that body found that police Chief Dan Oates improperly fired Falco for numerous offenses that included calling a man shot by Falco, a “marshmallow head.”

When the city takes the commission to court in the coming weeks, the city will likely have to hire an outside agency to represent the committee in court — paid for by taxpayers. It’s unclear which side will come out on top, but taxpayers will get stuck with both bottom lines.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that no one is happier about the hysterical pregnancy revealed at the Colorado Secretary of State’s office this week than the state’s ultra-right. Seems the good folks that bring you “baby killers” and other assorted quips when it comes to abortion rights fell short a little more than 3,000 votes in their effort to get another “personhood” question on the state ballot. The twice-before-failed effort wants the government to declare sperm-and-egg meetings a “person.” It would mean the end of in-vitro fertizilization, embryonic stem-cell research and “the pill.” Now that wise-guy Congressman Todd Akin has beat himself bloody with his own personhood mentality, those in Colorado that have backed this oddity have suddenly gone silent. Seems they can come out of the closet now, safe in knowing the measure’s off the ballot.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS