Of the 287 miles of Colorado roadway that are currently part of the state’s Sponsor a Highway program, 140 of them, or just under half, are being paid for by marijuana businesses. See where they are and what shops are participating here.
“It’s an absolutely amazing story,” says KNUS radio host Steffan Tubbs about the subject of 25 Steps, his latest documentary film, which debuts on June 6. “And I had to tell it.”
While officials work to implement Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s mobility action plan, whose goals include 30 percent of commuters walking, biking or taking public transit to work by 2030, traffic engineering manager Michael Finochio and his staff are trying to at least incrementally improve the current traffic situation, especially in Denver’s Central Business District, where what is known as the 2018 Downtown Signal Retiming Project is underway.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law’s political action committee has endorsed Representative Jared Polis’s 2018 campaign for governor of Colorado. And NORML executive director Erik Altieri is psyched that Polis, a Democrat, is as enthusiastic about this backing as the venerable cannabis advocacy group is in regard to his candidacy.
The story of the FBI agent who accidentally shot someone while executing a back flip at Mile High Spirits Distillery over the weekend went national with the speed of social media, and plenty of folks on Twitter quickly made sport of the bizarre situation. But now, as witnessed by a hilarious segment on last night’s edition of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, the professionals are getting involved.
Attorney Paula Greisen is no fan of the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phililps and fears negative repercussions. But she sees positives in some of the language used in the majority opinion, as well as the lack of sweeping pronouncements that might have turned back the clock on LGBTQ rights.
Jeff Hunt, among the main coordinators of the Western Conservative Summit at Colorado Christian University, says comic Samantha Bee’s recent description of First Daughter Ivanka Trump as a “feckless cunt” isn’t the only reason representatives of Full Frontal, her take-no-prisoners TBS show, have been denied press credentials for this year’s event, which gets underway on Friday, June 8.
On May 30, about two hours after the publication of the Westword post “Fit Cannabis Girl v. Wheat Ridge’s Bid to Shut Down Her Pot-Friendly Gym,” a detective knocked on the door of Break the Stigma Fitness and handed owner Jennessa Lea a final order to vacate the premises by June 4. When she spoke to Westword yesterday, mere hours before leaving both the facility and the State of Colorado, she was understandably emotional.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, owner of Denver’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, who objected to baking a wedding cake for a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, back in 2012 because of his Christian views. And while the decision isn’t as sweeping as some critics feared, it’s expected to cause repercussions that could be felt for years to come.
The story of an FBI agent whose gun accidentally discharged while he was backflipping at a Denver nightclub is continuing to spread today. But as amusing as it is to watch network anchors grapple with this material, the reactions of Twitter users are even more interesting.
The ten most expensive apartments for rent in metro Denver right now demonstrate that the market for high-end residences shows no sign of lagging. The two priciest go for more than $10,000 per month.
After a marijuana-fueled online adventure, Larry and Kathie J, one of Denver’s favorite radio teams, are back on the airwaves after an incredibly tumultuous year, and they’re ready to double your pleasure. Today, they’re debuting at not one but two stations, with a morning show on FLO 107.1 and a rebroadcast of the program during the afternoon at Jammin’ 101.5.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Winter Games Exploratory Committee has announced that Denver and Colorado can and should pursue bids for future Olympic and Paralympic events. However, the concept calls for an approach that wouldn’t require direct funding from taxpayers and recommends that any efforts in regard to 2020 and beyond be submitted to a statewide vote in advance.
The original Dynasty has nothing on the Mile High City soap opera starring the children of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. But daughter Beth Bowlen Wallace’s self-nomination as heir apparent to oversee the team isn’t campy and entertaining but unseemly and sad, since Pat is being treated like he’s dead even though he’s not.
Average rent prices in Denver right now continue to rise, with no end in sight, and a new report makes it clear that cost increases in the Mile High are among the worst in the country. Of twenty major U.S. cities, it shows that rent in Denver has gone up more in sheer dollars than in all but two of them.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has joined chief executives from thirteen other states in signing a letter decrying new restrictions floated by the Trump administration on reproductive healthcare providers that accept funding under the federal Title X program. Opponents refer to the proposal as a “gag rule,” since even so much as the mention of the word “abortion” would be forbidden.
Chuck Plunkett, who resigned as editorial page editor of the Denver Post four weeks ago today, after an executive for the subsidiary company that runs the paper refused to okay a new editorial critical of Alden Global Capital, its vampiric hedge fund owner, has been named director of CU News Corps at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The May television ratings period known as “sweeps” has just concluded, and publicists for the top TV stations in the Denver market are boasting about the number of people tuning in. But they’re not mentioning how precipitously the number of traditional viewers they’re attracting has tumbled in recent decades.
From 2012 through last month, more than 3,000 pedestrians were hit by cars in Denver, and as we recently noted, several neighborhoods in the city have suffered accidents of this type numbering in the hundreds over that span. In contrast, the ten parts of Mile High spotlighted below experienced the fewest pedestrian-car crashes. But that hardly means they got off scot-free.
The latest order in a 2016 lawsuit filed against the University of Colorado by a male student who was expelled after being accused of sexually assaulting two fellow enrollees dismisses a claim that he was a discrimination victim under Title IX but is allowing an assertion that his due process rights were violated to move ahead.
The City of Wheat Ridge has suspended the business license of Break the Stigma Fitness, a marijuana-friendly gym operated by Jennessa Lea, better known as Fit Cannabis Girl. And even though she’s fighting this action, the landlord of her 9690 West 38th Avenue location has ordered her to leave by June 4.
Former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey is blunt when asked about several cases in which Beth McCann, his successor as Denver DA, has resentenced men who were convicted of felony murder and other charges when they were juveniles during the 1990s, resulting in their time behind bars being substantially lessened. In his view, she’s breaking the law.
