No, Jefferson High School cafeteria manager Michelle Whitmire isn’t accused of serving up marijuana on a plate alongside Mystery Meat and Surprise Stew. But an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety accuses the 51-year old of giving weed to children as young as elementary schoolers…
School days, school dazed, Dear old Greeley fool days, Reading and writing and prejudice, Taught to the tune of my firing stick. Ah, the halls of education. Bastions of knowledge and progressive thought. And the occasional crazy school board member…
Madison McKinley is the Colorado contestant on The Bachelor who’s getting the most attention. And no wonder, given McKinley’s vampire fangs and recent turn as a blood-donation dominatrix. But she’s not the only woman seeking a love match with douchebag Brad Womack this season. Meet Denver’s own Sarah Powell, aka…
More than a decade before the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Boulder’s most notorious unsolved murder was the 1983 slaying of Sid Wells, a handsome CU student who’d been dating actor Robert Redford’s daughter, Shauna. Now, more than 27 years later, an arrest warrant on view below has been issued for…
It’s been months since we first heard about a blockbuster trade that would send Carmelo Anthony to the New Jersey Nets — and the pressure’s starting to get to Melo if his tweets are any indication. The result is frustration for everyone involved — including one fan who no doubt…
This week, the department of health’s medical marijuana advisory committee struck draft language that would have doomed mobile MMJ clinics — but it left intact limits against doctors with conditions or restrictions on their licenses. However, HB 1043, a new bill on view below, could change the game again…
Jacob Christenson of Parker would like everyone to know that he is very, very sorry about the events of May 9, a few weeks before his eleventh birthday. He did light a piece of paper on fire, but he had no idea it was going to cause so much trouble…
John Elway’s announcement yesterday that John Fox has been named the Broncos’ new head coach wasn’t a guaranteed hit. After all, Fox most recently coached the Carolina Panthers, the one NFL team with fewer wins than Denver this past season. But in advance of his introductory news conference slated for…
Shannon Johnson, 34, is due in court this morning in a case that’s both incredibly tragic and a sign of the times. In an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety, Johnson tells police that she was fooling around on Facebook while her one-year-old child was drowning in a…
Jared Loughner’s murderous attack in Arizona last weekend has prompted soul searching among assorted media types, who wonder if the polarized political climate somehow made such an act not just likelier but inevitable. That includes columnist and AM 760 radio host David Sirota, who has changed the name of his…
Shannon Sharpe, the outspoken tight end who was part of both of the Denver Broncos winning Super Bowl teams, was named on Sunday as a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame — again. It was the third time that the eight-time Pro Bowler — now a broadcaster for…
What do you do if you suspect your kid is on drugs? A) Fry an egg in a pan and say, “This is your brain on drugs.” B) Make him watch the E! True Hollywood Story of Lindsay Lohan. C) Attend a Time to Act Community Program. The first two…
We’ve got the news straight from the Horse’s tweet: Moments ago, newly minted football operations veep and Twitter fan John Elway revealed that the Denver Broncos have hired John Fox to succeed the disastrous Josh McDaniels as the team’s head coach. Which is good in some ways, not as good…
A Denver blog post collection. Hope you like it. 5280’s Vanessa Martinez draws a parallel between Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” and bigotry reported by Ali Hasan. At Colorado Education News, UCD’s Paul Teske writes that the time to implement reforms is now. Denver Egotist: Want to…
In these days of declining print revenue, newspapers are more willing than ever to print advertisements where none have gone before. Case in point: Yesterday, the first-ever ad appeared on the Denver Post’s editorial pages — an accomplishment SE2, the agency that packaged it, compares to climbing Mount Everest. So…
For his latest review, William Breathes visits La Conte’s Clone Bar and Dispensary, located in an old building that may have been a speakeasy. But there are plenty of other options available in our newly updated listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
If Denver really is the wild west of medical marijuana, then La Conte’s Clone Bar and dispensary makes a pretty good town saloon…
The Colorado Court of Appeals recently rejected ex-CU professor Ward Churchill’s bid to get his old job back. Benjamin Whitmer, whose Try-Works blog rallied pro-Churchill forces when the controversy over his firing was at its hottest, thinks that’s wrong. But he’s moved on from what he calls the Internet “flame…
On Tuesday, the health department’s medical marijuana advisory committee, considered whether or not bless language requiring docs to have a permanent location in order to recommend MMJ — a provision that would have doomed the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of the Rockies, which sends a mobile unit to far-flung locations…
A recent Melanie Asmar post spotlighted Greeley school board member Brett Reese’s fondness for a letter claiming Martin Luther King Jr. was a sexual degenerate, a Communist and a modern-day “plastic god” prompted laughter from one reader. Of course, there’s nothing funny about such hate speech, as our commenter makes…
When was the last time anyone other the parents of players paid attention to the CU Buffs men’s basketball team? Well, there’s finally a reason to start. Last night’s victory over Kansas State marks the second straight win over a ranked opponent — which has never happened before in school…
On Wednesday, President Obama called for a new era of civility in light of the tragic Jared Loughner-Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, while Colorado Senator Mark Udall suggested that the members of Congress sit together for the State of the Union address rather than separate by political party…
