Denver Parks and Recreation crews have embarked on a series of landscape improvements outside the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center only days before Mayor Michael Hancock is scheduled to deliver his 2017 State of the City Address at the rec center.
Approximately 3,200 school counselors from across the country and the globe are expected to descend on Denver for the annual conference of the Virginia-based American School Counselor Association, which gets underway on Saturday, July 8. And while ASCA assistant director Eric Sparks expects the event to be a lot of fun, plenty of serious topics will be discussed, and that’s appropriate. Sparks enumerates ten of the biggest challenges facing school counselors in 2017, and his run-down collectively illustrates how these educators are on the front lines of major societal changes whose impacts will be felt on young people for many years to come.
Red Fawn Fallis, a member of Denver’s indigenous community, has been in jail in North Dakota ever since she was arrested at Standing Rock on October 27, 2016; she is the most seriously charged water protector, having been accused of possessing and discharging a firearm as she was being restrained…
Colombian Gold deserves the accolades every other popular landrace enjoys. Its buds grow fat and tall in South American mountain ranges, tough against the intense sun, dry air and cold breezes of high altitude, making it a strong candidate for Colorado growers, both in the basement or outdoors. The high it produces boosts energy and happiness, yet is easy to manage during every stage, a quality many pure sativas tend to lack.
For forty years, the Golden-based NREL has led the country in providing the foundational technology for innovations in solar, wind, biomass and battery efficiency – all to make renewable energy companies more successful, one breakthrough at a time. But as the climate begins to rapidly change, researchers are facing new pressures to push America’s energy economy in a new, sustainable direction.
Although Colorado establishes the age at which you can legally consume alcohol at 21, state statutes include five exceptions that allow underage drinking that would otherwise be illegal. Moreover, none of the exceptions sets a minimum drinking age, although one of them comes close.
A reader asks our Stoner how to smoke hash without any dabbing tools.
Rick Wainwright, whose acquittal in a 2009 criminal case helped cement the concept that Colorado’s six-plant threshold for medical marijuana patients can be expanded, is suing Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and state attorney general Cynthia Coffman over a new law that tries to limit large home grows under the theory that they may be part of the illegal gray and black markets for cannabis. Wainwright sees the legislation as a stealth effort to target and criminalize law-abiding MMJ caregivers like him.
Nevada became the fourth state to open recreational marijuana dispensaries July 1, following the footsteps of Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. As newly liberated cannabis consumers flock to dispensaries for some of Nevada’s first legal herb, media reports are already showing the state is experiencing growing pains Colorado’s cannabis industry can relate to.
Sweet Leaf had a very good 4/20. So good, in fact, that the owners of the Colorado dispensary company told vice president Nichole West to plan a big thank-you party for the cannabis industry. And this summer, it’s hosting invite-only parties at the Metlo.
In fall 2017, the City of Denver plans to turn over management of the Globeville Recreation Center to community members or organizations, and the Birdseed Collective, a nonprofit started by Anthony Garcia Sr., hopes to get the contract.
The medical establishment is skeptical of laser treatments for traumatic brain injuries, but two Centennial researchers claim they’ve found a way for their patients to “say goodbye TBI.”
Representative Jared Polis is among the biggest names to enter the race for Colorado governor in 2018, and in the following in-depth interview, he cites his experience in business, the nonprofit world and Congress, as well as proposals related to education, energy, infrastructure and more, as reasons voters should cast a ballot for him.
Rent in Denver continues to rise at a rapid clip as measured both month-to-month and year-to-year. But rent prices are going up more quickly in at least six metro suburbs than it is in Denver proper.
Russ Zieglowsky, a 52-year-old former city councilman from Washington, Iowa, has added to the disturbingly high death toll at Colorado water attractions this season. Counting his death during a commercial rafting trek along the Taylor River in Gunnison County, at least nine people have lost their lives on a Colorado lake or river since late April.
Thanks to Initiative 300, Denver could soon have cannabis-friendly yoga classes.
On the Fourth of July, it’s time to celebrate our liberties — including the right to possess and consume marijuana in Colorado. Take that, Jeff Sessions!
On the Fourth of July, people don’t just eat hot dogs and watch fireworks: They remember the principles on which this country was founded, and its reputation as a haven for people yearning to live free. And they argue about immigration.
Since Westword ran a cover story on May 23 about the “sovereign” movement — in which adherents generally reject statutory laws in favor of common law and believe that the U.S. government is corrupt — we’ve been receiving calls, letters and e-mails concerning eight individuals who were arrested along the…
It’s July in Denver, which means that once Independence Day is done, we will enter the lazy days of summer, when everyone is either vacationing, anticipating getting out of town, or regretting that they took time off back in June when it wasn’t so damn hot. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to do here — or at least, no rules to follow.
The Jackson Lake drowning of Cord Carpenter, 45, who was reported missing on Saturday, July 1, adds to the already high death toll at Colorado water attractions this season. Carpenter is the fourth person to die at a river or lake in the state over a five day period, with three of the deaths taking place on a single day.
More than 325,000 people have so-called special Colorado license plates honoring various groups in the state, with the numbers of the ten most popular ranging from a few thousand to nearly 100,000. Because of rules set up by the Colorado Department of Revenue, fourteen less popular special plates seemed likely to be eliminated either this year or next year because not enough people have requested them. But all of them will survive thanks to a last-minute reprieve.
