In light of the death of Denver police officer Celena Hollis, the Colorado Progressive Coalition, ACLU of Colorado and others have postponed the “Summer Against Police Violence” protest. The rally, originally scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, would have fallen at the same time as Hollis’s funeral service, which is also open…
For years, people living around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant wondered if the secret operations at that facility could somehow be endangering the health of people and animals living nearby. And the FBI’s spectacular dawn raid of Rocky Flats in June 1989, certainly didn’t do much for property values…
News broke yesterday that Abound Solar, a Colorado-based solar panel maker that has struggled for months — notably with a major round of layoffs in February — has officially filed for bankruptcy…
Denver blog posts almost never get called for three-second violations. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons introduces us to France’s Evan Fournier, the Nugs’ first draft pick, and a man who may spend time developing in Europe before playing full-time on an American court. Coyote Gulch: Colorado River trout face a brutal…
This Sunday, City Park Jazz will honor fallen Denver police officer Celena Hollis with a silent vigil that starts on the west side of Ferril Lake at 5 p.m. The concert will begin at the bandstand at 6 p.m., and scheduled performers Lionel Young and his band will play some…
“We will rebuild Majestic Drive.” These are the words of Terry Rector, a Colorado Springs lawyer who gathered with a number of others who also lived on Majestic (map here), before the area was devastated by the Waldo Canyon fire. Yesterday, photographer Brandon Marshall spent the day in the Springs…
The Obama campaign is hoping to make news in Colorado for something other than today’s presidential visit to the Waldo Canyon fire zone in the Springs. The fight for swing state votes will hit Wheat Ridge Sunday, when Obama staffers will join former Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria for the…
Sam Levin’s post about former Denver City Councilman Doug Linkhart being hit by a vehicle while participating in Bike to Work Day prompted an interesting conversation about the rights and responsibilities of bicyclists on the roadways. Below, a reader suggests that most peddlers don’t follow the law…
The Supreme Court’s heath care ruling has made such a splash that it’s easy to forget SCOTUS also weighed in on Arizona’s controversial immigration law this week. What’s the latter got to do with Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act? Plenty, say opponents, who see the opinion as…
As you can see above, and in the full list below, the fourth most-viewed story on the Boulder Daily Camera website from a few moments ago apparently doesn’t exist — although maybe it does. How metaphysical! Here’s an explanation by the perky yet mysterious error message:…
Colorado may never have seen a wildfire season like this one. With the High Park fire near Fort Collins, the Waldo Canyon fire outside of Colorado Springs and Boulder’s Flagstaff fire burning, it’s only natural that Instagram photographers would turn their attentions toward the flames, creating images that are at…
Editor’s note: Click for the latest on the Flagstaff fire near Boulder. Update: Given the horrors inflicting on the residents of Colorado Springs by the Waldo Canyon fire, and those living in and around Fort Collins by the High Park fire, Boulderites should be counting their blessings…
Editor’s note: Click here for the latest on the High Park fire. Update, 6:40 a.m. June 29: As those living near the Waldo Canyon fire outside Colorado Springs were plunged into terror (347 homes confirmed burned, at least one death), the people who’ve been suffering through the High Park fire…
Editor’s note: Click here for the latest on the Waldo Canyon fire. Update:Firefighters made progress against the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs yesterday — enough to get a better sense of the destruction that took place the previous day…
This dispensary has closed. Re-reviewing Denver Patients Group is purely a function of its location. That is, I drove past the air-conditioned shop right as the Easy Bake oven that is my AC-less car had started to give me borderline heat stroke. Some people go to shopping malls or movies…
Should Denver make a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics? Yesterday, a panel of local experts and planners tasked with exploring the possibility yesterday gave state and city officials an overwhelming “yes” recommendation. And fortunately, a majority of folks across the state don’t know about 1976. Do you? If not,…
Leading climate-change scientists say the chances of humans stopping the wildfires raging across Colorado aren’t good. “These wildfires, when they become wind-driven, are like a nuclear bomb going off, and humans are not going to stop them any more than they stopped the hurricanes in Gulf Coast,” Dr. Steven Running…
The Nuggets have the twentieth pick in tonight’s NBA draft. Yawn? Well, last year, the Nugs pulled off one of the great draft steals in recent memory when they snapped up Kenneth Faried with the 22nd slot. Could they repeat that feat? It’ll be tough, since this year’s draft class…
Denver blog posts hit nothing but ‘net. Big Media’s Jason Salzman notes the irony of Dan Caplis praising Mike Coffman for not ducking him and partner Craig Silverman even though the Congressman has been freezing out other outlets. At Colorado Education News, Kate Mulcahy argues that some “doers” shouldn’t teach…
Give Rex Tillerson some credit. At least the ExxonMobil CEO has avoided claiming that global warming isn’t real, the way tobacco executives used to pretend lung cancer was just some weird, wacky, luck-of-the-draw disease that had no linkage to massive consumption of their product. Tillerson just happens to think that…
In the days since Denver police officer Celena Hollis was shot and killed while breaking up a fight during City Park Jazz, the DPD and the community have gathered together for an outpouring of local support. On Sunday, the day after Hollis’s public funeral, state representative Angela Williams and councilman…
Big news today for Barack Obama and, you know, tens of millions of Americans across the country: The Supreme Court of the United States has finally issued its ruling on the Affordable Care Act, essentially deciding to keep most of it intact. And advocates in Colorado are cheering the news,…
