First-year Overland High teacher Carly McKinney’s suspension after a TV station publicized her Twitter account (which featured flirty photos and marijuana references) has stirred passions among students at the school. Here’s a note from one who puts the pot leaves seen on a T-shirt supporting her in perspective…
Last month, we shared with you a photo gallery of the five most expensive homes in Denver — and a spectacular batch it was. But don’t forget about Boulder, whose properties, as featured on BoulderHomeSource.com, are just as astonishing and often more unusual — including a three-for-one-price deal that includes…
Justice can be expensive — but the cost of injustice is often even higher. Case in point: the horrifically botched investigation into the 1987 murder of Fort Collins’ Peggy Hettrick. Thus far, the case has cost authorities at least $10.5 million — the latest $500,000 as a result of a…
Watching Ray Lewis acting like the king of the world after playing a thoroughly ordinary game, and seeing Joe Fluke-o named MVP after the Baltimore Ravens’ Super Bowl victory yesterday was enough to make me nearly throw up my seven-layer dip. Fortunately, Las Vegas sports books give our Denver Broncos…
Tickets are on sale for what is being billed as the first-ever High Times Cannabis Cup on American soil, here in Denver over the 4/20 weekend. Since our first post on the event, the folks at High Times magazine have decided to include everyone in the festivities — almost. Unfortunately…
Because Frederick Allen is a diabetic, he uses insulin on a regular basis. But while the substance is a life-saver for him, it led to horror for a CU-Boulder student. Allen has now been convicted of giving her the drug without her consent and raping her while she was incapacitated…
A bill that would grant undocumented immigrant students in-state tuition in Colorado is set to go before a Senate Appropriations Committee next week. Senate Bill 33, aka Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET), breezed through a hearing by a Senate Education Committee with a bipartisan vote of 6-3…
Denver blog posts prefer Broncos wings to Buffalo wings. Predominantly Orange’s mattyp5280 shares a mock draft in which the Broncos select Notre Dame linebacker/lightning rod Manti Te’o. No word about whether the pick will also include a fictional girlfriend. Ed is Watching’s Eddie thinks National School Choice Week offers more…
So…you’re homeless and you’re looking for shelter. What’s the absolute last place you should bust into in your quest for a roof over your head? If your answer is a sheriff’s substation, your in little danger of repeating the schmucky mistake made by Philip Brown…
Welcome to another round of the back-and-forth between Secretary of State Scott Gessler and the Independent Ethics Commission. In response to an IEC investigation launched in November, Gessler, as represented by attorney David Lane, is seeking a temporary restraining order; see it below. Gessler spokesman Andrew Cole says the suit…
The back-and-forth between Fox News and attorneys for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is getting heated. Holmes’s lawyers are attempting to subpoena a Fox reporter who quoted unnamed law enforcement sources as saying that Holmes mailed a notebook to his psychiatrist “full of details about how he was going…
Yesterday, we wrote about a Weld County Commissioners resolution defending the Second Amendment — and, by implication, registering a protest against a possible assault-weapons ban and implementation of universal background checks. In reply, one reader brings up a city where tough gun laws have done little to end the carnage…
While other media outfits shrink, Colorado Public Radio is expanding via the planned launch of an arts-news initiative that will include an online arts hub intended to serve as a one-stop shopping place for Colorado cultural info. Because another local group has been shopping a similar idea in recent months,…
What the hell’s going on in Weld County? The same week teacher Rhonda Eisenberg pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an underage student, and bearing his child, Greeley mom Lynne Freeman has been sentenced for the sexual assault of not one but two teens. Scene of the first incident that came…
The first month of 2013 started out strange when it comes to the crime beat — and that’s reflected in January’s most memorable mug shots, which include an alleged cop/neighborhood-elk killer, a guy accused of tasing his grandmother and more. Check out the complete collection below, and get the whole…
The uproar over photos and messages associated with the Twitter account of Overland High’s Carly McKinney, aka CarlyCrunkBear, offers a cautionary tale about the ways in which social media has changed the professional landscape. But a new bill headed to the Colorado legislature could make losing one’s job for imprudent…
Yesterday’s death of snowmobiler Caleb Moore as the result of a crash at the X-Games in Aspen has led to grief on the part of his family and friends, as well as debate about his sport of choice. Among the most prominent critics of the event: Tony Kornheiser of ESPN,…
Terrapin Care Station has grown up since my first visit nearly two years ago, swapping the patchouli and tapestry atmosphere for something more professional — like a college kid who bought a pair of puffy brown couches and started framing his Further and Railroad Earth posters instead of tacking them…
Last week, we noted that Weld County Sheriff John Cooke was among several Colorado sheriffs raising constitutional concerns about potential gun-control measures. Now, the Weld Count Commissioners have pulled a similar trigger, passing a resolution — read it below — expressing their support for the Second Amendment…
Denver blog posts are a thing. Colorado Pols notes that Mike Coffman made a Democratic SuperPAC’s list of ten allegedly vulnerable Republican Congressmen targeted with off-election year political programs. Denver PR Blog: Chris Culliver’s apology translated. Ralphie Report’s Jon Woods on new CU-Buffs football coach Mike McIntyre flipping another recruit…
Do you love the Denver International Airport’s demon horse? Do you hate it? (Do you just want to dress up a paper doll version of it?) In this week’s feature story, “Yay or Neigh,” we take a look at our own feelings for the big blue beast at the perfect…
In July, we told you about Greeley high school teacher Rhonda Eisenberg’s arrest for sexual assault after allegedly bearing the child of an underage student in her care. Now, Eisenberg has pleaded guilty in the case. Details and the original arrest affidavit below…
