According to just-released data compiled by the Colorado Division of Housing, the state’s apartment vacancy rate is the lowest it’s been in more than ten years. And, as this account from Inside Real Estate News points out, the rental market is particularly tight in Denver, with the average metro apartment…
Make room for these Denver blog posts. Bronco Talk’s Kyle Montgomery reports that onetime Chatfield High state champ LenDale White has been cut by the Broncos. Coyote Gulch: A CSU study finds climate change could cut western trout habitat in half. Mile High Mamas’ Gretchen on how to ketchup with…
Last month, Danielle Blankenship, 21, was accused of misdemeanor animal cruelty for allegedly killing her cat by blowing heroin smoke in its face — and Boulder authorities talked about upping the charge to a felony if any heroin turned up in the cat’s system. But none did, prompting the district…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s new rules about the “Medical Use of Marijuana” went into effect on July 31 and have caused few gripes thus far. But attorney Warren Edson sees several problems with the regs on view below, including contradictions with HB 1043, the so-called MMJ…
In the photograph above, the sticker depicting Captain America’s helmet from the movie Easy Rider is placed over the letter “O” in the word “NO” on a federal government “NO TRESPASSING” sign in a manner that sensitively captures the movie’s exploration of freedom, fear and lawlessness of the American cultural…
Did a Jefferson County charter school decide not to renew the contract of veteran teacher Heather Burgbacher because she pumped breast milk at work? That’s the contention of the ACLU of Colorado, which has taken legal action on Burgbacher’s behalf that could lead to a lawsuit against Jeffco on both…
Judge Michael A. Martinez’s ruling that stopped a Douglas County school voucher program has been controversial in some quarters, with the families of impacted students frequently casting blame on plaintiffs behind the lawsuit in question. But a longtime critic of the voucher plan has a different point of view…
The Firestone Police Department hasn’t formally charged anyone with poisoning a pair of dogs earlier this month. But officers have clearly made it a priority to catch and bring to justice the person who allegedly killed Dozer Boy, a chocolate lab, and Kyera, a German shepherd. Get a load of…
Suddenly, the question of whether a a Mount Sopris peak should be named for John Denver has gone from a local story to a national one even as a petition with at least 2,800 signatures hangs in limbo. Yesterday, National Public Radio devoted a significant chunk of All Things Considered…
Update: Last week, an Aurora Police officer on a routine call happened to glance into the back of an SUV on South Elkhart Street and spot what turned out to be the body of a dead woman. The victim has now been positively identified as Cristy Erickson, 36 — the…
Turns out that Bill Koch, the Florida billionaire who bought the tintype of Billy the Kid for more than two million bucks at a Denver auction in June, isn’t just interested in photos of the Old West; he’s interested in Old West towns, too. And he just bought himself a…
“Weeding Is Fundamental,” Off Limits, August 11, 2011 Going to Pot I feel sorry for the people who are trying to open medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado: Seventy-seven pages of new rules, more money to keep track of everything that goes on in a shop. I don’t know why the…
If a team of urban explorers set out to gauge the health of neighborhoods in central Denver, they could do worse than to start with the 700 block of Clarkson Street. It’s a great vantage point for studying the city’s rich history, its triumphs and mistakes, its awkward efforts to…
I’m not a big edibles guy — something that stems from my early experiences making brownies using ground-up schwag. The memory of the slightly burned, and entirely gritty, undercooked chocolate mass that put me to sleep still haunts me to this day. And medically, it doesn’t make much sense for…
The Denver Children’s Advocacy Center has won a $50,000 federal grant to educate parents and pregnant women about Medicaid and other health insurance for low-income families. The grant is the second such award for the center, which serves children who have been sexually abused, neglected or traumatized by violence…
The Rockies should have known it wouldn’t be their night when Chris Nelson decided to play “Pin the baseball on the coach’s face” with Rich Dauer before the game in a gaffe seen in the background of an ESPN live shot. Then the Rockies’ unfortunate play was caught by ESPN…
Two years ago, I wrote about the tragic death of eighteen-year-old Whitney deMoraes Hendrickson, who died in a freak accident caused by a reckless driver at a gas pump in Colorado Springs, and the remarkable tributes to her short but eventful life that followed. Now one local artist, moved by…
A twenty-year-old Colorado native who was vacationing in Italy with friends from the University of Washington died Saturday after falling from her hotel window, according to news reports. The Daily Mail describes Kelly Denman as a “university beauty” whose Twitter profile simply said this: die living. Denman reportedly fell a…
Here’s our first Denver blog post collection of the week. Colorado Independent’s Troy Hooper writes that climate-change deniers reacted to Al Gore calling bullshit on them in Aspen by shoveling out more bullshit. Free Range Longmont’s Kaye Fissinger sees a ghost from the past. Grazing Mind’s Jarod Ballentine on making…
In an interview earlier this year, MediaNews Group executive chairman Dean Singleton talked about experimenting with pay walls at his various newspaper properties. These efforts are now about to get a public try-out at 23 MNG properties — although none in the company’s home state of Colorado. Why not? Vice…
Montana City, the area’s first platted township, was founded in September 1858 on the east banks of the South Platte river near West Evans Avenue. The following spring, the cabins were dismantled and floated downriver to be rebuilt at the confluence of Cherry Creek. Rufus “Potato” Clark then homesteaded the…
The Aurora Police Department has announced the resignation of Officer Bradley Bickett in the wake of an ultra-embarrassing incident. Bickett and a fellow cop are accused of treating a trip to the funeral of a murdered policeman as an excuse for an alcohol-fueled, rubber-burning squad-car joy ride…
