It’s a story as old as time: Man goes fishing, returns with no fish, but but manages to hook the tale of the one that just barely got away. Fortunately, an editor decided the results were newsworthy enough to make the September 7, 1901 edition of the Basalt Journal –…
Yesterday’s post about radio preacher Kevin Swanson’s claim that buying Girl Scout cookies promotes lesbianism inspired a heaping helping of responses, many of them flat-out hilarious. This was one of our favorites…
Denver blog posts are always attractive. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks Colorado’s pot laws could convince ballers to sign up with the Nuggets. Colorado Pols: Jennifer “CAPartyGirl” Kerns tries to export Colorado voter recalls of gun-law reformers. Coyote Gulch: Can the Weld County commissioners advocate for the 51st State…
Something to keep in mind while reading about our latest Schmuck of the Week, David Husman: He’s 42 years old. Yep, there’s no denying that Husman is a grown-ass man. Yet he’s now reportedly pleaded guilty to the sort of behavior that most of us outgrow at about age six:…
After nearly seventeen years, the death of Boulder’s JonBenet Ramsey is still capable of commanding attention, as exemplified by the way the national media’s covered the release earlier today of a never-acted-upon 1999 grand jury indictment aimed at her parents, John and Patsy (who died in 2006). But for some…
We’d like nothing better than for our Mile High Murder archive to be starved of content — but that’s definitely not the case this week. We’ve already posted about the killing of John Goggin, for which Floyd Sandoval has been arrested, and the death of Vincente Penaloza and the ongoing…
Moments ago, at the order of Senior District Judge J. Robert Lowenbach, 1999 grand jury documents accusing John and Patsy Ramsey of criminal conduct in the death three years earlier of their six-year-old daughter, JonBenet, were made public. The pages were released as the result of a lawsuit filed by…
When he was arrested earlier this week, Eugene Martinez was listed as Colorado’s most wanted sex offender — and he’s not the only person accused of such crimes to be rounded up lately. Indeed, nineteen of the top 100 most wanted sex offenders in the state have either been busted…
Update below: Yesterday, the Denver Post announced that six members of the staff would be laid off, with five of them serving as community managers for YourHub, the paper’s citizen-journalist arm. Is this the beginning of the end for YourHub, which began its life under the umbrella of the Rocky…
A number of high-profile crime reports have emanated from the CU-Boulder campus over the past couple of months. By comparison, the main Colorado State University complex in Fort Collins has been relatively quiet. No more. Late last night, a woman reported being sexually assaulted at knifepoint on a CSU athletic…
The ink on the first recreational and dual-use marijuana retail applications has hardly even dried. And the licenses for such shops are still months away from being issued. But already, shops are making moves to shift to a new customer base of walk-in downtowners and discount-hunting tourists. Take, for example,…
One way to tell if a topic strikes a nerve is when a Comment of the Day about it inspires more people to share their thoughts. That was the case when it came to reader responses regarding an executive’s warning about public pot-smoking at Arapahoe Basin. Here’s another memorable take…
Denver blog posts cover all kinds of games people play, whether they take place on fields or not. The Redheaded Slut shares her reaction to taking part in a “Dexter-style serial killer scene for my babygirl.” Colorado Pols: “Nice photo, but they don’t ‘frack’ peaks.” Mile High Hockey’s Steve House:…
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has released draft regulations for the growing of industrial hemp. The rules, which are on view below, specify that farmers must pay a fee of $200 plus an additional $1 per acre to grow hemp for commercial purposes, must disclose the location of their crop…
Police responding to a call from a concerned mom about her possibly suicidal son wind up shooting him four times — yet the student is facing a criminal charge? That’s the scenario in the case of Jordan Koehn, a 24-year-old CSU graduate student who pointed a gun at his own…
Among the least-insured groups in the country are young men in good health. How to get them to take advantage of the new health-care law, now known by supporters and critics alike as Obamacare? The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and ProgressNow Colorado Education, the folks behind the 2011 Thanks Obamacare!…
As we’ve reported, the International Drug Policy Reform Conference is taking place in Denver. And while the gathering will feature plenty of in-depth panel discussions and distinguished speakers (see the full program below), several events will feature a celebratory feel — among them today’s “No More Drug War Rally and…
In 2011, we published a post counting down the fifty reasons Colorado is the best state. But that wasn’t enough to express our affection for our home, so we followed up in 2012 with the fifty latest reasons why Colorado is the best state in the country. And still, we…
Kevin Swanson is on a roll. Back in August, as we reported, the radio preacher and co-host of Generations Radio argued that Colorado was becoming “the worst possible hellhole on Planet Earth” due to a “drugged-out, marijuana’d-out, homosexual culture where children are abused as much as possible.” His latest target?…
Update: Last week, we shared with you the story of Jeremy Yachik, a Berthoud police officer under investigation by cops in Loveland over alleged child abuse caught on video; see our previous coverage below. Now, Yachik has been charged with multiple child abuse counts — and an arrest affidavit on…
Dear Stoner: The holidays are coming up, and I’m thinking about getting a seasonal job for extra income. Something with low responsibility, like retail or working with Christmas trees. I enjoy cannabis recreationally. Do you have any advice on how to surreptitiously find places of employment that do not conduct…
“This is a bold stroke, an anti-authoritarian project on many levels.” William Kuskin, eyes flashing, stands at the very edge of the stage in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s iconic Old Main building, leaning his five-foot-three-inch frame toward his audience and clenching his fist in excitement. He calls this…
