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Denver 420 Rally: New Complaint Against City Giving Permit to Euflora

By Michael Roberts

Attorney Rob Corry has now filed a second complaint in regard to the Denver 420 Rally. He’d previously sued the City and County of Denver on behalf of rally co-founder Miguel Lopez, who lost his priority event status and was banned from putting on the event during the next three years for allegedly violating his permit by leaving Civic Center Park trashed. Now, he wants injunctive relief on behalf of another client, Michael Ortiz, who was initially granted a permit for April 20 only to have his application denied by Allegra “Happy” Haynes, Denver’s Parks and Rec director, and given instead to Euflora, a dispensary chain with very different plans for the gathering.

Bronco Carlos Henderson’s Pot Bust First for Team Member in at Least 17 Years

By Michael Roberts

Upon learning that Denver Broncos receiver Carlos Henderson was arrested yesterday, January 14, on a marijuana charge, most NFL fans will likely assume that such busts are common for members of the team, given Colorado’s reputation as a cannabis mecca. But no: According to a comprehensive database of NFL players in trouble, Henderson is the first Bronco in more than seventeen years to be taken into custody for an alleged weed violation.

Double Murder at RiNo Bar: No Arrests, Police Ask for Help

By Michael Roberts

Ten days after a double murder outside a bar on one of RiNo’s hottest blocks, no arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified. But the Denver Police Department is hoping to change that and is asking for the public’s help in identifying the killer or killers of two fathers, Guillermo Ornelas and Jose Herrera-Cabral.

Cory Gardner…the Moderate?

By Chris Bianchi

At the exact halfway mark of his six-year term, Gardner is sharpening his voice against Donald Trump as he attempts to appease the independent voters that helped elect him in 2014.

Adam Lee’s Widow Upset by Silence Over His Loveland Ski Area Death

By Michael Roberts

On December 28, forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee died from crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski. More than two weeks later, Erika Mackey Lee, Adam’s wife, says her grief has been compounded by a lack of information from the resort about the circumstances that led to his death.

Denver TV Stations Won’t Join Donald Trump in the “Shithole”

By Michael Roberts

Yesterday, President Donald Trump inadvertently presented a dilemma for U.S. media outlets, whose executives had to decide how they should report about him calling certain African nations “shithole countries” during a January 11 meeting with senators over immigration policy. In the end, many national outlets went into the shithole with Trump, while plenty of local TV stations, including numerous ones in Denver, did not.

Illegal Pot Grows in Colorado and One Candidate’s Plan to Wipe Them Out

By Michael Roberts

As we’ve reported, George Brauchler, 18th Judicial District DA and candidate for Colorado Attorney General, opposed Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in the state, and he doesn’t think its passage has done anything to eliminate violent crime associated with pot. As AG, however, Brauchler says he would defend the state’s cannabis laws against threats from the likes of Attorney General Jeff Sessions while at the same time using a new strategy to attack the proliferation of illegal grows across Colorado, many of them allegedly associated with foreign drug cartels.

Seven New Names for Sports Authority Field at Mile High

By Teague Bohlen

The signs are already coming down on what used to be Sports Authority Field at Mile High; with the demise of the Englewood-based sports retailer giant in 2016, it was only a matter of time until the contracts ran their course and the stadium’s name became available again. The time has come, and the Broncos organization is wasting no time in wiping the slate clean once again.

Superintendents Propose $1.4B Fix to “Modernize” Public School Funding

By Nora Olabi

Colorado’s current public school funding model was created more than twenty years ago. A group of Colorado superintendents from across the state, from small rural to urban districts, are working to update it in the hopes of pouring more than $1 billion back into the public school system. Working with legislators, they will push a bill this month to “modernize” public school funding.

Denver Post Puts Up Paywall for 1st Time Since Aurora Theater Shooting Trial

By Michael Roberts

This week, the Denver Post put up a paywall around the vast majority of its material for the first time since April 2015, when the paper opened access to all of its digital and mobile content so that more readers could see its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting trial. Now, the only way folks who’ve grown accustomed to reading the Post online for free during the past two-years plus can see all the articles they’d like is by paying to subscribe to either the electronic or print edition of the publication.

Rupert Murdoch May Buy Fox31 Before Group Ripped by John Oliver Can

By Michael Roberts

The announced purchase of Denver’s Fox31 and CW2 by the controversial Sinclair Broadcast Group, which was memorably ripped by HBO’s John Oliver for allegedly forcing its hard-right ideology on affiliates while attempting to build a conservative media empire capable of becoming a stealth Fox News, may not happen. Fresh reports suggest that in a bid to win FCC approval for its May 2017 purchase of 42 outlets owned by Tribune Media, Sinclair is on the cusp of selling ten of them, including the two Denver outlets, to 21st Century Fox and mogul Rupert Murdoch, who, in a surprising twist, suddenly looks to some observers like the lesser of two evils.

Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: Are Your Odds of Getting Caught Going Up?

By Michael Roberts

In “Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: How Likely Are You to Get Caught?,” published circa November 2015, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Tom Gorman estimated that 90 percent of illegally shipped cannabis packages weren’t being found by postal inspectors. More than two years later, figures from a pair of recent analyses maintain that hundreds more pot-packed parcels are being intercepted than in previous years even as our Ask a Stoner columnist suggests that successfully mailing weed out of state is still a snap if proper precautions are taken.