Denver blog posts roll out the welcome wagon. Colorado Pols notes that Barack Obama will be introduced at his Denver appearance tomorrow by Sandra Fluke, the law student Rush Limbaugh branded a slut. Denver Egotist: Firefighters saluted in “Community Does Not Burn Down” campaign. Plants & Animals Denver’s Hana on…
According to an indictment on view below, Alfonso Carrillo portrayed himself in Spanish language media and elsewhere as a savior for Latinos who wanted to own a home but were crippled by bad credit — and sure enough, he put a roof over plenty of people’s heads. Problem was, the…
In May, Boulder officials filed a restraining order against Seth Brigham, the city’s most annoying critic, arguing that he was a threat. Brigham, who won a hefty judgement against Boulder two years ago (more on that below), responded by contacting attorney David Lane and taking the city to court. Yesterday,…
In an item yesterday, we argued that the mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple had received less coverage than the Aurora theater shooting. The response to this point of view fell shy of total acceptance, but numerous readers agreed, and voiced theories about why. Here’s one especially detailed and…
Jim Kozlowski, a Boulder High School teacher and coach for the golf team, was scheduled to report for the new academic year this Thursday. But not now, and for a reason that’s flat-out bizarre. Kozlowski is accused of slyly but intentionally exposing his genitals while visiting two separate garage sales…
Local heroine Missy Franklin has a big tax bill due thanks to her amazing success at the London Olympics. Fortunately, she’ll also come home with priceless memories, many of which she’s sharing with followers of her Twitter account. Look below to see Franklin’s Twit pic gallery of Olympic highlights from…
The City of Houston has released Run, Hide, Fight, a video designed to help people survive a mass shooting in a public place. According to CBS News, the $200,000 production was issued early due to the Aurora theater shooting, hitting YouTube days before this weekend’s Sikh temple slayings. It’s a…
As our Dave Herrera reported on The Latest Word yesterday, Wisconsin Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page is from Colorado and was part of racist bands such as End Apathy. Herrera has since done more reporting about Page on our Backbeat blog. Here’s additional information about the murderer from that…
Thus far, Facebook hasn’t seen the creation of nearly as many pages saluting Wisconsin Sikh temple killer Wade Michael Page as was the case with James Holmes following the Aurora theater shooting. But one address exemplifies the fleeting attention span of those who live to shock online: It was previously…
Where’s the best place to find wild asses in Denver? If you guessed Shotgun Willie’s, you’re probably right. But we would have also accepted the Denver Zoo. Why’s that? Because the zoo is now home to two 600-pound Somali wild asses named Kalifa and Kamowa. The two half-brothers recently arrived…
More and more cyclists are riding in Denver. So it’s good timing that the city’s main cycling advocacy organization — one working to make the streets safer for bikes — has just received the largest single donation in the group’s history…
Denver blog posts have it goin’ on. Colorado Pols thinks the Obama campaign’s latest hit on Mitt Romney is reminiscent of the strategy Michael Bennet used to top Ken Buck in the 2010 U.S. Senate race. Mile High Report’s Scotty Payne on the Broncos’ depth chart. At Mile High Mamas,…
Journalists these days inevitably know lotsa former journalists, many of whom seem happier than those still employed in the profession. That appears to be the case with former Rocky Mountain News staffer Gil Rudawsky, whose new blog post about making the leap from newspapering to public relations admits to nostalgia…
Following his arrest for cultivating hundreds of marijuana plants, Edward Bogunovich, age 87, claimed that he was following the state’s medical marijuana law — an assertion about which the Denver District Attorney’s office clearly disagrees. Could he be right? Too soon to know. But just as interesting as that question…
A Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area report lists alleged instances when medical marijuana from Colorado was sold for non-medical purposes, often beyond Colorado’s borders. Far from denying that such things are happening, a number of our commentators offered confirmation — including this one…
Wade Michael Page, the deceased forty-year-old gunman who is alleged to have killed six people at a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, reportedly has ties to Colorado. Citing an interview he gave to Label 56 this past May, a bulletin sent out by the Southern Poverty Law Center this…
Update: Earlier this morning, we posted about comic Jeffrey Ross making an Aurora theater shooting joke at a Comedy Central roast of onetime Denver resident Roseanne Barr; see our earlier coverage below. We noted that Ross hasn’t apologized for the gags, and he still hasn’t. But he’s now admitting he…
Back in December, we told you about an investigatory break in the 2003 murder of Heather DeWild, who vanished two days before her divorce to Daniel DeWild was to be finalized. Daniel, his twin brother David and David’s wife Roseanne were all charged with murder in the case . Now,…
On Sunday, a gunman opened fire on attendees at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, killing six people before dying at the hands of police. Yet the amount of coverage this horrific event has received thus far falls short of that devoted to the July 20 Aurora theater shooting nationally as…
Missy Franklin’s races in the 2012 London Olympics are over, but her victory laps are only beginning. This morning, Franklin was a featured guest on the Today show, and as you’ll see in the video below, she used her moment in the spotlight to give a shout-out to plenty of…
As our posts about Aurora theater shooting jokes by comedians Dane Cook and Jeffrey Ross make clear, using the massacre to get laughs is dodgy business right now. But that hasn’t stopped the person or persons behind James Holmes Dies, a Twitter account with more than 39,000 followers…
Medical marijuana advocates say THC is especially effective when it comes to reducing nausea for people who have cancer and are undergoing chemotherapy. Now, The Clinic and Flower of Life are offering a way of delivering that substance free of charge to medical marijuana patients on chemo — with the…
