In recent weeks, we’ve been filling our Election archive with stories about statewide ballot measures and races. But ballot issue 4B is specific to the Mile High. The measure seeks to reauthorize the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, which funds organizations devoted to culture and the arts — be they…
In an interview with Westword published yesterday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, who wrote a letter of support for an anti-marijuana legalization measure up for vote in California next week, said he believes legal pot has contributed to a crime increase in Colorado, including more homicides. But he acknowledged that…
This fall has seen a myriad of crime related to marijuana home grows. At last week’s Marijuana Management Symposium, a panel on law enforcement and public safety comprising Denver Police Commander James Henning, former Erie Police Chief Marco Vasquez and Aurora Police Sergeant Scott Pendleton advised law enforcement reps from other…
For a segment called “The Pot Vote” that aired Sunday, October 30, 60 Minutes came to Colorado to investigate the marijuana boom. The piece began as a typical new-industry-brings-ups-and-downs-to-community piece that swung not so subtly to pose an ominous — and misrepresentative — picture of what’s going on in this state’s…
While some trappings of early ski season are already upon us – Arapahoe Basin has been open since October 21, several Colorado ski areas saw a few inches of natural snow this week and the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo opens on Friday at the Colorado Convention Center – you…
On Halloween, the scariest day of the year, Aspen officials filed legal paperwork preserving the resort town’s conditional rights to make use of water from two of the last free-flowing creeks in the Roaring Fork watershed. A mundane matter for most municipalities, perhaps, but not in Aspen, where the move…
In recent weeks, we’ve been filling our Election archive with stories about statewide ballot measures and races. But ballot issue 4B is specific to the communities in and around the Mile High City. The measure seeks to reauthorize the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, which funds organizations devoted to culture and…
The November 2016 Denver Rent Report from ApartmentList.com offers median costs for renting a two-bedroom apartment in 26 neighborhoods across the metro area. As you’ll see, the digits vary widely. Example: The median rent rate in the least expensive neighborhood surveyed is exactly one-third the asking price for the average two-bedroom…
Earlier this week, we reported about a letter written by three state legislators in which they asked Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, an organization opposing a measure there that would legalize limited recreational marijuana sales, to stop airing a commercial filled with alleged falsehoods about Colorado’s cannabis experience. The dubious…
LivWell is standing up for growers in Pueblo County. Voters in that county are facing Ballot Question 200: “Shall the Pueblo County Code be amended by Ordinance to prohibit all licensed Retail (recreational) Marijuana Establishments in all areas under the licensing jurisdiction of Pueblo County, by requiring all existing Retail Marijuana…
Seven years after Colorado’s General Assembly passed the Regional Tourism Act (RTA) in 2009, allowing the state to award sales tax revenue to developers constructing large tourist attractions, the funding mechanism appears unlikely to be renewed.
Halloween is over; November is in full-swing. That means trick-or-treating is done, the leftover candy is all yours, and everything will start to move indoors. You might think that November is pretty much just like October, only with fewer zombies and a lot more turkey. But November carries with it its own rules here in Denver, many that have nothing to do with cranberries, stuffing, or flightless birds. The responsibilities of November are more than just Thanksgiving—especially in these ten ways.
Update: Last year, we reported about a lawsuit filed on behalf of Jennifer Lobato, a 37-year-old mother of seven who died in Jefferson County jail from opioid withdrawal. The document details the incidents of alleged neglect that led up to her death, with one jailer quoted as rejecting a plea for…
Bring a bottle of Super Lemon Haze to the next gathering full of people you don’t know and watch the vultures circle as the smell fills the room.
According to political analyst Eric Sondermann, who recently shared his predictions about the 2016 election in Colorado here, the U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet and Republican standard-bearer Darryl Glenn isn’t truly competitive, and neither are the vast majority of contests in the state’s seven Congressional districts. The 3rd…
Tom Cruise’s $59 million Telluride mansion remains on sale two years after it was originally listed — a phenomenon that’s been repeated across the country for spectacular, star-owned properties. Note that Michael Jordan’s Chicago home has been on the market for four years-plus with no takers and Robin Williams’s Napa Valley…
Mayor Michael Hancock announced Monday that Ashley Kilroy will be adding a new job title to her resume. In addition to serving as the city’s Executive Director of Marijuana Policy, she will replace Stacie Loucks as the Director of Excise and Licenses, the central business-licensing department for the City and County…
There have been no shortage of lawsuits filed in Colorado of late that claim excessive police force, with most of them, including those put forward by the families of the late Ryan Ronquillo and Joseph Valverde, involving guns. In contrast, the complaint pressed by Jeffrey Tomlinson focuses on a different…
Dear Stoner: Will secondhand pot smoke get me high? Rudy Dear Rudy: Thanks to advice from Casanova (the eighteenth-century Italian adventurer/author/player), oysters are renowned as an aphrodisiac — a natural Viagra, if you will. But while oysters are high in zinc, which increases testosterone, and dopamine, which stimulates the brain,…
A behind-the-scenes look at Amendment 70.
In recent weeks, we’ve posted extensive interviews with proponents and opponents of major measures on the Colorado ballot this year, as well as a number of other races; well over a dozen links can be accessed below. And that coverage will keep coming right up until election day, which (blessedly)…
Denver finds itself on plenty of top-ten lists — registering first, for example, on the U.S. News & World Report roster of best places to live earlier this year. But its appearance on a new list from Orkin is unlikely to be touted in any Visit Denver brochures. The pest-control giant has just…
