The Department of Revenue’s Matt Cook has worked for months to assemble regulations for the Colorado medical marijuana industry based on HB 1284 and SB 109, two measures signed by Governor Bill Ritter in June. A short time ago, Cook sent out two mammoth documents — a draft of the…
Look at these Denver blog posts we found. 5280’s A.J. Vicens: Eric Bieniemy has the mo in the CU coaching derby, thanks in part to anti-gay comments from Bill McCartney. Colorado Pols: Does anyone in El Paso County care about food safety? Denver Egotist: Advertising agencies will be better, faster,…
Mange and scabies aren’t ailments most of us associate with the 21st century. But Wheat Ridge Police Department spokeswoman Lisa Stigall says they’re still around and a very real danger in her community thanks to some stricken foxes, as is demonstrated by a disgusting photo on view below…
This dispensary has closed. The intersection of 29th and Colorado is looking run down. Cora Faye’s café is still cooking soul food, but otherwise the landscape is dominated by empty storefronts in decades-old buildings, a Taco Bell/KFC and a Dollar Store…
Each and every week, Westword bequeaths the Shmuck of the Week award to the person — or thing — who forces normally Mile High Coloradans to hold their heads low. And at the end of every year, Westword honors this cow town’s worst of the worst — the characters whose…
The enhanced security screenings at DIA provide an excellent opportunity for Coloradans to get used to more aggressive pat-downs. Should state Republicans get their wish, searches to prove citizenship would start tomorrow. As citizens withdraw more into their cyber-selves, they’ll welcome the protracted crotch caress as Uncle Sam’s handshake of…
Don’t know if Arizona’s Ever Eleazar Murrieta-Nieblas tried to convince authorities that the marijuana in his possession was for medical purposes — but it would have been a tough argument, since there was 276 pounds of it. The sheer heft likely helped convince a jury to convict him of two…
Andrea Merida, the controversial Denver Public Schools board member, survived a recall attempt this week when the voters asking for her removal didn’t collect enough signatures — although that’s not the way recall organizer Jose Silva explained the situation in two e-mails to Westword. In fact, he sounded a bit…
The debate about what Broncos owner Pat Bowlen is really thinking following contradictory statements about his commitment to embattled coach Josh McDaniels has gotten heated at times. Fortunately, at least one reader brought some much needed objectivity and analysis to the story…
In short, it’s because of the language barrier and the fact that many immigrants who drive cabs are Muslim, which makes getting a job that much harder, says Ahmed Odawaay, 30, who drove a cab in Denver from 2003 to 2009…
Director George Hickenlooper’s death from a lethal combo of mixed drug use and sleep apnea just days before John Hickenlooper, his cousin and frequent subject, was elected Colorado’s governor, shook the Starz Denver Film Festival, which screened George’s new film, Casino Jack. Now, IndieWire is sharing his photo diary from…
With 2010 winding down, it’s time to look back on the year in photography — of the mug-shot variety. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sharing posts filled with memorable images building up to our top shots of the year. But ladies first. Page through below to see twenty…
Yesterday’s Denver City Council special committees meeting about medical marijuana, intended to bring Denver in line with state MMJ law, brought out advocates worried that new rules may outlaw Denver grows owned by entrepreneurs without a retail outlet in the city. And that’s not all, according to attorneys Bob Hoban…
Fort Morgan is typically a quiet community — but not for a while last night. Patrick Rice, allegedly under the influence of “medication,” led police on a chase, then held off the cops for an hour before shooting himself in the chest, presumably with a rifle — which doesn’t sound…
On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things…
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population, but they’re accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes. Illegal aliens are tax dodgers. That’s one of the most shocking findings of FAIR’s most recent report on the “cost of illegal immigration. “Most illegal aliens…
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers? In 2007, the U.S. Senate debated the doomed McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that aimed to secure borders, enforce workplaces, modernize the visa system, and allow non-criminal undocumented immigrants already in the country to pay a fine and stand in line for…
To FAIR patriarch John Tanton, The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 apocalyptic book by French novelist Jean Raspail, stimulates honest discussion. The graphic book tells the story of the downfall of Western civilization and the decline of the European white race at the hands of immigrant invaders. The setting…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200’s dismissal. In late October, days before the election, state Senator Russell Pearce directed his e-mail wrath at retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom he decried as an “activist judge” with a “lack of trust…
As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it’s been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying the report is just — well, crazy…
The invitation is alarming: “Come find out what nasty things Colorado Governor Ritter is contemplating doing BEHIND closed doors.” The nasty thing it’s referring to is Secure Communities, a federal program that would check the fingerprints of anyone arrested in Colorado against immigration records, possibly triggering a call to Immigration…
A special-issues committee of the Denver City Council met today and discussed measures that could shut down an untold number of grow operations in the city. The committee met with stakeholders from Denver neighborhood associations and from various members of the medical marijuana community…
