Denver has a reputation as one of the more technologically advanced cities in the country — yet, as we’ve reported, our cell phone service has a national reputation for sucking. And two new reports reinforce it. According to data from the websites RootMetrics and Ookla, Denver’s mobile speeds are among the worst in the…
We recently reported about three Denver deputies fired for excessive force and why they may not stay fired. But while the cases involving the three men — William Jackson, Steven Roybal and Monwell Fuller — may be the most serious disciplinary matters involving Denver Sheriff Department personnel of late, they’re hardly the…
Reports of rising heroin use and drug dealing at Denver parks and along the Cherry Creek Greenway are backed up by statistics. According to Denver Parks and Recreation, police have made 128 felony arrests along the Cherry Creek trail, mostly for drug-related offenses, and over the past year, an estimated…
Stagecoach State Park, south of Steamboat Springs near Oak Creek, is among many gorgeous slices of land incorporated in the Colorado Parks and Wildlife system. But late last month, the bucolic setting played host to a gruesome scene of the sort officials hope to avoid over Labor Day weekend, summer’s…
In recent months, one of the hottest topic on Westword’s news blog has been the high price of rent in the metro area. Now, we offer a change of pace — a list of the Denver neighborhoods where the rent is least expensive. The numbers come from Zumper, which compiled median…
David Edelstein, founder of Team Pit-a-Full, a pro-pit-bull advocacy organization and training service, has been working for years to overturn pit-bull bans in Denver and Aurora. Now, after Conifer resident Susan Shawl was killed in an attack by two terrier-pit bull mixes owned by her son, he sees the battle…
This week, the City of Denver is converting Blake Street from a one-way route to a two-way traffic between 35th Street and Broadway, in the heart of RiNo. And as part of the process, crew members will be putting down new bicycle-lane markings: a stylized version of the RiNo Art…
Last week, we told you about a fatal police shooting in Westminster — the second officer-involved metro-area shooting in two nights. (The previous one took place in Lakewood and resulted in the death of suspected car thief Robin Barber.) Now, Adams County authorities have identified the man killed in the…
A few weeks back, we published a Q&A with Forrest Fenn, the New Mexico eccentric who says he hid $2 million in gold and jewels “somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe” as a way of getting people to experience nature rather than simply “sitting on the couch playing…
Editor’s note: Two social-cannabis-use measures are currently collecting signatures in an attempt to earn a place on the Denver ballot this November: the Neighborhood Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program and the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, sponsored by Denver NORML. Earlier this week, we published a post headlined Inside the Neighborhood Supported…
For more than half-a-decade, administrators at CU Boulder have done everything possible to insure that the university no longer appears among the top ten on the Princeton Review’s annual list of reefer madness schools. And once again, they’ve failed. As usual, CU Boulder is on the 2016 roster — and…
Rising crime and violence on the 16th Street Mall earlier this year prompted new safety plans for the area from both public agencies, by way of a Denver Police Department plan to triple patrols, and the private sector, as seen in the hiring of unarmed security guards who came on board earlier…
On Saturday night, August 27, thanks to my daughter, I had the pleasure of watching the Denver Broncos take on the Los Angeles Rams from the south stands of what continues to be known as Sports Authority Field at Mile High — although probably not for much longer. And to…
A crowd estimated in the hundreds took part in Denver Go Topless Day, the local version of a national event intended to strike a blow in favor of gender equality and against local rules (like ones in Fort Collins) that treat the nipples of men and women differently. Both men…
In recent years, we’ve reported about alleged bias-motivated crimes in which the victims have been foreign-born (including a Moroccan native attacked at a Denver hookah bar in 2012) or gay (a man was assaulted in 2014 after disparaging remarks were made about his sexual orientation). But the arrest affidavit for…
Yesterday, August 25, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was supposed to appear in Denver in order to deliver what was touted as a major speech on immigration. That event was subsequently canceled with little advance notice — a move that Trump critics such as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seized upon as…
In April, we told you about Meagan Patrick, whose pre-school-age daughter, Addelyn, is an epilepsy sufferer who’s made huge strides since she began using medical cannabis treatments. However, Addelyn’s public preschool didn’t allow MMJ to be administered — although liquid Valium is okay. House Bill 16-1373, co-sponsored by Representative Jonathan Singer, was…
The Libertarian Party was founded in Colorado in 1971 — and 45 years later, party leaders here believe their cause is poised to make its largest impact to date. Why? Libertarian Party of Colorado chair Jay North and LPOC communications director Caryn Ann Harlos feel one big reason is the way…
Tomorrow, August 26, marks the 95th anniversary of what most historians see as the signature victory of the women’s suffrage movement: the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. What’s that got to do with Denver Go Topless Day, which takes place two days later,…
For years, we’ve written about reports of marijuana profiling. The claims consistently maintain that law enforcers in jurisdictions beyond this state are more apt to stop vehicles for marijuana-related searches if they’re outfitted with Colorado license plates. Such tactics were always controversial. Now, a federal court says they’re totally unjustified. In…
As seen by the reaction of our readers to the story of artist wannabe Casey Nocket, who admitted to vandalizing Rocky Mountain National Park and other federal lands with dubious painted illustrations and then Instagramming the results, most Coloradans take purposeful damage to our natural wonders very personally. Understanding that,…
At about 3 p.m. on January 17, then-twenty-year-old Ryder Johnson left Eldora Ski Resort, where he was working — and he hasn’t been seen since. Extensive searches in the area surrounding the Gross Dam Overlook parking area in Boulder County, where Ryder’s car was discovered, as well as other locations,…
