“During my tenure as Auditor, I have never had to write a transmittal letter as detailed and scalding as this one,” Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher wrote in the cover letter to his office’s recent audit of the Career Service Authority, the agency that provides human resources for 8,500 Denver…
Piping-hot Denver blog posts here. Mile High Report fan poster boydy2669 offers proof that Kyle Orton was more than just a Jay Cutler-trade toss-in. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic cites a report showing that bullying of gay teens is hardly a thing of the past. Plants & Animals Denver invites you…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man killed July 4 on the 3200 block of Dahlia Street as Dominick Johnson, 28. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival at Denver Health Medical Center. Still no word about possible suspects…
Denver-based Archbishop Charles Chaput better watch out next time he plays Call of Duty online. Why? A lot of gamers are gunning for him in the wake of an editorial in which he criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for striking down a California law meant to protect minors from violent…
Britt Cox has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering Bonni Bergen, 49, with whom he shared a fondness for meth, and then torching her home in an attempt to cover his tracks. Which might have worked if the fire hadn’t burned off his hair and left marks on…
Instead of cutting entire comic strips and losing more readers the Denver Post could save space (and money) by splicing together different strips to create comic cut-ups that are immensely more funny…..
Over the past month or two, approximately three tons of equipment and ephemera associated with an indoor marijuana grow facility was found discarded at federal land site on Colorado’s Western Slope — likely after voters in Grand Junction, the area’s largest city, banned medical marijuana retail operations. And a Bureau…
As Patricia Calhoun reported in yesterday’s Wake-Up Call post, Denver Police retirees want Michael Hancock to hire a Manager of Safety who’s fair to cops. But does fairness mean siding with accused officers even when there’s strong evidence against them? One reader has some ideas about that…
How many addicts does it take to make a meth ring profitable? Fewer than you might think. According to the Seventeenth Judicial District DA’s office, a group of a dozen just-sentenced dealers and compatriots, led by Michael McCullar, are thought to have regularly serviced between 25 and fifty clients before…
Unsurprisingly, last night’s edition of Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show, The O’Reilly Factor, was mostly about the Casey Anthony verdict. But at the end of the program, in his trademark Pinheads & Patriots segment, Bill’O offered the latter designation to the folks at Lane Guest Ranch near Estes Park as…
Stephanie Tanny met Bill Clinton at the Campus Progress National Conference two years ago. She shook his hand, but when it came to taking a picture with the former president, she was “too star-struck” to ask, she says. Tanny will be back at the conference today. This time, however, she’ll…
One of the most astonishingly racist and sexist campaign videos in recent memory attacks Janice Hahn, who’s running for U.S. Representative in California; she’ll face Tea Party fave Chris Huey in a special election on July 12. And as it turns out, the clip, on view below, has a local…
How did you celebrate your independence on July 4? Phillip Harold Hall allegedly exercised his rights by taking a joy ride on a city tractor while completely plowed — which is appropriate in a way, but still against the law. What happened?…
This month, four Denver Zoo staff members will travel to Vietnam to help two endangered species: Asian elephants — up to twelve of which will one day live in the zoo’s new Asian Tropics exhibit — and Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys, an extraordinarily endangered species of monkey that zoo conservation biologist…
If mediocrity was a woman, she would have a restraining order on the current Rockies team. The only thing notable about this team is that Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez are both battling nagging injuries. So why not look back on the good times? On the twentieth anniversary of Major…
You won’t find many prisons where the subject of rape behind bars is openly discussed, by inmates or staff — not because it isn’t a problem, but because it is. A Bureau of Justice Statistics report estimates that more than 200,000 adult prisoners endured sexual assaults in 2008, roughly one…
Finding Denver blog posts made easy. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein thinks David Stern and NBA owners are living in a house of fools; they could have avoided a lockout, he argues, if they’d solved their revenue-sharing problems before hammering players. DenverRadio.net users ask: Is rock radio dying? Geeks Who Drink…
The newest service at the Denver Human Services Building is a completely volunteer- and donation-based project known as The GIVE Denver Center. Stationed on the first floor of DHS, at 1200 Federal Boulevard, this small spot is doing big things for the people of Denver…
Our Slut Walk Denver 2011 photo collection is only one of many new hotter-than-July galleries on display Check out Tech N9ne at the Fillmore, First Friday on Santa Fe, Umphrey’s McGee at Red Rocks, 1 a.m. at the Shag Lounge and the best pics of June roundup on our bustling…
Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes has gotten blurry-face time on loads of media outlets, from CNN to The Daily Show. But the latest profile can be found in an unusual place: The Daily, an iPad-specific venture launched by Fox-y titan Rupert Murdoch. In the video, Breathes samples hash, reads…
By 1904, West Colfax Avenue, originally the southern road from Denver to Golden, had become the main street of the Denver Jewish community. A longtime favorite of the “Mile Chai” West Colfax neighborhood is chicken vegetable soup made with Sloan Lake turnip, U-Hills parsnip and West Colfax Kohlrabi…..
On Saturday, Slut Walk came to Denver in a very big way. The rallies, staged across the U.S. and Canada in the wake of a Toronto cop’s January comment that women risk rape if they dress “like sluts,” argue that clothing choice in no way justifies or excuses sexual assault…
