Yesterday, the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a key provision in the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, shorthanded as DOMA. And while the ruling doesn’t directly impact Colorado, where a fight over a civil unions bill killed not once but twice was the story of the just-completed…
This week, Loveland City Manager Bill Cahill reportedly banned a series of words and phrases from official communication — mostly meaningless terms such as “orientate,” “proactive,” “paradigm” and (!) “skillage.” It’s a good start — but it turns out Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, has been…
Last year, marijuana activists asked the Colorado Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a precedent-setting case involving MMJ patient Jason Beinor, who was fired from his job for failing a drug test. Now, by a 3-2 vote, the Supremes have declined to take up the matter — a decision…
Like Carmen Tisch, sentenced to mental health probation for rubbing her butt on, and urinating near, a $30 million Clyfford Still painting, Taylor Mathis didn’t immediately earn jail time for one of the most notorious offenses in recent months. That’s more surprising in Mathis’s case, though, since she badly injured…
It was one of the most bizarre stories of late 2011: The arrest of Carmen Tisch for rubbing her butt on, and urinating near, a Clyfford Still painting whose value was estimated in a police report on view below at $60 million — although that figure was subsequently revised downward…
Every few months for the last four or five years, I throw my back out doing something dumb — like hanging artwork, falling on a catwalk while turned around talking to someone on a snowboard, or mowing my lawn. The most recent cause of injury? Dancing at a wedding. What…
Today, her stack of foreclosure paperwork is four feet tall. But in 2009, Donna Fasi’s troubles began with one letter: Wells Fargo notified her that the fixed-rate mortgage on her 36-acre farm in Gypsum, Colorado would be adjusting to a higher interest rate. She struggled, for weeks and then months,…
When a pitcher gives up a grand slam that left the hitter’s bat at 122 miles per hour and broke part of the stadium when it landed, it’s a pretty good sign the end is near for that pitcher — especially when said pitcher is 49 years old. Two starts…
Denver blog posts stop at all railroad crossings. Big Media’s Jason Salzman thinks Mike Rosen’s I’m-not-a-birther defense of Mike Coffman makes him a birther. At Colorado Peak Politics, Dave Diepenbrock gets granular about the latest presidential poll in this here state. Denver Frank asks: “Do you have Timeline?” To which…
In decrying the resources wasted in a failed prosecution of medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones (a total he estimated at over $100,000), attorney Rob Corry suggested that law enforcers focus on meth rather than weed. Little did he know that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado and the Organized Crime…
Examiner.com, an ambitious online content provider that’s part of mega-rich Phil Anschutz’s media empire, underwent a restructuring at its Denver headquarters this morning that’s resulted in a number of layoffs. While senior director of public relations Justin Jimenez isn’t revealing how many employees were affected, he confirms that members of…
Update: Yesterday, the Englewood Police Department released details about the funeral service for Officer Jeremy Bitner, whose death in a crash involving alleged drunk driver Conner Donohue has stirred plenty of passions throughout the metro area; see our coverage below. Now, however, the EPD is announcing that the memorial services…
This week, Fourth Judicial District Judge David Prince had the option of giving Mary Horsley up to forty years in prison — and that’s precisely what he did. But he reportedly felt the options available to him under the law “pale in comparison to any justice that should be doled…
Twitter is a great way to keep up with the latest developments, including those that are complete crap. Like, for instance, a bogus Twitter announcement that super-Bronco Von Miller had been traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers — a prospect that Miller himself decked via a well-aimed tweet from his own…
Last week, the Denver Police Department released information about so-called johns stings, which resulted in the arrests of 29 people for soliciting prostitution, plus six prostitutes. Below are photos representing eleven individuals swept up in the operation — and getting them wasn’t easy…
Debates about Denver gang violence have been spurred by a Friday incident that killed Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd and wounded two others. And while Denver Police have yet to confirm this slaying was gang-related, Alonzo Paige’s preliminary hearing over a January quadruple shooting/double murder in Colorado Springs leaves little…
Update: In comparison with the broad-daylight slayings of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd this past Friday, Richard Nack’s murder a few hours later received comparatively modest media attention. Now, the case is edging closer to the spotlight because of a revelation by the Denver Police Department that Nack was a…
The Colorado Bureau of Investigations and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are tentatively set to meet next week to discuss a computer system that tracks Colorado medical marijuana patients for law enforcement. The Medical Marijuana Technology Project came to light earlier this month when it was mentioned…
For four years now, the two-by-three-block space of vacant lots at Globeville Valley has undergone a slow-moving renaissance. Guided by community nonprofit Groundwork Denver, the area is scheduled for a series of resident-led projects to transform the former superfund site into Platte Farm Open Space, a bicycle, pedestrian and family…
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma is currently in Thailand, her first international trip in 24 years. Suu Kyi spent much of the past two decades under a house arrest enforced by the ruling military junta, which has since been replaced. Now freed, Suu Kyi has been elected…
Denver blog posts hit nothing but ‘net. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on Mitt Romney portraying Craig as devastated by regs while ignoring those fact thingies. DenverInfill’s Ken Schroeppel: Wanna tour Union Station? Colorado Peak Politics: Rehearsal for SEIU flash mob protest of Wells Fargo held in the Wells Fargo Theater…
Colorado Springs police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for a string of increasingly violent robberies in recent weeks, during which the robber brandished a rock or brick, menaced other victims with a knife or gun — and even sprayed some people with lighter fluid and threatened to…
