Yesterday, Sterling’s Juanita Kinzie was sentenced to 32 years behind bars for killing her three-year-old son, Caleb Pacheco. She’ll be eligible for parole in 24 years. The punishment was mandated by a plea agreement, but the judge in the case expressed dissatisfaction with its length given the terrible circumstances of…
We’ve all experienced that moment of recognition when a character in a movie suddenly makes a reference to Colorado. But which of these nods qualifies as the strangest? In an effort to find out, we visited Drew’s Script-O-Rama — and a search for Colorado, plus some investigation, turned up quirky…
Last year’s yoga-centric Hanuman Festival in Boulder became known for a lot more than downward-facing dog thanks to Luke Chrisco, who a female attendee spotted hiding in a porta-potty’s tank seconds before she had planned to make it rain, so to speak. This weekend’s fest shouldn’t suffer similar problems, and…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Denzel Richardson and Marquise Davis in the shocking, daylight gundown of four people in Five Points, with Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd dying from their wounds. At this point, though, DA’s office reps are keeping the info that led to the targeting…
Cheryl Cox, the mayor of sunny Chula Vista, California, has a message for hospitality giant Gaylord Entertainment: I ain’t mad atcha. In 2008, Gaylord abandoned plans to build a massive hotel on the city’s bayfront, located just south of San Diego. “There’s absolutely no bad blood,” says the upbeat Cox…
“Over the Rainbow,” Jessica Lussenhop, May 31 Bully Pulpit Let’s all throw a pity party and elevate them higher on the victim pedestal. The only thing lower than these social lowlifes are the whiners who encourage them. Grow up and quit looking for reasons to be a crybaby. Life’s hard……
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t merely skeptical; he appeared contemptuous of the Justice Department’s argument trying to stop Arizona’s cops from deporting undocumented Mexicans. “But if, in fact, somebody who does not belong in this country is in Arizona, Arizona has no power?” asked the incredulous Scalia. “Are you…
Around noon on a windy fall Sunday, the motorcade began forming. Dozens of African-Americans, ages five to 85, poured from the three-story New Covenant Baptist Church and into a coughing twenty-year-old bus, a cramped church van and their cars. The caravan snaked down Rio Grande Avenue, turned onto Kaley Street,…
A couple of years back, I put four white supremacists in prison. They had made the mistake of going into the Slater Slums of Huntington Beach, the city’s traditional barrio, to kill a random Mexican. They got as far as stabbing a man before the Slater Slums smackdown began: The…
The U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience. Today in America, one in four Latino voters knows someone in deportation proceedings. The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court don’t care. What else can be concluded from their questions…
Peter Miles Bergman is drawn to the unsanctioned. In 2004, the founder of art-prank society The Institute of Sociometry made his backyard into a faux parking lot to showcase how ridiculous it was that homeowners near the Broncos stadium couldn’t sell parking or even to give it away. This year,…
Boulder is accustomed to winning national polls about everything from happiness to being in shape: Note this recent survey declaring Colorado to be the least obese state in the U.S., with Boulder its trimmest city. But someone had better check those scales, because a new Sunset magazine roster of the…
Denver blog posts are homegrown. The Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard on the prospect of Jared Polis introducing an amendment to squash the oil shale subsidy. Purple Row: Do the Colorado Rockies want Jeff Francis back? Coyote Gulch (H/T Colorado Statesman) ponders whether a couple of initiatives would turn 150 years…
About 40 percent of the nation’s electrical grid depends on coal for fuel. But facing increasing state and federal regulations that are shutting down many coal plants, a battery of pesky scientists moaning about climate change, increasing competition from ever-cheaper natural gas and renewables, and other threats, even power industry…
Representatives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado Bureau of Investigations will meet today to discuss linking the medical marijuana patient registry with law enforcement computers. Not that you can hear what they have to say: A spokesman stresses that it is not a public meeting…
After almost a week of delay, the Denver Police Department began enforcing the city’s new urban camping ordinance yesterday afternoon. Although the ban legally took effect May 29, officers extended the wait in order to provide more educational opportunities about the ordinance and its legal implications. The overnight effects are…
Earlier this month, Kelsey Whipple wrote about Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks’s decision to engage critics of the urban camping ban on social media. Like many of her posts on this controversial subject, the report has drawn plenty of fascinating commentary — including this item from a person writing about…
Amendment 64 is known as the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, but its provisions go beyond allowing adults to use cannabis recreationally. The initiative also directs the legislature to “enact legislation governing the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp” by July 2014 — language that’s gotten the attention of…
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 against Steve Howards, who claimed his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney circa 2006. Hence, Howards can’t sue the Secret Service. However, his attorney, David Lane, believes the lop-sided margin masks a…
On Saturday, city planner, urban explorer and overseer of the DenverInfill blog Ken Schroeppel took a handful of Denverites on a tour of Union Station to discuss the just-opened Light Rail Plaza and the station’s future. Here’s an inside look at the project…
The eleventh homicide of 2012 in Colorado Springs is an extremely sordid tale. The victim: James Bidgood, a local homeless man. The accused: James Henry Bratt, a 36-year-old with a noteworthy criminal record. The ingredients: domestic violence, an ankle monitor, meth and more. A lot more…
A couple of months ago, we paid tribute to Texts From Last Night, one of the funniest sites on the web, with a collection of our top ten texts from the 303 area code. But those are hardly the only digits in these parts — and it turns out texts…
