Colorado has plenty of great places to work, as indicated by the 28 businesses from these parts that wound up on Outside’s most recent best places to work list. But are there jobs available? NerdWallet says yes. The blog’s recent roundup of the best cities for job seekers prominently includes…
Our recent post about the back-and-forths between marijuana advocates and pot haters over crime statistics was subsequently supplemented by an online conversation that went into many different areas. In the example below, two readers debate whether public smoking has become more prevalent since limited recreational cannabis sales became legal. See…
Denver blog posts are cuisine fiends. Our Cafe Society blog counts down the ten best Chinese restaurants in Denver. Colorado Peak Politics thinks Senator Cory Gardner is a funny guy. Chalkbeat Colorado offers guides to important people and policy questions at Colorado schools. See also: Inside the Crazy Caribou Ranch…
February is Black History Month, but the tradition of the black cowboy — a figure that’s gotten short shrift in much of our film and literature about the West — is very much alive. For proof, check out the following video, in which Mikala Nealy and other members of the…
The size and scope of federal land holdings in this country — including national parks, monuments and more — is so vast that people can venture into them and literally disappear. Note the case of Dale Strehling, who went for a hike in Mesa Verde circa June 2013 and hasn’t…
It’s been about six months or so since we shared a collection of Visit Denver photos so gorgeous they were capable of making even more people move here. Since then, the tourist agency has kept clicking, and the images are as spectacular as ever. Check out twenty of our favorites…
When you and your partner are having sex, can you time it with an hourglass? Or does it make more sense to use a stopwatch? The Spreadsheets App, which, according to Nerve.com, employs “your phone’s accelerometer and speakers to provide statistical feedback about your duration, thrusts, and decibel peak,” provides…
After members of the Fountain Fire Department responded to a reported blaze in a suburban neighborhood early Wednesday morning, they found the body of a young woman inside. The victim has now been identified as Larissa Tiffany-Schiess, 27 — and police who are investigating her death as a homicide believe…
Our post revealing that Colorado is dead last among states when it comes to the number of kindergartners getting inoculated against measles rapidly turned into a platform for debate about falling vaccination rates. This reader thinks she knows who to blame. See also: Measles Outbreak: Vaccination Rates Across the U.S…
Denver blog posts don’t require bidding. At our Backbeat blog, Adam Perry offers behind-the-scenes scoop on the insane auction for memorabilia from Caribou Ranch, where Michael Jackson and other legends once recorded. Coyote Gulch on Colorado’s vulnerability to climate change. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels: “Some teams lose on purpose,…
What began as a welfare check at a residence on Java Court has now become a homicide inquiry. Thus far, however, the Denver Police Department is keeping the vast majority of details hush-hush. See also: Rapist Tony Dotson Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Bid Against Victim…and Sister Is Still Missing…
Over the past eight years or so, Tony Dotson has been in the public eye for vastly different reasons: first as the heartsick sibling whose sister had vanished without a trace, then as a man accused and later convicted of acquaintance rape, and now as the newly convicted perpetrator of…
Each session of the Colorado legislature spawns controversial bills — like, for instance, Representative Timothy Dore’s call for grants to Colorado counties to offset the impact of legal pot whether sales are allowed there or not. But this year has also spawned a slew of legislation that appears to target…
Last week, we shared data from ApartmentList.com showing that Denver rent prices are increasing 3.4 times faster than the national average. But the site has shared plenty of other information about renting in the area, too, including a list of the ten most-expensive Denver neighborhoods when it comes to renting…
Last year, we told you about the charging of Harold Henthorn in the death of his second wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, who perished after a fall in Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as dark suspicions that the supposed mishap that killed his first wife, Lynn Henthorn, had actually been…
TV shows such as CSI make DNA evidence seem unimpeachable. But factor in human error and the results can land a long distance from justice. Just ask Shawnnon Hale, who’s just spent the past two months behind bars on a sex-assault charge of which he’s wholly innocent, all due to…
In response to our recent post about National Day of Johns Arrests, during which law-enforcement agencies across the country, including the Denver Police Department, targeted clients of prostitutes, a sizable number of readers weighed in on whether such actions represent a smart use of law-enforcement resources. One below argues that…
Denver blog posts are sweet on you. At our Cafe Society blog, Lauren Monitz chooses Denver’s ten most romantic brunches just in time for Valentine’s Day. Big Media’s Jason Salzman doesn’t think reporters should let gun misinformation or hyperbole slide by at the state legislature. The Ralphie Report’s got the…
No matter how carefully adults secure their meds, a motivated teen can often get to them. An example, according to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, is a thirteen-year-old who has now been busted twice for giving away powerful pills, including Oxycodone, at Western Slope schools after reportedly finding the combination…
If the allegations pressed by the Denver District Attorney’s Office are accurate, Yesenia Cardoza wasn’t just endangering the motoring public when she hit the road while more than twice the legal limit for intoxication. She was also risking the life of her own two-year-old daughter, who was in the car…
In January 2013, we published a post whose headline began with the words “Lance Armstrong Is a Liar.” But in regard to an Aspen car crash that’s turned into the latest public embarrassment for the multiple-time Tour de France victor and belatedly admitted cheater, he’s not the person who told…
After another stretch of unseasonably warm days, it’s finally starting to look like winter in Colorado out there — at this writing, anyhow. And what better way to celebrate than with some winter-weather memes from the folks at the Colorado Memes Facebook page, who we featured in a twenty funniest…
