Attendance was down at yesterday’s Race for the Cure in downtown Denver, with crowd estimates of around 30,000, as opposed to approximately 40,000 in 2012 and 50,000 in 2011. The reason, presumably is continuing fallout from the (since-reversed) decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to end its partnership…
Contrary to the impression left by many local and national news broadcasts, not every park on the Front Range was badly damaged by recent flooding. Indeed, some of our favorites either sustained little or limited damage or are already coming back strong. With that in mind, we’ve dipped into our…
Last week, our post previewing Eric & Jessie: Game On, the new E Network reality series featuring Broncos receiver Eric Decker and singer Jessie James was subtitled “Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful.” But that may be tough for some of those who caught last night’s debut. The show was…
The Broncos’ 52-20 destruction of the Philadelphia Eagles at Mile High Stadium yesterday was an appropriate prelude to last night’s final episode of Breaking Bad. Like Walter White, played so memorably by Bryan Cranston, Peyton Manning and his Denver teammates showed vulnerability at times. But in the end, they dispatched…
Denver blog posts can get weird sometimes. Big Media’s Jason Salzman writes about charges that the head of the Colorado GOP has assembled a list of the six people most dangerous to the state Republican Party — including Matt Arnold, seen here. The Colorado Independent bids farewell to Todd Helton…
To mark the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, we assembled a post focusing on ten unsolved Colorado murders, including the story of Mary Vialpandro, seen here. Among those we heard from afterward was Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons vice president Howard Morton, who puts these crimes…
As reports poured in about loss of life and damage to property as a result of our recent flooding, we also heard about oil spills in a wide variety of locations. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has been charged with tracking the particulars, and in its most recent…
Macyo January was four months shy of turning eighteen when he allegedly murdered a pregnant woman and her husband during a burglary earlier this year. But a judge has ruled that he’ll be treated as if he’d already celebrated his birthday. January will be tried as an adult for the…
How can freedom be quantified? The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has tried to do just that with Freedom in the 50 States, a project that attempts to combine rankings for economic and personal freedom to determine which American states are the freest — and using its metric, whose…
It’s going to be a busy Sunday for Broncos receiver Eric Decker. First, he and his team will take on the Philadelphia Eagles at Mile High Stadium — and then, at 8 p.m. our time, his new reality series, Eric and Jessie: Game On, is slated to bow on the…
In a blog post written several months after a 2011 listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado’s Jensen Farms caused 33 deaths and 147 hospitalizations, attorney Bill Marler, who represents 46 families in the case, wrote that criminal indictments after such incidents are as “rare as hen’s teeth.” Yet…
We’re still collecting reactions to a post about alleged post-flood looting on the CU-Boulder campus; Troy Sennet, seen here, was one of two people arrested. Among the recent comments is one from a local who decided he felt safer when strapped…
Denver blog posts are top-rated. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery notes that ESPN’s power rankings still place the Broncos in the number two slot despite their latest blow-out win — but plenty of other sports pundits disagree. Colorado Pols on Senator Mark Udall’s bipartisan domestic-spying-reform bill. Denver Egotist offers an…
Earlier this week, we reported about the war of words between supporters and opponents of Proposition AA, which would set tax rates for recreational pot sales. Attorney Rob Corry, who thinks the tax levels are too high (a point made at not one but two free-joint rallies this month), has…
Fort Carson soldier Richard Sheltra’s guilty plea for having sex with a thirteen year old would be shocking in and of itself. But other elements of the story make it even more disturbing. For instance, Sheltra, seen here and in additional photos below, is the second Fort Carson soldier to…
CU-Boulder makes headlines for things like alleged on-campus looting after recent floods or a student who fed a teacher and classmates pot brownies. But the folks at the school would prefer to get attention for academic excellence, exemplified by the 2012 Nobel Prize won by David Wineland, who holds a…
We all know folks from around the country who graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder and then never leave town — and it turns out this decision’s a mighty good one according to Kiplinger, whose list of the ten best cities for grads prominently features the People’s Republic…
There doesn’t appear to be much mystery about who killed 42-year-old Denzle Rainey. According to a police report, Forsythia Owen, thirty, has admitted to beating Rainey to death using a baseball bat. However, Owen has told authorities she committed this gruesome act because Rainey had molested a child — an…
Estes Park reopened to visitors last week after Colorado’s devastating floods cut off access to one of the state’s favorite tourist towns — but the community is still trying to convince people it’s safe and accessible. Given Tuesday’s release of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, sequel to The Shining, which was…
Denver blog posts are still going strong. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels touts a fan’s gift to retiring Colorado Rocky Todd Helton — a painting that pictures him as a centaur! Big Media’s Jason Salzman offers evidence that Ken Buck supports shutting down the government over Obamacare. Denver Frank touts…
Yesterday, we posted about a $360,000 settlement in the 2009 Denver Diner incident, which saw four women being maced and billy-clubbed by two officers who are still on the job. This last fact revved up a number of our readers, including this one…
In July 2012, we told you about the arrest of Marquis Garrison in the death of his two-month-old daughter, as well as the decision to pursue a first-degree-murder charge in addition to a child-abuse-resulting-in-death count. A likely reason: A probable-cause statement on view below says he tried to make the…
