The State Integrity Project, created by the Center for Public Integrity and several other organizations, set out to discover which states are most at risk for corruption — and the news wasn’t good. Researchers didn’t hand out a single “A” grade, and more than half the states received a “D”…
The recently repaired Facebook outage shouldn’t have been that big a deal in Colorado, given that it mainly took place overnight. Nonetheless, local press figures took to Twitter anyhow to express their shock/prompt some laughs, as did social-media addicts on the other side of the planet, who had it far…
Editor’s note: To read an update about the Jessie Hernandez shooting, including information about a witness who says officers fired before one was struck by the car she was driving, click here. Original post, 5:44 a.m. January 27: Yesterday, Denver police officers shot and killed the driver of a car…
In recent years, Kansas has accused Coloradans of trafficking marijuana in that state on a regular basis — and its attorney general is reportedly still considering the possibility of joining a lawsuit against Colorado over the pot laws here, as filed by AGs in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Amid this tension,…
We recently published a Comment of the Day in which one reader described why she thinks Denver men suck — and seconds later, comments began to accumulate in a big way. Some folks agreed, others didn’t, and this writer divided dudes up into a handful of categories, not all of…
Denver blog posts straddle the line between nutty and well-nutted. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz tells you about five more insane (or maybe sane) new food products — including drinkable peanut butter. Colorado Peak Politics on reports that Senator Michael Bennet might be on Hillary Clinton’s short-list of…
Many of the photos on Spencer Pannwitz’s Facebook page show the twenty-year-old from Parker engaged in adventurous activities: jumping, flipping, diving and contemplating nature from great heights. These images only make Pannwitz’s premature death seem that much sadder: He appears to have fallen from a fourth-floor dormitory window. More photos,…
Last week, we counted down the ten Colorado counties with the highest average income, based on data collected by the Colorado Springs Gazette. Today, we’re look at the subject from a different angle: the ten Colorado counties with the lowest average income. Continue for the photo-illustrated roster, featuring Gazette data…
The Denver Nuggets’ latest lost season just got a little more embarrassing. Ty Lawson, the alleged leader of the team, was busted for DUI (again), causing him to miss one game the team should have won — and he also missed a shot in his return to the lineup last…
Juggalos — fans of the group Insane Clown Posse — have long decried attempts to portray them as violent. But amid their ongoing efforts to establish a new reputation, self-described Juggalo Nicholas Damon is on the run, wanted for a slew of felonies, including assaulting a police officer. Photos and…
See editor’s note below: Online conversations can morph in unexpected ways. A case in point can be found among the comments on a post that asked the question, “Would Higher Beer Taxes and Legalizing Pot Cut Down on Campus Rapes?” Before long, readers began debating whether the way young women…
Denver blog posts are full of surprises. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies shares ten things you didn’t know about Lakeside Amusement Park. Coyote Gulch updates Colorado’s spot on the U.S. Drought Monitor. At Denver Urbanism, Peter Bird asks: “Bikes on the 16th Street Mall?” See also: New…
Nederland’s Cody Cox was already known to local law enforcement when a Clear Creek County Deputy tried to pull him over just under a year ago — and Cox ultimately led him and a colleague on a mini-chase of sorts. But did that mean his subsequent shooting, which left him…
In recent weeks, an aide for the Obama administration said the president plans to do nothing new about marijuana policy during his final two years in office — a stance that frustrated a national cannabis advocate, the Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell. But Angell is pleased by Obama’s prediction, included in…
Would you die for your cellphone? Jordan Hough nearly did. Two men stole Hough’s phone while he was on an RTD bus, and rather than letting them get away with it, he gave chase — and he found out why police warn against taking the law into your own hands…
There’s still more than a week of hype to go before Super Bowl XLIX, and that means more blanket coverage of Deflategate (eeesh), as well as more pain for Denver fans who can’t decide which team they despise more — the Seattle Seahawks, who humiliated the Broncos in last year’s…
The Colorado Springs Gazette recently looked at the state’s counties from the perspective of median income, and the ten that topped the list contained some surprises. For instance, Denver didn’t make the cut — or even come close. Continue to count down the photo-illustrated top ten, featuring Gazette numbers and…
Our post about a proposed grant program to help Colorado counties offset the cost of legal marijuana’s impact inspired a big response from our readers. The majority strongly opposed the idea, with this post laying out many of the arguments against giving such funding to places that have outlawed retail…
Denver blog posts don’t think 36 hours is enough. At our Show and Tell blog, Patricia Calhoun reveals where the New York Times would eat during 36 hours in Denver. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek on the civil-unions cleanup bill on the way to the chopping block. South Stands Denver’s…
Update: Last week, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of a man who’d allegedly robbed a Fast-N-Friendly outlet in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the person killed as 39-year-old Kavonda Earl Payton — and there’s a very large difference between his…
Last month, we told you about Granby’s extraordinary efforts to block a pot shop wanting to operate near town — by annexing the land in an “emergency” action. The law firm representing the ganjapreneurs had suggested that this action would be challenged in court, but its clients have now decided…
Scripps News recently crunched numbers on unsolved U.S. murders and discovered that the total of 200,000-plus since 1980 actually exceeds the population of Des Moines, Iowa. The data also reveals which states do the best job of solving homicides, and Colorado’s ranking is mediocre, with 26 states cracking a higher…
