This week, the Brown Palace is playing host to a three-day conference sponsored by the Inter American Press Association, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the rights of the press in the Americas as a whole. Among the panels taking place as part of the conference, a tri-language mix of Portuguese,…
On Friday, we shared a video obtained by 9News showing Greeley couple Reba Doyle and Scott Liles slapping and shaking a baby under the theory that the clip underscored a serious issue that deserves as much attention as it can get. However, many readers were offended at our decision. Here’s…
Elect Denver blog posts! Colorado Peak Politics uses double ballots reportedly sent to a House candidate to revive the voter-fraud argument. Colorado Pols wonders if the government shutdown fiasco has made Scott Tipton vulnerable. Denver Frank: Dad lip-synchs his daughter’s tantrum!…
Parents (and kids) opposed to standardized testing took their fight to the streets this past weekend during the annual Zombie Crawl. With bloody pencils protruding from their skulls, kids held signs with messages such as, “Testing Kills Brains.” “Standardized testing is actually harmful for our children,” says Amber Olson, a…
What would happen if law enforcers stopped hundreds of cars over the course of a couple days? How many criminals and how much contraband might they find? A Colorado State Patrol-described “large-scale law-enforcement operation” just conducted in Mesa County provides an idea: over a hundred citations, a handful of fugitives…
As William Breathes has reported, many ski towns are allowing recreational pot sales. But that doesn’t mean public weed smoking is any more legal at resorts than it is elsewhere in Colorado. Still, the idea that ski areas will crack down on those who light up in plain view definitely…
Saturday night was supposed to be end in triumph for Thornton’s Mike Alvarado. The hometown boxing hero was fighting Ruslan Provodnikov in a junior welterweight title bout at the 1STBANK Center in a slugfest aired live on HBO. But there was no happy ending: Provodnikov prevailed in the tenth round…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about the escape of convicted sex offender Eugene Martinez from Denver police headquarters; he’d been handcuffed to a bench but managed to slip his bonds. See our previous coverage below. Now, Martinez has been taken into custody once again, but not before allegedly…
The Broncos’ 39-33 defeat to Indianapolis last night was undeniably gut-wrenching. But did it come from out of the blue? Not if you’ve been paying attention. Over the past few weeks, Denver’s been flirting with catastrophe on a regular basis, only to survive with their impressive regular-season winning streak intact…
Police officers and personnel with major metro fire departments are accustomed to unusual calls. But we’re guessing there’s no amount of experience that would help them prepare for the scene that greeted them last night. According to the Aurora Police Department, a local man suffering from what a spokesperson describes…
While a lot of the stories we’ve dug up for our Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule feature deal with the political side of pot and how it was used to single out ethnic groups, some just plain poked fun at cannabis and people perceived as lower-class. This 1904 gem about a…
Yesterday, we reported about an odd package that showed up at the Glenwood Springs Post Independent: a box of psilocybin mushrooms. The topic was naturally humorous, but some readers got into a serious debate about whether shrooms should be legal. Here’s the take of one person who thinks the status…
Denver blog posts have quite an appetite. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares one reader’s view that plenty of Denver restaurants suck more than the supposed worst. Mile High Hockey’s Cheryl Bradley on the end of the Avs’ season-starting winning streak at the hands of the hated Red…
Grand Junction co-starred in our recent post featuring nice/nasty Urban Dictionary definitions of Colorado cities, and amusingly enough, both descriptions mentioned meth. Rightly or wrong, the GJ area has a rep as Colorado’s meth capital — which means law enforcers are pretty damn good at finding the stuff. Just ask…
It was eleven years ago today — October 18, 2002 — that inmate Edward Montour Jr. attacked Eric Autobee, a 23-year-old correctional officer, in the kitchen of the Limon prison, fatally bludgeoning him with a heavy ladle. To mark that grim anniversary, the victim’s parents have made a startling plea…
This week’s cover story, “Saving Jackson,” follows the staggering array of medical challenges faced in his first year of life by Jackson Holbrook, a baby born with a serious heart defect. It’s a journey most families will never have to contemplate, but one that’s more common than you might think:…
Update: Earlier this week, Zachary Cooper was arrested in regard to a homicide near the intersection of 28th and Adams near City Park; see our previous coverage below. Now, we’ve obtained the arrest affidavit in the case, and the narrative is shocking. According to the document, also shared here, Cooper…
Amendments to Denver’s marijuana ordinance have been decried by critics, including the ACLU, as a “sniff test” that would recriminalize behavior made legal by Amendment 64, which lets adults 21 and over use and possess small amounts of cannabis. Denver City Councilwoman Susan Shepherd also has grave doubts about the…
Colts QB Andrew Luck faces a big challenge this weekend, when he faces off against the Broncos’ Peyton Manning in PM’s first game in Indianapolis since leaving for Denver. But Luck may have an even harder time when it comes to earning a place of honor when it comes to…
Earlier this month, Melanie Asmar reported about the first legal U.S. hemp harvest in more than fifty years getting underway in southeastern Colorado — one that wrapped up a week or so later. Photographer Ben Droz was on hand to capture the scene, and he’s kindly allowing us to share…
Although we frequently hear warnings about the dangers of striking or shaking a baby, we seldom see footage of parents actually doing it. The case of Greeley residents Reba Doyle and Scott Liles is an exception to this rule. Footage has surfaced showing Doyle slapping her one year old and…
There’s a correlation between my increasing age and the decreasing amount of time I spend in downtown Denver. As I creep toward my mid-thirties, traffic becomes increasingly less tolerable, restaurants become more pretentious and overpriced, and parking becomes something I dread more than in-law visits. In short: Aside from the…
