Over the years, we’ve written frequently about the breakdowns in Colorado’s parole system — how heaping mandatory parole on top of prison sentences and making ill-prepared felons jump through multiple hoops drives up prison costs. Now there finally seems to be some serious efforts among lawmakers to do something about…
Denver blog posts: They’re good enough to eat. Mile High Report’s KaptainKirk rounds up the latest draft rumors. Will the Broncos pick Marcell Dareus or another defensive stud? Square State’s Fong predicts the ASSET bill will die for reasons he sees as racist. WhoSaidYouSaid touts a video of Ken Buck…
All you fancy-schmancy mayoral candidates bragging about being supported by business groups, unions or past and present officials should feel mighty jealous about now. That’s because long-shot hopeful Jeff Peckman, the man behind Initiative 300, which would have established an extra-terrestrial affairs commission, has been formally endorsed by KHOW talk-show…
Again this year, thousands of people celebrated 4/20 on CU-Boulder’s campus. Afterward, university officials complained about the $50,000 cost of providing security for this non-sanctioned event — among them CU regent Michael Carrigan, who wants the university to take “whatever steps are necessary so that the protest doesn’t occur on…
Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election are due on May 3, 2011. With one week left to vote and nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a “cheat sheet” handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the empty rhetoric to find the meaningful content. Today,…
IKEA has made a global reputation for furniture that’s well-designed and easy to assemble — and apparently its stores are like that, too. Last May, the company predicted that IKEA’s Centennial branch would open in the fall of 2011 — but now, the date’s been set for July 27. Get…
At 11:30 a.m. this morning in the State Capitol’s Senate press room, members of the Women’s Marijuana Movement will mark both Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Alcohol Awareness Month by arguing that increased cannabis use may help prevent rapes fueled by booze. It’s a subject that WMM co-founder Toni Fox…
As an intro to a photo gallery featuring shots of John Hickenlooper and other attendees at the John Denver Colorado Hall of Fame induction concert, reviewed by Backbeat’s Dave Herrera, I shared my strongly held feeling that JD’s music is vomit-inducing. Unsurprisingly, there was some disagreement on that point, as…
Every NBA prognosticator worth his leather balls has declared Denver dead in the 2011 playoffs, but the Nugs won’t lay down. Last night’s 104-101 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder found the team displaying the gumption we knew was there all along — as well as establishing for all to…
Yesterday, we told you about Boulder’s Off the Quad, whose Trendsttr algorithm is designed to find the most socially influential college students by measuring things like how many of their Facebook conversations go viral. But even if such shares can be monetized, are they destroying the students themselves — or…
Internet years are like dog years, which makes fifteen-year-old MapQuest more like 105. But this old dog can learn directions home if you believe Arianna Huffington, now a player in the old-money empire of AOL, which owns the company headquartered in LoDo. She talked about an absurd range of topics…
Last week, 79-year-old Victor Anaya was questioned by police after a northwest Denver resident said he’d seen Anaya pulling up campaign signs. And, in fact, when police looked inside Anaya’s van, which they’d stopped near the 1900 block of Lowell, they found dozens of signs that had been on private…
The fliers arrived last January, during a balmy interval between subzero cold snaps. They were tucked under windshield wipers in strip-mall parking lots in Parker and Westminster, stuck into screen doors of canyon homes above Boulder. The print was tiny and grim, and right away you could tell this was…
There are, no doubt, saner ways to film the Cordillera Blanca of Peru than paragliding a few feet above jagged glaciers, vertiginous cliffs and freezing lakes, camera and breathing and life itself neatly suspended — but that wouldn’t be the path chosen by Sweetgrass Productions, a backcountry film crew bred…
As recently noted in Westword, plans are heating up to build a permanent Rocky Flats Cold War Museum in a onetime Arvada post office. It won’t be the first Rocky Flats museum, however. That distinction belongs to an operation that used to exist on the grounds of the nuclear weapons…
What makes someone “the most socially influential college student?” Off The Quad, a Boulder-based digital provider of daily tips about hot goings-on, has come up with a (nerdy) algorithm to figure it out that takes into account how often said college student posts stuff on Facebook and how many different…
These three Denver blog posts have “you” written all over them. Mile High Report fan poster BRONCOSAM weighs in on Brandon Marshall’s stabbing by his wife, who claims self-defense — and his questionable behavior before this incident. DenverInfill’s Ryan D. offers a Ralph Carr Judicial Complex update. Things to Do…
Amid all the hype and hoopla about Prince William getting hitched to Kate Middleton during the wee hours of Friday morning Denver time, the JW Marriott Cherry Creek is offering a special Royal Wedding package beginning at “just” $329. Ridiculous? Maybe so — but at least a dozen folks have…
Update: On Friday, we previewed a candlelight vigil for nineteen-year-old Kenia Monge, who disappeared April 1 after a night of clubbing. Despite conditions so windy that the candles kept blowing out, support for Monge and her family burned bright at the event, which drew around a hundred people. Look below…
Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election are due on May 3, 2011. With one week left to vote and nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a “cheat sheet” handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the political rhetoric to reveal what is known. Today,…
Last November, MediaNews Group vice president of field operations Sara Glines didn’t respond to repeated interview requests about a series of lawsuits filed by Nevada’s Righthaven LLC for unauthorized use of Denver Post content. Now, following controversy over a suit against autistic hobby blogger Brian Hill, Glines is repeating the…
In a post last week, we speculated that backers of a bill to set THC driving limits standards might attempt to use a trio of marijuana-related driving issues in Boulder on 4/20, including an incident in which an allegedly high teen crashed into a patrol car. But one reader saw…
