Denver blog posts love you for your mind. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic digs into the scrap between Jessica Peck’s Open Government Institute and Colorado Ethics Watch. Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead Broke touts the free Clement Park concert series. Colorado Pols: Guess who’s not interested in…
Picture your favorite part of Chatfield State Park. Now keep reading — because plans to reallocate 20,600 acre-feet of the Chatfield Reservoir to prepare for Colorado’s growing population could create noticeable changes in that summer staple. Outlined in an environmental impact statement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the…
Around a beautiful garden, playground equipment and a turf soccer field — and under the shade provided by a large cottonwood tree — members of the diverse East Colfax community joined together in a grand opening celebration for a new city park on East 13th Avenue and Xenia Street this…
They clog up waterways. They end up in landfills, where they take thousands of years to break down. And they kill turtles and dolphins. Plastic bags of the sort used in grocery stores are a top enemy for environmentalists, and Westword has learned that some Denver officials are considering policies…
Alan Prendergast recently shared a letter from an incarcerated woman concerned that fellow inmates were using prison-issued electric shavers for vibrators and tattoo tools. In response, we heard from another woman who’s spent time behind bars, and she offers a heartfelt testimonial for the tool’s alternative uses…
Update, July 16: The victim of the June 25 shooting on East Ohio Avenue that’s described below has been identified as Jonathan Petty, 23. Petty’s name doesn’t appear to have been reported before now; at least it doesn’t pop up in a Google search in regard to anything other than…
As we reported yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down portions of SB-1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, but left standing the “show me your papers” provision, which lets officers ask about the immigration status of those found to be suspicious. Many local immigration activists were upset by this last development…
Less than a day after Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis was shot and killed while trying to break up a fight at City Park, more than 150 people — activists, preachers, mothers and teenagers — gathered at the District 2 police headquarters in northeast Denver to thank the officers who…
For certain Colorado boys and girls (many, if not most, of them adults), driving to Wyoming to get crazy July 4th fireworks not allowed here is something of an annual tradition — although not this year, we hope. Given blazes like the High Park fire and the Waldo Canyon fire,…
Update: More information is emerging about Rollin Oliver, the man arrested following the fatal shooting of Denver Police officer Celena Hollis after a jazz event at City Park on Sunday night — including increasingly solid reports establishing his gang affiliation. Not that this link offers much comfort to Hollis’s family,…
Everybody loves a good Walmart protest. Well, everybody aside from Walmart itself. And Colorado has certainly seen its share over the years. The latest is a protest over a proposed Walmart that would go in near Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, on the site of the former University of Colorado…
Archimedes had his bathtub, Newton his apple. Scott Ferrenberg’s Eureka moment required more fieldwork to confirm, but it began when a bug the size of a grain of rice landed on his sleeve as he walked through the woods. In late May 2008, the graduate student in ecology and evolutionary…
“Making a Play,” Off Limits, June 21 Blinded by Scientology Scientology is not a religion; it’s a business started by a science-fiction writer. It takes advantage of weak-minded people simply to get their money and provides nothing beneficial in return. The Catholic Church operates in the same manner. Lance NewcombeDenver…
In April, we told you about the story of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient fired from DISH Network for failing a positive drug test. Coats’s complaint lost in the first round, but it’s under appeal — and with the filing of a new brief, the case is entering…
Sometimes, it takes a village. On Saturday, it took a neighborhood. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day, residents, community organizers and nonprofit volunteers gathered for Denver’s first Better Block project, which re-created West 25th Avenue from Federal Boulevard to Eliot Street. The makeover attracted more than 1,500 visitors…
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger threw yet another hurdle in the way of energy companies’ efforts to begin widespread drilling on Colorado’s Roan Plateau. The plan to tap into vast natural gas reserves in one of the state’s wildest places has been subject to considerable monkey-wrenching since the…
Denver blog posts bring people together. The Colorado Independent’s Andy Birkey on a new parenting study backed by social-conservative groups. Denver PR Blog: Engage your customers the McDonald’s way. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers his final update on the Clyfford Still Museum…
Today, the United States Supreme Court rejected three of four core provisions in Arizona’s controversial immigration law — but allowed the most hotly contested to remain. It is still legal for state police to stop, interview and detain people they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe entered the country illegally, an…
Last month, attorney Rob Corry estimated that prosecutors had wasted $100,000 in its failed pot prosecution of Josh Jones — a case he felt should have never been taken to trial. He sees similar prosecutorial wrongheadedness in the case of another client, Colorado Springs’ Elisa Kappelmann, a licensed marijuana grower…
Last week, we published a roundup featuring material from Fuck yeah, Boulder, a tumblr that pays tribute to all that’s weird and wonderful in the People’s Republic — although our commenters didn’t always agree on which was which. Here’s one particularly funny take…
In the future, your home and its appliances might talk to you, make decisions for you, and, if the National Renewable Energy Lab is successful, help you save money. And, you know, make Planet Earth a greener place. Get more details and see photos of our domestic future below…
Ethan Ruddy’s Facebook page features plenty of wholesome photos, including ones showing him with fellow members of a past Conifer High School co-ed cheer squad. But the crime he’s been accused of committing is far darker. The Denver District Attorney’s Office has charged Ruddy, eighteen, with sexual assault on an…
