Alan Prendergast’s latest post about fracking, touching on how polluted water in Wyoming could spell trouble in Colorado, found those opposed to the process facing off against folks who see it as a safe job producer. Here’s a post from a representative of the latter…
The replacement of AM 760 host Mario Solis-Marich by syndicated host Norman Goldman earlier this month didn’t sit well with the Colorado Latino Forum. The organization has asked for Solis-Marich’s reinstatement — a demand the Denver branch of Clear Channel, the station’s parent company, shows no signs of meeting…
It started as a routine domestic-violence report. But there was nothing routine about what followed: a standoff between David Orton and thirteen police officers that went on for a lead-filled four hours. Orton’s reward: a 180-year prison sentence. Here are the details that earned Orton two generous lifetimes behind bars…
When members of Twitter Nation aren’t abuzz with rumors about Tim Tebow breaking up Lindsey Vonn’s marriage, they’re chewing over The Chosen One’s pros and cons. And even after six straight victories, there are still plenty of doubters. We’ve collected the ten most memorable recent tweets from those who still…
It’s been mighty hard for web surfers to come up with grime on Tim Tebow. But you had to know trolls wouldn’t stop until they found a chink in his heavenly armor — or hyped nothing into something. All of which explains the latest crazy rumor of the week. Which…
On Monday, Global Language Monitor officially declared that “Tebowing” is now an acknowledged word in the English language. “The rapid rise of use of the word has seldom been equaled, mirroring, for example, the rate of adoption of the word ‘Obamamania’ in early 2008,” the online organization said in a…
Coming clean: For more than three decades, Smiley’s Laundromat has been helping clean up Capitol Hill, but the Colfax Avenue landmark — and the largest discount laundromat in the nation — almost faded away in 2006. That’s when longtime developer Bill Mosher and Capitol Hill specialists Triton Properties bought the…
Two rabbit hunters found her. She lay face-down, half-buried in the snow beside a frozen stream twelve miles south of Boulder, legs pulled up as if curled in sleep. She appeared to have been dumped there from a bridge fifteen feet above that carried motorists along state highway 93. She…
“Tilting at Windmills,” Kelsey Whipple, December 8 Preoccupied Sirs, this fellow is hardly a modern-day Don Quixote: “I refuse to be penalized for my education”? I laughed so hard my breakfast milk came out of my nose. He is, simply, a deadbeat. C. Sean McManus Denver I am very disappointed…
Update below: Our William Breathes has been closely following the fate of approximately 4,000 medical marijuana applications put on hold by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, reportedly over concerns that physician assistants, not doctors, conducted examinations. The CDPHE is now confirming this fact. And the kicker? Patients…
As of the end of October 2011, the medical marijuana registry had only 88,872 patients with an active red card. That’s the fewest number of patients in the state since May 2010. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released the October stats late last week, showing a decline…
Earlier this fall, we told you about a parent-led crusade to delay the start of public school in Denver until September to avoid the heat that plagued August. This agitating led to the creation of a task force to survey the community about its start-date preferences. The results are in…
You know you’ve moved beyond cult status as an author when national magazines get all itchy over the upcoming publication of your new novel… a good half a year before it’s scheduled to be released. Such is the excitement around The Drowned Cities , Paonia writer Paolo Bacigalupi’s much-anticipated follow-up…
The continuing war of words between marijuana advocate Mason Tvert and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers shows no signs of ebbing. The latest? Tvert hopes Suthers isn’t implicitly campaigning for a medical marijuana ban in Eagle County at an event slated for this evening…
In October, Marc O’Leary pleaded guilty to brutally raping three women, including a 65-year-old, and attempting to do the same to a fourth who dove out a window to escape. He’s now received his punishment: 327-and-a-half years in prison. And as is clear from the account below, he more than…
We gave photographer Eric Gruneisen an interesting assignment: Get snapshots of folks Tebowing at Mile High Stadium before the Denver-Chicago game, whether they’re backing the Broncos or the Bears. As you can imagine, he had better luck with Broncos lovers. As for Bears fans, some played along, some flipped him…
In our 2001 profile of Andrew Cohen, we noted that the then-35-year-old had vaulted to the top of the local pundit game via a gig with CBS’ radio and television divisions. Remarkably, Cohen has maintained these relationships over the decade since, and his longevity has been rewarded by his naming…
You never know what’s going to pop up in our comments section. Exhibit A: the following item, in which the reader of a post ranking Tim Tebow as the fifth best quarterback in the NFL shares an unusual view about Christian athletes, false gods and swooshes…
Update: Just heard from Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Techmeyer about the arrests last week of Cannabis & Co. owner Dmitry Genzer and associate Joseph Alejo, and the seizure of around 175 pounds of weed. In the process, we discovered some misinformation. Techmeyer says the busts came not as…
When Army recruit Matt Strickland was assigned to spend a month training in Louisiana in preparation for overseas deployment, he reportedly trusted his girlfriend, Melissa Alexander, to care for his one-year-old daughter. The decision had fatal consequences: The tot’s dead and Alexander faces a possible first-degree murder charge…
Broncos’ fans are growing accustomed to improbable victories this season — and yesterday’s 13-10 overtime win over the Chicago Bears is no exception. But that doesn’t mean we should take Tim Tebow’s latest miracle for granted. Like his Lord and Savior, Tebow faced seven trials on the way to a…
Did you have a moment of doubt? Even one? Or did you know that the Broncos would defeat the Bears despite trailing 10-0 with just over two minutes to play? Whatever the case, Denver’s latest crazy victory has left the NFL intelligentsia either speechless or grasping for imagery. ESPN’s Chris…
