Former Denver reporter Eli Stokols left Fox31 in favor of Politico in early 2015, and since then, he’s seen his star rise on the national journalism stage. He was recently named a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and from this high-profile position, he has a closeup view of the Trump administration, for better or worse.
Denver Public Schools has sent a letter to parents about 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series about a high school student who leaves behind audio recordings that explain her reasons for committing suicide. The district’s decision was based in part on a subject of the show’s final tape, a school counselor who essentially brushes off the student’s revelation that she’s been raped. Shortly thereafter, the student takes her own life.
In a ground-breaking move, Representative Jared Polis brought medical experts, advocates, attorneys and scientists to Washington, D.C., on May 3 to discuss cannabis for the the Marijuana Big Thinker Talks. We caught up with Polis after the event to discuss legalization efforts across the country, his work in Congress, and the Trump administration.
Experts suggest that the number of real-estate listings in Denver’s red-hot housing market is at an all-time low. But there’s no shortage of real-estate agents looking to sell those homes. Right now, there are more agents than there are properties on the market in Denver, and perhaps as many as ten times more.
If you’re still buying weed on the streets, how can you tell what you’re buying? Our Stoner has the answer.
Cesar Reyes-Marquez has now been found guilty a second time for killing Servando Morelos-Avila nearly seven years ago. The long delay occurred because the first judgment was tossed out over improper jury instructions. The result was a second trial, during which Reyes-Marquez was convicted of similar charges stemming from a fight that spun out of control, with at least two other people winding up seriously injured.
Since it opened 35 years ago, the 16th Street Mall has changed the face of downtown Denver. These days, the mall itself looks like it could use a facelift. But there are definitely bright spots along the mall, as well as blight spots. Here are five of each.
Last night, May 2, Arturo Hernandez Garcia, a Mexican immigrant and former sanctuary seeker who was detained on April 26 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, received a temporary reprieve that will allow him to attend his daughter’s graduation from high school. During this brief period of freedom, his attorney hopes to convince an appeals court to take another look at his case, which his supporters see as representing everything that’s wrong and unjust about the current U.S. immigration system.
This week’s episode of Showtime’s Dark Net devotes a segment to how Denver financial adviser Steve Talley’s “life was ruined after facial recognition technology tied him to a crime he didn’t commit.”
A major argument against legalization has been the lack of research, so now the cannabis industry is working to fill that void. Gram Research is launching a program that will provide information on consumption habits — and it will be getting the data directly from consumers every time they smoke.
Denver Police Department personnel took part in twelve officer-involved shootings last year, the most in at least half a decade. On average, a shooting took place once per month in 2016. Six people were killed in the incidents, but no police officers were injured, and neither have any cops been criminally charged to date.
Washington Park residents are not happy about the International Church of Cannabis. About forty people came to the West Washington Park Neighborhood Association’s board meeting on May 2; most of them were there to talk about the church, and only twenty minutes of the meeting had been set aside for that discussion.
Since its founding in 2005, the Denver Cruiser Ride has sponsored bicycle rides in the Mile High City that doubled as rolling costume parties every Wednesday throughout the summer. But for 2017, DCR founder Brad Evans has announced that the weekly rides will be replaced with five monthly events. In the meantime, he’s launching two new projects: Bike City, a cycling advocacy group, and happy hour meetups called City Spark that he sees as a way to bring together veteran Cruisers, longtime residents and folks who’ve just moved to the area to build a larger and more cohesive community.
When I was a kid, thinking about the Bermuda Triangle always freaked me out…and I grew up in Arizona. On the surface, the Bermuda Triangle and Triangle Kush have no real link other than the strain having been bred in Florida, but their mysterious similarities run deep — especially after a joint of the strain gets your conspiracy juices flowing.
Kevin Edwards, a 59 year old from Boulder, has been identified as the man who died at Loveland Ski Area on April 28. Edwards, the fourteenth person to die as the result of an accident at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was a devoted athlete whose last Facebook post, shared five days before his death, testified to his love of the activity he was enjoying when he lost his life.
Dear Stoner: I recently purchased two 500-milligram cartridges of CO2 oil, and one is not working. Is there a way to remove the oil so that I didn’t just waste $50? Meagan Dear Meagan: It’s frustrating that vaping cartridges still haven’t reached a true level of consistency; I’ve had the…
Erik Soliván is Denver’s latest hope when it comes to bridging the gap between homelessness, affordable housing and home ownership; even the name of his department, the Office of HOPE (Housing and Opportunities for People Everywhere), suggests as much. In January, Soliván was selected to head up the new department…
In the 35 years since it was created, Denver’s 16th Street Mall has morphed from the heart and soul of downtown Denver into a sometime civic embarrassment showing its age. But $68 million in leftover TIF money could give the place quite a facelift.
A Colorado Christian University administrator who wants to ban the Denver 420 Rally has agreed to debate the event’s lawyer, a major pro-pot figure who says a CCU petition launched in the wake of headlines about the alleged trashing of Civic Center Park following this year’s event is filled with falsehoods.
On Wednesday, May 3, Representative Jared Polis will host the inaugural Marijuana Big Thinker Talks in Washington, D.C., bringing in experts from across the country to talk about cannabis.
On the 2017 Best Places to Live rankings recently released by the Niche website, South Park Hill was named the top neighborhood in Denver, and one of the thirty finest in the entire United States.
Local celebrity Josh Blue, winner of Last Comic Standing in 2006, and is partnering with Mountain High Suckers to launch a new collection of suckers: Josh Blue’s Dream
