I love CU-Boulder so much that I send most of my money there (for my daughters’ tuition). But there’s no doubt plenty of folks on the Interwebs feel differently. There are loads o’ mean CU-Boulder jokes out there (on sites like this one and this one and this one), with…
A number of news items that broke during the just-completed holiday week received less attention than they deserved. One glaring example: the charging of Tahca Chrstensen and Aldo Preza with child abuse resulting in death for the bathtub drowning of a six month old that Christensen partly attributed to her…
“The Beetle and the Damage Done,” Alan Prendergast, June 28 Up a Tree Healthy, well-hydrated trees and all other healthy plants and animals stay free of disease. It’s a lifestyle and “biological terrain” thing. But Colorado’s trees have many challenges. My advice: Don’t live closer than five blocks from any…
People like to bash the suburbs for everything from cookie-cutter homes to water-sucking, park-like lawns to super-sized shopping centers that force people to drive. But the inner city has a few problems of its own — and walkability, oddly, is one of them. At least when it comes to those…
Talk about a stash! Auraria Library contains a small but growing number of Colorado MMJ periodicals in a collection that could be the first of its kind in the country. But archivist Rosemary Evetts didn’t have a sudden epiphany that she ought to start storing such publications for posterity –…
Three Denver blogs to keep you dry on this Monday. Colorado Pols writes of Mitt Romney’s “bling tour,” and a possible visit to Colorado Springs after calling for cutbacks for firefighters: “The ‘bling tour’ press from the Hamptons this weekend wasn’t great, and Aspen keeps that meme going — but…
Illustrating the importance of Colorado as a key battleground in the presidential election, Mitt Romney is campaigning in the state this week — and the Dems aren’t letting him get away without a counterattack. Romney is hosting a fundraiser in Aspen tonight and has an event tomorrow morning at a…
On Friday afternoon, Denver Police Chief Robert White notified officers of the next step in his ongoing work to restructure the department: Through July 27, interested officers can apply for transfer or promotion to detective, corporal and technician candidates. In an interview with Westword last week, White expressed hope that…
After months of planning and fundraising, this year’s BoldLeaders trip to Kenya has been grounded, thanks to threats of violence from the Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab. The Denver-based group had flights arranged and was within a week of departure when the U.S. Department of State and its embassy in Kenya…
Rocky Mountain National Park officials have recognized for years that Front Range pollution — from auto exhausts, power plants, emissions from oil wells and refineries, feedlots and more — pose a threat to the health and welfare of their high-country streams, fish and plants. Now a new study from a…
In a series of posts last week, Sam Levin documented how the wheels have been turning for Denver cyclists. There are more bicyclists on the road — which has translated to more bike thefts. And not only is the city spending more on bike lanes, but it’s handing out more…
Katie Reinisch kept her cool through four years at the Colorado Legislature, when she was communications director for the Senate Democrats, so it’s not surprising that she’s having a blast running her own frozen-yogurt spot. “It’s so fun, and I’m learning so much,” she says. “I’m actually creating jobs, when…
After reports of increased crime in Commons Park, the Denver City Council and Denver Department of Parks and Recreation are funneling money into this popular neighborhood northwest of starting with $150,000 for lighting improvements to “address critical safety needs in Commons Park.”…
This week’s cover story, “Flash Point,” details Denver’s response to what many perceive as a recent rise in gang violence. According to the most up-to-date statistics from the Denver Police Department, six murders were linked to gang activity between January and May of this year. That’s up from five during…
Okay, with the entire state a tinderbox, we can understand why private fireworks have been banned and Fourth of July fireworks displays were cancelled across Colorado. And it was precisely because of the dry conditions that the folks in Nederland came up with an alternative activity for the Fourth: a…
Update, 2:15 pm: Since I posted the account below concerning the mysterious death of 22-year-old journalist Armando Montaño in Mexico City, his family has received new information from the Associated Press that contradicts many of the details presented in the Mexican press (particularly an article that appeared in La Cronica…
Three Denver blog posts to see you through to Monday. Now that wildfires in Colorado are dying down, those who lost their homes can see how a Fourmile Canyon fire (Labor Day 2010) victim is nearing completion of her new home. After dropping three of four by the St. Louis…
Correction: A previous version of this post referred to Crossroads GPS as a super PAC, when Crossroads GPS is in fact a nonprofit group that is a sister organization to American Crossroads, a Republican super PAC. They didn’t waste any time. Just hours after the latest unemployment statistics came out…
Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of reports about biking and bike safety in Denver and beyond. There are a lot more cyclists on the road in Denver — and apparently a lot more police officers looking to give them tickets. As the interest in biking grows…
Things were looking up for Aurora, Colorado.That’s how it seemed earlier this year when we wrote about the suburb’s new tourism organization, Visit Aurora. Why? Aurora looked sure to land the state tourism incentives it needed to entice Gaylord Entertainment to build a giant hotel there; the city was poised…
Initiative 84, a proposed ballot measure that would have reformed the state’s foreclosure process, is effectively dead — but it will enter a third life in the next legislative session. Five weeks before 87,000 signatures were due at the Secretary of State’s office — and with only 25,000 in the…
More good news in the efforts to contain the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs: Investigators think they have found the origin of the devastating fire that’s blazed for nearly two weeks. And at 95 percent containment, the situation seems to be nearing some kind of conclusion — just days…
