Denver City Councilwoman Susan Shepherd will not take any action to stop a proposed development just north of 32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard that has neighbors fighting mad. Although she had hinted that she might try to change the zoning on the property, she released a letter late last week…
At the first-ever Teen Dating Violence Awareness Rally today, Mayor Michael Hancock took the mike and told a story about what he called “the Chris Brown and Rihanna situation.” One day, his teenage daughter and her friends were watching the former on television and, in Hancock’s words, going “goo-goo, gaa-gaa.”…
Denver blog posts focused their 2012 Presidents Day celebration on Millard Fillmore. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic looks at how Republicans like Kevin Lundberg are considering (or not) the latest incarnation of a civil unions bill. Denver Infill’s Derek Berardi on Denver’s vanishing parking lots. At WhoSaidYouSaid, Bob Schaffer talks…
Despite concerns raised by the EPA and alarms sounded in a state report, Colorado officials are moving forward with a plan to divert more water from the Upper Colorado River to the Front Range — which is why anglers, rafters, tourism interests and others will be rallying in protest on…
In the almost five months that Occupy Denver has maintained a presence downtown, the group has experienced more than 100 arrests. Add to this mix upwards of seventy lawyers, hundreds of court dates and an attempt at a federal injunction, and the results become tough to track. Yesterday, Westword caught…
If bench-warming hunk Brady Quinn entertained any fantasies about returning to the Denver Broncos next season, he should put them out of his mind. Why? In a new GQ article, Quinn makes a number of impolitic comments about Tim Tebow that virtually guarantee he’ll be wearing an orange-free uni the…
Last week’s post about Grand Junction High School student James Harper, who quit the school choir rather than sing an A.R. Rahman song that praised Allah, inspired comments from folks with extremely disparate opinions. Here’s one from a Harper defender with a keen eye for hypocrisy…
A group of local residents have just sent a letter to officials in Arvada, Broomfield, Westminster, Golden and Superior, urging them to request that the Environmental Protection Agencies and the state’s health department test airborne dust in the area of Rocky Flats that could become part of the Jefferson Parkway…
When backers of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act turned in 12,000-plus signatures Friday to cure a 2,407 signature shortfall toward qualifying for the November ballot, a special guest was on hand: Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico. Johnson thinks the Regulate measure could be the beginning of the…
Hassan Mayo is the latest alleged Denver-area pimp to be sentenced for human trafficking — an offense that’s earned him a sixteen-year stay at the Cross Bar Hotel His most shocking offense? He reportedly sold a woman to another pimp for $400…
College-specific meme pages are popping up at a crazy pace of late, with CU-Boulder, Colorado State University, UNC, Colorado College and DU. But don’t forget about Metro State — or should we say Metro State University of Denver. The school’s Facebook meme page has its own scrappy style. Check out…
The on-air dog bite suffered by 9News’ Kyle Dyer started out as a simple news item. But the harder 9News has tried to control the story, the more the tale has morphed into one that touches on media ethics in the 21st century. The latest question: Did the station censor…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man who died after a shooting near 36th and Hudson on Valentine’s Day as Serril Allen, nineteen. He was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest. By the way, a web search pulls up hits for a Serril…
“The Reel West,” Melanie Asmar, February 9 Ready, Set, Action! Melanie Asmar’s article was a concise synopsis of the current proposal for a film incentive and a nice, short history of the movies made in the state, although the filmography is by no means complete. The film industry in Colorado…
Rachel Maddow knows there is no Poop Fairy. In fact, the MSNBC pundit is the reason that a good part of the country has heard of Jefferson County, Colorado, which created a “There Is No Poop Fairy” public-service campaign last summer as a way to remind people who used the…
They know how to make an entrance, these bad boys. They strut into the King Soopers on Smoky Hill Road on a Friday evening in May like it’s fight night in Vegas and they’ve got ringside seats, their every move radiating heat and menace. There are four of them, all…
State legislators who represent districts outside the Denver metro area will finally see the 22 percent per diem pay increase passed years ago. If the issue turns sour, Republicans have the most to lose, write the scribes at Colorado Pols…
For the second year in a row, venerable pro-pot publication High Times will be hosting the Denver Medical Cannabis Cup at the Exdo Event Center. This time, the festivities fall on the annual 4/20 stoner holiday weekend…
If Colorado lawmakers pass a bill to legalize civil unions, the state could see a bump in its bank account — $4.8 million in the first three years, according to a report by the California-based sexual orientation think tank The Williams Institute. That money would come from a combination of…
The University of Denver has unveiled the logo for the first presidential debate, to be held at DU’s Magness Arena on October 3. The university also launched a website today dedicated to the debate, which includes a countdown ticker: 226 days to go. One thing it doesn’t include? Ticket information…
In order to make his neighborhood more livable, Jason Roberts had to break the law. In fact, he and 1,500 other people didn’t stop at just one city ordinance; they violated dozens of them, more than once, without getting caught. But their idea definitely caught on: Since April 2010, when…
In these lean times, last week Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar proposed slashing costs and hiking a range of user fees — everything from the cost of a federal stamp for duck hunting to oil and gas drilling permits — to make ends meet at his agency. But one…
