First there was Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. Now it’s Big Pot’s turn to flex its muscles. That’s the idea behind the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), reportedly the first national trade group for the cannabis industry — and one that’s packed with familiar Colorado names…
Here we have three Denver blog posts. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna shares the madness after Michael Bennet started bitching at a food bill debate near a hot microphone… Lakewood Edge’s Charley Able reports about a trio from his town allegedly involved in a $100K theft ring. WhoSaidYouSaid’s already got just-declared…
Ahmed Odawaay, one of the beleaguered Denver cab drivers featured in this week’s cover story, “Mean Streets,” supplements his income by helping prospective taxi drivers train for the Denver Department of Excise and License test they must pass before they can hit the road. We’ve included a sampling from Odawaay’s…
Colorado Ethics Watch is on a roll. Back in September, the organization successfully argued that Clear the Bench Colorado, which wanted to throw the bums off the Colorado Supreme Court, should have registered as a political committee subject to donation limits rather than an issues committee. And now, that same…
For wildlife, Interstate 70 is the forage-lined kill zone that bisects Colorado. Last June, the ARC-International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition invited architects, engineers and ecologists to create the next generation of animal overpass for the top of West Vail Pass. The five finalists of the competition will on display…
The April 2009 police beating of Michael DeHerrera continues to be a matter of debate, with the Office of the Independent Monitor and former Manager of Safety Ron Perea coming to very different conclusions about whether officers at the scene used excessive force or were justified in their actions. Now,…
Our Monday post about Josh McDaniels “Not My Coach” t-shirts on sale before the Broncos’ horrible loss to the St. Louis Rams (but after McDaniels was fined by the NFL for not reporting improper recordings of a San Francisco 49ers practice) prompted some impassioned takes — including one from a…
As part of our Caregivers’ Cup coverage, we shared bong porn: photos of work by glass master Wes Richards, who was creating a five-foot-tall, Colorado-themed bong to serve as a traveling trophy for winner of the Cup’s people’s choice prize. Well, the cup, which will be awarded to Matt H…
The folks at Portfolio.com have a serious crush on Boulder. Less than five months after declaring the community’s quality of life the best of any midsized city in the U.S., the business publication now says Boulder has the “strongest brainpower” of the nation’s largest 200 markets. And that’s not the…
“Trashing the Truth,” a 2007 series by Miles Moffeit and Susan Greene about DNA evidence, remains the finest piece of journalism by the Denver Post over the past decade — a controversial but deserved Pulitzer Prize finalist. Three years later, however, neither writer works for the paper: Moffeit was asked…
The Josh McDaniels job death watch continues — and after Broncos owner Pat Bowlen’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t endorsement of McD earlier this week, few NFL observers give him much of a chance to beat the reaper. Consider yesterday’s edition of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, during which hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon…
The controversy over airport body scanners and TSA pat-downs has plenty of Colorado touchstones, including Rocky Flats Gear, a line of underwear intended to protect your junk for radiation. And then there’s Colorado lawyer Gary Fielder, who’s filed a lawsuit against the TSA on the issue — and there’s video…
An attempt to recall controversial Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida appears to have failed. The three southwest Denver voters who asked for the recall had until Monday to submit a petition complete with the signatures of 4,342 voters in Merida’s district. According to Nancy Reubert of the Denver…
Azimdzhon Mazhidov is accused of getting rich with a little help from his friends. He’s among sixteen defendants from Russia and Tajikistan charged with stealing more than $300,000 from assorted banks. But they didn’t use guns. Instead, according to an indictment on view below, they allegedly collected cash one bad…
It’s two o’clock, so it must be our Denver blog post triptych. Purple Row’s Andrew T. Fisher writes that the Rockies’ $157 million contract with Troy Tulowitzki is the eighth largest in MLB history — and it’s mostly Yankees in front of him. Face the State’s Greg Campbell argues that…
It’s been a big month for AM 760 host David Sirota. First, his first child, Isaac, was born. Now, he’s been named one of thirty “media heroes” by The Nation, placing 21st on a roster topped by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. And, as a bonus, he’s also completed his latest book,…
Earlier this month, Broncos sources told writer Alan Prendergast that owner Pat Bowlen is no longer the team’s major decision-maker on key financial and management questions. Presumably, a Monday interview — Bowlen’s first since early this year — was intended to disprove this claim. But the completely different tone of…
The color scheme of the Harvey Park logo shown above pays homage to the colorful, nationally renowned jazz-age orchestra leader and his sprawling Black and White Ranch, on which the southwest Denver neighborhood was built…..
At 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, the special-issues committee of the Denver City Council will assemble — and its goals include massaging the city’s medical marijuana code to bring it more in line with the state’s MMJ law, signed in June. But while Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation executive director Betty Aldworth…
“TSA machines may irradiate your junk unless you’ve got Rocky Flats Gear,” a Thanksgiving-week post about new briefs, panties and bras fitted with shields intended to protect your special places from airport radiation machines, prompted a comment from an informed source: Jeff Buske, the man behind Rocky Flats Gear…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man stabbed to death on the 1800 block of Grove Street as Joey Fuller, a 26-year-old white male. Look below to see the release that ID’d Fuller, as well as our previous coverage of this brutal crime, for which Darold Hinojos has…
In yesterday’s preview of an immigration summit organized by the Republican Study Committee, Senator Kevin Lundberg, the committee’s chairman, insisted that he was more interested in finding solutions to a big problem than playing partisan games. But Representative Sal Pace, leader of the Democratic minority in the Colorado House, isn’t…
