Denver blog posts live to serve. At our Food & Restaurants blog, Jenn Wohletz shares her choices for the five best restaurant apologies. Colorado Peak Politics highlights a GOP poll showing that most Republicans favor Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for president in 2016. At Free Range Longmont, M. Douglas Ray…
This past Sunday, Colorado State University hosted a selection-show-watching party in hopeful anticipation of its basketball team being invited to the Big Dance — the NCAA basketball tournament known as March Madness. Instead, CSU was left on the bubble, prompting a great hue and cry among Rams supporters, who felt…
The shocking story of Dynel Lane, who’s accused of cutting a pregnant woman’s unborn child from her womb, has a connection to Craigslist. The victim in the case is said to have responded to Lane’s Craigslist post advertising baby clothes for sale. This is hardly the first time we’ve covered…
The rash of violence in the metro area — including four homicides in Denver over the weekend, three of which are said to be gang-related — continued last night. The location in the latest case was Longmont. The time was late last night. What happened? A woman was critically stabbed — and…
According to ColoradoSchoolGrades.com, there are plenty of outstanding high schools in the state. The site’s roster of the ten finest includes five schools that tied for first place. And even a couple of runners-up received A+ ratings. Note that there’s very little crossover between the site’s picks and those Colorado…
In November 2012, we published a post entitled DID DENVER POLICE DELAY GIVE CHRISTOPHER PEREA TIME TO KILL LORETTA BARELA? Two years later, Barela’s family issued a lawsuit making just such a claim — and the assertions about 911 botches were reinforced by an amended complaint filed days ago. Now, audio of…
In two new posts, a Stanford professor presents data suggesting that most marijuana smokers aren’t well-educated. According to his stats, only about a sixth of pot users have college degrees, while the remainder do not — making the profile of cannabis consumers similar to cigarette smokers when viewed from the…
Denver blog posts are ready to play — ball or whatever. At our Music blog, Jon Solomon reveals that the Zac Brown Band show in July will be the first major concert ever at Coors Field. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels wonders if the Broncos’ championship window has already slammed…
Today, the Denver Department of Public Safety announced a new retention policy for video footage recorded in Denver’s jails. Some video will now be retained indefinitely, while other footage is to be saved for periods than can stretch into years. Attorney David Lane, who has worked on many cases in…
The Denver Nuggets were prominently featured on yesterday’s episode of Pardon the Interruption. But not for a happy reason. In his introduction to the program, Tony Kornheiser, co-host, with Michael Wilbon, of this longtime staple of ESPN (new home for Denver Post photo boss Tim Rasmussen, whose goodbye gift was a “FUCK…
Back in 2013, we told you about claims of an inadequate defense for Dale Eaton, whose rape and murder of Denver-based Lisa Kimmel, nicknamed “Lil Miss,” was one of the most brutal and shocking crimes of its era. Since then, Eaton’s original death sentence was overturned. But rather than allowing…
Early on March 11, many Denverites saw a ball of fire streak across the sky. Subsequent reports suggested that the object was probably an earth-grazer meteorite — and this kind of thing actually happens fairly often in the state. Evidence aplenty can be found at Cloudbait.com, the fascinating website for Cloudbait…
The cake seen above — featuring a bit of Photoshopping to partially obscure the message “FUCK ESPN” — isn’t actually an attack on the all-powerful sports network Rather, it’s a cheeky goodbye gift to Tim Rasmussen, the assistant managing editor for photography and multimedia for the Denver Post. Rasmussen is leaving…
In a new interview with VICE News, President Barack Obama said plenty of things that cheered marijuana-legalization advocates. For instance, he decried the criminalization of nonviolent drug offenders and made comments that seemed to support the rescheduling of cannabis — one of the key provisions in a new bill pushed…
A provocative reader comment often revs up an already vigorous conversation. That was definitely the case with a recent post in which a reader argued that Denver is overcrowded and the situation is only getting worse. Many readers agreed wholeheartedly. Not all, however. Among those with another point of view is…
Denver blog posts listen with open ears. At our Music blog, Gina Tron puts it like so: “Music Hasn’t Gotten Crappy These Days: You Have.” The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin takes on those still tilting at Obamacare as the numbers pile up. At Denver Urbanism, Maggie Lyons offers a Doors…
Denver Sheriff’s Department Deputy Lori Clyncke loved Harley Davidson motorcycles, as this photo from her Facebook page attests. She was riding hers this weekend when tragedy struck. Clyncke was killed during a traffic accident in Weld County. She was 47. The DSD broke the news in the following tweet. According…
When we’ve written about GoFundMe pages in recent months, we’ve usually done so in connection with tragedy. Take Leah Montgomery, whose family launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for medical expenses after she was struck by a car and lost her unborn baby. And then there’s the case of…
Have you sufficiently recovered from St. Patrick’s weekend to party on St. Patrick’s Day itself? If you need a little inspiration, check out the following videos, featuring revelry in Denver, Boulder and beyond. Of course, there’s a cost to be paid for this much fun, as the last video makes…
Yesterday, we told you about four Denver homicides that took place during three separate incidents. First came two slayings in the Lowry neighborhood. That was followed by a homicide on Pontiac Street. Only a killing on Race Street for which a suspect is in custody hasn’t been tied to gang violence…
A flight bound from Washington, D.C. to Denver had to turn around and land back in the Nation’s Capitol last night Why? A man reportedly rushed the aircraft’s cockpit and had to be subdued by passengers. Continue for video of the man and details. CBS notes that United Airlines flight 1074…
Colorado’s marijuana laws are under attack in the court system. Three lawsuits seeking to undue the state’s legalization of limited cannabis sales have been filed in recent months. They include a complaint filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the states of Nebraska and Kansas, another one from the Washington, D.C.-based…
