Updated, 10:48 a.m.: Loveland promotes itself as “the Sweetheart City” via a remailing program that stamps Valentine’s Day cards with the community’s postmark. WithLoveFromLoveland.com, a website that offers free V-Day e-cards, isn’t an official part of this project, which is sponsored by the Loveland Chamber of Commerce. But the Chamber…
Alan Prendergast followed his initial story about tween Jacob Christenson, who faces a second-degree arson charge in Douglas County for a fire set last May, with a suggestion that district attorney Carol Chambers talk publicly about the case. Thus far, however, this invite has only been taken up by readers…
In our post about Nick Lynch’s rejected excessive-force complaint against four Denver cops, Robert Liechty, Lynch’s attorney, said this apparent loss allowed him to re-file the lawsuit on cover-up grounds. Liechty has now done just that. Look below to check out his explanation for differences in the suits, plus the…
Update below: You know you’re making an impact when your business model is satirized on national television. That’s what happened to Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of the Rockies, which was needled by Seth Meyers on this weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live. See the clip below…
As of last week, the worst PR Boulder-based Sunflower Farmers Market faced had to do with New Mexico employee Anthony Garcia allegedly putting semen into a customer’s yogurt. But that’s a minor hit compared to the resignation of company founder and CEO Michael C. Gilliland’s following an arrest in Phoenix…
In an interview last month about stepping down as CEO of MediaNews Group, Dean Singleton talked geographical expansion and consolidation. These words echoed after MediaNews bought the Longmont Times-Call’s parent company days later — and fears of job losses were heightened by rumors that the firm would be starting a…
If you can’t get a date in Denver, you’re just not trying hard enough, says Vavoom.com, a dating site that seems to be more about making out than making marriages. The site has just ranked Denver the fourth-best dating city in the country. Why? Because, according to their ambitious math,…
Update: The Denver Police Department has identified a suspect in the shootout at Dandy Dan’s strip club that killed George Valenzuela-Lopez. He’s Benjamin Lucero, 22. Look below to see two photos of Lucero and a DPD release with more information…
There’s something more than a little creepy about suspects barely beyond childhood accused of distributing child pornography. But that’s what the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office accuses Phillip Abernathy and Connor Greenwall of doing in separate cases. Below, see full size booking photos and a DCSO release with more details…
Denver blog posts are multiplying. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna shares the deets about Senator Michael Bennet’s proposed Presidential Teachers Corps. How do you like them apples? Who Said, You Said: Is Mark Udall having a Ken Buck moment? Predominantly Orange’s mattyp5280 wonders who’ll catch passes for the Broncos next season…
This week, the Colorado Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment of Tom Clements as Department of Corrections executive director. It’s not one of the most glamorous posts in Governor John Hickenlooper’s cabinet, certainly, but it’s one of the most crucial if the state is going to climb out of its fiscal…
Have you always wondered about the juvenile idiots who post hateful screeds in the comments section of newspapers, TV stations and blogs? Have you wondered if they were twisted gun nuts living in mountain cabins or douchey frat boys living in their parents’ basements? Did you wonder what they looked…
Passions were aflame in the medical marijuana community yesterday, with both a department of health MMJ advisory committee meeting and a judiciary committee hearing on cleanup bill HB 1043 stirring controversy. Now, we learn Representative Jerry Sonnenberg actually tore up a 1043 amendment after a verbal set-to with advocate Miguel…
Sequel 1: The Big Gnomebowski Plot: A slob of a gnome with the same name as a Wash Park gnome is mistaken and has his front porch rug taken from him. With the help of his lazy friends, he tries to get his rug back. Below, the greatest gnome story…
Some very different takes on yesterday’s judiciary committee hearing on HB 1043, a medical marijuana bill co-sponsored by Representative Tom Massey and Senator Pat Steadman. Jill Lamoureux, who also weighed in on a contentious health department advisory meeting, doesn’t think the bill is highly problematic. As for the Cannabis Therapy…
Sarcasm can be an art form if wielded properly — and one reader used this tool to do some damage this week. The post in question recently popped up on our interview with Representative Tom Massey about clean-up legislation for the medical marijuana industry…
Yesterday, the meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s MMJ advisory committee got off to a rocky start, when a time change nearly prevented advocates from commenting. But Jill Lamoureux, an advisory committee member and owner of Boulder County Caregivers, feels steps forward were still made…
Update: Thanks to the Denver coroner’s office, we now know the name of the man who killed himself in Cherry Creek North’s Alicia, The Boutique on Monday: Ronald Barry, 63. But while clues are surfacing about why he might have committed this desperate act, we’re no closer to understanding his…
One clue that Carmelo Anthony might actually stay in Denver: He hasn’t reduced the price of the house he’s selling. But heis lightening his load, by selling a cherry ’71 Chevelle on eBay to benefit his charity, just as bride LaLa Vazquez did last year with a pink SUV. Look…
Westword feature subjects the Highland Mommies have a new website. The nearly 3,000-strong northwest Denver parents group recently acquired the easier-to-find www.highlandsmommies.org address and switched to a more robust web platform, including a “public” page for non-Mommies that lists information about northwest Denver schools and Highlands Mommies events, as well…
November’s “Mean Streets” detailed how politicians with financial ties to existing taxi companies stood against attempts to start additional cab operations. Take City Councilman Michael Hancock, who strongly opposed any new companies: He scored $3,250 from Metro Taxi affiliates in his last city council campaign. And now that Hancock is…
Yesterday, Kim Day, Denver International Airport’s aviation director, did her best to convince city council members that her team is being sensible in its approach to more than a billion dollars in construction projects at the world’s tenth-busiest airport. But the leaner budget Day presented raises the kind of questions…
