Last week, Boulder Daily Camera editorial page editor Dave Krieger was fired after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, his paper’s Machiavellian hedge fund owner, that his publisher spiked. Now, he’s written an unvarnished account of his pink slipping even though he knows that pulling back the curtain on the episode could hurt his chances for a new gig in journalism.
Day two of teacher protests at the Colorado State Capitol, following a boisterous turnout in the same location yesterday, is expected to attract educators from across the metro area and the state. The atmosphere is tense, given the introduction of a bill that threatens to jail teachers who strike and a call for doctors willing to write notes for protesting instructors who may otherwise have their pay docked for attending rallies even if schools are closed in their district. But Amie Baca-Oehlert, vice president of the Colorado Education Association, prefers to keep the focus on the reasons teachers are demonstrating.
A group of scientists who believe the controversial herbal pain reliever kratom is being unfairly vilified in the wake of salmonella-related health warnings came together this week to blast the Food and Drug Administration’s policies toward the substance and criticize Denver’s prohibition of its sale for human consumption, with one expert suggesting that such approaches will inevitably lead to tragedy.
Dave Krieger, a former staffer with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and KOA radio, has been fired from his latest position as editorial page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, the so-called “vulture” hedge fund that also owns the Post, when his own paper wouldn’t publish it.
The Denver Broncos have made plenty of disappointing first-round draft choices over their history, as we documented in a 2016 list of their ten worst. But just two years later, we have to update the roster to accommodate a bust who’s put arguably the largest stain on John Elway’s legacy as an executive to date.
A post on the popular Nextdoor site suggests that some educators planning to take part in teacher walkout day protests scheduled for Friday, April 27, may have their pay docked for doing so without a doctor’s note and requests that medical professionals who sympathize with their plight volunteer to write one up for anyone in this situation.
Opioid abuse has reached crisis levels in Colorado and the country as a whole in part because more and more people prescribed the medication by their physicians are becoming addicted to it. But this particular problem can’t be pinned on Boulder-based Dr. Mark Strom, who’ll be taking part in a Q&A in conjunction with All the Rage, a new documentary making its Denver debut at the Alamo Drafthouse tonight.
Inspired by the acclaimed movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was among twelve people killed in the July 2012 Aurora theater shooting, are behind a campaign to use outdoor advertising to shame Representative Mike Coffman and other opponents of gun-control legislation.
We’d like to nominate the Denver Broncos’ game presentation and marketing department for a genius grant after staffers came up with one of the great ideas of all-time: announcing the team’s fourth and fifth round picks for the 2018 NFL draft, slated to take place on Saturday, April 28, live from Casa Bonita, the world’s weirdest Mexican restaurant, complete with participation by cast members such as cliff divers and a costumed gorilla. And it turns out that South Park’s famous, Cartman-centric Casa Bonita episode helped inspire the event, which will be open to the public and is likely to make cameo appearances on the NFL Network’s draft coverage.
With more and more Denver-area school districts choosing to close on April 26 and 27 because of planned teacher walkouts over low pay and poor classroom funding, and protests over teacher pay in places such as Oklahoma raising passions nationwide, two Republican legislators have introduced a bill that could potentially jail striking teachers in Colorado for up to six months. All four Democratic candidates for governor on the June primary ballot are aghast at the notion, with former state senator Mike Johnston, who initially sounded the alarm, leading the charge. But none of the three GOP hopefuls who made the ballot responded to Westword’s question about the measure.
On April 20, CNN broadcast a scathing and practically fact-free assault on the marijuana industry in these parts under the headline “Colorado Governor Won’t Rule Out Banning Marijuana Again. Here’s Why.” The governor’s office suggests that the results were misleading and confirms that two corrections were requested in regard to the enormously embarrassing results. One was made, the other wasn’t.
The soon-to-start Central 70 plan isn’t the only major construction project along the urban corridor that’s expected to break ground within months. The approximately $330 million undertaking the Colorado Department of Transportation has dubbed the North I-25 project will add express lanes in either direction, as well as replace bridges and more from Johnstown to Fort Collins, and it’s not expected to be completed until 2021. Additionally, the department will be laying the groundwork for future expansion that may not take place until 2075, more than half a century from now.
A new lawsuit prompted by the fatal police shooting of Dion Damon two years ago this month deals with more than the facts of the tragic case. The document, on view below, also maintains that the incident exemplifies a pattern and practice of the Denver Police Department when it comes to excessive force and attempts to bolster its argument via a select history of ten controversial DPD shootings, many of which resulted in huge settlements funded by local taxpayers.
Her full name was Yevaeh Patrick-Moon, and she was nine when she was found unresponsive in the pool at Colorado Springs’ Hotel Elegante on December 16 of last year. What happened to Yevaeh involves a potential crime. Last month, Lynthia Washington, the grandmother of two young girls who accompanied Yevaeh to the hotel, was arrested and subsequently charged with child abuse — negligently causing death by the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. She was supposed to be supervising the children at the pool but was allegedly nowhere to be found when Yevaeh sank beneath the waters for the final time.
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An investigation has found that Nick Dawkins, who resigned last month as principal of Manual High School, violated Denver Public Schools policies about discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
A revision of Castle Rock’s animal code that removes its pit-bull ban passed on first reading on April 17.
Attorney Brian Vicente sees reason for optimism about MMJ.
This Colorado organization has become a national model for preventing school-related cataclysms of all sorts.
Marijuana is legal in Colorado for both medical and recreational purposes according to the state’s constitution.
Here’s more evidence that nothing on the Internet ever dies: A spoof story about McDonald’s restaurants in Colorado transforming their play areas into marijuana smoking lounges, which first fooled gullible web surfers in October 2015, has gone viral again, just in time for 4/20.
The Eligibility Colorado Road and Community Safety Act now moves to the governor’s desk.
