In coverage of last week’s final Amendment 64 task force meeting, our Charles Trowbridge noted that in addition to a recommendation about a 15 percent excise tax at the wholesale level, an idea about a 25 percent point-of-sale tax was also floated. Task force member Christian Sederberg stresses that the…
In February 2012, the CU-Boulder memes Facebook page launched amid a wave of memes mania across the state and the country. A year later, the page is adapting to the times: Among its most recent posts is a Harlem Shake video. But its central focus remains weird images with funny…
Back in October 2010, Denver police officer Hector Paez was charged with sex assault after allegedly coercing an arrestee into orally pleasuring him in order to avoid going to jail. After a mistrial, numerous delays, a civil lawsuit and a media blitz by the accuser in the case, Paez has…
Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes “is considering entering” a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, according to motions filed by his attorneys. The motions — which are on view below — ask the court to clarify certain aspects of the state’s insanity defense laws, including the terms…
Earlier this week, Alex Landau, who was brutally beaten by police in 2009, expressed frustration about the reinstatement of an officer previously fired in a separate incident involving Michael DeHerrera, and also complained about Manager of Safety Alex Martinez’s decision not to meet with him about continuing delays in the…
On a snowy morning last week, a significant slice of downtown Denver was shut down as a result of a gunfire-filled standoff near 12th and Grant; our original coverage is on view below. Shaun Tobelmann, 34, has now been formally accused in the incident, and there are charges aplenty, including…
Colorado’s largest legal syringe access program gave out 116,671 clean needles in 2012 — and safely disposed of 71,323 dirty ones. An infographic of statistics from the Harm Reduction Action Center’s first ten months of operation (it began exchanging needles from its location in Denver last February) also shows that…
Denver blogs just keep bloggin’ along. The Ralphie Report’s Jon Woods shares a video preview of the CU-Cal matchup on Saturday night. It’s the sort of game that can burnish CU’s tournament résumé or give selectors second thoughts. Colorado Pols has a graphic explanation for why Rocky Mountain Gun Owners…
‘Tis the season when those of us who were cornered by co-workers and cajoled into buying a ton o’ Girl Scout cookies realize: We made the right decision! After all, Tagalongs are as delicious as their name is stupid — and we know the cash is going to a good…
This week’s cover story, “Ghosts of Auraria,” examines recent efforts, through new construction and revised master plans, to change the look and design of the Auraria campus — and looks back at a time when the area was a thriving working-class neighborhood, one that was leveled in the early 1970s…
Our post about the disappearance of Raven Cassidy Furlong, seventeen, and her use of online modeling websites also utilized by another pair of missing young women brought out the compassion in one reader, who recognizes the allure and the risks inherent in such posts. Here’s his take…
In August, when David DeWild pleaded guilty in the 2003 murder of Heather DeWild, wife of his twin brother, Daniel DeWild, we speculated that David had agreed to testify against his sibling in exchange for a lesser sentence. Turns out, though, that he did more than that. Much more. David…
At least initially, the biggest local story to come out of this year’s Westminster Kennel Club seemed to be the near-victory of Swagger, an Old English Sheepdog bred in Colorado Springs who become the annual extravaganza’s Cinderella. But now, there’s another, and far weirder, Colorado link to what’s viewed as…
The final meeting of the Amendment 64 Task Force began with a warning from co-chair Jack Finlaw: “I’ll be happy to be out of here by six.” And as the hours dragged on, it appeared he would get his wish — right down to the minute. The task force used…
Update: As soon as we got a look at Erin Jackson, the thirty-year-old woman arrested for this week’s brutal hit-and-run that critically injured an East High School student — see our original coverage below — it was clear she didn’t fit the a typical criminal stereotype. Turns out, though, that…
Patients Choice is one of Denver’s oldest and longest-running dispensaries. Opened in March 2009, the shop hasn’t moved from its end-cap spot in a little brick-faced strip center just south of Evans on South Broadway, putting it near the southern boundary of the Green Mile along with Colorado Alternative Medicine…
Update: At a news conference that ended moments ago, the Denver Police Department identified the woman arrested for a brutal hit-and-run that critically injured an East High School student yesterday as Erin Jackson, 31. Jackson reportedly turned herself in amid waves of publicity generated by the crime, which was captured…
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword’s Best of Denver, we’ve split the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the leading vote-getters and then vote again for your favorite people and places in metro Denver. And the results…
It’s been a rough patch for Wheat Ridge-based Gunsmoke Guns. First, American Guns, the Discovery Channel show set at the business, was cancelled in what some have interpreted as fallout from the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And now, the arms-heavy shop has been burglarized, with…
Denver blog posts have a special feeling about today. Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson recaps the Nuggets’ narrow win over the Trailblazers — and rightly pays tribute to Andre Iguodala, who had a near quadruple double en route to 29 points. More of that, please. Coyote Gulch’s latest snowpack total –…
The debate over gun control continues to get ugly. The same week Franklin Sain was arrested for sending Representative Rhonda Fields allegedly harassing, racist e-mails vocal, pro-gun audience members at an Aurora Town Hall meeting antagonized Senator Morgan Carroll, who felt the need for a security escort afterward…
This week’s cover story, “Ghosts of Auraria,” delves into the half-buried history of the campus, which is moving rapidly forward with hefty development plans that include three new flagship student-services buildings, a hotel, and a leap across Colfax to build new athletic fields on a contaminated industrial site. The changes…
