The midday sun is high overhead when Captain America steps into the start gate. The skier is Joel Hunt, dressed in the Captain America suit he wore on Halloween. The fun outfit makes sense: The Wells Fargo Ski Cup is a weekend-long fundraiser at Winter Park for the National Sports…
A Colorado House bill that would create a marijuana responsible-vendor program in the state moved through a second Senate reading Monday without any amendments, paving the way to final approval on a third reading. If passed — which seems likely at this point — HB 1061 would allow the state…
In a recent post, a representative of El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said he’d enforce gun-control laws as best he can — even those he opposes and thinks are unenforceable. But some of his colleagues feel very differently, and that frustrates one of our readers…
In more than eight hours of emotional testimony that stretched well into the evening, activists and faith groups seeking to abolish the death penalty in Colorado squared off against prosecutors and other backers of the ultimate punishment yesterday — with family members of homicide victims speaking out on both sides,…
Denver blog posts are pleased to meet you. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton thinks the Nuggets deserve more love from people in these parts than they’re getting, despite thirteen victories in a row, including last night’s dismantling of the Thunder. Denver PR Blog offers a graphic to help you keep up…
Should a glass of wine be considered proof of alcoholism? If a child sees a parent sip some booze, should state personnel remove the youngster from the home? These suggestions and more are part of an open letter to Governor John Hickenlooper (see it below) written by Bill Althouse, a…
Here’s proof about how nasty the debate over gun-control legislation has gotten. This morning, the cover photo on the Denver Post’s Facebook page was updated to show Governor John Hickenlooper signing gun bills, with Representative Rhonda Fields looking on. A short time later, someone tagged the image as featuring “Retarded…
CU-Boulder recently announced that it would close its campus on April 20 for the second consecutive year in an effort to squelch the annual 4/20 rally traditionally held there. Attorney Rob Corry, who last year took CU to court in an unsuccessful attempt to thwart the closure, has some new…
Last week, the FBI added onetime Coloradan Edwin Ernesto Rivera Gracias to its Ten Most Wanted list. In conjunction with this announcement, the agency also put together two other most-wanted compilations focused on Denver, including one called the “Top Ten Fugitives Arrested/Located Within the Denver Division” — although, strangely enough,…
The crime bears all the marks of an assassination: A political appointee with a high-profile position overseeing the state’s prison system answers his door one night and is immediately shot in the chest by an unknown assailant. We have no confirmation at this writing that the attack was carefully planned…
Lisa Foster is, in many ways, a quintessential Coloradan — someone who so loves the natural glories of the state that she wrote an entire guide book about hiking in one of her favorite places on earth, Rocky Mountain National Park. But with such beauty comes danger. On Sunday, Foster…
Last week, the Amendment 64 task force released a massive, 166-page report filled with recommendations about how best to implement the measure, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. How does Calvina Fay, executive director of Save Our Society From Drugs…
A Hallmark Channel television series about a young woman in 1910 who takes a teaching job in a rural coal-mining town could be shot in Colorado if the state legislature sets aside more money during the next fiscal year for the state’s popular film incentives program. Last week, the Colorado…
Our latest update on Coy Mathis, a six year old who was born male but identifies as female, and the civil rights complaint filed by a national transgender advocacy organization over restroom access, drew strong reactions. Here’s an example from a highly critical reader…
Denver blog posts make a strong argument. Colorado Pols previews newly introduced energy-regulation bills and wonders if they’ll go down as smoothly for John Hickenlooper as that fracking fluid he famously drank. Coyote Gulch: The drought is expected to persist. View From a Height’s Joshua Sharf has the headline of…
If one were to create a line graph of the 2012-2013 college basketball season, it would look something like the Flatirons: jagged and uneven. Multiple teams held the position of number one in the country for a week, only to lose the next. Yes, it’s been a schizophrenic season, but…
Last month, we told you about the search for Raven Furlong, a missing seventeen year old from Aurora. Like Kara Nichols, nineteen, and Kelsie Jean Schelling, 21, two other women whose whereabouts are also unknown, she had a profile on a modeling-related website. The latest? Furlong’s car has been found…
We’ve all seen the public-service announcements that tell television viewers, “Never shake a baby.” But while the delivery of this line may seem overwrought, the message is inarguable: Parents frustrated with a child may actually kill him or her by reacting in a way that may seem totally natural but…
In recent weeks, rumors that Vail skier Lindsey Vonn had hooked up with golfer Tiger Woods were snowed under by word of Vonn’s wipe-out at the world championships in Austria, where she suffered a severe knee injury; see our previous coverage below. Now, however, Lindsey and Tiger are refocusing on…
Last night, your Denver Nuggets beat the Chicago Bulls for their twelfth straight win — and the person who locked up the victory, by blocking an in-bounds pass with less than a second left, was none other than JaVale McGee, who is quickly becoming one of Denver’s (and the NBA’s)…
By the time most of us are forty, we’re not exactly eager to model skimpy swimsuits, especially during the wintertime. Some parts shrink. Others get pointy. The human body’s not exactly consistent, is it? That didn’t stop Copper Mountain, though. To mark its fortieth anniversary season, the resort sponsored the…
“They didn’t take his phone. They didn’t take his car. Twenty bucks and maybe a pizza? That’s worth his life?” These very good questions are posed by Bernadette Alness, mother-in-law of Nathan Leon, a 27 year old whose second job was as a pizza delivery man. Hours after going missing…
