As the local campaigns for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama compete to attract voters in this key swing state, the Colorado Republican Party is now dealing with its own internal battle, with one national delegate alleging that the state’s GOP chairman won an important committee seat in a botched election…
Bill Sullivan, the subject of our story “Operation Cock Block,” is in trouble again. The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced fraud charges against two men, William P. Sullivan and Michael Turnock, for allegedly carrying out a $15.7 million Ponzi scheme involving a Denver-based company and more than 120 investors…
Our post about alternative jobs for medical marijuana sign spinners, whose positions are almost certainly going to be nixed by a Monday vote of the Denver City Council, inspired one reader to make a serious point about a gig that didn’t find much support even among those opposing the council’s…
Brittany Cortez will always remember her wedding day in part because of the scars she’ll bear from it. In an incredibly shocking incident, Joel Nevarez, a longtime friend with a history of mental issues, allegedly sicced his pit-bull mix on her at the reception and personally attacking her using a…
Back in the paranoid ’90s, when I started toking, you didn’t want to tell too many people that you smoked cannabis — and you certainly didn’t want to be photographed using it. Times have certainly changed…
Centennial’s Missy Franklin has had a busy week, what with attending the Olympics closing ceremony in London and giving people a reason to watch the Tonight show for the first time in forever — not to mention starting her senior year at Regis Jesuit High School. But she still managed…
Yesterday, an Internal Affairs Review Panel was set to issue findings regarding Boulder Police officer Christian McCracken, charged with attempted first-degree murder in a case that allegedly involved him stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend. McCracken apparently realized the results wouldn’t be favorable: He resigned an hour before the panel would…
In the wake of the Aurora theater shooting, comics like Dane Cook and Jeffrey Ross were ripped for making jokes about the tragedy. Now, a New York professor has been suspended for treading into this same territory due in large part to a member of his audience: Weston Cowden, who…
Thursdays at 4:20 p.m. is when we feature William Breathes’s latest dispensary review. But today’s diagnosis isn’t good: Because of technical difficulties, his latest critique, of Cure Colorado Dispensary, is requiring a little extra time to cure. Look for it at 4:20 p.m. tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks for your…
Since James Holmes purchased an AR-15 assault rifle and shot twelve people dead in an Aurora movie theater, we’ve asked different local officials if they think stricter gun control laws could help prevent this kind of tragedy in the future. Recently, Denver mayor Michael Hancock told us that he would…
Denver blog posts love you for your mind. Colorado Pols cites a voter survey putting Mike Coffman ahead of Joe Miklosi in House District 6 by just 40-36 percent. Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson ponders how the Nuggets fit into the blockbuster era. At Mile High Mamas, Jaime offers a simple…
James Holmes’s own “confidential defense expert” has a right to be present during evidence testing if the testing will destroy the evidence but not otherwise, a judge ruled today. Holmes, 24, is charged with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the July 20 Aurora theater…
The long-running lawsuits over an alleged police brutality incident at the Denver Diner in 2009 has entered a new and potentially game-changing phase. Attorneys for four women who say they were roughed up by police have named the City and County of Denver in the case, for allegedly tolerating excessive…
Yesterday, we noted that our collection of beautiful DIA Instagram photos made the airport look so good that people might never want to leave. One reader who agrees even had nice things to say about Blucifer, DIA’s infamous demon steed…
Attorney Harvey Steinberg’s Broncos winning streak is over. After helping Perrish Cox escape unscathed after sexual assault claims by a woman he impregnated and helping Elvis Dumervil evade charges in an alleged road rage incident in Miami, Steinberg client D.J. Williams has been found guilty of DWAI. Now what?…
A Gates Foundation video on view below introduces the concept behind a contest to “reinvent the toilet” by reeling off numerous terms to describe what goes in them, including “poop,” “doo-doo,” “ka-ka,” “crap” “number two” and “shit” (although the latter is bleeped and spelled with dingbats). But by whatever name,…
Next Monday, despite threats of a lawsuit, the Denver City Council seems all but certain to impose a ban on medical marijuana outdoor advertising — a proposal that seems to have been almost entirely motivated by antipathy toward sign spinners. If the council lowers the boom, how will these MMJ…
Tyler Withrow is reportedly a budding stand-up comic and author of two e-books, including one whose title begins, What Unhinged Tyler Withrow. Now, however, that question has a decidedly unfunny application, given that Withrow has been arrested for the murders of two women in Yuma County…
Most age controversies at the Olympics involve athletes who may be younger than they’re claiming. But in the case of hometown hero Missy Franklin, she can seem much older than her seventeen years — particularly given how well she appears to be handling her sudden fame. But she’s still a…
Eugene Elliott caught his first glimpse of the ravaged Gates Rubber Company complex three years ago. He was driving in Denver one day, and here was this huge, hulking factory, a sprawling labyrinth of brick and concrete stretching across blocks of South Broadway. The empty plant was imposing yet desolate…
“Bird Brains,” Off Limits, August 2 Empty Nest The Big Year would have been a great choice for One Book, One Denver. I don’t understand why Galveston can use a Colorado book but Denver can’t. I really enjoyed both Mark Obmascik’s book and the movie (which would come in handy…
Creating a line of painfully ugly shoes can earn you millions and millions of dollars, seventeen houses and an $80,000 Porsche Panamera, but it’s no guarantee of landing country singer Taylor Swift — no matter how much you want her to be your girlfriend. News outlets this week reported the…
