Last November, we told you about a lawsuit filed against the City of Centennial on behalf of CannaMart, a dispensary shuttered the previous month after the imposition of a ban within town limits. On December 30, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross ruled in CannaMart’s favor — and just…
On January 21, we told you about Joseph Trujillo, who reportedly left his infant alone for six or seven hours while he was boozing at a bar — and when he returned, the child was dead. In its initial release about Trujillo, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office explicitly stated that…
On The Simpsons, Mr. Burns frequently says, “Release the hounds!” But not having any vicious canines at his command earlier this week, Joshua Alger made do with the resources he had at hand — and released the children! Alger, 28, reportedly passed out drunk in the play area of a…
In the second day and final day of a hearing before a federal administrative judge (read day one coverage here), Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from restricted databases to Bob Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, says he sought to expose “potentially illegal”…
Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers has had her ups and downs in her efforts to obtain the death penalty for two Limon inmates accused of killing a prison snitch. Almost two years ago, Lincoln County District Judge Stanley Brinkley removed her office from the prosecution of one of the…
Actress Halle Berry is reportedly planning to star in a film called Who Is Doris Payne?. But plenty of police officers already know the answer to that question — including the ones who just busted her for allegedly swiping a Burberry coat from a Saks Fifth Avenue in Costa Mesa,…
The Coalition for Smart Transit is reportedly funding a potpourri of surveys and focus groups intended to determine if Colorado voters might cast November ballots in favor of a tax increase benefiting FasTracks, which is facing a $2.2 billion funding gap. Good luck with that one. As the state faces…
Here are three Denver-oriented blogs we enjoyed reading today. Mile High Report’s John Bena weighs in on the choice of Don “Wink” Martindale as the Broncos new defensive coordinator. Will he be a High Roller? What’s his favorite Gambit? When the season’s over, will the Broncos be rolling in the…
In the Biggest Pariah of the Past Decade contest, Michael Brown would be among the favorites. The former FEMA director wound up being slathered with much of the blame for the Bush administration’s ultra-inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — a fate that led inevitably to his resignation that…
New on the Latest Word: A fresh entry in our series of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — a critique of Nederland’s Tea Alchemy by The Wildflower Seed — with a bonus take on Grateful Meds thrown in for no extra charge. Moreover, there’s plenty of additional information about…
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…
To create a festive ski-resort atmosphere for the huge Snow Sport Industry Association Convention happening in Denver this week, downtowners are being asked to join these city celebrities on January 29, 2010, for Snow Wear Friday… More wintery fun below!…
In its reporting about the impending bankruptcy filing by Affiliated Media, the holding company of MediaNews Group, its owner, the Denver Post left the B-word out of the headline — and its published version of an Associated Press story about the filing left out intriguing info included by other papers,…
Yesterday, Betty Aldworth, director of outreach for Full Spectrum Laboratories, a marijuana testing facility, was at the State Capitol to watch lab co-owner Bob Winniki testify about Senator Chris Romer’s just-introduced bill dealing with the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. But before Winniki could speak, the twosome received…
Focus on the Family’s decision to buy a Super Bowl ad featuring Florida QB Tim Tebow and his mom has generated a gusher of publicity due largely to protests from pro-choice groups presuming the spot will push an anti-abortion agenda. This extended segment from The O’Reilly Factor is a prime…
On Monday, we told you about the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, taking part in the Colorado Department of Transportation’s adopt-a-highway program — and CDOT’s conclusion that stopping it from doing so was impossible. Now, a new development: The National Socialists’ designated chunk of U.S. Highway 85 is being…
Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from a restricted database to Republican Bob Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, began making his case to get his job back before a federal administrative judge Wednesday. The Denver hearing encapsulated the dramatic twists and embarrassing turns…
When Ray LaHood, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, stood up to address the U.S. Conference of Mayors last week, he gave a special shout-out to John Hickenlooper, who’d met with him in Denver the week before — and cooked dinner for him. “As you know,” LaHood told the…
“Everybody Must Get Zoned,” Kenny Be, January 21 Code Medicine I appreciated Kenny Be’s “Everybody Must Get Zoned.” The spin on “stoned” and “zoned” was not wasted on me, especially having attended recent zoning-code update meetings and the city council hearing on medical marijuana! As a concerned citizen, I’ve been asking in…
Tim Canaday keeps an old wooden snowboard in his office at the Never Summer Industries factory as a reminder. The board, fit for a history museum, has rubber straps for bindings and metal fins bolted to the tail and midsection, to keep it steady in deep powder. He constructed the…
More kids are enrolled in Colorado schools than ever before: 832,368 to be exact, according to numbers released this week by the state Department of Education. And Denver Public Schools is contributing heavily to that growth. The city’s enrollment is up 4,493 students from 2005, making it the third fastest-growing…
The great Colorado debate over medical marijuana finally reached the gold dome of the State Capitol on Wednesday when Democratic Senator Chris Romer introduced the first of two proposed bills dealing with the issue. More than 150 people, including a large number of disabled medical marijuana patients, turned out before…
