For most people, a traffic citation is an unfortunate but minor occurrence. But for Alex Lupa, a small infraction led to big problems, including a night spent in jail at the very moment his right to legally stay in this country was hanging in the balance.
The third annual 14ers.com analysis of the most popular Colorado fourteeners shows that their use by hikers continues to go up in most major ranges in the state and particularly along the Front Range, where the numbers are nearly as elevated as the peaks themselves.
For years, anti-marijuana groups have spun data in an attempt to prove that the sky is falling as a result of progressive cannabis laws in Colorado. The latest example involves a vast exaggeration about the level of stoned driving in the state, complete with an assist from the Denver Post.
Colorado’s foray into legal marijuana is still pretty young, but the state is already on its third director of marijuana policy since 2014.
In March, Denver Broncos defensive lineman Adam Gotsis was busted on a rape charge out of Georgia, casting a shadow over his professional football career and making the Broncos the NFL team with the most arrests since 2000. Now, however, Gotsis is in the clear after prosecutors announced that they were dropping the matter.
Today, August 16, the Denver Post published an editorial taking President Donald Trump to task for consistently branding any media coverage he doesn’t like “fake news” as part of an effort joined by more than 200 newspapers across the country. Its defiant headline reads, “We Tell the Truth: Denver Post Decries Trump’s Attacks on Journalists.”
While tourists during the busy summer travel season typically pay close attention to ticket prices, most don’t consider costs related to the airports from which they’re coming and going. But a new analysis shows there are big differences in terms of expenses from one facility to another, with Denver International Airport winding up as one of the ten best big-city values in the country.
The New York Times released a hyper-local map outlining the 2016 election, and it’s so detailed it almost allows you to see how your friends and neighbors voted.
A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court argues that a new State of Colorado complaint about Masterpiece Cakeshop, whose owner, Jack Phillips, won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June over his 2012 refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because of his Christian views, is essentially harassment that could have dire consequences.
Be sure to consult a health-care professional before choosing which method to try.
Tay Anderson was the youngest person to ever run for Denver’s Board of Education. This week, he announced he’s running again, this time for its at-large seat.
We’ve called hash vaporizers the brown paper bags of toking in public in the past, but one new study shows you don’t even need to go that far to get high on the street.
On Tuesday, August 14, Jena Affinito had just woken up and let her dogs out into the side yard of her home. As she stepped out the door to follow them, an explosion ripped through the roof of the building across the street, the force of which smacked her back into her house.
Late last year, the ACLU of Colorado put together a graphic highlighting six cases of alleged mistreatment of black suspects by members of the Aurora Police Department since 2015. With recent payouts to Omar Hassan and Dwight Crews, the City of Aurora has now settled five of the six cases for a cumulative total of $3.12 million in taxpayer money.
We asked Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, a veterinarian at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital as well as a star of two past Animal Planet programs, Emergency Vets and E-Vet Interns, and a regular on the Denver stand-up comedy scene, to share some of his rattlesnake knowledge, and the information he provides here is filled with fascinating factoids.
Cliff Willmeng is the Green Party candidate for Boulder County commissioner. He’s also a socialist, and he sees his possible win in the November election as “a game changer…. Coming into office as Boulder County’s first socialist would be historic. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
This sativa-leaning hybrid is much more gentle than you’d imagine.
Ten people have been injured, one critically, following an explosion at a fourplex at Santa Fe Drive and Fourth Avenue likely due to a natural gas leak.
The Gazette acknowledges that Walker Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Benjamin Stapleton — who was a five term mayor of Denver — was a once a Klansman. But in a bizarre twist, the editorial also seems to suggest that Polis may have more of a tie to the KKK than Stapleton does.
Jennie Bunsom has been identified as the sixteen-year-old being charged as an adult for the murder of Jordan Vong, her seven-year-old nephew. And a newly released probable-cause statement in the case maintains that she committed the act in the Montbello home they shared after he became frustrated over her refusal to play video games with him.
In May, Broomfield police arrested an undocumented immigrant named Mario Carlos Amaya Ortega and handed him over to ICE, which deported him to El Salvador. But immigration law experts say the original arrest was illegal.
Denver City Council is about to consider a five-year affordable housing plan. Before a scheduled reading on August 20, we caught up with Councilmember At-large Robin Kniech, who has been the council’s representative on the Mayor’s Housing Advisory Committee and has seen a lot of the considerations – and challenges – in putting the affordable housing plan together.
