Last year, ethics in Colorado improved by 50 percent — at least judging by Colorado Ethics Watch’s list of the year’s top ethical standards. After all, the 2008 edition was ten items long, but the 2009 sports just five. “We realized it had been a slow year,” says new CEW…
Welcome to Denver Blogs. Take a load off and read a while. Mile High Report’s Emmet Smith sees Eddie Royal’s sunny side, despite his sophomore slump. For one thing, he’ll probably be around next year, unlike a guy who spells his name Brandon Marshall. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic notes…
On Monday, we updated you on the story of Plants 4 Life, a Castle Rock medical marijuana dispensary that had received a business license from the town only to be prevented from selling its main product because weed is illegal under federal law. At the time, Lauren Davis, Plants 4…
Today brings our first medical marijuana dispensary review of the year: Metro Cannabis Inc., as critiqued by William Breathes. But that’s hardly the only information about businesses like this one available to you from Westword. Look for plenty of alternatives in our newly updated dispensary directory, accessible by clicking here…
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…
Update, 12:41 p.m.: John Hickenlooper has now released a statement regarding Ken Salazar’s endorsement of him as a gubernatorial candidate. Read it below the original item. At least Ken Salazar didn’t keep us guessing about his campaign intentions for long… Today, Salazar released a statement saying he wouldn’t return to…
The year is only a week old and already it seems like it has dragged on for a whole month. If we keep up the action at this rate, imagine what the rest of the year will be like… More predictions below!…
Denver’s residential composting collection pilot program, launched with a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and donations from Rehrig Pacific and A1 Organics, got off to a promising start, with 3,300 Denver homes having their food scraps and other organic waste regularly collected by the city…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says his energy plan will bring more certainty to the way public lands get leased and drilled, but it’s hard to say who’s paying attention. During a teleconference yesterday to announce the reform package, many of the reporters on the horn were more interested…
This month, Xcel Energy has launched an internal contest called “Why I Love Xcel Energy,” with a hand-held video camera being awarded to the employee who makes the best clip of him or her saying why Xcel is a nifty place to work — footage that could wind up on…
By now, the rest of the country knows that Colorado Democrats are either very tired or have fat butts. They must, because they keep talking about benches — deep ones. “The Colorado Democratic Party has a deep bench, there are a lot of people who are able to step in…
Raul Gaucin-Valenzuela’s children know him well — even when he’s wearing a bandana over his face. That’s how Gaucin-Valenzuela was reportedly rolling this past weekend when he and a buddy broke into a home in Evans with an important mission — to beat the shit out of a man who…
The number of bank robberies in the metro area of late has apparently reached such heights that mainstream media can’t keep up. Example: Last evening, my wife and some of her colleagues were dining at restaurant off Wadsworth when the credit union next door was held up — and even…
Tomorrow, Jacob Garcia will appear in court to answer charges leveled by the Denver DA’s office. They are: first degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. Seems Garcia was watching his girlfriend’s year-and-a-half old son and something went wrong — terribly wrong. Garcia told authorities it was all a…
You knew Richard Heene had to have a helluva nerve (or severe brain damage) to even attempt to pull off his now-infamous October stunt — insisting that his son, Falcon Heene, was inside an inflatable silver chef’s hat that floated away from his Fort Collins home. But even the guilty…
“Rear View,” Jason Sheehan, December 31 Bleepless in Seattle Jason’s “Rear View” was fantastic, as usual. I am still dreading the day when he takes his awesome writing style and packs it up for Seattle to enjoy. At least the Internet will still let us glimpse what he’s tasting, and…
Maurice Schwenkler, aka Ariel Attack, pleaded guilty last month to destroying eleven plate-glass windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters on Santa Fe Drive in August. But the transgender anarchist is still smashing! Just check out her photos at The Boulevardier, a website that pairs anarchist sentiments with fashion and wears…
Spencer and Braxton Jones have to get off this doomed spaceship. It’s teetering on the brink of a black hole, and they’re inching toward oblivion. The only way out is via the ship’s escape rockets, but there’s a catch: The rockets’ components are scattered all about the spaceship, in the…
The idea was so delightful we had to give it a shot: For this week’s cover story, which details how local video game developer NetDevil is creating a LEGO version of World of Warcraft with the game LEGO Universe, why not transform Westword’s signature cover logo into a giant LEGO…
Protests continue around the country over the Bureau of Land Management’s ongoing roundup of 2,500 wild horses in Nevada, including a rally scheduled for January 7 in downtown Denver. Groups outraged by the roundup, which they claim is unnecessary and is injuring and destroying horses, have released images of mustangs…
Conservatives like to portray the American Civil Liberties Union as a bunch of dangerous lefties with a decidedly progressive agenda rather than principles that transcend the politics of the moment. But that argument was dinged today, when the ACLU’s Colorado branch announced that it had reached a settlement with the…
Forget the Mile High City. Denver’s has a new name, according to media reports: “Cannabis Capital USA.” The title comes courtesy of the fact that the city’s been inundated with sales tax license applications for dispensaries as entrepreneurs try to get in under the wire before Denver institutes new industry-wide…
