Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Today we examine Amendment 70 by way of an interview with a spokeswoman for the campaign. Tomorrow we’ll feature a Q&A with a…
U.S. News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of national universities. And while six Colorado colleges made the cut, they didn’t exactly challenge Princeton, Harvard and the University of Chicago (the three highest finishers) for academic supremacy. Of 310 universities analyzed by the publication, Colorado’s top school landed in…
Our recent post “Renters Grade Denver: What Got an A-? And What Got a D?” revealed Denver-centric results from the United States Renter Confidence Survey, in which the folks at Apartment List quizzed 30,000 renters nationwide. Turns out, though, that Denver wasn’t the only Colorado city to be analyzed. Of…
In late 2015, as we’ve reported, Grand Junction’s Sydney White was sentenced to thirty years behind bars related to the death of Angel Place, an eleven-month-old in her care. Prosecutors said Angel died after White kicked her in the head. “I did a horrible thing that I am not proud of,” she…
In August, as we’ve reported, Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who’d vacillated about whether to formally endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said, “I’m voting Republican up and down the ticket. A Republican president will make a difference, even a Republican president named Donald Trump.” Well, never mind. After the release last…
The headline of our first post about Paxton Lynch, the Broncos’ number one draft pick this past April, reads, “Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos’ Star QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?” Yesterday, during his first start — a desultory 23-16 home loss to the Atlanta Falcons that wasn’t…
Last week, Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on Christmas Day of 1996, sued Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist, for $150 million. The focus of the complaint was Dr. Spitz’s assertion in a CBS Detroit interview flowing from the network docuseries The…
The Magnificent Seven, the Denzel Washington-starring remake of the western classic, is among the most successful movies of the season; it’s earned more than $65 million domestically, and has topped the $100 million mark worldwide, in its first thirteen days of release. But while the flick showcases scenery and settings of…
Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in Boulder on Christmas Day of 1996, has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist. Spitz theorized on the CBS program The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey” that Burke had killed JonBenét with a blow to the head. The lawsuit, included…
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Yesterday, we examined Amendment 69 by way of an interview with a spokesman for the campaign, as featured in the post “Why You…
A little over a year ago, we introduced you to the five richest Coloradans according to their position on the Forbes 400. At first glance, the updated Forbes list is unchanged; the same five people appear on the roster, and in the same order. However, there have been some shifts in…
One significant contributor to the Denver Broncos’s Super Bowl-winning 2015-2016 season had previously announced that he wouldn’t be joining the squad for its visit to the White House, scheduled to take place today: former fill-in quarterback Brock Osweiler, who jumped to the Houston Texans during the off-season. Now, however, another…
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Today, we examine Amendment 69 by way of an interview with a spokesman for the campaign. Tomorrow, we’ll feature a Q&A with a…
In July, four doctors were suspended for allegedly recommending cannabis to patients who didn’t need it for health-related reasons after being referred to the Colorado Medical Board by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Now, however, the CDPHE’s referral process has been struck down in Denver District Court…
The Facebook pages of Evergreen resident Katherine “Katie” Barton and her husband, Jason Barton, could hardly look more typical. The posts and photo galleries are dominated by photos of their three adorable children, who look happy in all the shots that appear. But the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office believe…
Among the key elements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, shorthanded as HIPPA, are provisions guarding the privacy of a person’s medical history. And since hospitals are repositories of such information, they are on the front lines when it comes to preventing such data being made public. All…
The most telling aspect of the response to news of Walt Weiss’s resignation as Colorado Rockies manager after three years on the job? How measured most of it was. On social media, a platform made for impassioned reactions (and overreactions), most of those who bothered to weigh in did so…
Over the years, Denver TV stations have waged an ongoing series of weather wars using as weapons the latest forecasting tools — high-tech gear that’s supposedly made on-camera prognosticators better guessers than their rivals. An example: In early 2004, as we reported, CBS4 was touting a system called “Live Doppler 4000,”…
During the first three weeks of the 2016 NFL season, fans of the teams beaten by your Denver Broncos have complained about being screwed by officiating, bad luck and plenty of other earthly factors. After the Broncos’ 27-7 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday, however, Bucs lovers griped to…
The media barrage about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is nowhere close to being over, as witnessed by The Killing of JonBenét: Her Father Speaks, an A&E documentary broadcast last night, in which John Ramsey, the father of the six-year-old Boulder girl murdered on Christmas Day, 1996, blasted a CBS series in which a…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged ex-Denver police officer Hubert Martin “Marty” Vanover on counts of possession with the intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana or marijuana concentrate, possession of marijuana or marijuana concentrate, and possession of a controlled substance — reportedly methamphetamine. Vanover has had plenty of…
Sustainability is a 21st century ideal — a quality to which every city should aspire during a period in which concerns about the environment, and the ways we interact with it, continue to increase. With that in mind, Amsterdam-based Arcadis, which describes itself as “the leading global design and consultancy for…
