With a scribble of his ceremonial pen this morning, Governor John Hickenlooper set Colorado on a path not unlike that of the Iron Man himself, Robert Downey, Jr. No, our fair state isn’t going to rehab. Instead, lawmakers, film-industry insiders and Colorado boosters hope that the beefed-up film incentives package…
Denver blog posts root, root, root for the home team. Purple Row’s Bryan Kirkpatrick notes that interleague play for the season pits the Rocks against the “offensively inept” Seattle Mariners. Hope they stay that way. Denver Infill’s Rick Anstey checks in with the 100th update on Union Station construction. Whew!…
John Hickenlooper and Mike Coffman aren’t exactly ideological twins. But at the end of this big political week in the State of Colorado, they both face political fallout, albeit for very different reasons: a special session that failed to pass civil unions and comments questioning Barack Obama’s birth records, respectively…
With about 55 percent of more than 93,000 medical marijuana patients with a red card designating someone to grow for them, finding a caregiver clearly isn’t that hard of a task in Colorado. But how do people who aren’t part of the cannabis community or simply don’t have the right…
Ever since we published our collection of favorite “You know you’re from Colorado when….” punchlines, we’ve had readers posting their suggested variations on the theme. Here’s one we absolutely loved…
Guy Cruz is no longer a probation officer for the 4th Judicial District, and neither he is a high school tennis coach, the next gig he took up. But the Pueblo resident is in big trouble for allegedly threatening a parolee with jail or a loss of access to her…
In our interview with the Denver Post’s Tina Griego, whose decision to accept a severance package originally intended to reduce the copy-editing staff by two-thirds could lead to the paper being metro-columnist free until 2013, we noted that several other writers would also be leaving. We’ve now ID’d three, all…
Hate crime, attention-getting fraud or something else entirely? That’s the question surrounding the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office decision to charge partners Aimee Whitchurch and Christel Conklin with painting “Kill the Gay” on their residence and then reporting it to authorities as a potential act of retaliation against them — because…
Earlier this week, when we published our list of the ten most notable people to die in Colorado, we asked you to let us know if we’d forgotten anyone — and thank goodness you did, because we made a number of hefty oversights. We’re highlighting the ones most frequently mentioned…
Yesterday marked the three-year anniversary of our Mile High Murder archive — and on that day, the first murder in year four took place. The victim was the owner of a store on East 64th, who died in what appears to be a robbery attempt…
Update: As we reported in our original coverage below, 6th Congressional District rep Mike Coffman made the wrong kind of news via audio of him questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States; hear it below. That’s the kind of ammo prized by election opponents. And Joe…
In most instances, breaking and entering involves a thief smashing a window or kicking in a door. But Michael Vidal and three compatriots are accused of taking B&E to the next level — by gaining access to a building into an exterior wall with a stolen car and taking loot…
Back in the day, there were fewer greater feelings for a young cannabis user than finding a new connection. Finding that steady hookup of sticky green bud was one you cherished as your friends were picking seeds out of brick. I hadn’t thought about that sensation in a while, what…
Representative Jared Polis wants to introduce legislation that promises to reverse Congress’s controversial decision to keep pizza lsbeled a “vegetable” in school lunches. “What Congress has done, believe it or not, is defied logic,” Polis said in front of a crowd of lunchtime students at Louisville Middle School on Monday…
See, it’s like this. Far from being the obstructionist tree-hugger his critics accuse him of being, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar really, really wants to drill, baby, drill, for oil and gas on federal lands and offshore. He wants to drill the hell out of the place. But the…
Within the next three to nine months, Denver’s Civic Center could become the city’s first national historic landmark. Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Hancock testified at a National Park System advisory board meeting in favor of the area’s qualification of the honor, which will move to the National Park Service…
Denver blog posts are all about safety. Denver Egotist on the new ad campaign for Boulder-based Sir Richard’s Condoms: “I won’t put chemicals or ____ in my vagina.” Feel free to fill in the blank. Denver Urbanism’s Jorgen Jensen with more on Eddie Maestas Park. The Redheaded Slut says: Hurt…
Jake Smith is nonchalant about being a ninja. “It’s just an obstacle course,” he says of the gauntlet of athletic feats featured on the television show American Ninja Warrior. “The ninja part is just the romanticizing bit of it.” The 24-year-old parkour badass is selling himself short. Smith and six…
Earlier, we reported about Representative Mike Coffman’s excuse for a comment he made suggesting that Barack Obama may not have been born in the U.S.: “I misspoke.” By making this claim, Coffman is in good company: It’s become a favorite of politicians who say something dumb or inaccurate but want…
Denver International Airport is the subject of myriad conspiracy theories, as the recent fears about a Russian military takeover made clear. But the truth at DIA is sometimes stranger than fiction. We ran down a list of crazy airport stories in Off Limits this week. Of course, they’re not flattering,…
We recently wrote about the life sentence handed Roberto Santistevan, who was convicted in the fatal stabbing of Crystal Crespin. A grim story, certainly, but one that showed a glimmer of humanity thanks to the actions of neighbors who tried in vain to save Crespin and held Santistevan for police,…
As we noted in a recent post about a new Metro State policy, breastfeeding is suddenly a hot topic thanks to a Time magazine story about attachment parenting featuring a hot mama with a toddler craning up to dock with her nipple. This prompted our own Jef Otte to rip…
