Colorado State University professor John Straayer, an expert on state government, says Colorado’s recent decision to allow universities to hike tuition by unprecedented amounts further threatens to put higher education out of reach for thousands of residents. “Tuition flexibility” is just the latest in the state’s attempt to offset drastic…
Evangelical pastor Pat Robinson believed God was punishing the United States for its abortion laws with Hurricane Katrina. He also said that the earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti was the result of “a pact” that the country with the devil made to free iself from the…
The latest from the blogs of Denver ColoradoPols theorizes Scott McInnis tried to best Josh Penry on Pinon Canyon. But now Penry’s out of the race, and the locals are liking Hickenlooper’s views on the matter. Back in the day, kids used to ride bikes to school. Now, they mostly…
While his department’s handling of the oil-slick crisis in the Gulf continues to draw scathing criticism and political blowback, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has another ecological headache brewing out west over his wild-horse program. And judging from a public workshop held on the issue in Denver today, it’s…
When Saturday’s World Cup match between the U.S. and England ended in a tie, a lot of casual American soccer fans — who wanted to see America kick some foreign ass — were baffled. A tie? What kind of real sport ends games in a tie? In America, there’s hardly…
In an effort to boost its lower-than-they’d-like graduation rate, Denver Public Schools plan to invest $4.8 million — plus $3 million more from secret donors — over the next three years to expand access to high school sports by letting low-income kids play for just $10, instead of the usual…
Andrew Romanoff is taking flak from all sides these days, with barbs coming from Republicans and Democrats alike regarding the Obama administration’s various “job offers” (some would say “bribes”) to persuade him not to run against Michael Bennet. Now there’s another job opportunity waiting in the wings: The Honorable Mary…
Well, we know things have gotten weird when someone is calling our goofy-but-always-diplomatic mayor John Hickenlooper “a killjoy lame-o” while elevating outspoken cowboy-hat-sporting councilman Charlie Brown to the status of the only “sane” person left in Denver. But that’s how Gawker.com has come down on the recent effort by the…
Aaron Thackeray went swimming in debauchery this weekend to bring you photos from the Electric Daisy Carnival at the Aarapahoe County Fairgrounds (above), a Playboy anniversary party at Suite 200 and the grand opening of Rhythms Nightclub. See his photos at westword.com/slideshow…
World Cup soccer is a little different from your kid’s rec league team. Here are a few of the things soccer moms (and dads) need to know. 10) Team moms not responsible for halftime snacks 9) Coach may not tie players’ shoes on the field…
Charlie Sheen was supposed to sign off on a sweet plea bargain last week. Rumor has it that the Pitkin County Sheriff is recommending a work-release program for the actor in exchange for his pleading no contest to felony menacing and 3rd-degree assault and criminal mischief in connection with his…
Michael Roberts profiled John Scherer, the self-proclaimed Video Professor whose computer-education company was one of Colorado’s most unlikely success stories, four years ago — but in the time since, the prof has been racking up some failing grades, and plenty of complaints from critics. The most recent black mark came…
Last year, Colorado parkour pioneers Ryan Ford and Mat Marshall opened APEX Movement, the world’s largest parkour gym, in downtown Denver. Now that the record’s been overtaken by other locations, they’ve moved to a new spot in Englewood that, after the grand opening celebration this past weekend, is once against…
Exactly six people and a chihuahua showed up at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment this afternoon to protest what they say is an extraordinary wait time to receive their medical marijuana cards. Some patients are waiting so long for their applications to be processed, the protesters said,…
The Obama administration’s ever-shifting damage figures and containment strategies for the mess in the Gulf — not to mention the ever-spewing oil — have disenchanted many former admirers of the President. Now a scathing dive into the disaster in the latest Rolling Stone blasts Obama and particulary his Secretary of…
Few people can say that they have been to hell and back. Fewer still can say that they have emerged far better than when they started. Frank Meeink is one of those people. At fourteen, Meeink became a skinhead. By sixteen, he was a leader of a skinhead gang. At…
Here’s possibly the best evidence yet that something very, very wrong is occurring at Fort Carson, the giant Army base in Colorado Springs: A joint NPR and ProPublica investigation into how the military handles brain injuries has found that as many as 40 percent of Fort Carson soldiers had mild…
A Denver blogs sampler. The Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven reports that an assault with a deadly weapon charge will no longer be pursued against an HIV-positive man who spit on somebody. But keep that saliva to yourself anyhow, pal. Mile High Report’s ejruiz wonders if the Broncos’ secondary is too…
Every week we explore the annals of recent shmuckdom. This week: An alleged murderer who accidentally wound up in Houston. Some weeks the shmucks just reach out and grab you. This was one of those weeks, thanks to the sinister moron Franklin Gonzalo Sierra-Rodriguez. Sierra-Rodriguez is accused of driving from…
It’s a thrill a minute in the police blotter featured in the YourHub.com print edition for Lakewood and Edgewater (the items aren’t online). First up is a mom who calls the cops on her drunk son. And then, the coup de grâce — a man found in his car with…
These days, we’re accustomed to cold cases heating up due to DNA evidence of the sort that earned Tim Masters $10 million for a false murder conviction. But DNA wasn’t a factor in the arrest this week of Dean Evan Scott for the 2002 murder of Willie Robinson. Aurora Police…
At first glance, the logo seen here seems sinful, like some horrific gene-splicing experiment gone wrong. But since it involves Tim Tebow, how unholy can it be? Not unholy at all, argues Ed Marlowe, the Orlando resident behind BroncoGator.com…
