Mitt Romney doesn’t like marijuana or medical marijuana, and he doesn’t want to hear your insignificant questions about the subject, either. At least, that’s what he told CBS4’s Shaun Boyd in an interview yesterday…
With the passing of HB 1099 yesterday, which creates a soil remediation study using hemp as the filtering agent, Colorado could be the first state in the nation to grow industrial hemp since the late 1930s. But passing the bill was just the first obstacle. Actually implementing the plan might…
A Rollerblader will glide down the South Platte River Trail right by Will Rice, then do a double take, turn around, stop and approach the 39-year-old angler with curiosity. “Wow, you’re fishing here?” he’ll ask, wondering if Rice is crazy for wading into the river that snakes through downtown Denver…
Phil Anschutz didn’t get to the top of the moguldom heap by thinking small. The billionaire Quest founder has built his sprawling empire on audacity as well as savvy, and his latest venture — which involves wooing the NFL back to Los Angeles — may be the most ambitious of…
A new 45-minute waiting area — complete with food court and real bathrooms — isn’t the only improvement planned for Denver International Airport. At a city council committee meeting yesterday, DIA managers presented a plan that would add outposts of the Tattered Cover — a true Denver institution — to…
Maybe JaVale McGee had a bad experience with a game ball he received previously. Maybe the Nuggets’s big man saw a heckler in the stands he was trying to hit. Or more likely, there was something entirely different going on in the, uh, unique mind of McGee. Whatever the reason,…
Colorado’s archives include eighteen dioramas that were displayed at the old history museum — but are nowhere to be seen at the new History Colorado Center. Is that dumb?…
To the side of Pena Boulevard is an inadvertent monument to airport planning, pre-9/11: No one in the ’90s anticipated the incredible demand for a waiting area far away from arrival doors, and the 116 spaces that Denver International Airport shoehorned into its jerry-rigged, 45-minute waiting area are almost always…
Last night, roughly thirty parents watched detective Tony Garza and his fellow officers talk about sexting for an hour and a half. The trend is a rising one in Douglas County and the nation, Garza says, and it recently became the inspiration for renewed efforts to educate the community about…
Welcome to Colorado, Hollywood! The word from the Senate Majority Office is that House Bill 1286 — better known as the film incentives bill — has passed the Senate, its last hurdle before reaching the governor’s desk. The bill increases the cash rebate offered to filmmakers from 10 percent to…
Representative Beth McCann’s proposal to shift millions in medical marijuana patient registry fees from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, failed to pass through the Senate today. But the controversy it started regarding the nearly $10 million surplus is far from over…
The Republican House leadership’s successful effort to block passage of a civil unions bill yesterday, orchestrated by Speaker Frank McNulty, could well have aftershocks stretching to the fall elections. And lawmakers who opted for inaction may be facing much more than the wrath of liberals and activists committed to the…
This week’s cover story, “Water World,” takes a look at the river that runs through Denver: the South Platte. Two decades ago, then-Westword staffer Robin Chotzinoff wrote her own cover story (with Kenny Be illustrations) about the Platte, a true piece of immersion journalism. For “I Cover the Waterfront” in…
Denver blog posts are a winning combination. Mile High Report fan poster GrizBronc notes that Covers.com lists the Broncos as favorites in just seven games this season. Denver Egotist: For Denver’s Nix Bros., misery loves company — and Adam Cayton-Holland. Big Media’s Jason Salzman listens as Mitt Romney admits on…
Monday was the deadline for 25 medical marijuana centers near schools targeted in a second wave of closure-threat letters from U.S. Attorney John Walsh to shut their doors — and all of them did. A third wave is coming, promises Walsh’s spokesman, who now stresses his boss’s efforts to protect…
Kelsey Whipple’s post about an Occupy Denver protest at Snooze over the weekend has produced lotsa strongly expressed opinions on both sides of the issue. Here’s a comment from a reader who understands why Snooze supports an urban camping ban…
Last night, House GOP leadership killed a civil unions bill sponsored by Senator Pat Steadman by preventing a procedural vote that would have brought it to the chamber’s floor today. Steadman was severely disappointed by this manner of murder, which also prevented the passage of many other bills. But he’s…
No denying it: After the Nuggets lost game four of their playoffs series against the Lakers at home on Sunday night, I thought they were doomed to another 4-1 first-round exit — and I wasn’t the only one. But stunningly, Denver managed to beat L.A. 102-99 in what was expected…
Have you discovered PassiveAggressiveNotes.com? The site is dedicated to hilarious scribblings from upset people who express their frustration in ways that range from teeth-gritted politeness to full-out rage — and since it’s searchable by location, we’ve collected our ten favorites from Colorado. Check them out below…but try not to lose…
Last night, as One Colorado’s Jace Woodrum noted during a talk with supporters, GOP leaders in the House sacrificed dozens of other measures in order to kill a civil unions bill. Prominent among them was the controversial THC driving bill, a version of which died last year. The result was…
Update: In our coverage yesterday about a pro-civil unions rally on the west steps of the State Capitol (it’s on view below), we asked: “Can Colorado House leaders be shamed into giving a chance to the civil unions bill?” Turns out the answer is “no.” The civil unions bill died…
There will be no sex in the box. Not that artist Daniel Nilsson, who plans to live in a small wooden box with no food and an as-yet-to-be-selected companion for seven days straight, hasn’t had offers – he has. But though it misses the point, that type of proposition is…
