Post News: Denver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets

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Today's Front Page News

Denver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets
Following an audit that criticized Denver's traffic photo-enforcement program as having unproven results, the City Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to renew the contract of the photo red-light program.  

• Denver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets, despite audit questioning their safety benefit
• Gayle - not Ted - Haggard is the star of "Celebrity Wife Swap"
• Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world
• M&D's Cafe in Denver's Five Points neighborhood closes doors
• Romney ekes out 8-vote win over Santorum in Iowa

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Today's Local Politics

Denver City Council gives initial OK to keep photo tickets, despite audit calling for their end
Following an audit that criticized Denver's traffic photo-enforcement program as having unproven results, the City Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to renew the contract of the photo red-light program.  

• Hickenlooper dismisses idea of 2016 run for president
• Salazar designates Trujillo Homesteads in San Luis Valley a national historic landmark
• Interior Secretary Salazar, Gov. Hickenlooper and two senators explore San Luis Valley conservation
• Colorado GOP group organizes support for civil unions, saying they fit party's personal-freedom philosophy
• Colorado legislator's bill seeks cooling-off period before getting divorce

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Today's Business

Colorado skiers frustrated by low snowpack line up to go tubing
The riders waited for hours at the Fraser Tubing Hill and the Colorado Adventure Park in Grand County. They spent $25 an hour at the Frisco Adventure Park, where last week's line to ride stretched up the hill.  

• Cable- and satellite-TV providers raising rates because of programming costs
• Metro Denver home sales rose in 2011, but experts focus on sliding inventory
• Dow jumps 180 on first trading day of 2012
• Manufacturing grows at fastest pace in 6 months
• Fed to regularly forecast interest-rate changes

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Today's Sports Headlines

Woody Paige: John Elway wants Tim Tebow to "pull the trigger" in NFL playoffs
John Elway has been there before — and is there again. The Duke of Denver's advice to young Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow for his first NFL playoff game Sunday: "Pull the trigger."  

• Guarded optimism for the Rams
• Pittsburgh Steelers' defense always hard to dent
• Rest stops are precious in NBA's lockout-shortened season
• Super reception by Shannon Sharpe with 1997 AFC title at stake
• Denver Broncos' Mike McCoy among candidates for Jacksonville Jaguars' head coaching job

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Today's Entertainment

TV Preview: "Downton Abbey" season 2
"The young are all so calm about change, aren't they?"-- Violet, the Dowager Countess, played by Maggie Smith in "Downton Abbey" Whether for Maggie Smith's imperious and often hilarious  

• Book review: "Adam and Evelyn" a meandering love story on a road to nowhere
• Book review: New Virginia Woolf bio says it's for those new to the esteemed writer

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Today's Style

Planned wedding ceremony after elopement angers aunt (1/2/12)
Dear Amy: Is it appropriate to wear a wedding dress and stage a wedding ceremony (featuring bridesmaids, groomsmen, etc.) after an elopement that caused huge rifts and heartache in the family? This young, headstrong girl ran off in secret and lied to her family.  

• Make This: Haricot Lamb and Moroccan-style Chicken Mechoui
• Poppy Seed Bread: Circa 1973
• Pumpkin pumps up the nutrition and texture of chili
• Striving for balance: Wunderkind chef Daniel Humm preaches paying attention to details
• Caramelized onions are a versatile, time-tested treat

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Is it finally time for civil unions?
The emergence of a Republican group supporting civil unions for gay couples in Colorado is a refreshing turn of events for a party that hasn't exactly been out front in supporting this basic right.  

• Carroll: Give Romney a fair shake
• Lear: Fighting the good fight
• Guest Commentary: Demanding a better Congress
• Marcus: The evil twins of campaigning
• Editorial: DPS continues progress on school choice reform