The four candidates supportive of Denver Public Schools’ brand of education reform swept the school board election yesterday. Barbara O’Brien, Rosemary Rodriguez, Mike Johnson and Landri Taylor will fill the four open slots on a seven-member board that has been characterized by clashes between its reform-minded majority and a vocal…
Denver blog posts need to fuel up regularly. At our Cafe Society blog, Samantha Alviani notes that Voodoo Doughnuts is readying to get weird on Colfax. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton: If the Nuggets are to win, the players need to listen. Coyote Gulch: Fraser River is 680 tons better…
Tonight, Mayor Michael Hancock will honor fifteen Denver projects — some old, some new — for excellence in architecture, design and placemaking at the annual Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony, which will start at 6 p.m. tonight at another landmark: The Forney Transportation Museum, 4303 Brighton Boulevard. The honreers range from…
Despite being outspent by oil and gas interests by more than 30-1 — and facing the threat of more litigation by Colorado’s gas-friendly governor — fracktivists are celebrating the passage of ballot measures prohibiting new drilling in Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins. The moratorium vote on oil and gas production…
Yesterday was Guy Fawkes Day, and to mark the occasion, people across the globe took to the streets to take part in what was dubbed the Million Mask March. In Denver, protesters, many of them wearing Fawkes masks, rallied downtown — but when they marched on the City & County…
Last night, sexually violent predator Gregory Buerge was arrested mere hours after the Lakewood Police Department put out an alert revealing that his whereabouts were unknown. In the opinion of Detective Ryan McKone, LPD spokesman, Buerge didn’t go off the radar due to an oversight. “It appears to us that…
It’s been a year since we gathered the twenty most memorable Denver graffiti and street art photos on Istagram. And a lot of paint has been used since then, as is clear from an eye-popping video boldly entitled “Denver’s Best Graffiti Street Art.” Do the images deserve this title? We…
In February, shortly before the Colorado Rockies’ season got underway, first baseman Todd Helton was busted for drunk driving. Helton wound up retiring at the end of the mediocre campaign, and now, Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort has been taken into custody on suspicion of the same crime. Monfort and his…
Yesterday, voters in five of eleven counties considering the question of whether they should secede from Colorado to create a 51st state answered “yes.” The odds of this actually happening are microscopic, since Colorado’s legislature or voters and the U.S. Congress would have to sign off. But the spirit of…
Votes are still being counted, but the suspense when it comes to the two biggest measures on ballots statewide is over — if there was ever any at all. The Denver Post has made the call on Proposition AA, the marijuana tax measure, and Amendment 66, an education proposal, with…
Colorado’s Proposition AA, a marijuana-taxation measure, isn’t the only high-profile pot issue being considered this election day. For instance, Portland, Maine residents will weigh in on Question 1, which removes penalties for possession of up to two and a half ounces of weed. If the proposal is approved, Portland will…
About a year and a half ago, before he made headlines for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old girl in Aurora, John Snorsky contacted me. He’d read a story I’d written about a state law that would allow counties to place abused kids at a facility for juvenile delinquents, and he wanted…
Denver blog posts are anti-hazing. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery quotes Broncos players saying the Richie Incognito situation couldn’t happen in Denver. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel: Museum Center + The Art Hotel update number one. Denver Frank shares a clip entitled “I told my kids I ate all their Halloween…
A lot of those who commented on our post about an alleged Boulder road rage incident, during which a driver is accused of running over a woman’s foot for walking on a closed road, focused on the car in question: the ubiquitous Subaru. Here’s one of several hilarious takes on…
It was one of the most shocking crimes in Loveland this past summer — a July triple stabbing in which forty-year-old Stephanie Rose Smith died. The case seemed to make little progress over the months that followed, even though it seemed clear the authorities knew the identifies of the other…
Grover Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, is among the most powerful figures in conservative politics thanks to his “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” — a promise to oppose tax-rate hikes for individuals or businesses that 41 U.S. Senators and 238 U.S. Representatives have signed. In recent weeks, Norquist made…
What are the best places in Colorado to find a job? The folks at the Nerd Wallet website have just released a list that attempts to answer that question, and surprisingly enough, several cities that almost always wind up on such rosters — including Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs –…
Animals do the darnedest things, and in some cases (like the incident of the bear seen pushing a dumpster that’s become a popular GIF) in happens on camera. That’s true of an elk who got trapped on a trampoline in Evergreen, where Greg Chase and his wife caught the scene…
The 1999 Columbine shootings continue to cast a long shadow over schools nationwide, but especially in the Denver area. Case in point: The national media immediately perked up at news overnight that two juveniles with long guns had apparently broken into not one but two local schools and were involved…
Tomorrow is election day, and among the most contentious issues is Proposition AA, which would establish tax rates for recreational marijuana sales. Prop AA opponents say a special sales tax of at least 10 percent, in addition to a 15 percent excise tax (not to mention other state and local…
A second round of campaign finance reports filed in the Denver Public Schools school board election reveals a familiar pattern: the four so-called reform candidates continue to raise the most money, thanks to donations from high-profile reformers, such as Texas billionaires John and Laura Arnold, while the four non-reform candidates…
Denver blog posts have a point. Colorado Pols shares a hilarious video of gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo giving supporters of recall-target Senator Evie Hudak the finger. Denver PR Blog shares a great moment in photojournalism. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein has some tough takes following the Nuggets 0-2 start to the…
