On October 20, negotiators for grocery workers and Safeway, one of three giant chains whose contracts with union employees in Colorado have expired, sat down for the first time in ages to try and hammer out an agreement. But very little hammering actually took place. “The workers said, ‘Here’s our…
In response to the Balloon Boy hoax, The Cell reopens its, “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere — Understanding the Threat of Terrorism exhibit as… Upon entering the exhibit, each visitor will receive a card with the biography of someone whose life has been forever ruined by an act of hoaxsterism. A short…
Many observers were shocked by the bargain prosecutors struck with Ricky Lee Harnish, who has confessed to killing teenager Holly Andrews in 1976 — ten to 24 years in exchange for a second-degree murder plea. Even Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger admitted to “mixed emotions” about the length of the…
A new Associated Press-Petside.com poll reveals that 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners surveyed would be at least “somewhat likely” to perform CPR on their pets in the event of an emergency. But undoubtedly the number of people who’d actually know how to do it…
Plenty of America’s Next Top Model episodes this cycle seems designed to slow the momentum of Louisville’s Nicole Fox. But somehow, she keeps winding up near the top of the photogenic heap, and last night was no exception. Within the first few minutes, viewers were treated with another dose of…
It doesn’t really look like the sort of car the government would throw money at you to buy. Those, we always assumed, were the sort of cars that would fit in your freezer. But apparently, a state tax credit would indeed allow Colorado residents to buy the new Tesla Roadster…
View Larger MapWith Colorado Attorney General John Suthers equating the proliferation of medical-marijuana facilities with crime, and other law-enforcers publicly suggesting that dispensaries are selling pot obtained from Mexican drug cartels, the pro-weed crowd has feared a crackdown on growing operations — and a raid earlier this week at 2206…
For a certain brand of pervert, working as a coach at a kids gymnastics school would constitute a dream job — and if the Aurora Police Department has 35-year-old James Craig pegged right, that dream is over. Craig, who worked at the Saddle Rock School of Gymnastics, has been arrested…
At last, the Balloon Boy saga has reached metaphysical ubiquity, with the last national media outlet seemingly immune to the appeal of little Falcon Heene — National Public Radio — finally surrendering. Of course, NPR being NPR, the approach taken in two stories yesterday was more highfalutin than high flying…
“Get Real,” Joe Tone, October 15 Reality Bites I’ll bet you’re sorry that you put Bachelor Mark Huebner on last week’s cover when you could have held out for Richard Heene, the swingin’ star of Wife Swap and Hey, Honey, I Floated the Kid. Who needs reality TV when you…
Things have always been pretty steamy in the thermal caves at Indian Hot Springs, the century-old mineral baths in Idaho Springs. But lately they’ve been getting raunchy, as well, and owner Jim Maxwell has had enough. On November 1, he will require that anyone who uses the public caves wear…
The lack of clemency actions by the Ritter administration contrasts sharply with Dick Lamm’s slew of pardons and commutations in the 1970s and ’80s. Perhaps Lamm’s most memorable move was freeing James Bresnahan, who at age fifteen had killed his parents, then gone on to study medicine and earn a…
Among Governor Bill Ritter’s hits and misses, few actions have drawn as much criticism as his proposal to release thousands of inmates months earlier than originally planned, thereby cutting millions of dollars from the state’s overstressed budget. The announcement sent convulsions of anxiety through Colorado’s crime-control industry. Police chiefs braced…
Where’s it all coming from? That’s the big question about Colorado’s booming medical-marijuana scene. With all these new dispensaries opening up, people want to know where, exactly, the product for sale originated. According to drug-enforcement officials quoted today in the Denver Post,, some of it may be coming from international…
Ryan Frazier did the smart thing when he dumped his campaign for the U.S. Senate to challenge Rep. Ed Perlmutter in the 7th Congressional District. The Republican hierarchy has clearly lined up in support of former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, as evidenced by the luminaries named in her first campaign…
Hey, Jeffrey Bodnar and Veronica Anderson-Bodnar. If you’re guilty of what a federal grand jury in Denver indicted you for earlier this week, you won’t win a popularity contest among nature and animal lovers. The pair have been charged with fifteen counts, including “conspiracy, wildlife trafficking and firearms violations stemming…
Our daily homage to local bloggage. Focus on the Family is spreading its hate in Maine. 5280’s on the case. Rep. Jared Polis is speaking out against the what he calls a “sweep of terror” being done on illegal immigrants, Colorado Independent reports. At HuffPo Denver, Erin Rosa says the…
If anyone deserves some good news, it’s AM 760 host Jay Marvin, who’s been to hell and back since earlier this year, when he began experiencing the first in a series of health problems that resulted in an arduous surgery at a hospital in New Jersey. Too add insult to…
Opponents of medical-marijuana laws like Colorado Attorney General John Suthers are increasingly playing the crime card — implying that the proliferation of dispensaries in Colorado is fueling illegal and increasingly dangerous behavior (without, of course, providing specific examples of the phenomenon). Today’s Denver Post adds a chorus to this tune…
This week’s Westword feature, “The Quality of Mercy,” looks at an option for cutting prison costs that Governor Bill Ritter hasn’t tried — reducing prison time for inmates who may have received excessively long sentences and are unlikely to pose a risk to public safety. The cases discussed in the…
On every block of every day, the constant cacophony of construction equipment sounds the death knell for the tiny tract houses of the University Hills neighborhood. Murdered by McMansions, the ghosts of the original homes wander the streets seeking residence in the remaining clapboard ranchettes. The ghost invasion is freaking…
Just as giant scaffolding is finally being removed from the Denver Art Museum, barriers are going up at Denver Public Library’s central branch just steps away. Why? Last month, a window sill came loose and crashed to the ground. Fortunately, no one was hurt — but crews have fenced off…
