Denver blog posts recognize. Colorado Pols on Mitt Romney spending two days in Denver — Sunday and Monday. He’s clearly in a swing state of mind. Purple Row’s Bryan Kilpatrick on the public relations disaster that is the Colorado Rockies. WhoSaidYouSaid’s Joshua Sharf sees a love affair between Ed Perlmutter…
Update below: Prosecutors in the case of James Holmes decided to drop their request for immediate access to the notebook the accused Aurora theater shooter sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton, who’d acted as his psychiatrist. But prosecutor Rich Orman said at a hearing held this morning that he thinks it’s…
At noon, proponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, will hold a press event at which two law-enforcement organizations will join previous backers in expressing their support for the measure; get details below. A spokeswoman stresses that the get-together isn’t a response to yesterday’s announcement that the…
This week, StandUp For Kids founder Richard Koca was arrested on suspicion of child-sexual assault. Given Koca’s devotion to working with homeless youth, he had plenty of access to kids over the years, as police note. But one reader says Koca never took advantage of her, despite having many opportunities…
Update by Michael Roberts: Citations have been issued in the bike-rage case prompted by a startling video showing a driver repeatedly honking at and harassing a pair of cyclists on an open Longmont road; see it below. As Sam Levin details in our original post, which follows this update, the…
Another week, another arrest of a man with a ministerial past on a sex-crime beef. Mere days after disgraced ex-priest Daniel Drinan was charged with pleasuring himself on a plane, David Grosse, a retired Air Force chaplain, has been arrested for suspected sexual assault against four victims and maybe more…
CU-Boulder closed Norlin Quad as part of its attempt to shrink the annual 4/20 event on campus. Three CU students were cited for trespassing on the Quad that day, with lawyer Sean McAllister defending them on First Amendment grounds. Now, the case has been dismissed after the students did a…
A few months back, we photo-illustrated an old list of “You know you’re from Colorado when” punchlines. But there are new ways to fill in this blank all the time on the You Know You’re From Colorado When Tumblr. We’ve paired pics with our ten favorite recent posts from the…
Prepare to be astonished. Taipei-based Next Media Animation, which specializes in animated news videos, has created a clip about pot legalization measures in the U.S., with a particular focus on our own Amendment 64 — and it’s hilarious, featuring a face-off between Obama, Romney and the Jolly Green Pot Giant,…
Update: Yesterday, Avery Workman, a sixteen-year-old youth circus performer from Elbert County who vanished off the 16th Street Mall, was found safe. But while media reports like this one suggest she ran away, the folks behind the Facebook page that coordinated the search for her insist she was drugged…
And the epitaph reads: HERE LIES AN INNOCENT MAN.
“Sun Burn,” Sam Levin, September 13 Unreal! Sam Levin’s article on “u.N.R.E.a.L” — that being a past reference to NREL by anyone from the rank and file familiar with the National Renewable Energy Lab’s internal workings — addresses this fundamental question: What is the return on U.S. taxpayer dollars and…
When the sound and fury of Occupy Wall Street reached Denver one year ago this week, it became one of the city’s largest stories — until, despite itself, it wasn’t anymore. It’s hard to pinpoint when, exactly, that moment happened; perhaps it was when a handful of protesters interrupted a…
Ask someone like Jon Entine, a science writer for Ethical Corporation, to describe the sort of person who claims hydraulic fracturing presents a pollution nightmare in waiting, and you quickly find yourself pummeled with talk-radio invective: “ideological blowhard,” “leftist loony” and “upper-middle-class lefties.” But none apply to Fred Mayer. When…
For the third year in a row, the Colorado legislature will likely consider a THC driving bill . Late last week, Senator Steve King, a Mesa County Republican, announced that he would sponsor a proposal in the 2013 session to set a per-se limit for how much THC can be…
Kim Cordova, the former Safeway bakery clerk who defeated longtime union boss Ernie Duran in 2009, has won another term as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. Cordova’s battle for the union’s top spot was detailed in our cover story, “Flour Power.” She promised to eradicate…
This week’s cover story, “The Happiest Man on Death Row,” examines the 1939 execution of Joe Arridy, a Pueblo man with an IQ of 46, for a murder he probably didn’t commit — and the twenty-year battle by author Robert Perske to clear his name. Although the miscarriage of justice…
Denver blog posts know the facts of life. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco thinks it’s ridiculous that Broncos coach John Fox could be penalized for bullying replacement refs on Monday night. Free Range Longmont’s Kaye Fissinger touts an event tomorrow on the hidden aspects of fracking in Colorado. Denver PR Blog:…
Former Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo has purchased an advertisement in tomorrow’s edition of The Metropolitan, the student newspaper for Metro State University of Denver — one that could cost the school plenty. Tancredo confirms that the ad (see it below) seeks plaintiffs for a proposed lawsuit against Metro…
Update below: At an 11 a.m. press conference, representatives of the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, will announce their opposition to Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Backers of the measure portray it as pro-education, with proceeds from an excise tax earmarked for the Public…
Members of the Boulder Police Department want you to lock your car. Really. Seriously. No kidding. In fact, they so badly want you to lock your car that this morning, the BPD’s Twitter account spewed out six tweets telling you to lock your car over the span of four minutes…
Patricia Calhoun’s recent post about comparing Walmart and Trader Joe’s from a red state v. blue state perspective revved up one reader, who questions the assumption of progressives that one firm’s business practices are radically different from the other. Here’s the post…
