Colorado’s become Hoax Central lately thanks to the bizarre case involving a certain Balloon Boy. But the latest alleged pranksters are hardly Richard Heene clones. Rather, they’re members of the Denver Police Department. As first reported by Channel 4, two officers assigned to District 6, called the Parker Police Department…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 49. Lowry: Porch pots with a hopeful vision. “Obama goggles” is the slang term for a phenomenon in which the increased display of passion for President Obama actually lowers political awareness to the point that very little intelligence is used when…
Back in May 2008, a group of nine people, including Deangelo Calaway and Mitchell Walker, were upset by an incident that took place at Bash nightclub, not to mention the murder the day before of Michael Asberry, a 2007 Westword profile subject who talked with reporter Luke Turf about the…
Christian Thurstone, a psychiatrist with board certifications in addiction treatment and child and adolescent care, has seen plenty of news reports about why medical marijuana is a good thing — but precious few about the potential harm it can do. That’s why he wrote a provocative piece for the Denver…
Another busy weekend in your favorite little cow town. Here’s where we were: • At Brand New’s sold-out Fillmore show. • At Rock Bar, where the sweaty hipsters happily roam. (Above photo by Aaron Thackeray.) • At the SIA Show, where everything new in skiing and snowboarding was on display…
On Friday, we told you about the nineteen locals caught up in Project Big Freeze, a nationwide sweep by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, that targeted “transnational gangs with ties to drug-trafficking organizations” in 83 cities, including Denver. That doesn’t mean, however, that all 447 alleged gang members…
In January, we introduced you to Matt Arnold of ClearTheBenchColorado.org, who thinks four of the state’s Supreme Court justices shouldn’t be retained because of the way they’ve twisted the spirit of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, better known as the TABOR amendment. Our headline begins: “Throw the Bums Off the…
At yesterday’s Pro Bowl, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall declared, “I love the city of Denver. I started there and would love to finish there.” That’s a far cry from what Marshall said after an October 2007 drunk-driving arrest. Back then, he proclaimed, “I hate Denver. I hope I get traded…
The folks at Pipkin Mortuary have a lot of ‘splainin’ to do — but no amount of apologetic words is likely to salve the wounds of the various families involved in an unbelievable body mix-up — or another family whose son’s remains had to be exhumed following another botch…
Last Friday, as six Boulder County jurors tried to determine punitive damages in the case of a woman whose health insurance company refused to pay her medical bills after a devastating auto accident, one figure loomed large: $150 million. That’s the amount that Time Insurance, also known as Fortis and…
Deciding on one of the largest punitive damage verdicts in Colorado history, a Boulder jury has awarded $37 million to a mother of four whose health insurance company refused to pay medical bills after she was severely injured in a 2005 auto collision with a meth dealer who was fleeing…
The wife of notorious swindler and former fugitive Thomas Quintin is set to face charges stemming from reported schemes that date back as far back as 1990, when she and Quintin ran a diesel distribution company that failed to report fuel taxes in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. Sandra Westphal, 68,…
Gather ’round, kids, and read these three Denver blogs. Over at Bronco Talk, Mr. East wonders whose Pro Bowl vote is it anyhow? Along the way, he writes, “One could even argue that Kyle Orton deserves a go instead” of David Garrard, who made the cut. For the first half…
Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, popularly known as ICE, announced the results of Project Big Freeze. ICE says the operation targeted “transnational gangs with ties to drug-trafficking organizations” in 83 cities, including Denver. A total of 447 alleged gang members were rounded up, with early reports saying…
In a blog published earlier this month, we told you about Greenway University, a “medical marijuana training and education institute” that was slated to stage a two-day seminar at the Westin Tabor Center downtown. Those sessions were smashes, drawing more than 200 people, precipitating the scheduling of another couple of…
With print publications folding at a dizzying pace these days, various pundits have suggested that newspapers, magazines and the like explore non-profit options — a concept they often portray as new and daring. And it was — a few decades ago. Indeed, the business model used by High Country News,…
You might say Steven Clay Romero sped off with our dishonor this week, dragging his freedom and dignity behind him, bloody and lifeless. How? By dragging a stranger’s dog to death behind his car…
Cities and towns all over Colorado are flummoxed over how to regulate the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. Several have instituted moratoriums on new dispensaries until they can hammer out some rules; even more have at least considered ways to slow the industry’s growth. In Boulder, a city with a…
“I’m really honored to be the only Coloradan speaking at the first-ever National Tea Party Convention being held in Nashville, Tennessee this week. Sarah Palin is supposed to deliver the keynote speech, but we’re all hoping she cancels so we can blame it on Obama.”…
It was no surprise when Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups didn’t land on the NBA All-Star team based on fans’ votes. What he brings to the table doesn’t always lend itself to ESPN top-ten lists. But for the coaches not to make him a reserve is absolutely astonishing — a travesty…
If anything, the debate over a still-unseen Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad has only intensified as the week has gone on, with protesters appearing on shows such as The O’Reilly Factor and pro-life supporters attaching themselves to what they assume will be its sentiments. Focus on the Family…
Back in December, Scott McInnis took fire for an appearance on Fox News that portrayed him as the choice of tea party groups in the state — an assertion excused away by McInnis’s camp even as it was disputed by Lesley Hollywood, spokeswoman for the Tea Party of Northern Colorado…
