Last week, Chris Utterback took readers on a photo tour of Union Station — one that focused on the facility’s future and the just-opened Light Rail Plaza. The subject of light rail inspired one reader to argue that this particular station isn’t the only one on the line that offers…
One of the most shocking incidents of May 2011 involved the wrong-way crash that killed Lilly Duncan, a 31-year-old Colorado Springs mom, leaving her daughter Dyrah, then twelve, without a living parent. Victoria Barry was arrested for the crime — and while her conviction on most of the counts against…
Last November, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced an investigation based on allegations that Kirsten Hamling had diverted funds raised by the Colorado Firefighters Calendar, one of the city’s highest profile charity endeavors. Now, six-plus months later, that inquiry has led to multiple theft and fraud counts against Hamling, supported…
Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone — but Buff Secret is a website where CU-Boulder students can share their most intimate thoughts under the cloak of anonymity. We’ve photo-illustrated ten of our favorite recent posts, about everything from secret desires to repurposing that term paper. Count them down below…
This could get tiring. Senator Mark Udall has announced that he will head to the Senate floor every day to push the same piece of legislation — the Wind Production Tax Credit — until Congress responds and passes it. That means speech after speech after speech on the same issue,…
Colorado’s cantaloupes got a very bad rap last year after an outbreak of listeria traced to melons from Jensen Farms in Holly was linked to close to thirty deaths. But not all of the state’s cantaloupes are to blame — a point that Colorado Agriculture Commissioner John Salazar hopes to…
When Shannon Galpin is on a bicycle, she knows where she is going — and how she is going to get there. This is a luxury she does not often have. So on a sunny Monday in late spring, Galpin is determined to ride. At the start of one of…
Last week, Cannabis Business Alliance’s Shawn Coleman argued that accepting a medical marijuana advertising ban near schools, parks, daycares and rec centers might find off citywide prohibition. But one councilwoman is leaning toward a more sweeping policy…
Editor’s note: New York City’s Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his third dispatch from the road. The open road makes me dizzy. Very dizzy…
Update below: Will federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement have a presence at this weekend’s 115th annual Strawberry Days Festival in Glenwood Springs? That’s what youth-led immigrant rights group AJUA wants to know. AJUA sent a letter to ICE, explaining that the agency’s presence at last year’s fair “traumatized our community.”…
If you’ve kept abreast with the Latest Word’s Occupy Denver coverage, the following protester needs no introduction — but we’ll give one to him anyway. Through the Thunderdome, the local movement’s early anarchist kitchen, Justin “Crunchy” Gwin and its other chefs focused on the politics of food, feeding activists for…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is returning to Denver this summer — maybe in part because local tweeters were shouting and screaming for it. “It’s a great market all the way around for us,” UFC President Dana White said at a press conference this morning at the Pepsi Center, announcing the…
Denver blog posts know their place. Colorado Pols on Representative Cory Gardner’s question about whether the roadless rule policy near the High Park fire increased the conflagration’s severity. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel on a Zuni Corners, a new project in the Highlands. Coyote Gulch on the link between oil shale…
Remember Richard Reid, the so-called Shoe Bomber, who’s among the ten most infamous prisoners in Colorado’s supermax prison? Well, now we have a Shoe Cameraman — not that Joshua Vohs took photos of shoes. Instead, he used the device to snap images up women’s skirts. No, we’re not making this…
As well all know, words have a great deal of power — and if one strikes someone as wrong, it can have an outsized impact on those that follow. This truism is exemplified by a post affixed to the story of a 53-day landfill search for the body of Sharrieckia…
New update below: The campaign supporting Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, treated news that Weld County DA Ken Buck had taken a high-profile role with Smart Colorado, an organization devoted to defeating the measure, as a cause to celebrate, portraying him as a polarizing figure, particularly for…
Did a dispute over a will left by Margaret Decker, seen here, lead to a double murder and a suicide involving members of her family? That’s the working theory of La Plata County authorities looking into the deaths of Billie Decker, Robert “Duke” Decker and Wiilliam Klatt Decker, with William…
In the name of all that is holy, do not search “Denver” on Urbandictionary.com. Most of what you’ll find — and what we did find — are what we’ll simply call very open-minded sexual acts, but that is a different list entirely. Instead, Westword did the dirty (dirty) work for…
The Commerce City Police Department originally described the discovery of two bodies on East 52nd Avenue as “suspicious.” But they were clearly more than that. At this writing, a homicide investigation is underway…
Update: After a six-day sit-in and hunger strike, young undocumented immigrants Javier Hernandez and Veronica Gomez left their brief home at the Obama For America headquarters at 5:20 p.m. today. As the National Immigrant Youth Alliance pushes plans to spread their call for an executive order from Obama to the…
After one of the mildest winters in recent years, leaving some areas of the parched high country with less than 10 percent of normal snowpack — not to mention forests ravaged by drought and pine beetles, ready to explode into wildfires like the rapidly expanding High Park blaze — this…
Editor’s note: New York City’s Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his second dispatch from the road. Contrary to the lessons of my upbringing as a native New Yorker, there is an exciting world beyond the Big…
