Update: Yesterday, we reported that Cincinnati coach Butch Jones had turned down the CU Buffs football coach job, despite the Denver Post reporting that he’d accepted it the day before; see our previous coverage below. Now, we know more about what led the Post to ballyhoo this erroneous information –…
Patricia Calhoun shared her take on travel guru Arthur Frommer’s prediction that Colorado tourism will get a boost from Amendment 64 — and our readers followed suit. Here’s a comment from someone who thinks the alcohol industry has established a template for the pot tourism of the future…
At this point, there’s still no official word from the Justice Department about a response to Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. But as a similar law in Washington state went into effect at midnight yesterday, prompting a smoke-out at the Space Needle, a New York Times article…
How did faculty and staff at the University of Colorado, where accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes was a neuroscience student, react the morning of July 20? We’ve put together a timeline of e-mails culled from the 3,800 released this week by CU. The e-mails, which you can read below,…
Each year, our friends at Arc Thrift Stores assemble their top ten list of White Elephant gifts — and for 2012, they’ve really outdone themselves. Among their choices is an actual white elephant, which would go nicely with the pink squirrel panties. No, we’re not kidding. Look below to see…
Yeah, I know: It’s ridiculous. We ought to be celebrating the Broncos’ 26-13 victory over the Raiders in Oakland last night. After all, it’s Denver’s eighth straight win, and it keeps alive the chance that the team could move up in playoffs seeding. But damn it if Peyton Manning’s transformation…
Since the passage of Amendment 64, which legalizes adult possession of an ounce or less of marijuana, have you been getting questions about how it will work? So have we. To help clear the foggy air, we’ve asked medical marijuana dispensary critic William Breathes to follow in the footsteps of…
Pre-election news coverage about Secretary of State Scott Gessler often focused on his efforts to weed out non-citizen voters and prevent fraud through an initiative some activists called a wild goose chase. But at an event in Arapahoe County, where Gessler invited public feedback, most took the opposite stance: Election…
In September, Erica Guzman, twenty, and Stefanie Cardwell, 23, spent nights sleeping in their car. The two women, who have been dating for four years, say they had nowhere else to go. The search for shelter is especially difficult for Guzman, an undocumented Canadian immigrant. We spoke to the couple…
On the “About” section of Vincent Chacon’s Facebook page, Steven Hernandez is listed as “Brother (Pending).” Also pending are a series of legal actions prompted by the pair’s arrest for the armed robbery of the Park Meadows Nordstrom, followed by a high-speed chase…
On Tuesday, Boulder county commissioners temporarily walked away from a fracking hearing due to a boisterous protest by attending activists. The next day, the officials issued a statement included here that decried the disruption using terms like “mob harassment.” But the director of a youth-oriented environmental organization who attended with…
Sam Levin’s post about business groups urging the federal government to clamp down on Amendment 64 collected plenty of views and comments. Among those weighing in was marijuana advocate and A64 opponent Kathleen Chippi, who warns that the measure doesn’t prohibit drug testing — and predicts terrible repercussions for employees…
As more cyclists ride on Denver’s roads alongside cars, the city’s planners are working to build out a network of safe paths for bikes. But when a car double parks in a bike lane, it can make these paths a lot harder to navigate — a fact that BikeDenver is…
When most veteran Broncos fans first muttered the phrase “Raiders suck!,” they didn’t: The team was good for decades, which partly (but only partly) explains why we hated them so much. Now, though, the Raiders really do suck — and with the Broncos slated to play them tonight, it seemed…
At midnight, Initiative 502, Washington state’s equivalent of Amendment 64, went into effect — and a huge throng gathered at the Space Needle to celebrate the occasion with public toking; see the video below. It’s precisely the sort of event the Denver District Attorney is trying to prevent by warning…
Julie Hale, sitting in the St. Francis Center on a cold morning, perks up as she hears her name called. “Did he say Julie? Did you make it?” asks Christina Smith, a 46-year-old homeless woman. “I don’t know,” says the 48-year-old Hale as she brushes past Smith and runs up…
“Altered State,” Off Limits, November 29 High Ideals Loved the “Hey Bud!” postcard in Off Limits last week. If Visit Denver had any idea of what a bonanza the legalization of recreational pot is going to be for Colorado, they would be making those cards for real and advertising our…
James Dobson has written a thriller. Fighting the culture wars apparently was no longer enough of an adrenaline rush for the Focus on the Family founder; now he wants to take all of us with him — into the year 2042, to be exact, which is where Fatherless, Dobson’s first…
Alex Galvan was in El Salvador teaching English to poor kids when he first learned about his ties to terrorism. It was last March, during the patch of the calendar most universities cut out for spring break. But instead of beer-bonging his way through a beach week or posting up…
Today, the University of Colorado released about 3,800 e-mails related to accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, a neuroscience student at the school who had begun to withdraw more than a month before the July 20 attack. Most of the e-mails we’ve combed through are unremarkable, but some provide a…
Less than a month before a city-council-approved ban on dispensaries would even take hold in the tiny town of Dacono, a petition that calls for repealing that ban has already been approved. It’s scheduled to go before voters in 2013…
In the 24 hours or so, fliers have popped up on or near Westword’s offices related to a search for Bryanna Barragan, a fourteen year old Thornton girl who disappeared Thanksgiving week. But Barragan wasn’t abducted. Rather, she ran away from home, like hundreds of others in Thornton every year…
