Yesterday morning, we previewed a senate committee hearing on House Bill 1284, which is intended to regulate the medical marijuana industry, with Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente maintaining that he’s ready to push a ballot initiative if the final results are subpar from MMJ advocates’ perspective. The hearing wound up evolving…
Drumroll, please: Here are three blogs about Denver we encourage you to sample. Did the Broncos draft Tim Tebow because his lips are like sugar? Actually, he’s kinda got a lisp, but that’s a subject for another day — since Mile High Report’s T.J. Johnson thinks the real reason Josh…
AM-760 host David Sirota, posting on ColoradoPols.com, shares a timely item that helps contextualize Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’s assertion that he’d like to bring Arizona’s controversial immigration law to Colorado — an opinion expressed on KHOW this morning and via his spokesman, Sean Duffy, in a just-published Westword interview…
Bill Sullivan, the subject of this week’s feature “Operation Cock Block Tries to Protect Women’s Hearts and Pocketbooks From This Crooked Casanova,” is dishonest, several of his exes say. He’s a charming, good-looking guy who cheats and lies his way into women’s hearts and pocketbooks. For four years in the…
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis has been spending plenty of time on KHOW’s airwaves lately. On Monday, for instance, he attempted to counter suggestions that he’s not especially charitable during an appearance on the Caplis & Silverman show by telling how he’d killed an elk and given its meat to…
Valverde: The hand-painted sign pictured above covers the entire east wall of El Nuevo Rancho Grande on West Alameda at Clay Street. The artist leaves it up to the viewer’s imagination to decide whether the midget gets eaten or the gator gets made into a new pair of boots. See…
Last week, Westword’s Melanie Asmar reported that lawyers for Willie Clark, who was convicted last month of killing former Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, had asked for a new trial based on alleged irregularities. Among the charges contained in motion (read it by clicking here): Jurors discussed whether Clark was…
Anyone who’s visited Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall over the past decade or two will recognize Ibashi-i, aka Milton Brown, a contortionist whose regular performances feature him twisting, splitting and squeezing into a twenty-inch box. That someone can making a living by tying himself in knots is just one of the…
On April 1, we told you about a ProgressNow Colorado petition signed by more than 8,000 people who oppose Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ decision to join a lawsuit challenging the legality of the new health-care law. Well, guess what? Today, Lu Busse, chair of the 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition,…
Yes, it’s the season for blustery rhetoric and high-pressure posturing down at the statehouse. But few stunts can match, for sheer unintended hilarity, this recent blast from Colorado Senate Republicans, denouncing a bill to restore voting rights to state parolees as a conspiracy by Dems to stuff the ballot boxes…
Yesterday, we told you about a fight at City Pub that ended with a man dead — although Denver police couldn’t immediately determine whether he died as a result of injuries sustained during the brawl or from some other reason. Now, the autopsy is complete and the man has been…
Over the past several years, northwest Denver has been the site of heated clashes over new development, struggling schools and other hot-button issues — and the political pot got stirred into a frenzy when Denver City Council District representative Rick Garcia split for a gig with the U.S. Department of…
We’ve kept you abreast of developments regarding the University of Wyoming’s attempt to ban controversial professor William Ayers from speaking on campus — an effort that led to a lawsuit filed by Denver attorney David Lane. Yesterday, United States District Court Judge William Downes held a hearing in Casper at…
Here’s a trio, a triumvirate, a triptych of blogs about Denver. At Mile High Report, John Bena notes that neither Sports Illustrated’s Peter King nor coach Josh McDaniels think Tim Tebow’s a guaranteed bench-sitter this next season. Delighted by that news, or terrified? Jefferson County’s Department of Health campus is…
The Denver Post isn’t exactly known for writing about itself in hard-hitting fashion: Note its coverage of the bankruptcy filing by parent firm MediaNews Group’s holding company, which attempted to bury the word “bankruptcy.” As such, it’s not especially surprising that the same quote that leads the Post article is…
So if you weren’t disturbed enough by the story of Linda Trabucco, a 44-year-old former teacher sentenced for an inappropriate relationship with a student beginning when he was in ninth grade, there’s this: The Aurora Police Department is on the lookout for a man who allegedly tried to snatch a…
Unexpectedly spicy release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office about Linda Trabucco, 44, a former teacher who was sentenced today to sex offender probation of five years to live and five years in community corrections for a three-year relationship with a student that began when he was in ninth…
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Today’s 2 p.m. senate committee hearing about House Bill 1284, a medical marijuana regulatory bill, is shaping up to be a showdown between legislators such as Senator Chris Romer, who’s talked about floating a slew of new, more restrictive amendments, and MMJ advocates who fear the measure is getting worse,…
A blog from the Huffington Post yesterday certainly sports a grabby headline. It reads: “Tom Tancredo Says Arizona Immigration Law Goes Too Far, Still Supports It.” The problem with this take, which has replicated rapidly across the web in the last 24 hours? According to Tancredo, it’s completely inaccurate. “Russell…
Today at 2 p.m., the public will be able to comment as House Bill 1284 reaches a senate committee. It’s sure to be a contentious session, since even pro-regulation advocates like Matt Brown see the latest version of the measure as regressive, and Senator Chris Romer is eager to add…
“Mike and I thought we did the good deed of the day,” says Paul Shoemaker — and why wouldn’t he? After all, Shoemaker and Mike McGee, co-workers at a Sprint outlet at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, were heading on break when they heard a cry for help from an…
