Last week, the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado created a searchable map designed to help customers of King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons find other places to shop in the event of a grocery-store strike. Shortly thereafter, a letter to King Soopers employees noted that most of those options were nonunion shops…
You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state’s governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant in the Denver area…
Sports talk shows and blogs blew up over the weekend after cameras spied New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez eating a hot dog on the sidelines during a TV time out. Some critics have said Sanchez, who apologized after the game for some reason, was showing up the pathetic Oakland…
The latest story from those Northwest Airlines pilots who missed their Minneapolis-St. Paul destination by a mere 150 miles last week: As they flew over Denver, they started fiddling with their laptops and kinda/sorta lost track of time. Which is understandable considering all the great ways the Internet provides to…
I sense that sometime this afternoon, a vacant house near 14th and Wadsworth in Lakewood will burst into flame. I base this prediction on intuition, cosmic vibrations and an announcement from West Metro Fire Fighters that they’ll be conducting training exercises in the area from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m…
Remember the September cover of Denver Magazine? The one that showed Deuce/Channel 31 personalities Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal going from anchors to skank-ers by way of a photo that showed them entwined while clad in flirty, boob-boosting outfits straight out of a Skinemax erotic-thriller? Well, here we go again,…
Palmer Elementary secretary Jennifer Carter has been formally charged with two misdemeanors in relation to an incident last week, when she allegedly dealt with a misbehaving six-year-old student by taping his hands together and his mouth shut. Startling stuff, but hardly unique. Indeed, accounts of alleged abuse or mistreatment of…
No doubt former ICE agent Cory Voorhis would have loved to comment on an October 23 Denver Post article about Stephanie Villafuerte, a former deputy district attorney and Bill Ritter associate nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. Attorney. Trouble is, Voorhis had just received a protective order signed by…
UPDATE, October 27: The Denver Coroner’s Office has released specifics about the death of Matthew Dailey, infant son of Stephen Dailey, who’s been charged with first-degree murder in the case — and it’s clear why from the description of the boy’s injuries: At 5:25 PM on October 17, 2009 the…
Ted Pascoe ended his homeless strike last week. The director of Senior Support Services, a day shelter for homeless seniors, walked back through his own front door for the first time in a month, drove his car again, took a shower in his own bathroom. On September 17, Pascoe announced…
Last December, Catholic-school teacher Balazs Toth drove to a West Colfax McDonalds in the hopes of doing nasty things with a youngster he’d lured there using the Internet. Instead, he hooked up with members of the Denver Police Department, who promptly busted him — and in June, he was sentenced…
In the long-foundering, ever-festering war on drugs, there’s just about zero truth to the idea of zero tolerance. As anyone who’s studied the prison population can figure out, certain groups dealing in illegal drugs can be targeted for harsh punishment, while other groups trafficking in the same drugs are all…
Predictably, the Denver Post accentuated the positive in its analysis of its circulation figures just out from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, reporting that the broadsheet has retained 86 percent of former Rocky Mountain News customers in the six months since the Rocky closed. Some of the methods used to…
The road to good local blogs leads this way… The Colorado Independent’s Katie Redding reports that air-quality programs here have lost over $31 million. That won’t make anyone breath easier. Colin at South Stands Denver worries about the Broncos punting Brent Kern, since replacement Mitch Berger was awful in Pittsburgh…
When Broncos fans Googled new quarterback Kyle Orton this past spring, many of them were greeted with image after image of KO boozin’ it up and getting’ crazy with the ladies. He’s reportedly left those lifestyle extremes behind, or at least engages in them when there are no cameras present…
In a June blog,” I described Mile High gazillionaire Phil Anschutz as “among the sharpest businessmen to ever call Colorado home” — and he’s proven it again by the way he’s turned a possible financial bath into what looks like an impressive windfall. AEG Live, one of Anschutz’s many companies,…
With the Justice Department’s announcement last week that it won’t be prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states where the practice is legal, the feds loudly and officially passed the buck on the subject. That leaves it up to medical-marijuana states and their municipalities to determine just how to handle all…
Last week, Fox Sports’ Tim Ryan insisted that Jay Cutler was worth everything the Chicago Bears gave the Denver Broncos to get him even though Cutler had only racked up a 3-2 record at that point this season, as opposed to a 6-0 mark for Kyle Orton, the QB the…
You have to wonder what would’ve happened had the annual Zombie Crawl crawled its way into Kevin Larson’s annual Fetish Ball. We suspect there would have been dancing. There certainly was dancing at DJ Miss Aubrey’s retirement party, Saturday at the Funky Buddha. And there was plenty of ink spilled…
And now, for a question that hasn’t really puzzled anyone as far as we can tell but is pretty funny nonetheless: Can you tell the difference between photos of 103.5/The Fox personality Kathy Lee’s boob cleavage and butt cleavage. This is the challenge jocks Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax have…
Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero, 46, who entered a guilty plea Friday in regard to charges against him in Colorado and Arizona, isn’t just any drug peddler. As one of the reputed leaders of Mexico’s Sonora cartel, he became the stuff of legend — and given that he’s now admitted to trafficking…
David Lane, attorney for Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene, says he doesn’t have enough fingers to plug all the info leaks coming from the office of Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. On Friday, Alderden released documents showing that Mayumi Heene, Mrs. Balloon Boy, had confessed that the whole runaway balloon…
