Mayor Michael Hancock delayed paying off a wager with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake because of an injury. The terms? If the Broncos lost to the Ravens (which they did), Hancock would send a box of steaks to Maryland aaaand do the Ray Lewis dance. Well, the mayor is healed and…
Yesterday, we told you about first-year Overland High math teacher Carly McKinney, who became an instant star after her now-deleted CarlyCrunkBear Twitter account, featuring flirty pics and dope-joke tweets, was discovered by a local TV station. She’s now been suspended much to the chagrin of many students and an online…
How do you help young children cope with a terrible tragedy? A first-grade teacher in Aurora has come up with a way. Every day after recess, the kids in Megan Anderson’s class at Peoria Elementary sit on the classroom’s alphabet rug and talk about the kind things they’ve done that…
Denver blog posts almost forgot what snow looked like…. Colorado Pols shares Senator Linda Newell’s quasi-announcement about a possible run against Congressman Mike Coffman. She joins buzzed-about potential candidates such as Andrew Romanoff, Karen Middleton and Rhonda Fields. Plants & Animals Denver invites you to a vegan prom. Coyote Gulch:…
The Bureau of Land Management’s decision late last week to seek additional environmental study of possible impacts of oil and gas exploration on the Roan Plateau has left energy interests fuming and sulking over the continued delays in tapping the area’s rich gas reserves — and enviro activists crunching numbers…
Carly McKinney, 23, is a first-year math teacher at Overland High Schools, but her calculations related to a now-yanked Twitter account posted under the name CarlyCrunkBear don’t add up. She reportedly considered it a parody account, but administrators at the Cherry Creek School District don’t appear to find the flirty…
William Breathes’s post about a federal court that rejected current evidence of marijuana’s medical benefits brought a strong response from one of our readers. His post contrasts American policy on this issue to that of other places around the globe…
In September 2011, radio Troubleshooter Tom Martino talked to us about filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Months later, Martino sued two creditors he believed had accused him of fraud, and a trial in the first case finally got underway last week, only to be stayed by settlement negotiations. Meanwhile, a man…
Yesterday’s revelation that a 1999 Boulder grand jury had wanted to indict JonBenet Ramsey’s parents for the little girl’s murder three years earlier revived interest in the tragic case. But some people have never stopped being obsessed by the beautiful little girl who died far too young. Below, see images…
Dustin Canup, twenty, and Sareena Morrison, eighteen, can’t be accused of trying to victimize a sympathetic person. After all, the target of their alleged crime was a pedophile thought to have arranged a creepy tryst with a six-year-old girl. But that doesn’t mean the pair are off the hook; they’re…
Last November, we told you about the search for Kara Nichols, an aspiring teen model from Colorado Springs who’d vanished en route to Denver. At the time, a photo on the website of a Las Vegas escort service was alternately thought to be a false lead or a big break…
Today, Miguel Lopez, the organizer of Denver’s annual 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, released the schedule for this year’s two-day event, taking place on (duh) April 20 and 21. But in addition to a breakdown of happenings on each day, he also shares his often-negative thoughts about Amendment 64’s…
When you’re battling an institution as powerful as Denver Water, it’s best to have the will of the people, or at least a lot of average joes, on your side. Environmental groups trying to protect the Upper Colorado River basin from massive diversion projects that benefit Front Range development seem…
This week’s cover story, “The Meaning of Life,” tells the story behind a seemingly contradictory legal argument being made by Englewood-based Catholic Health Initiatives: that a fetus is not a person. The court case in which it asserts that claim has now been appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court. If…
Denver blog posts have an open door policy. South Stands Denver’s Colin D. thought he’d enjoy watching Peyton Manning and Champ Bailey in yesterday’s Pro Bowl. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Denver PR Blog offers up a mo’ money, mo’ problems infographic. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Mulligan on the 6th…
Attorneys for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have asked a judge to delay a hearing at which they hope to question Fox News reporter Jana Winter about her sources. Back in July, Winter reported that Holmes sent a notebook “full of details about how he was going to kill…
Our recent cover story — “Bed Check,” a close look at the shelter space available for homeless women in Denver — was published just as the city opened up a new overflow wintertime option exclusively for women. The emergency spot has a total of fifty mats each night. And after…
At noon today, the Colorado Children’s Caucus will make a presentation to the state’s general assembly entitled “How Drugs are Endangering Colorado’s Children;” get details below. As the program’s title implies, the organization, featuring the likes of state senators Kevin Lundberg and Linda Newell, is worried about negative effects associated…
Last week, Joel Warner wrote about the financial difficulties being experienced by a Montbello anti-gang initiative spearheaded by activist Terrance Roberts — problems so severe that the program may have to close. One reader believes that demographics have everything to do with Roberts’ troubles…
Last week, Daniel Zettler, a public defender in Salida, won a $43,000 settlement with the city over a 2011 bust in which he says he did nothing more than advise an arrestee to remember his rights. But the case may not be over. Attorney David Lane says he’s thinking about…
Last week, onetime Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo revealed that he would take a single puff of a marijuana cigarette to settle a bet with a comedian-filmmaker. Once he does, he’ll join a large number of politicians who’ve done likewise — and most of them admit it. Continue to count…
The 1996 killing of six-year-old beauty-pageant regular JonBenet Ramsey is arguably Colorado’s most famous unsolved murder case — one that continues to fascinate a significant percentage of the public more than a decade and a half later. For proof (something in short supply when it comes to the incident), look…
