Last week, we told you about the closure of Lafayette’s Peak to Peak Charter School, caused by the discovery in a parking lot of a bag containing a Kermit the Frog doll that looked “bloody.” Cops have now gotten to the bottom of the story, which Lafayette Police Commander Mark…
Last month, we created our Busted Former Child Star Mug Shot Hall of Fame in honor of onetime Family Ties cast member Brian Bonsall, who was arrested in Boulder for allegedly smacking a pal in the face with a stool back in 2007. Little did we know, another candidate with…
This year’s Super Bowl matchup between Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts and the feel-good New Orleans Saints promises to be among the most watched events of the year — and that’s wonderful news for Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, which will be running an ad starring University of Florida QB…
Fireworks were on the agenda last night in Boulder. The setting: CU. The occasion: a debate about same-sex marriage sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. The opponents: Representatives of Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, whose web address, GodHatesFags.com, symbolizes the organization’s vileness, and CU students determined to face down hate with…
Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams is a guy who loves getting under the skin of his opponents, as in this interview, when he gleefully danced on Bill Ritter’s political grave. As such, he should take it as a compliment that a new (and thoroughly unofficial) pro-John Hickenlooper video, on…
That tea party trouble gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis experienced back in December is getting some national exposure, courtesy of the New York Times. “Republicans Strain to Ride Tea Party Tiger” prominently features Lesley Hollywood, who asserted in this December 9 blog that McInnis was late to the tea party despite…
A blog published last week noted that the Denver Post had managed to report about an impending bankruptcy filing by the holding company of its parent firm, MediaNews Group, without using the word “bankruptcy” in the headline — a neat example of spin. When the filing finally took place, on…
Attorney Rob Corry has significant issues with Senator Chris Romer’s legislation concerning the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. Less critical is Dr. Paul Bregman, the medical director of the CannaMed USA doctor referral service. Bregman actually believes the senator “is on the right track” even though the doc’s…
It’s the first Denver Blogs roundup of the week! In a mock-draft post, Mile High Report’s Sayre Bedinger says it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Tony Scheffler, Peyton Hillis, Chris Kuper and Elvis Dumervil could join Brandon Marshall on the train out of Broncos-ville. Please tell us you’re…
Earlier this month, we told you about medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry’s shredding of Senator Chris Romer’s draft bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry — an action that predated Romer’s decision to withdraw the legislation. Since then, Representative Tom Massey has taken on the chore of assembling a bill…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 48. Globeville: The Great Pyramids of Globeville Road. Whoever is responsible for the perfect stacks of shoveled snow that are pictured above is, by definition, a true yard artist. Snow fallen on the great expanse of a parking lot typically gets…
No doubt some supporters of same-sex marriage already had their doubts about the evenhandedness of tonight’s debate on the topic at CU. After all, it’s sponsored by the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center — and the Catholic church as an institution is about as open to the concept as it…
As we noted in a November feature, Fort Collins entrepreneur Aaron Million plans to solve some of Colorado’s water woes courtesy of a 550-mile pipeline that would pump water from the Green River in Wyoming to thirsty water users along the Front Range. But the $2- to $3-billion proposal’s drawn…
Last Friday U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn threw out a plea bargain deal for former Rose Medical Center employee Kristen Parker, who admitted infecting surgical patients with hepatitis C through needles contaminated by her own drug use. No real surprise here: Blackburn is even more of a control freak than…
It was a busy weekend in Denver. Some highlights: • Lipgloss, a Friday-night party at La Rumba, was even crunkier than usual. • Suite 200 hosted what they called a “Model Night,” apparently giving our photographer cart blanche to ignore every Y chromosome in the room. • Git Some got…
Last night, Channel 4 featured a report about a stretch of Highway 85 adopted by Denver’s branch of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group — not the kind of publicity calculated to thrill the Colorado Department of Transportation, which administers the adopt-a-highway program. CDOT spokeswoman Stacey Stegman admits that…
Update, 9:10 a.m.: Appeared on Peter Boyles’ morning show moments ago — and he told me some viewers thought the photo of me in the video above was actually “the Romanian” who allegedly threatened Governor Bill Ritter’s life. For the record, I’m Italian and am too much of a pussycat…
Why can’t the Nuggets have crises one at a time instead of in bunches? The latest: The day after Carmelo Anthony folded over his ankle late in an overtime victory against the New Orleans Hornets, coach George Karl is publicly talking about suspending J.R. Smith for sulking on the bench…
Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep and rid his mind of the grim images of the devastation in Haiti. Most of…
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that a passenger caused a flight to make an unscheduled landing in Colorado due to inexplicable behavior (including his insistence on shaving topless). That’s because it was only a couple of weeks ago. Now, a similar act: A thus-far unnamed man…
Thomas Quintin, 62, a Denver man with a long history of felony tax fraud, is facing new scrutiny after he walked away from his sentence at a half-way house and allegedly started a scheme investigators traced to caches totaling at least $1.3 million in government money last month. With 641…
Jeff Johnsen, the executive director of Mile High Ministries, a collaboration of urban churches in Denver, thinks its time that Evangelical Christians spoke up about immigration. “The way we’ve worked out our social concern is caring for the poor: helping the homeless, feeding those who are hungry,” Johnsen says. “But…
