In her coverage of Colorado’s early steps toward launching a hemp industry (including last week’s post about the first U.S. hemp harvest in more than fifty years), Melanie Asmar has referred to the plant as “marijuana’s sober stepsister” because it has almost none of the psychoactive ingredient that makes users…
Accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes was back in court today for the first of several motions hearings that will take place over the next three weeks. Today, prosecutors and Holmes’s defense attorneys discussed which questions will appear on the questionnaire given to the 6,000 prospective jurors the judge plans…
Denver blog posts like parties of all kinds. Colorado Pols: Doug Lamborn and some Tea Party types are abandoning Obamacare defunding demands over the shutdown. The Ralphie Report’s Jon Woods on finding the positives in the CU Buffs blowout loss to Oregon. Talk about a tough job. Big Media’s Jason…
We recently posted about Joseph Gunderson, a Colorado Springs man who accidentally shot himself and his roommate when handling a newly purchased handgun. The topic among our commenters naturally drifted toward gun control, with a wide variety of opinions espoused. Here’s one of the pithiest and most memorable…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
Back in March, we told you about the arrest of David Reathman, a 65-year-old Golden resident, in the killing of his wife Barbara, seventy. Now, Reathman has been sentenced in the case, which was revealed to have turned on a terminal diagnosis and a gambling problem that motivated murder and…
For the past four years, Waste Farmers has been growing a business made on ending waste by smart recycling. And at last month’s Jumpstart Biz Plan competition at Denver Startup Week, the sustainable agriculture company won big: It was the top selection of over 130 businesses that entered. This huge…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office doesn’t accuse Wayne Sperling and Lorinda Bailey of beating their children — boys ages two, four, five and six, all described as so developmentally delayed that none of them could speak. But prosecutors believe their living conditions constituted child abuse — and Sperling’s arrest affidavit…
In 2011, MapQuest launched mqVibe, a site that attempted to rank the best neighborhoods in many U.S. cities, including Denver. The rankings combined user votes, “interactions” on the main MapQuest site and “external data” to arrive at its conclusions. But the roster has changed since we shared the site’s 2011…
If the folks at Comcast wanted to maximize hatred and inspire customers to explore satellite delivery, they couldn’t have chosen a better time for a cable outage than at halftime of as crazy a Broncos game as any in recent memory — a 51-48 victory over the Dallas Cowboys not…
Target practice using a bow and arrows isn’t usually a problem. But there are exceptions. For instance, hoteliers will likely frown on anyone who takes aim inside a rented room, and they’re even less apt to be understanding if the guest’s response to a request to stop is threatening to…
We’ve run a few articles about pot and soldiers so far in Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, and most have the same theme: Marijuana makes you crazy and unfit for duty. But this 1914 article from the Akron Weekly Pioneer Press brings the anti-Hispanic, racial undertones of the early anti-marijuana movement…
Yesterday, we shared a Washington Post-created list of the ten cities hardest hit by the federal shutdown as measured by the percentage of government jobs in the overall workforce — and taking the top slot in the entire country was Colorado Springs. This ranking garnered some sharp commentary from a…
Denver blog posts can even spell hard words like “chlamydia.” The Redheaded Slut comes up with the week’s most arresting headline: “Why I’m Glad I Got Chlamydia.” Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene on a case that forced Supermax to acknowledge an inmate’s warning signs of suicide. Denver Egotist thinks this is…
Impersonating a police officer is a schmucky thing to do under pretty much every circumstance — unless you’re starring in a TV drama or auditioning for the Village People, that is. But some impersonations are schmuckier than others. Proof can be found in the monumentally stupid story of Roland Herrera,…
John Hickenlooper was one of the most visible opponents of Amendment 64, a measure to allow adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. But since A64’s passage, he’s done a major turnaround, agreeing to appear at a fundraiser for Proposition AA, which would set tax…
This week’s cover story, “Drawing the Line,” delves into the Denver Public Schools Board of Education election — possibly the most important political race you’re not paying attention to. The future direction of DPS is at stake, with about half of the nine candidates in favor of continuing the district’s…
When you’ve dropped two or five or ten million on that second or third home in one of the more desirable Colorado mountain resorts, there are a few items that you take for granted will not be next door. Walmarts, trailer parks and rendering plants are probably high on the…
At today’s 10:30 a.m. meeting of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, a number of community activists plan to advocate for a voice in the search for a new Manager of Safety — among them the Colorado Progressive Coalition’s Alex Landau, who was nearly beaten to death by police officers in 2009…
Unsurprisingly, there weren’t a lot of grabby images associated with week one of Obamacare — unless you count occasional health-exchange error messages. But there was a notable exception: Earlier this week on the 16th Street Mall, ColoradoHealthOP.org promoted insurance coverage via spokesmodels who were almost entirely uncovered — as in…
Change is in the air — and in plenty of trees. Each year around this time, always-beautiful Colorado becomes even more spectacular as leaves turn from their usual lush color to a wide array of hues. But where are the best places in the state to revel in this glorious…
As the Denver Broncos get ready to face the Dallas Cowboys this Sunday, there’s no mistaking the fact that the team |(and QB Peyton Manning in particular) are off to one of the hottest starts in NFL history. They’ve scored 179 points over four wins (or 44.8 points per game),…
