“Bad Medicine,” Joel Warner, March 11 Taking Your Medicine I think that marijuana should be legal and that the War on Drugs is shredding the Bill of Rights. But if pot advocates want pot to be legal, then why not just ask the voters of Colorado to…legalize it? Don’t hide…
A recent story in the Topeka Capital-Journal about a 2005 renovation at a Kansas women’s prison has a familiar ring to it. Inmates and corrections employees have long claimed that they were forced to remove asbestos flooring without adequate training or equipment, and state officials have failed to produce records…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents against their Homeowner’s Associations and the companies that manage them. A proposal making it’s way through the state legislature could address some of the disputes that often result in expensive legal bouts and, in the…
Yesterday, unctuous yakker Glenn Beck guested on Peter Boyles’s KHOW talk show — and of all the topics in all the world that Boyles could have brought up, which one did he raise? The birther theory. But while Beck stopped short of calling the supposition that President Barack Obama was…
Wouldn’t you like to look over some Denver blogs? At 5280, AJ Vicens says coach George Karl’s family blog about his cancer treatment is more interesting than last night’s Nuggets victory over the Washington Wizards. He’s right — but still loved the win. Colorado Pols tallies up the winners and…
A lot of things have been said about former Cleveland QB Brady Quinn since he was traded to the Broncos — some positive, others not so much. But who would have guessed that an NFL Network commentator would refer to him by the C-word superimposed boldly across the top of…
On Monday, we shared mug shots and offense information for Denver’s top fifty most wanted criminals — a post supplemented by a sequel noting that the Denver Police Department had already rounded up four of the scofflaws, including accused sexual abuser Freddie Ray Lazzo. Now, the department’s tracked down three…
A study of the tags on the retaining wall pictured above suggest that this may be the work of the street toughs enrolled at the nearby Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning. The hand-painted reminders of “Hope!!” and “you would do better” are lessons lifted straight from the mean hallways…
Owen Loftus, spokesman for Republican senatorial candidate Ken Buck, was in an odd position: As of a few moments ago, he wasn’t sure if his guy had bested frontrunner Jane Norton or not. “The last numbers we saw were from about 11:25 last night,” he says. “I think we were…
If the charges against Angel Rayas are accurate, he’s been a busy boy — and a bad one. Not to mention a candidate for an especially disturbing episode of Hoarders. According to Channel 7, the 33-year-old homeless man, whose last known address was the Denver Rescue Mission, filled a storage…
A Channel 4 report far more impressive than the startling news that a couple of guys in Boulder were busted for driving under the influence of marijuana involved the racially motivated attacks that took place in LoDo last year; see our photo gallery of arrested suspects by clicking here. Earlier…
TV-news coverage of medical marijuana often veers toward the sensational — and a story on Channel 4 serves as a perfect example. Last night, the station reported that two people in Boulder, Raghv Sharma and Benjamin Gennis, were busted for driving under the influence of marijuana, with Sharma specifically noting…
Last month, longtime broadcaster Steve Kelley revealed that he’d filed a breach-of-content lawsuit against Channel 31, from which he was fired in late 2008 by now-departed general manager Dennis Leonard. (Access our conversation with Leonard’s successor, Peter Maroney, by clicking here.) At the time, Kelley said a trial on his…
As shown in this graphic, the slogan of Jack-FM is “Playing what we want.” But today there are indications that the outlets, at 102.3 FM and 105.5 FM, will be playing what somebody else wants very soon. In mid-February, we confirmed that the Jacks had been sold by Tim Brown’s…
Earlier this week, Investigator Mike Harris, who’s assigned to the Child Sex Offender Internet Investigations unit of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, visited the Chatroulette website for the first time — and promptly got an eyeful. “Within the first ten seconds we looked at it, we already saw a…
Today should turn out to be a very good St. Paddy’s Day for Colin Olmstead, since he’ll be getting a whole lot of green from the Arapahoe County DA’s office — and by green, we mean two pounds of pot. Olmstead had the marijuana confiscated in Arapahoe County over a…
By midnight, former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff had locked up a win over Senator Michael Bennet in Tuesday’s caucuses — but the results were less certain on the Republican side, with senatorial frontrunner Jane Norton in a tighter-than-expected battle with Ken Buck. Not that you could tell…
As the clock ticked toward midnight on Tuesday, Dean Toda, spokesman for Democratic senatorial candidate Andrew Romanoff, sounded simultaneously woozy and blissed out. “I haven’t had my first drink yet,” he said with a laugh as the cheers of staffers erupted in the background. “It’s terrible.” There’ll be plenty of…
The Northwest Denver Toy Library, located in the basement of Smiley Branch Library, 4501 West 46th Avenue, has been letting pint-sized library-card holders borrow toys for free since 1980. But lately it’s been harder than ever to do so, thanks to new federal restrictions on the amount of lead and…
Boulder stay-at-home mom Liz Payton saw a void. And in the age of open source Internet publishing and “net-newsers” who can — and do — discriminate to find only the news they want to read, the retired civil engineer turned website manager and a group of four other civic-minded Boulderites…
When most of us think of diverse towns, Colorado Springs isn’t the first place that leaps to mind. But somehow, someway, the Springs is one of four U.S. communities to win a City Cultural Diversity Award from the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials. In an article announcing the…
May these Denver blogs be with you. In his blog roundup, Bronco Talk’s Mr. East links to a piece in which SI’s Peter King wonders about the lack of love for Donovan McNabb, who’d previously been identified as a Broncos target. Now that Brady Quinn’s arrived, McNabb’s starting to look…
