Earlier this week, we told you about a sophisticated pro-medical marijuana poll conducted by a new organization, Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation. The survey’s professionalism was no fluke. CMMR may be in its nascent stages — it doesn’t even have a website up and running yet, although that should change…
The men and women of FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (spotlighted in a 2008 Westword feature) have something in common with former President George W. Bush — they love nicknames. Like, for instance, the $83 Bandit. If the feds are right, Mr. Ocho-Tres has cleared a lot more…
Denver Post publisher and MediaNews Group boss Dean Singleton thinks putting articles behind online pay walls may be a way to save the newspaper business — a strategy that’s brought him into conflict with Google, which makes its nut by pointing readers to stories they can read without deploying a…
Updates below: The appearance last month of an anti-Obama billboard at Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, prompted plenty of attention and even charges of racism for the way it linked the President (caricatured in a turban) to jihad and the murders at Fort Hood,…
Don’t know what to get that special medical marijuana patient in your life this holiday season? You could do worse than the Incredibowl, the high-tech medical marijuana pipe designed by weed-smoking Colorado whiz kids The guys behind the Incredibowl, which was described in a September Westword feature on the medical…
The nomination of Stephanie Villafuerte as U.S. Attorney wasn’t supposed to have been this complicated. But in recent weeks, implications that she may have improperly participated in accessing a criminal database (an act that led to the firing of former ICE agent Cory Voorhis) prompted her to write a letter…
Back in August, former Mormon bishop Shawn Merriman pleaded not guilty to mail fraud charges against him — something that we predicted was “a temporary situation” in a blog about alleged swindles dating back to 1994. Bingo. Yesterday, Merriman pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count…
“Blunt Talk,” Patricia Calhoun, November 26 Really Blunt Talk Let’s face it. If we were really having a blunt talk about marijuana, we’d be saying things like this: Forget the bullshit about legalizing marijuana via the ridiculous means of its so-called medicinal properties. Was alcohol legalized due to its medicinal…
When Congress ratcheted up restrictions on lead and other harmful chemicals in children’s toys last year, it was a victory for child safety: So long, Thomas the Tank Engine, goodbye Dora the Explorer. But the move has proven challenging for a beloved institution and repeated Best of Denver winner: the…
From the other side of the counter, the top of Kim Cordova’s head is barely visible above stacks of bright-red boxes of holiday cookies that decorate the bakery department at the Safeway at Sixth Avenue and Corona Street. When the dark-haired clerk emerges from behind it, she’s clutching the tops…
A few days back, we told Josh McDaniels he had no reason to apologize for his revved-up outburst about wanting to “win the motherfucking game” that the NFL Network broadcast last Thursday. But he keeps doing it anyway even as his big moment is becoming a YouTube sensation. Right now,…
When a state disciplinary judge suspended Mark Brennan’s license to practice law for a year, finding that he intentionally engaged in “obstreperous behavior” in winning a $1.2 million federal verdict against the City of Denver, one requirement for reinstatement was that Brennan submit to an independent medical evaluation. The combative…
As communities around the state struggle with what to do about proliferating marijuana dispensaries, some cities and towns are washing their hands of the whole thing by banning them outright or instituting temporary moratoriums. Now, however, some of the dispensaries threatened by these developments are fighting back. As we reported…
The elephants are coming! The big, giant, hulking male elephants are coming. To Denver, that is. The Denver Zoo broke ground today on Asian Tropics — a ten-acre, $50 million partially publicly funded exhibit that could one day be home to the largest herd of Asian bull elephants in the…
Colorado bloggin’ fever: Catch it. As 5280’s Michael de Yoanna tells it, a Colorado Springs liquor board upheld the suspension of a club’s license due to bare-breast exposure and fondling during a Girls Gone Wild videoing. If tit, then no tap (H/T Colorado Springs Gazette). According to Rocky Mountain Right’s…
Today, the Broncos blog Predominately Orange features a post with a provocative headline: “The Chiefs Could Put an End to Broncos Season.” Kim Constantinesco’s intriguing argument about the dangers of looking past a mediocre squad playing at a stadium that’s seldom been kind to Denver sent me to the Chiefs’…
Last December, when President Barack Obama first announced the nomination of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior, Tucson’s Center for Biological Diversity criticized the choice, claiming that Salazar’s environmental record “is decidedly weak” in a number of areas, including “protecting endangered species.” Among his sins, according to…
To spread the word about the new ban on texting while driving, the Colorado Department of Transportation held a contest that encouraged high schoolers to create put-down-your-damn-cellphone public-service announcements. And surprise, surprise: While several of the runner-up entries on view below used humor as opposed to grimness, the winner above,…
Yesterday I received a very special present in the mail from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: My medical marijuana registry ID card! Whoopee! Here’s the rub: It took fourteen weeks from the time I applied for the card in August for it to arrive — much longer…
People often turn to animals for the joys of love and nurturing. However, judging from the number of missing pet signs hung on streetlights around town, it seem that sometimes things just don’t work out. Penwyn, the parakeet pictured in the poster above, has literally flown the coop and a…
This morning, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown presented his proposed ordinance to regulate the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries to the council’s Safety Committee. We live blogged the hearing; you’ll find Brown’s proposal at the bottom of this post, with our most recent reports at the top. 11:50 a.m.: Broadwell thinks…
Good news, Denverites! Next year (probably in August), you’ll get a chance to vote on UFOlogist Jeff Peckman’s ballot measure to create an “extraterrestrial affairs commission.” Denver Clerk and Recorder Stephanie O’Malley has confirmed that Peckman’s surpassed the 3,974 signatures needed for inclusion. Not that everybody’s cheering. In noting this…
