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New Kelsie Schelling Search: Police Dig Up Field Near Former Home of Ex-BF

By Michael Roberts

Less than a month after excavating the backyard of a Pueblo home once occupied by the former boyfriend of Kelsie Schelling, a Denver woman who disappeared in February 2013 soon after she learned she was pregnant, police used heavy equipment to dig up portions of a field not far from the residence as part of a reinvigorated search effort. No new evidence was unearthed, but a recent post on the Help Find Kelsie Facebook page suggests that Schelling’s loved ones believe an arrest could be in the offing.

Tips for Transplants: Rules for May

By Teague Bohlen

May in Denver is nothing but transition. May can be anything. May will be what you want it to be, or at least what it wants to be. May is snow and sun, outdoors and in, the promise of warmth to come and a reminder of the winter (that wasn’t). May is that friend that always agrees with you, even when you know for a fact that he or she definitely doesn’t. So yeah…May is great to hang with, but really, you can’t trust it.

Colorado Film Incentive Money Slashed: “We Won’t Be Able to Compete”

By Michael Roberts

The $3 million budget for incentive money to lure filmmakers to Colorado, which had been marked for elimination in March, has instead been slashed to $750,000. Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman, who argued in this space for the $3 million figure to be increased last October, is relieved that some money remains for the program. But he sees little chance of attracting big Hollywood productions to the state for the next year as a result of this development.

Season’s First Colorado Drowning? Man Dead in Commercial Rafting Accident

By Michael Roberts

What appears to be the first fatal accident on a Colorado waterway during the 2017 season happened yesterday, April 30. The thus-far-unidentified victim was a man taking part in a commercial rafting trip on the Arkansas River. The casualty is the first of its kind to have taken place in April over the past three years, a period that’s been particularly deadly in Colorado.

Ten Places That the DEA Thinks Teens Are Hiding Their Weed

By Kate McKee Simmons

The Drug Enforcement Administration recently terrified parents with this tweet: “Find out where your kids hide drugs,” with a link to a page on GetSmartAboutDrugs.gov, a DEA-produced site designed specifically for parents, educators and caregivers. This particular page, titled Hiding Places, lists where people should look if they think kids might be smoking marijuana. Here are ten possibilities.

Reader: Jeff Sessions Needs to Stay Out of Colorado

By Patricia Calhoun and Others

The week after the 4/20 Rally was held below the State Capitol — and the office of the Colorado governor  —John Hickenlooper met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him to keep the feds out of the state’s business, and pointing out how none of the ominous predictions made in the wake of the passage of Amendment 64 have panned out.

Op Ed: Should Denver Turn Its Golf Courses Into Public Parks?

By Rich Grant

Lost in the debate over whether Overland Golf Course should be closed temporarily to host a rock concert is another, larger question: Should Overland (or any of Denver’s seven other public golf facilities) be closed permanently to provide new park and event land for all residents to use and enjoy all year long?

Immigrant-Rights Groups Unveil Sanctuary City Policy

By Chris Walker

Since early February, a coalition of immigrant rights advocates, lawyers and community members have been working on a detailed sanctuary-city policy that they hope the City of Denver will adopt into law. The policy was unveiled on Thursday night at the Denver Inner City Parish before a standing-room-only audience that…

Meet Antron Fogler, Most Disgusting Door-to-Door Salesman of All Time

By Westword Staff

Antron Fogler, 51, has a long, long, long criminal history filled with plenty of creepiness. And if the accusations pressed against him by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are accurate, he’s added a repulsive new act. He’s been arrested on allegations that he pawed at least two women, and masturbated in front of one, while posing as a door-to-door salesman.

Garett Bolles, Broncos’ Number-One Draft Pick: Biggest Risk Since Tim Tebow?

By Michael Roberts

The Denver Broncos’ selection of Utah tackle Garett Bolles with the twentieth pick in last night’s NFL Draft is the squad’s riskiest first-round choice since Tim Tebow in 2010. Like Tebow, Bolles is getting great reviews as a person. But the notices are much more scattered when it comes to his skills as a player, especially one who’ll be able to contribute right away.

John Hickenlooper Discusses Marijuana With Jeff Sessions, Chuck Todd

By Kate McKee Simmons

Governor John Hickenlooper and a group of other governors met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week while in Washington, D.C., for the National Governors Association Winter Meeting. On their agenda? Marijuana. “We approached Attorney General Sessions with the notion that if we’re going to make changes, we should do it together and kind of collaborate on it,” he told Chuck Todd on MSNBC.

Carfentanil: How Elephant Tranquilizer Is Tied to Colorado Heroin Deaths

By Michael Roberts

Carfentanil, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid best known as an elephant tranquilizer, has been linked to two heroin-related deaths in Colorado. But a local expert on addiction who’s recently helped treat patients who’ve used the substance says it could have played a role in even more fatal overdoses, thereby quietly contributing to the shocking rise of heroin deaths in Denver and Colorado as a whole.

Former CBS4 Reporter Wendy Bergen Dies: From Scandal to Redemption

By Michael Roberts

Wendy Bergen, a former reporter with KCNC, the station now known as CBS4, died on Wednesday, April 26, following a brain aneurysm. Bergen’s television career ended in scandal after she was convicted of staging a dogfight for a 1990 report called “Blood Sport.” But according to KNUS talk-show host Peter Boyles, who was a friend of Bergen’s for thirty years, she used this personal disaster to fuel a post-TV life devoted to helping others in trouble.

Class Certification Granted to Thousands of Homeless Suing Denver Over Sweeps

By Chris Walker

Today, Thursday, April 27, U.S. District Court Judge William Martinez granted class certification in a lawsuit that challenges Denver’s homeless sweeps. According to the attorney representing the plaintiffs, Jason Flores-Williams, the ruling is historic: It was made on civil-rights grounds, and the certified class covers every single person who finds themselves…

The Return of Ward Churchill to CU Boulder

By Michael Roberts

On Saturday, April 29, former professor Ward Churchill will return to the University of Colorado Boulder, the institution that fired him ten years earlier in what the author of a report that blasted CU’s actions calls “the most notorious academic freedom controversy in a generation.”

Mother of Four’s Deportation Story: “Don’t Look Back or We’ll Shoot”

By Michael Roberts

Maria de Jesus Jimenez Sanchez, an undocumented woman with four children, one of whom is developmentally delayed, has been deported from the Denver area to Mexico, even though her only crime beyond unauthorized border crossings was driving without a license. Her attorney says she was forced to walk back into Mexico by border agents who told her she’d be shot if she dared to look back.