At a Denver Public Schools event about so-called “health justice” earlier today, Alicia Leon, a Denver single mother of four, said the challenge of living healthily is simple: Processed food is cheap, available, and easy to prepare, while fresh produce and healthy meals are expensive, harder to find, and time-consuming…
Denver blog posts are water-soluble. Colorado Pols points out that rep candidate Joe Coors, who was just added to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Gun list, is seventy years old. Guess seventy is the new 27. WhoSaidYouSaid on Morgan Carroll’s rules for radical citizens. Purple Row’s Andrew Martin: Should…
The search is (still) on for Denver’s second-ever independent monitor. After Richard Rosenthal accepted a similar position in British Columbia late last year, Mayor Michael Hancock’s office convened a committee to search for his successor. By April, it had whittled the results down to three names: Eddie Aubrey, Julie Ruhlin…
RTD wants you to call them, maybe. Starting today, RTD will hold a series of fifteen “telephone town hall” meetings in which residents will be called randomly and invited to participate in telephone forums with members of the RTD board of directors. Residents will be encouraged to ask questions and…
Kelsey Whipple’s coverage of a hunger strike and occupation of the Obama campaign’s Denver headquarters has stirred up debate aplenty about the DREAM Act, which the protesters want instituted via executive order. Here’s a comment from a reader who feels immigrants should have to wait in line behind natives when…
Last summer, then-Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox was accused of impregnating his rape victim. In March, he was found not guilty of the charge. But while he had been cut by the Broncos beforehand, the current-San Francisco 49er isn’t done with Colorado. Cox’s alleged victim has filed a Jane Doe…
Talk about staying power. This week, 60 Minutes aired immediately before the Tony Awards — but rather than conduct an interview with a new nominee, the venerable program rebroadcast a September interview with Colorado alums Trey Parker and Matt Stone. And then, the awards themselves kicked off with a star-studded…
Boulder is Colorado’s HQ for unusual crimes, be it the yoga instructor who ran a chihuahua outside her moving car or the recent CU grad shot after drunkenly entering the wrong house. But even so, there’s something special about Derek Thor Apodaca, who’s accused of dancing so enthusiastically that passersby…
Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams’s inexplicable decision to tweet a photo from the squad’s playbook earned him slaps o’ plenty from Twitter Nation. See the ten most memorable reactions below. Still, there’s irony in this censure — because the response was considerably larger than the ones involving his DUI trial and…
U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn is proud of himself — and he should be. After all, the Colorado Springs Republican has scaled new heights of stupidity in the halls of Congress, and that’s not an easy task. Last week, Lamborn, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, freaked out…
When developer-turned-muckraker Mike Zinna won a modest $1,791 judgement against a former Jefferson County commissioner in 2009, after years of convoluted intrigues and litigation, his supporters hailed the decision as an important, if largely symbolic, victory for the rights of online government critics. But this week, an appeals court ruled…
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 first dispatch from the road. A frantically shouting security guard ran toward my car, waving his arms back and forth as I struggled to find…
Denver blog posts mean business. Denver Egotist shows off the giant shovel that makes the new Xcel Energy billboard on the downtown Marriott three-dimensional. Your and My True Stories asks: Did Bob Enyart fib about being a delegate on the radio? The Redheaded Slut wonders if everything has an expiration…
Mike Shanahan hasn’t been the coach of the Denver Broncos for several years now — but he’s got a connection to the current Broncos squad. New QB Peyton Manning is reportedly staying in Big Mike’s massive Cherry Hills Village spread…
Earlier today, we told you about the discovery of remains identified as Torrey Brown Jr., a seven month old whose body was allegedly thrown away by his mother, Sharrieckia Page; see original coverage below. The death of this child is undeniably terrible, but the story of the search for his…
Yesterday, Patricia Calhoun lauded Metro State for a new tuition plan for undocumented students — one that would provide a dollars-and-cents break for the very type of young people who’d be helped by the currently stalled DREAM Act. One reader with a very personal reason for supporting this program spoke…
Governor John Hickenlooper has signed HB-1084, a bill stiffening hit-and-run penalties that was inspired by Tim Albo, who nearly died after being struck by Brandon Mondragon in 2010. Albo’s family is thrilled by this turn of events, but their enthusiasm is tempered by concern for Tim, who’s struggling with a…
In a rare interview, Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen defends the satellite service’s commercial-skipping device. Which made us wonder about the top ten commercials that most deserve to be skipped — but the question’s more complicated than we thought, since many spots on worst-ad lists like this one struck as kinda…
Earlier this year, Durango High student Sydney Spies’s protest over her yearbook’s rejection of two sexy photos landed her on the Today show. Afterward, Miki Spies, her mom, told us Sydney had submitted a third photo, but that, too, was nixed in favor of the her school ID pic –…
Back in February, we told you about a Vail sex assault investigation targeting three Kent Denver students. The trio in question evaded criminal charges in the case, but the story’s not over. None of the three is returning to the exclusive, ultra-pricey private school, and the father of an expelled…
Earlier this week, we told you the story of a little boy in Montezuma County who suffered horrible abuse in his parents’ care and was placed with a foster family. That family eventually intervened in the court case to terminate the parents’ rights, offering information and cross-examining witnesses. On Thursday,…
This dispensary has closed. I first heard about Riverside Wellness a few weeks ago, after burglars had broken in and stolen $8 in cash. The staff seemed to take it in stride, showing a sense of humor by pointing out that the money was stolen from a “karma jar” –…
