QUIDNUNC: Where’s Mike-O these days?

QUID HAS HEARD that it’s still best not to count your kushins before they sprout. Seems that there’s at least some anecdotal type of info going around showing that Colorado could be the first state in the union to legalize marijuana, again. It’s got some folks thinking about what kind of bong they want on their coffee table. Others are thinking about how they’re going to spend all that tax money when it  comes rolling in.

It’ll be a while, say state hoo-haws. They pointed out to political types that even if voters approve the measure, and even if the feds don’t come marching into Denver to extinguish Colorado’s Merry Jane like they did in Ft. Sumter, and even if stores were ready to clear out space to make room for all the new strains and accoutrements that the pot biz now boasts, voters would have to decide at the next election whether they would approve taxing whacky tobacky. In the meantime, Colorado folks are just going to have to keep treating rampant backaches and poor appetite that began plaguing this state a couple of years ago with the state’s medical merryjuana.

AND QUID HAS HEARD that several names are being tossed around for the recently vacated Aurora City Council Ward I seat. Names familiar to anyone who has seen an Aurora City Council ballot in the last 10 years should come as no surprise: Kim Harrell, Deb Wallace, Stephanie Takis, Nadine Caldwell, Debbie Reynolds, among others who might fill the position. Whoever is appointed, the next year for The Colfax Ward could be intensely busy for the hoo-haw who would represent Aurora’s oldest neighborhoods and newest life science district. Light-rail build out, overpass construction and a fledgling arts district all need attention, as do pressing matters for the city as a whole. If we might suggest a place to start the search for a temporary replacement for outgoing Councilwoman Melissa Miller, we hear there’s people willing to work all the time right there in Original Aurora. You know the place — near Dayton Street …

QUID HAS FINALLY SPOTTED Aurora’s version of “Waldo,” Congressman Mike Coffman. The congressman, who’s running for his office again, has been famously hard to find in the past few weeks despite running for an elected position. It’s not that he’s been out of town, he’s just been out of sight. Coffman has made very few public appearances on the campaign trail so far — and prefers questions in writing first for some reason — but Quid has finally found him: on TV. Coffman is busy buying up airtime to run a commercial reminding Aurorans that he is, in fact, one of us. There’s a better and cheaper way to do that, Congressman: Be seen with us? To be fair, we’re not sure we’ve seen the guy he’s running against either.

AND THAT’S ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS.