Colorado Media Matters searched the following Colorado newspapers using the Nexis and Factiva online databases, Google, and the newspapers' websites: The Aspen Times, Cherry Creek News, the Craig Daily Press, the Daily Camera of Boulder, The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, the Denver Business Journal, The Denver Post, The Durango Herald, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, The Gazette of Colorado Springs, the Greeley Tribune, the Montrose Daily Press, The Pueblo Chieftain, the Rocky Mountain News, the Summit Daily News, and the Vail Daily.

That's right -- not a single story on this amendment in any of these Colorado newspapers.  Is it all some big right wing media conspiracy?  Well, CMM notes that Allard issued a press release about his other (immigration related) amendment to the minimum wage bill, but he did not issue a press release about his minimum wage ban.

So it probably isn't that the Colorado media actively covered up the story.  It's more likely that they are just used to getting spoon fed press releases from politicians and reworking them into "news stories."  So Allard could cover up his own shameful amendment by just not talking about it.

Before progressives harnessed the internet, politicans probably got away with stuff like this all the time.  But here in Colorado, where we have SquareState as well as the first state level Media Matters operation, stories like Allard's attempt to eliminate the federal minimum wage will see the light of day, regardless of laziness in the traditional media.

It will be interesting to see if any of the Colorado media outlets identified by Colorado Media Matters will now be shamed into reporting on this story.

(Cross posted at dKos and SquareState.)