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…
Every now and then on our searches for Cannabis Time Capsule artifacts, we find news briefs too short to post about on their own. But they are too good to go unread, so we’ve compiled a handful of our favorites below. Read on to find out the explanation for psychedelic…
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…
In December 2010, then-sixteen-year-old Karina Vargas was shot while standing outside Aurora Central High School, where she was a student. The bullet, which was intended for someone else, hit her in the lower back, paralyzing her from the waist down. The shooter, reputed gang member Luis Guzman-Rincon, was convicted and…
When Lauralee Grauman last appeared in our Schmuck of the Week archive, back in October 2012, shortly after she was busted in Canon City following a cross-country crime spree, she was a supporting player rather than a star. But this time around, we’re promoting Grauman, who was recently sentenced for…
This week’s cover story, “Slamming for Syria,” details how eighteen-year-old Syrian-American slam poet Amal Kassir is using her celebrated skills to raise awareness about the crisis in Syria. Amal, a member of the Minor Disturbance slam team that last year took top honors at the Brave New Voices International Youth…
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…
The recent floods in Boulder had one positive effect: The University of Colorado football game was canceled last weekend. I know it’s selfish of me, but Boulder is much, much easier to get around without thousands of people masquerading as fans for a subpar college football team and using it…
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…
Legal marijuana is big business — or at least that’s what investors are banking on. On Tuesday, 22 cannabis entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to more than sixty investors gathered at the Denver Athletic Club in the second Mile High confab hosted by the California-based ArcView Group, which connects investors…
A new report on access to public records in Colorado scolds state agencies for excessive fees, failing to put records online so more citizens can make use of them, and for “pre-digital age thinking.” On the same day, attorneys for James Holmes file a motion in the Aurora theater shootings…
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…
