Last month, opponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act dismissed retired Denver Police Lieutenant Tony Ryan as a “pro-pot rent-a-cop.” But being personally attacked clearly didn’t intimidate Ryan. He’s the face of a new Amendment 64 television ad, in which he says law enforcement resources are being…
Yesterday’s arson-homicides at Fero’s Bar & Grill were shocking, and that got our readers typing. One person looking at the terrible crime in the context of Jessica Ridgeway’s murder and the Aurora theater shooting sees a strong argument for the ultimate punishment…
In September, Regan Benson, a Mitt Romney supporter, sent us footage of her dramatic scuffle with Jefferson County deputies as she was trying to leave a late-night presidential rally. She claims she was unfairly handcuffed and detained and has lingering physical pains a month later. That’s part of the reason…
Prosecutors in the James Holmes case can access Holmes’s application to the University of Colorado, documents relating to his withdrawal from the neuroscience program just weeks before the Aurora theater shooting and campus police records they say they “probably” have, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester has ruled…
For “On a Roll,” our feature on cycling, we connected with many local bike advocates, who have a wide range of perspectives on what officials can do to make Denver a top urban center for biking. Concerns about the rise in bike-car collisions, and the sometimes fatal results, have pushed…
It wasn’t long ago that Denver planners had the crackpot idea of putting a new Colorado history museum underground in Civic Center Park, right by the McNichols building, once a Carnegie library. Cooler heads put the kibosh on that. And now Denver’s Civic Center has been designated a National Historic…
For Ethan Feldman, the siren’s call came as he presided over his courtroom in Arapahoe County, watching a procession of newly stamped prosecutors making tentative efforts to process an increasing logjam of cases. “It was clear that there were excellent attorneys in that office, but a lot of them had…
“On a Roll,” Sam Levin, October 11 A Vicious Cycle I am both a bike and car commuter downtown from Stapleton. There are no direct bike trails between Quebec through Park Hill to downtown. While biking the recommended bike/street routes, I’ve witnessed some of the most horrible behavior from cyclists…
On Saturday, Tom Downey, the director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, started his talk at the city’s Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation conference with a Denver-specific joke: “So, a priest, a rabbi, a councilwoman and a neighborhood association head walked into a Walmart and got into a TIFF…” The joke…
For about a week starting last week, the e-mail system by which MMJ businesses send in their travel manifests and receive confirmation from the state has been down. The problem is causing quite the backup in dispensary warehouses…
Congressional candidate Joe Coors may be spending big on advertisements this election season — but so are the allies of his opponent, who are pouring money into the race at very high rates, dominating independent spending across the state. Outside groups have spent a whopping total of $1,728,848.66 on efforts…
Denver blog posts don’t quit. Mile High Report fan poster Sean in Pa. links to a Philip Rivers fail video that pays tribute to his epic collapse against the Broncos. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy. At Mile High Mamas, Jason Pohl writes about back-to-school wariness after the…
The wind may have kept a lot of Denver metro awake last night — but it did much worse to this Cheesman Park tree, seen in a photo sent by one of our readers. The storm got snappy with a phone poll near the park, too, as you can see…
James Holmes’s lawyers are asking to postpone a hearing set for October 25 because they need more time to prepare. One of the main reasons given for this request involves the amount of time it takes to deal with media requests that additional information be made public…
As we’ve been reporting, the proponents and opponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, have been engaging in PR-generating endorsement wars. Now, in the wake of separate groups of doctors either championing or decrying the measure, religious leaders representing each campaign are sharing their feelings, pro and…
A 1991 murder in Albuquerque was as cold as a cold case can get until earlier this year, when Lawrence Scherer copped to the crime. But investigators let him go — and by the time they decided they wanted him back, he’d apparently changed his mind about that whole confession-is-good-for-the-soul…
Our post about the Broncos’ come-from-behind win over San Diego noted that Peyton Manning and his teammates seemed more in sync in the second half than during previous losses to Atlanta, Houston and New England. But one reader argues Manning played well in those games, too — and that to…
Last month, three survivors of the Aurora theater shooting filed lawsuits against Cinemark, owner of the Century 16, where the July 20 massacre took place. Cinemark has filed to dismiss these claims — but another has just arrived. Marc Bern, whose New York law firm has won a big settlement…
Earlier this month, families of Aurora theater shooting victims urged Jim Lehrer, moderator of the presidential debate in Denver, to raise the issue of gun policy in quizzing President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Lehrer didn’t do so — but last night, in the season’s second debate…
Update: More than 2,000 people attended a memorial service last night for Jessica Ridgeway, a ten-year-old Westminster girl who was found murdered in an Arvada open-space area a week ago today. Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk and Governor John Hickenlooper were among those in attendance. But could the killer also…
Former drug czars, DEA administrators and national “addiction experts” have come out in opposition to Colorado’s Amendment 64, as well as similar measures before voters in Washington and Oregon. In other wildly-unexpected news: The sky is, indeed, blue…
An important piece of the puzzle in Denver’s growth as a bike city — outlined in this week’s feature, “On a Roll” — is the creation of B-cycle, the city’s bike-sharing program, which today boasts thousands of annual users. Here, we take you behind the scenes at B-cycle, with a…
