Fox Street Wellness is in a Bermuda triangle of a location, just southeast of Sunnyside in a warehouse district cornered by I-25 on the east, 48th Avenue to the north and I-70 to the south. Unless you know the area well, you’ll likely end up driving around in circles, cursing…
The tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last week has reignited policy debates in Colorado that had quieted since the July 20 massacre in Aurora. And for victims of the theater shootings, the devastation in Connecticut can also trigger painful memories. That’s why officials in Aurora…
Kirsten Hamling is sorry she stole more than $200,000 from a charity she started to raise money for Children’s Hospital burn-unit victims. Her nonprofit group, Fired Up For Kids, collected money with an annual firefighters’ calendar — which got only positive attention until accusations surfaced that Hamling was pocketing donations…
When we last caught up with John Baker, irascible author/songwriter/culinary guerrilla, he was celebrating the richness in spirit of the downtrodden by performing his song “The Homeless Bums of Aspen” on YouTube. Baker knows a thing or two about being without portfolio in Colorado’s glitziest town, but since those days…
Representative Ed Perlmutter wants to introduce gun-control legislation on the first day of the new Congress, and is calling for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. Representative Diana DeGette wants to pull the trigger on gun control even earlier — this week, if possible. She’s joined with other Democratic…
In order to address the many questions of marijuana legalization, Governor John Hickenlooper assembled a 24-member task force charged with developing policy recommendations. The addiction expert is Dr. Christian Thurstone, who says his goal is to limit the harm A64 could cause youth. We caught up with him yesterday to…
All noses are not created equal. Some are too sensitive, others not sensitive enough. And to be a city odor inspector, your nose can be neither. While reporting this week’s cover story, “Raising a Stink,” which tells the tale of a RiNo factory owner who’s suing his neighbors for harassment…
We reported yesterday that Representative Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, plans to introduce an assault weapons ban on the very first day of the new Congress. But his colleague, Democrat Diana DeGette, is pushing for gun-control action even sooner with a bill to ban high-capacity assault magazines that she wants to…
If the world doesn’t end on December 21, maybe something else will disappear: all the rumors and speculation regarding the Mayan calendar. As they worked with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum on Mayan Renaissance, Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff started collecting the worst myths about the Mayan predictions…
The air smelled like a dead body, the woman said. And she isn’t the only one who thinks so. Over the past eight years, the city has received no fewer than 150 complaints about a fetid odor emanating from a brick factory at 33rd and Walnut streets that makes dog…
Beatdown, Dave Herrera, December 13 Up Close and Personal I read with interest and some trepidation about the “iconic” Gothic Theatre and the takeover by the “capable folks” at AEG. Thankfully, vice president Don Strasburg agrees with most of us who patronize this intimate venue and says the right things:…
When Secretary of State Scott Gessler was in Tampa, Florida, last August for the Republican National Convention — a trip he is now being criminally investigated for — he got a message from his staff in Colorado about a disturbing phone call. Someone had called the election line and had…
Dear Stoner: The governor signed Amendment 64 into law, but do you think the federal government is going to really allow this to happen? Cannacynic Dear ‘cynic: Attorneys have pointed out that there’s not much the feds can do about the decriminalization aspect of it at the state level: If…
One neighbor said the air smelled like a dead body. Another described the odor as akin to the stench of “a lot of dead rodents.” Yet another said he “literally dry heaved into my mouth.” Those are just a few of the complaints made to the city’s 311 helpline about…
Secretary of State Scott Gessler has faced a lot of pushback for his efforts to identify immigrants who are illegally on Colorado’s voter rolls. But over the summer, those criticisms escalated to a new level when he received multiple violent threats, some targeting his family. Through an Open Records request,…
Attention, everybody. It is flu season. Know how we can tell? Because during last night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, Nugget Kenneth Faried — the Manimal, if you will — puked into a towel while sitting on the bench. But that didn’t stop the dude from scoring nineteen points…
Colorado Springs is trying to clean up its downtown by banning panhandling and soliciting, but there’s one problem with that plan: The ordinance would violate the First Amendment — at least according to the American Civil Liberties Union. And in the first major ruling on that issue, a federal district…
Conspiracy theories are flying about the shootings at Newtown, and the e-mail that Alan Prendergast received over the weekend pretty much summed it up. Under a subject line that read “Someday we Might get the Truth from the Owned & Controlled Puppets in the Press,” the writer launched into a…
Update, 10:30 a.m.: The man who allegedly killed three others in a Longmont home yesterday and then shot himself had been released from jail a few hours before the shooting, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office. Daniel Sanchez, 31, reportedly showed up to the home where his ex-girlfriend was…
In the days following the movie theater massacre in July, Representative Ed Perlmutter, whose district then included Aurora, was one of the few local politicians who called for a gun policy change: the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban. He’s been working on that legislation for months, but given the…
Up in Weld County, owners of the three dispensaries in Dacono have filed a complaint to stop a citywide ban on medical marijuana businesses that’s scheduled to take effect January 1. Dacono Meds, Maryjane’s Medicinal and Green Medicals filed their request for an injunction last Friday, hoping to stay in…
Just days after a gunman broke into an elementary school in Connecticut and killed twenty children and six adults, Monica Avila, a 34-year-old Denver mother, is facing charges for allegedly bringing a gun to a middle school and threatening students who may have bullied her daughter. She was arrested after…
