“No Picnic,” Patricia Calhoun, June 3 Sermon on the Mount I have showed my National Park Pass in the past, so no hassle in going up. However, I think the next time I go, I’ll not show it and I will not pay out of principle. That is total BS…
Miss P’s first-graders stood on the stage at Bromwell Elementary School, before a packed house. With their teacher standing in the wings, out of view of a parent’s camcorder, the children began to recite: On the far-away Island of Sala-ma-Sond, Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond. A nice…
Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m. It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference. Sue usually doesn’t stray from her family’s venerable cattle ranch in Cochise County for too long at a stretch. But…
The wait is over, nerds. Microsoft has announced the location of its third-ever store: the Park Meadows shopping center in Lone Tree. Or, as the center’s promo folks like to call it, “the Park Meadows Retail Resort.” Back in April, we told you Microsoft was planning to open a store…
As CU fans were wondering if the school will wind up in an expanded Pac 10 or remain in the Big 12, the NCAA hit the university with sanctions. Why? The football and basketball programs failed to reach required minimum academic standards — which is shocking given how mediocre they’ve…
What do you get when you mix Colorado’s growing culture of outdoors enthusiasts with the state’s dying breed of mountain ranchers? If you’re Renee Legro of Glenwood Springs, the answer is a twenty-minute attack during a bicycle race that resulted in hundreds of stitches, not to mention a pending lawsuit…
Today’s Moment of Creepiness comes courtesy of an expert: JonBenét Ramsey false confessor John Mark Karr, who has reimagined himself as Alexis Valoran Reich. Karr/Reich was at large for a while, but he’s now been located in Atlanta. Another discovery: A resumé under Reich’s name (read it below) that announces,…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, who’s challenging John Suthers for the job of Colorado Attorney General, was able to burnish his law-and-order credentials today via the actions of a grand jury, which just handed down a 127-count, seventeen-person indictment aimed at a Longmont drug ring. Charges include racketeering and theft…
Connect with these three Denver blogs. ColoradoPols.com argues argues that the chasm between Scott McInnis and reality on the abortion issue remains vast. Look before you leap. Inside the Rockies’ Steve Foster offers all the Rockies’ draft news, complete with scouting vids. And they’re safe! Denver Egotist notes that Scream…
Colorado sure is serious about “educator effectiveness,” which is school-reform-speak for firing teachers whose students aren’t learning — a strategy endorsed by President Obama and central to his federal Race to the Top grant competition. To that end, the Colorado Department of Education has announced that two nonprofits plan to…
How to liven up a boring city council meeting? Get one of the councilmen to throw an elbow to the face of a medical marijuana patient who’s just called him a son of a bitch. That’s apparently what happened at the Fountain City Council meeting last night in an altercation…
Reports that Charlie Sheen’s plea deal on domestic violence charges in Aspen is faltering because he won’t be allowed to smoke while on work release have left some of us court-watchers flummoxed. After all, Aspen is a celebrity-prone place. You’d think all that experience accommodating the special needs of hyper-extended…
Last month, attorney Jessica Corry noted that attorneys were already preparing lawsuits targeting HB 1284, the bill designed to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Now that Governor Bill Ritter has signed the measure, how quickly will we see litigation? Not imminently, Corry reveals — but at least a couple of…
Joy Behar must have a thing for guests with Colorado connections. Last week on her Headline News show, it was Ted Haggard pimping his new Colorado Springs church. And last night, she jawed with Dog the Bounty Hunter about suspected Natalee Holloway killer Joran van der Sloot, who’s reportedly confessed…
In Boulder County, commissioners have placed a number of restrictions on where medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations can locate, limiting them mainly to retail or industrial areas, of which there aren’t many in unincorporated areas. Commissioner Ben Pearlman sees the unanimous action as a way to comply with the…
Lindsay Lohan apparently can’t stop herself from making the wrong kind of headlines — like the ones about her alleged drinking after the MTV Movie Awards in violation of a court order, prompting a judge to issue an arrest warrant and double her bail. Lohan responded in modern fashion –…
No number 25 pick in NFL draft history has been built up higher than the Broncos’ Tim Tebow. The expectations of him are so oversized that the Mile High Messiah would have to turn into the real thing to match them. Example: An amusing ESPN.com riff comparing Tebow with Stephen…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: DA’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough says today’s scheduled hearing was continued to 12:45 p.m. on Thursday. Previous update and item below. Update, 12:13 p.m.: Mario Anderson and Kataina “Markie” Jackson-Keeling, who didn’t show up on time for a sentencing hearing yesterday, are in custody. They’re now slated…
Monday, Governor Bill Ritter signed a bill aimed at alleviating conflicts between homeowners and homeowner’s associations, hoping to stem expensive and heated legal battles that come from the unregulated neighborhood-management industry. State Representative Su Ryden, an Aurora Democrat, introduced the bill earlier this year with the aim of providing legal…
The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado’s supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary results leaked from the report — which suggest state prisoners suffer little, if any, psychological impact from even long-term stay in isolation cells — is already stirring outrage…
When Tim Masters, whose 1999 murder conviction was tossed thanks to DNA evidence, received $4.1 million from the Eighth Judicial District of Larimer County in February, we predicted there’d be more cash to come. Bingo. Today, the City of Fort Collins and police defendants settled a lawsuit with Masters for…
This just in from three Denver blogs. DenverBroncos.com’s glass-half-full report notes that the D regularly schooled Tim Tebow and Brady Quinn committed yesterday. Watch out, ’85 Bears. Education News Colorado’s Alan Gottlieb says Turkey is eating America’s lunch when it comes to education. Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher reports…
