Post News: Denver police chief proposes double-check on DUI stops of public officials

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Today's Front Page News

Denver police chief proposes double-check on DUI stops of public officials
Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman is proposing new rules for drunken-driving stops by his officers, requiring them to call a supervisor anytime they pull over a fellow cop, other criminal justice employee or any public official.  

• Poll: Many baby boomers expect to stay put when they retire
• Avalanche comes out flat in 4-2 road loss to the Flames
• President Obama unveils plan to ease student-loan debt at Denver stop
• First snow snaps tree branches along Front Range, causing power outages
• CEOs try to see protesters' points — and vice versa

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Today's Local Politics

President Obama unveils plan to ease student-loan debt at Denver stop
Speaking to thousands of students Wednesday on a snow-covered Auraria Campus, President Barack Obama urged young people to prod Congress to move on his American Jobs Act proposal.  

• Colorado Supreme Court candidates say they're not politically active
• Colorado's high-profile gays back legislator in primary against gay soldier

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Today's Business

Colorado corporate leaders try to see Denver protesters' points — and vice versa
Friends? Not in a million years. Mutually respectful? Even that's a stretch. Yet the frosty chasm between Occupy Wall Street protesters and the reviled office-suite elite is showing signs of a nascent thaw — with both sides trying to understand where the other is coming from.  

• Colorado Office of Economic Development is restructuring
• Colorado's PharmaJet surprised as FDA puts brakes on no-needle flu shots
• European leaders OK plan to reduce Greece's debt, increase aid
• Parker: Barry Fey's tome chronicles Denver concert promoter's colorful career

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Today's Sports Headlines

Avalanche comes out flat in 4-2 road loss to the Flames
The Avalanche finally hit a roadblock. Needing only one more victory away from home to tie a franchise record for most consecutive wins in enemy territory, the Avs seemed to sleepwalk through the first two periods.  

• CU Buffs women out to prove Pac-12 coaches poll wrong
• Devlin: Making everyone happy with prep football realignment is an impossible goal
• Woody's Mailbag: Hurry up and win with Broncos' Tim Tebow
• CU Buffs' Brian Lockridge really shines off the field
• CU Buffs freshman guard Askia Booker has flashy dunks to show off

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Today's Entertainment

"The Road to Mecca" a long, satisfying trek
Review: "The Road to Mecca" is a long and patient one, and not everyone who embarks will make it to journey's end. A few antsy audience members invariably walk out of this deliberate play of ideas passing between three very symbolic characters. Rating: ***  

• Su Teatro does "Enrique's Journey" justice
• "Blind Date": A standout at being stood-up
• Creede actors invading, invigorating Denver stages
• Dusty Saunders writes the book on his experiences as a TV and radio columnist
• Installation of more than 100 artworks begins at Clyfford Still Museum in Denver

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Today's Style

Working from home creates extra homework (10/17/11)
Dear Amy: I live with my mother and sister. I can't afford to move out. My mother and sister both have jobs outside the home. I have a home-based business. Somehow, the cleaning at home always seems to be left to me.  

• Jewelry by Lindsay Bloom blossoms into a growing business
• Denver Post Fashion Calendar, 10/27/11
• Style File: Accent marks
• Style File: Plan your wedding
• Style File: Dream weavers

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Today's Opinion

Milbank: Back to birtherism
If at first you don't secede, try the birther movement.  

• Rosen: Bursting the Occupiers' bubble
• Guest Commentary: Denver coroner's defense of labeling zoo death a "homicide"
• Guest Commentary: Colorado can't wait for Obama to fix the economy
• Right-to-carry legislation takes aim at states' rights
• Cop cams could build credibility