The Denver Police Department’s sex-offender registration unit has released an updated roster of sex offenders who’ve failed to register. And it’s not short. There are well over 100 individuals on the list: some who look scary as hell, others who appear relatively benign (and are therefore arguably scarier). Page through…
Did you know that today is officially Colorado Loves California Day? No joke. Well, actually, it sorta is one. This is the second year that Colorado has proclaimed its lust for the Golden State — the idea being that if we suck up to Cali, businesses there might expand here…
NFL fan sites have been abuzz about rumors that the Broncos are interested in trading for Philadelphia QB Donovan McNabb ever since an ESPN report mentioned the possibility. Broncos sources swear nothing along these lines is happening, but ESPN Radio’s Amy Lawrence thinks it should be. During an overnight broadcast,…
This week’s cover story, “You’re in Bad Hands,” follows a Lafayette woman’s four-year battle with her health insurance company after a devastating car accident left her seriously injured, saddled with hundreds of thousands in medical bills — and a canceled policy because of Assurant Health’s profit-minded approach to the controversial…
These days, everyone who sends a child off to school worries about safety — and that’s doubly true in Colorado, where the word “Columbine” hasn’t called the state flower to mind for more than a decade. So imagine how Boulder High School parents felt when they received a letter from…
Last Friday was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lines. That means…
Here are three things bloggers are writing about Denver stuff today. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk shares a report that the Broncos might be for sale, with Stan Kroenke potentially an interested party. Maybe Pat Bowlen doesn’t want either Kyle Orton or Donovan McNabb working for him… The Denver PR…
How bad is the blood between the current leadership of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Crisanta Duran, former UFCW associate counsel and daughter of ex-union boss Ernie Duran? So bad that at a meeting earlier this week, the executive board rescinded its endorsement of her candidacy for…
That didn’t take long. Yesterday, we told you about the search for Timothy McGlothin, who authorities (and members of a grand jury) believe was part of bank-robbery group dubbed the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, for the way they leapt over counters to collect their loot. Well, McGlothin was subsequently grabbed at…
Our roster of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews has just grown by one, thanks to the publication moments ago of the Wildflower Seed’s critique of One Brown Mouse/Cannabis Healing Arts. And after learning more about this Nederland locale, check out Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. More information is just…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
Sensing a shortage of lists in popular culture, The Daily Beast’s Tunku Varadarajan has put together a roster of “The Right’s Top 25 Journalists,” based not necessarily on the quality of their work, but on the influence they wield over the masses. And guess who’s number six: None other than…
Colorado’s political stars will shine as the candidates in the U.S. Senate race take to the stage. Don’t be surprised to feel that you’ve seen it all before… In western wears and folksy airs, the seven Republican candidates (from left to right: Gary Kennedy, Vincent E. Martinez, Steve Barton, Jane…
Earlier today, we published a story about the impending departure of controversial Channel 31/The Deuce general manager Dennis Leonard, who’s announced he’s leaving the station. Since word about that broke, there’s been speculation aplenty among local media watchers about whether Leonard jumped (his assertion in a press release) or was…
Dennis Leonard’s tumultuous tenure as vice president and general manager of Channel 31 and The Deuce is over. He announced his imminent departure to staffers yesterday. While Leonard’s enemies, of which there are plenty, would love to think that he was fired, he says the decision was his — and…
Tom Tancredo’s call for civics literacy tests at the first National Tea Party Convention was described as racist in some quarters, even though he says he got the idea for them from an immigrant, and would like to base the questions on the examination immigrants must pass before being granted…
On Monday, we told you about the rhetorical battle between AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota, who thinks Colorado Springs’ conservative fiscal policies are largely responsible for the community’s sizable economic woes, and Springs councilman Sean Paige, who sees Sirota’s views as a cruel attack on a great American town. Since…
Last night, Westminster cops went shopping at Costco — and wound up with a discount deal for a couple of carjacking suspects found hiding on the roof of an out building in the box store’s parking lot. The drama started with a 911 call about two people who drew iron…
On Monday, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses started accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensary licenses — which every operational dispensary must apply for by March 1, under the ordinance passed last month by Denver City Council. Wesley Fazio was one of dozens of people who spoke at the…
“Everybody Must Get Zoned,” Kenny Be, January 21 Code Warriors As a homeowner for thirty-plus years, I want to see the city enforce the code. They could generate revenue if they would put staff out on the streets on weekends (no overtime — change the work schedule). Collect fines for…
The company that took away Jennifer Latham’s health insurance has had many names in the past 118 years. It began operations in Wisconsin as the LaCrosse Mutual Aid Association. By 1905 it had moved its headquarters to Milwaukee and evolved into Time Indemnity. Over the years, Time has absorbed other…
Standing in a Boulder courtroom on a blustery Friday evening, waiting for the jury to return with its verdict, Jennifer Latham feels a knot twisting in her stomach. She thinks she might throw up. She takes a few deep breaths. The nausea passes just as the jury starts filing in…
