William Breathes’s posts about the shocking number of skier deaths in Colorado this season sparked a heartfelt reminder from one reader. As he points out, there’s a story — and a person with a family and loved ones — behind each of the fatalities…
The successful vote to prohibit medical marijuana retail operations in Fort Collins led to the Valentine’s Day closure of all the city’s dispensaries. This week, the city council formalized the ban and decided on new rules for home grows, which one member predicts could soon number in the hundreds –…
While covering the fallout from the Kyle Dyer/9News on-air dog bite incident, we noted the disappearance of a controversial Facebook post by staffer Kirk Montgomery and wondered if he’d been pressured to remove it. News director Patti Dennis denied any censorship and called such speculation “immoral.” Now, Montgomery reveals that…
One of the most entertaining things about our tour through new college-specific meme pages is how specific they are to each college, including CU Boulder, Colorado State University, UNC, Colorado College, DU, Metro State and Colorado Mesa University. Witness the Colorado School of Mines page, which balances memes needling Buff…
Lupo Solazzo apparently has pretty bad aim — and thank goodness for that. He’s now pleaded guilty for an incident that found him firing off 350 shots without hitting any of the approximately 100 police officers in the vicinity…
The Denver area’s last major storm was so widely anticipated that tweeting locals were ready with a hilarious hashtag: #snOMG!. Today, there’s much less of the white stuff, but thanks to the wind and the apparent shortage of snowplows (Colorado Department of Transportation’s claims to the contrary), many roads are…
The Colorado medical and recreational cannabis communities are put under the lens of reality television tonight. Tonight, National Geographic Channel will air the first episode American Weed, the latest weed-themed reality TV show to hit the mainstream. See a preview below…
As we reported in Off Limits this week, MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow highlighted Jefferson County’s infamous “There Is No Poop Fairy” public-service campaign campaign again last week. The county created the PSA last summer as a way to remind people who used the county’s parks and open spaces to pick…
Gay advocacy group One Colorado has started an online petition to fight against what it calls “scare tactics” by Catholic Charities, whose reps testified at the Capitol last week that if lawmakers legalize civil unions, it may stop providing adoption and foster care services. Why? Because civil unions could lead…
Tara Perry, the subject of this week’s cover story, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth,” has made a remarkable turnaround since she was first incarcerated thirteen years ago, at the age of sixteen. Corrections staff, teachers and others view her as a model of rehabilitation, one who’s tried to transform…
Denver blog posts think the word “caucus” sounds kinda dirty. BigMedia.org’s Jason Salzman quotes Secretary of State Scott Gessler as saying Republicans who want to shake things up don’t get much media love. Coyote Gulch: Will Aspen get geothermal? Denver Egotist: Aaron Draplin brings tall tales from a large man…
For the first time in six months, Colorado medical marijuana patient registry numbers have gone up — albeit by a very small amount. After a long delay between updates, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment finally released medical marijuana patient registry stats from December 2011 that show 82,089…
Before she committed the lessons to the page, state senator Morgan Carroll had delivered hundreds of workshops and seminars on citizen advocacy. Since her career in politics began, the forty-year-old Democrat continues to be overwhelmed by the disconnect between paid lobbyists and the average citizen. So when she finally did…
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that political organizations dubbed 527s can spend unlimited funds for state candidates as long as the ads they’re financing don’t include so-called “magic words” such as “vote for” or “defeat.” The decision is a disappointment for Colorado Ethics Watch, which began pressing the case…
Kelsey Whipple’s continuing coverage of Occupy Denver regularly generates fascinating exchanges. Here’s an example: a pair of comments debating violent protests, affixed to a post about the latest efforts of the kitchen known as the Thunderdome…
As head coach George Karl said after Monday night’s 103-101 overtime win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Nuggets could have used forward Wilson Chandler on the floor. Instead, Chandler sat in a suite with Nuggets management and watched three rookies play in the fourth quarter and overtime. The restricted free…
Last month, we spoke with Senator Scott Renfroe, sponsor of Senate Bill 50, which would have banned red-light cameras at intersections, as well as the use of photos for issuing tickets. However, the measure failed to get out of the Senate’s transportation committee, despite what Renfroe thought was a compelling…
In a just-published GQ article, several comments from Brady Quinn seemed to rip Tim Tebow, stirring up the sort of Internet frenzy that we’ve come to associate with The Chosen One. As a result, Quinn tried to do damage control on his Twitter account, offering an extended mea culpa that…
College-specific meme pages aren’t only popping up on the Eastern slope, at schools like CU-Boulder, Colorado State University, UNC, Colorado College, DU and Metro State. Grand Junction’s newly renamed Colorado Mesa University — my alma mater, albeit about three monikers ago — boasts a Facebook page that delivers its own…
Yesterday, in a followup to our items about the Kyle Dyer/9News on-air dog bite incident, we wrote about the disappearance of a critical Facebook post by staffer Kirk Montgomery, and wondered if the station had censored it. This post incensed news director Patti Dennis, who categorically denies any such action,…
Samuel Govea didn’t wait around to be properly released from Denver Health Medical Center. Instead, he checked himself out — a matter of some concern for authorities, given that he was being held on behalf of the Denver Sheriff’s Office for a slew of offenses that led to him being…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Little Black Book of Marijuana by Steve Elliott…
