My father died at 54, eight and a half years after he was first diagnosed with cancer at 46. His death, in January of 2003, was preceded by months of painful suffering as chemo and radiation failed to turn the tide of the cancer in his bones. But even in those waning days as I was helping him through the indignities of a body that failed him, he was still fathering me.
Check out some of Colorado’s finest rosin and shatter slabs and how dabbers are enjoying them.
The Ballpark neighborhood has weathered some tough times in recent years. Lately, though, the neighborhood has been re-energized, with a push to create a business improvement district. And now it looks like the city has a hit with The Square on 21st, a new summer pop-up park on 21st Street.
Representative and 2018 Colorado gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis was a star at last night’s Congressional baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., delivering four RBIs, including the winning run, in leading the Democrats over the Republicans by a score of 11-2. But while he was pleased with his performance, he keeps the focus on Representative Steve Scalise and three others who were wounded in a shooting at a practice session on June 14, the day before the game.
The politics of holiday celebrations are, in a word, weird. Who in the world decides that this or that day is a holiday of some sort? Barring some sort of religious, traditional, or lunar reason for a holiday’s placement on the Western calendar, there seems to be no rhyme or reason for any of it. We touched on this earlier in the month when our latest Tips for Transplants mentioned that June—not July, for some reason—is Fireworks Safety Month. But since then it’s come to our attention that there are a lot of dubious holidays that almost dare us to recognize them.So what are the least important holidays of summertime? Here are ten days on the holiday calendar that we invite all our readers to join us in ignoring completely.
Days after revealing that CU Buffs head football coach Mike MacIntyre would make a $100,000 donation to a domestic-violence fund to acknowledge mistakes made related to assault accusations against former assistant coach Joe Tumpkin, the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents has approved a five-year contract extension that will give him a raise of nearly $1 million per annum, plus an additional $100,000 on the last day of 2021, when the pact expires. The timing of these announcements suggests that mea culpas delivered earlier this week were intended to serve as cover for the head coach in the matter involving Tumpkin, who remained on the CU payroll for nearly a month after MacIntyre first spoke to the victim of what she describes as more than 100 assaults.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has released an intelligence report given out to law enforcement agents to help them keep up with the latest drug lingo. There are nearly 300 terms on the list; here’s a sample, along with our definitions.
Denver police officers have arrested a man suspected of unlawful sexual contact on the 16th Street Mall and are currently looking for more potential victims in at least the third incident of its type over the past two years at the iconic shopping stop and tourist attraction.
Days after a letter surfaced from Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking congressional leaders to revoke federal protections for medical marijuana, senators have introduced a bill that would protect medical marijuana patients in states where it’s legal while removing cannabidiol (CBD) from the Controlled Substances Act and expanding research on marijuana.
Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, and yesterday, June 14, Denver District Attorney Beth McCann and Denver Police Department Lieutenant Adam Hernandez announced new initiatives to combat elder and at-risk adult abuse, which includes abuse of those suffering from intellectual and mental disabilities.
Today, June 15, a coalition of immigrant rights organizations debuted the Colorado Rapid Response Network, a 24-hour hotline that people can call to report, track and verify enforcement operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Organizers say they already have over a hundred volunteers lined up to staff the…
The Trump administration is delaying for two years implementation of a pair of rules intended to limit methane emissions by oil and gas operations.
Since March 31, when the City of Denver approved a zoning application for a tiny home village consisting of eleven units and a shower facility to be built in RiNo, at 38th and Walnut streets, Mayor Michael Hancock and his new housing czar Erik Solivan have repeatedly cited the project…
EatDenver, a nonprofit group of independent restaurants, held a panel discussion June 14 for chefs and restaurateurs who wanted to learn about to learn about cooking and serving around legal marijuana consumption. Here are ten tips served up at that event.
The current edition of the American Health Care Act, also known as Trumpcare, would make the opioid epidemic and the overall addiction crisis in Colorado and beyond infinitely worse, says the man behind one of the state’s leading addiction treatment centers.
Most users consider marijuana addiction a myth, but Colorado State University’s psychology department takes it seriously…so seriously that it’s focusing on marijuana in its new master’s program on addiction counseling.
Adams County District Attorney Dave Young has announced his intention to charge the fifteen-year-old suspected of murdering Thornton’s Kiaya Campbell, age ten, earlier this month as an adult. By doing so, he’s following in the footsteps of many previous Colorado prosecutors who’ve taken alleged juvenile killers to adult court. Below, see fourteen examples of what happened when they did.
Is anyone fooled by hash pens? According to our Stoner, only those who want to be, since these are the equivalent of brown paper bags.
Fox News, which has a history of portraying Colorado pot smokers as apathetic morons, recently ran a piece suggesting that the Western Slope community of Durango has been overtaken by panhandlers in the wake of recreational cannabis legalization. The head of a business organization that created a Facebook video ripping the article as false says the Fox News reporter with whom he spoke seemed disinterested in any information that contradicted his conclusion that weed had put the town on the fast road to hell even though the supposed link between homelessness and cannabis has been widely discredited.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently signed a Secretarial Order to review current federal and state sage-grouse conservation plans. Colorado had worked hard to make sure those plans were collaborative and fair.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is sending a clear signal to the administration of President Donald Trump following the latest negative words and deeds aimed at legal marijuana in Colorado and beyond by Justice Department officials Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein. In the words of NORML policy director Justin Strekal, “Should the Department of Justice decide to throw out the Tenth Amendment and respect for states’ rights as they govern their own interstate commerce, they’re going to have a fight on their hands.”
The Continental Divide Trail, which stretches 3,100 miles through five states from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada, is considered one of the toughest thru-hikes in the United States. The trail meanders through some of the most extreme, remote and weather-prone terrain in the Rocky Mountains, and…
