The sight of the University of Colorado’s former medical-school campus and hospital at East Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard grows more stale every day, as the buildings continue to sit vacant more than five years after the school moved its operations to the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. One developer…
Eighteen mayors from around the country, including two from Colorado, passed a resolution Monday at the United States Conference of Mayors, urging the federal government to respect state rights when it comes to recreational and medical marijuana laws. The resolution, drafted by the advocacy group Marijuana Majority, calls for the…
In our photo post spotlighting Canna-Rave, touted as the “first-ever all-cannabis rave,” we noted that attendance at the unusual event was rather modest. A number of our readers weren’t surprised by that, including this one…
Denver blog posts have a post presence. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels comes up with the day’s best headline: “Javale McGee looks to improve his game through non-stop Instagramming.” Colorado Pols on reports that Mark Waller will challenge John Suthers as Colorado Attorney General. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel on the…
Five years after an Arapahoe County jury decided that that he should be executed for murder, transcripts and other records in the case of Sir Mario Owens remain sealed under a court order that prohibits journalists, death penalty activists or even the defendant’s family from viewing them — an unprecedented…
More than five years after the University of Colorado moved its hospital, medical school and other offices to the Anschutz Medical Campus, the buildings at Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard are still vacant — or so we thought. Although there is no movement on the outside — as one developer…
Update: The West Fork Complex fire, not far from Pagosa Springs, continues to be the most aggressive blaze currently burning in the scorched State of Colorado. And it’s proven stubbornly resistant to the best efforts of firefighters to bring it under control. The latest: The size of the fire is…
We’ve all heard (or experienced) stories about people who return home to find their spouse in bed with a stranger. But what if the naked person in the arms of an unknown guy is your grandmother? That’s what happened in the case of an 81-year-old victim’s granddaughter. And the circumstances…
During the first half of May, there were more civil unions than marriages in Denver — and more ceremonies like these may be taking place not only here but across the country now that the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, also known as DOMA…
Editor’s note: In honor of Bike to Work Day 2013, we’re re-sharing Jef Otte’s timeless advice for drivers from 2011. Used to be, the only adults who rode bikes were either weird fitness freaks or those with multiple DUIs. Times have changed, however, and more bicyclists than ever are taking…
It’s two, two, two lists in one. Our friends at Movoto.com recently compiled their roster of the ten best cities for gamers, and as is often the case in rankings like these, Denver finished very near the top. Bonus: To illustrate the selections (and text from Movoto explaining its methodology),…
Aurora Police Department Chief Dan Oates didn’t mince words when it came to the characterizing the decision to toss out DNA evidence in 48 sexual assault cases from 2009 — including one cold case that had just scored a database match. “Occasionally in policing, organizations screw up,” he said at…
When we think of murder-suicides, we typically imagine grisly scenes in which the killer takes his or her own life immediately after gunning down victims. But that wasn’t the case in the double homicide that took place in the El Paso County town of Peyton, east of Colorado Springs. Yes,…
If it’s not one thing, it’s another for the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division. Last year, MMED was forced to make big staff cuts, and it went six months without appointment availability. Then, earlier this year, the division received a terrible grade from the state auditor. The report, “State Oversight of…
Yesterday, we wrote about the victory scored by Kathryn and Jeremy Mathis when the State of Colorado determined that their daughter, transgender six-year-old Coy Mathis, had been discriminated against when her school prevented her from using the girls’ restroom. Our readers responded to this decision with great passion, if not…
Denver blog posts aren’t going to run the triangle, either. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons is enthusiastic about Brian Shaw, who’ll reportedly been named new Denver Nuggets head coach. Coyote Gulch: Northern Colorado secession plans are mucked up by water rights. Free Range Longmont’s Kaye Fissinger: Crocodile tears don’t wear well…
It’s been an up-and-down month or so for B-cycle. In late May, a software upgrade caused the credit-card system to fail on one of the busiest downtown Denver weekends of the year — and the inability to get it repaired in a timely manner prompted the cancellation of a promotion…
The mental health evaluator who will examine Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes pursuant to Holmes’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity earlier this month has been granted the time extension he requested; the deadline for the evaluation has been pushed back from July 31 to September 16…
Update: As we noted in our original coverage below, a large number of rescue professionals and volunteers fanned out over the Button Rock Dam/Ralph Price Reservoir area in search of Reese Graba, a 23-year-old Longmont resident who’d been missing since Friday. At the end of their efforts yesterday, they’d had…
Eighteen-year-old Logan Potter was a multi-sport athlete at Simla High School, located in a bucolic Elbert County town whose population was estimated at 728 circa 2007. But he particularly excelled at wrestling. If local authorities are correct, however, these skills weren’t necessary when it came to pinning a fifteen-year-old girl,…
Yesterday afternoon, the Amendment 64 committee of the Denver City Council was scheduled to talk about a proposed retail marijuana tax ordinance, as well as a presentation by Denver Health for a pot-education program to be funded by the city. How much money are we talking about? Plenty. According to…
This month, the FBI released a report with the laborious title “Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January-December, 2012” — and the long name is appropriate, since it contains a staggering amount of data about all reporting U.S. cities with a population of 100,000 or greater. For Colorado, that means ten…
