In a recording obtained by Westword, Walker Stapleton told a crowd earlier this month that he pitches out-of-state donors by telling them that property taxes on their vacation homes in Colorado would double or triple under a Democratic governor.
Two Democratic lawmakers in the Colorado House have introduced a bill that would severely limit non-mandatory cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Need a Dispensary? Head to Broadway, Colfax or Federal.
Protests, like plutonium, lasts forever.
Dave Krieger, a former staffer with the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post and KOA radio, has been fired from his latest position as editorial page editor of the Boulder Daily Camera after self-publishing an attack on Alden Global Capital, the so-called “vulture” hedge fund that also owns the Post, when his own paper wouldn’t publish it.
The Denver Broncos have made plenty of disappointing first-round draft choices over their history, as we documented in a 2016 list of their ten worst. But just two years later, we have to update the roster to accommodate a bust who’s put arguably the largest stain on John Elway’s legacy as an executive to date.
A reader wants to know if he should buy marijuana seeds and hash-making equipment when he visits Denver, and how to get back to his home in Brazil.
A post on the popular Nextdoor site suggests that some educators planning to take part in teacher walkout day protests scheduled for Friday, April 27, may have their pay docked for doing so without a doctor’s note and requests that medical professionals who sympathize with their plight volunteer to write one up for anyone in this situation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice has changed its mind about suspending legal orientation trainings at immigration detention centers.
More than a month has passed since the Office of the Independent Monitor revealed flaws in the investigative and disciplinary process in the sheriff’s office in response to the death of Michael Marshall, who choked to death on his own vomit while in policy custody more than two years ago while being held on a $100 bond. Now, the freshly appointed executive director of the Department of Safety is recommending changes to the sheriff’s department and a new task force to look into discipline. But does he have the right people in place?
Colorado’s governor often finds himself being questioned about pot. Now he’s been graded.
United Airlines is threatening the community as the company pushes back against an effort by its catering workers to unionize.
The anti-queer agenda under the guise of religious liberty is still rampant at the Capitol.
Opioid abuse has reached crisis levels in Colorado and the country as a whole in part because more and more people prescribed the medication by their physicians are becoming addicted to it. But this particular problem can’t be pinned on Boulder-based Dr. Mark Strom, who’ll be taking part in a Q&A in conjunction with All the Rage, a new documentary making its Denver debut at the Alamo Drafthouse tonight.
Don’t you dare besmirch the Purp God.
Inspired by the acclaimed movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the parents of Jessica Ghawi, who was among twelve people killed in the July 2012 Aurora theater shooting, are behind a campaign to use outdoor advertising to shame Representative Mike Coffman and other opponents of gun-control legislation.
We’d like to nominate the Denver Broncos’ game presentation and marketing department for a genius grant after staffers came up with one of the great ideas of all-time: announcing the team’s fourth and fifth round picks for the 2018 NFL draft, slated to take place on Saturday, April 28, live from Casa Bonita, the world’s weirdest Mexican restaurant, complete with participation by cast members such as cliff divers and a costumed gorilla. And it turns out that South Park’s famous, Cartman-centric Casa Bonita episode helped inspire the event, which will be open to the public and is likely to make cameo appearances on the NFL Network’s draft coverage.
Denver Police Department Chief Robert White is leaving the department after seven years.
Security largely looked the other way at cannabis consumption during the event, and so did police officers, for the most part.
Local Colorado governments have had enough of fracking and have filed a lawsuit against two of the world’s largest corporations: Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy, the latter of which has a refinery in Commerce City. The lawsuit alleges that the corporations should pay up for the impacts of climate change on their local communities, and they’re demanding to have their case heard in front of a jury.
“We’re headed out to Colorado Harvest Company — it’s about a thirty minute ride, so get nice and highery on the way.”
With a bad snow year in the mountains and below average rainfall along the Front Range, last Tuesday’s wildfires may just be the start of the worst wildfire season in years for Colorado.
