After a tireless search and dozens of entries, we here at Mile Highs and Lows have finally found the one lucky local college student who will be cleaning bongs helping out around the office as Westword’s first medical marijuana intern. Allow us to introduce you to Sensi Skywalker…
As the economy is tanking, how does one generate millions of dollars in revenue? Apparently, put on a free bike race. According to a study by IFM, a global sports marketing firm, the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge, held throughout Colorado August 22-28 and won by Levi Leipheimer, generated $83.5…
The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped in on the debate simmering in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs over whether school resource officers should be allowed to collaborate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
Jonathan Shepard knew he would be arrested last Friday morning while defending the Thunderdome at Occupy Denver’s previous home across the street from Civic Center Park. Today, he proffers his left arm: On his wrist is a small cut where police officers had to cut into his skin slightly to…
The long-awaited, much-debated Bureau of Land Management plan for oil-and-gas drilling on public lands in northwest Colorado has something in it to annoy everybody. In other words, it’s the kind of classic, middle-of-the-road, concessions-to-all-sides-and-favoritism-toward-none compromise we’ve come to expect from the Department of the Interior under Secretary Ken Salazar –…
We are… Denver blog posts. The Ralphie Report’s Ash Jackson rounds up the news about CU’s football program — a lot of it bad. Things to Do in Denver When You’re Broke? Go to the zoo for free on October 20! Denver Frank invites you to Big Joe Thunder’s birthday…
The Colorado chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is offering free representation to those arrested in the Occupy Denver protests. The group’s also been sending legal observers to demonstration sites — and several have shared reports with chapter president Charles Nadler about police officers treating them improperly…
The Cherry Top Farms dispensary wasn’t the target of a DEA raid last week — but the feds confiscated 2,500 plants anyhow. Cherry Top’s owners wanted to open up again early this week. But the dispensary’s still closed at this writing — and still losing money — due in part…
Update below: We spent the summer expecting Kyle Orton to be traded to Miami. It didn’t happen — but now that he’s been benched in favor of Tim Tebow, there are new rumors that KO may be headed to the dreaded Raiders. Could it happen by today’s 4 p.m. Eastern…
The opinions keep coming for our Occupy Denver coverage. Here’s an interesting view about the costs involved in law-enforcement’s approach to protesters, and how savings might be realized, from comments on Kelsey Whipple’s post about weekend arrests…
News that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 had organized medical marijuana workers turned out to be less sweeping than it first seemed. Only staffers at several Fort Collins dispensaries have joined, with the UFCW’s contributions to fighting an MMJ dispensary ban there likely influencing ownership buy-in. Meanwhile,…
In May 2010, we told you about Lafayette psychic Nancy Marks, who allegedly told clients that “money is evil” before taking around $300,000 of it from them. Yesterday, she was finally slated to go to trial over the charges against her. But — what a coincidence! — she checked herself…
Medical marijuana dispensary owner Steve Ackerman’s been in the spotlight a lot this week. Organic Alternatives, his MMC, is among several in Fort Collins that have been organized by UFCW Local 7. And he continues to lead the campaign against Question 300, a proposed medical marijuana resale ban in Fort…
If you had virtually unlimited access to merchandise via counterfeit credit cards, would you go to… Arby’s? Carl Hughes, Tyrea Taylor and Larry Coates did, according to an indictment on view below — and they’re accused of making plenty of other stops as well. Total estimated bill: $200,000-plus…
“Feed Me,” Melanie Asmar, October 13 The Meter’s Ticking Thank you, Westword, for this useful article! I recently parked downtown and knew about the overnight parking, but I assumed it was from 2 to 6 a.m. I was in the same situation as you and thought that since the machine…
Muhammad Miguel Ali Hasan is a man with a lot of names and a lot of titles. He is a documentary filmmaker, a former Republican political candidate (for Colorado House District 56 in 2008 and state treasurer in 2010), a TV pundit and an heir to a Colorado health-care fortune…
Newly elected as a state representative, Pete Lee hit the Capitol last January fired up with big ideas. The biggest of them all was the restorative-justice bill he introduced shortly after the session began. A concept borrowed from Native American traditions and other cultures, restorative justice offers an alternative to…
Last week, medical cannabis testing facility Full Spectrum Labs shut its doors indefinitely, citing a lack of a state license to operate. But that news came as a surprise to Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division spokeswoman Julie Postlethwait, who says the lab could have remained open…
So one day you’re just a typical aircraft mechanic and engineering student who loves young women in tank tops and being outdoors — flying, hiking, camping, mountain biking — and the next you’re officially Colorado’s most eligible bachelor, according to the boy-crazy editors of Cosmopolitan, and in a race against…
Denver blog posts: All Broncos, all the time. Mile High Report’s KaptainKirk on Brandon Lloyd heading to the Rams. Not exactly a vote of confidence in Tim Tebow, or his arm. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco about Eddie Royal also being on the block. Denver PR Blog: Broncos exec Jim Saccomano’s…
A great deal of attention has been lobbed at the number of Occupy Denver arrests made over the weekend: fifty in two days. And though the Denver Anarchist Black Cross has been hugely instrumental in guaranteeing the release of the prisoners on bond, funds are running low. In an effort…
This week’s cover story, “Feed Me,” tells the saga of the city’s new overnight parking program — which some users, such as 27-year-old Tyler Wyckoff, say is confusing. Wyckoff is one of several people who have visited the Denver County Court Parking Magistrate’s Office to dispute a ticket. But overnight…
