In November, Commerce City Police Officer Robert Price shot and killed Chloe, a mixed breed dog, in an incident caught on video. After Price was charged with animal cruelty, a police group suggested that the accusations were fueled by a lynch-mob mentality. As Price made his first court appearance yesterday,…
In a post about the first meeting of the Denver City Council’s recreational marijuana committee, chairman Charlie Brown shared anecdotes he’s heard about public pot smoking at ski areas since Amendment 64. But a spokeswoman for Colorado’s ski industry says resorts have had virtually no problems with visitors who don’t…
As the debate around gun policy and mental health heats up in Colorado and across the country, Representative Claire Levy, a Boulder Democrat, is pushing forward with a bill that she says would help keep weapons out of the hands of the wrong people. The legislation would establish real-time data…
Update: Earlier today, we shared the arrest affidavit naming Samuel Carter, one of two Boulder cops charged in the shooting of a Mapleton neighborhood elk on New Year’s Day; see our previous coverage below. Now, the City of Boulder has announced that Carter and cohort Brent Curnow, who also faces…
A year ago, the Colorado Progressive Coalition relaunched its Racial Justice Hotline. The goal was to collect stories and statistics about racial profiling and police misconduct in the hopes of changing the culture of policing — which, as evidenced by the story of Alex Landau, who was beaten by police…
Denver blog posts inaugurate another week. Bronco Talk’s Jon Heath notes the addition of Demaryius Thomas (and guard Zane Beadles) to the AFC pro bowl roster. Wish they were playing in a different bowl…. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz gives an update on construction around the Union Station neighborhood. Denver Egotist…
In the wake of mass killings at the Aurora Century 16 and Connecticut’s Sandy Hook school, Groupon has reportedly decided to drop all discounts and deals related to guns. Not so the Denver Post, whose Denver Daily Deals promotion currently features an offer related to a handgun-safety class…
The first meeting of the Amendment 64 committee of the Denver City Council is scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. today — and while Councilman Charlie Brown, the panel’s chairman, stresses that no votes will take place during the initial session, he expects a disparity of views among the…
The hydraulic fracturing process involves pumping chemicals into the ground to free oil and gas reserves trapped in tight shale formations. The debate over fracking’s environmental risks isn’t all that different; it’s become a battle to squeeze a few facts out of stubbornly entrenched forces, amid a lot of high-pressure…
As we noted last week, Lance Armstrong’s admission that he lied about performance-enhancing drug use and more confirmed years-old reports from two Boulder cyclists. But according to one of our readers, this mea culpa shouldn’t be interpreted as proof that the sport as a whole is now beyond reproach…
Boulder and Walmart are an unlikely combination. But after months of speculation, rumors and protests, it now appears that one of the nation’s most progressive communities will soon be home to the retailer most liberals love to hate. And judging by early reaction to reports that a Walmart will be…
Our newish Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule feature spotlights hysterical pot reporting from days gone by — from 1937’s “School Children Buy Drug” to 1968’s “Anti-symbol Hippie Ponders Future in Jail.” Today, in that tradition, we’ve assembled a gallery of anti-marijuana propaganda from the 1930s to the 1970s. Check out the…
Justice for the family of Marvin Booker may have to wait. On Monday, Booker’s brother, sister-in-law and cousins stood in front of the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. in City Park and expressed their disappointment that the civil lawsuit they filed against the city and the sheriff’s deputies whose…
Derrick Martin’s team, the New England Patriots, fell to the Baltimore Ravens in a brutal AFC Championship Game loss on Sunday — but it’s hardly the worst thing that happened to him and those he loves on that day. During the evening, the Aurora home of this Colorado native was…
What are your favorite places, services and events in the metro area? Give them the spotlight they deserve: The Westword Best of Denver 2013 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we want your input. For the first time, this year’s awards will be tallied across two rounds of voting, with…
The judge in the James Holmes case will allow Holmes’s defense attorneys to subpoena a New York-based Fox News reporter who first reported that the accused Aurora theater shooter sent a notebook “full of details about how he was going to kill people” to a University of Colorado psychiatrist. The…
This week, Rolling Stone published its list of marijuana legalization’s biggest enemies. And by coincidence, all five of those who made the RS roster have been recently featured in this space. And in the case of the top dog, Kevin Sabet, very recently…
If they are eligible to vote, individuals in youth correctional facilities should be able to cast ballots. That’s the thinking of Representative Paul Rosenthal, who is pushing a bill that would make clear the voting rights of those in Division of Youth Corrections custody. The proposal is personal: As a…
Denver blog posts has a lot less interest in this weekend’s NFL playoffs than expected. Mile High Report fan poster McGeorge argues against throwing the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to Rahim Moore, who gave up the TD that eventually crushed the Broncos’ season. The Colorado Independent’s…
Here at Schmuck of the Week HQ, we’ve reported about a lot of schmucky behavior over the years. But seldom have we encountered schmuckiness on the scale linked to Paul Donovan Johnson, a child predator with a Colorado conviction, while allegedly harassing a Japanese tourist and her pre-school-age daughter in…
Last night, speakers at the reopening of the Aurora Century theater, the scene of a July 20 rampage, decried violence in the city. But just a few hours later, a woman was shot to death approximately three miles away. Look below for the basics about the community’s latest homicide…
After nearly eighteen years in jail, authorities determined that Robert Dewey did not rape and murder nineteen-year-old Jacie Taylor in 1994. He was released in May of 2012 after DNA testing exonerated him. Now, his case has inspired a new bill that would allow individuals wrongfully convicted to receive compensation…
