A lawsuit seeking to appeal Littleton’s approval of a mixed-use development in the city’s historic downtown has been dismissed. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Kurt Horton found that plaintiff Leah Burkett does not have the right to appeal the city’s approval of a site-development plan for The Grove, a 260-unit…
In recent months, one of the hottest topic on Westword’s news blog has been the high price of rent in the metro area. Now, we offer a change of pace — a list of the Denver neighborhoods where the rent is least expensive. The numbers come from Zumper, which compiled median…
David Edelstein, founder of Team Pit-a-Full, a pro-pit-bull advocacy organization and training service, has been working for years to overturn pit-bull bans in Denver and Aurora. Now, after Conifer resident Susan Shawl was killed in an attack by two terrier-pit bull mixes owned by her son, he sees the battle…
Dear Stoner: I’m in the midst of a devastating family situation and am so blindsided by grief and stress that I need something to calm me down and help me fall asleep. I don’t wish to smoke, but am open to other suggestions. Elizabeth Dear Elizabeth: If this situation is…
This week, the City of Denver is converting Blake Street from a one-way route to a two-way traffic between 35th Street and Broadway, in the heart of RiNo. And as part of the process, crew members will be putting down new bicycle-lane markings: a stylized version of the RiNo Art…
Last week, we told you about a fatal police shooting in Westminster — the second officer-involved metro-area shooting in two nights. (The previous one took place in Lakewood and resulted in the death of suspected car thief Robin Barber.) Now, Adams County authorities have identified the man killed in the…
A few weeks back, we published a Q&A with Forrest Fenn, the New Mexico eccentric who says he hid $2 million in gold and jewels “somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe” as a way of getting people to experience nature rather than simply “sitting on the couch playing…
It’s hard to believe that even in 2016, accused rapists still use the “she was asking for it” excuse in court and Congress still thinks it knows a woman’s body better than she does. Enter Denver Go Topless Day, which happened on Sunday. Hundreds gathered near the Capitol sans shirts…
Andrew Schrot, the CEO of Denver-based Blue Kudu, moved to Colorado from Tampa, Florida, with his brother in the summer of 2010, excited to get involved in the cannabis industry. “We thought about edibles because at that time there wasn’t a consistent, quality product that patients could rely upon,” Schrot recalls. When…
Editor’s note: Two social-cannabis-use measures are currently collecting signatures in an attempt to earn a place on the Denver ballot this November: the Neighborhood Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program and the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, sponsored by Denver NORML. Earlier this week, we published a post headlined Inside the Neighborhood Supported…
The van leaves the Stout Street Health Center in downtown Denver on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Others climb aboard in Colorado Springs or Pueblo before the van heads east, into the vast, sparsely populated grasslands of the Lower Arkansas Valley. The passengers are all referrals, vetted and pre-approved, like sailors…
For more than half-a-decade, administrators at CU Boulder have done everything possible to insure that the university no longer appears among the top ten on the Princeton Review’s annual list of reefer madness schools. And once again, they’ve failed. As usual, CU Boulder is on the 2016 roster — and…
Two measures that would have imposed tighter restrictions on Colorado’s oil-and-gas industry have been declared ineligible for the November ballot, amid conflicting accusations of fraud and foul play. Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced this morning that, based on random sampling, neither of the initiatives collected enough valid signatures to…
Raymond Garcia, a Republican running for a seat in the state House, says memes he’s shared on his personal Facebook page are jokes and a response to the politically charged material his “liberal” friends share on their feeds. In the last few days Garcia has shared a meme of Democratic…
White Cop Kills Black Man. This headline is disturbing, but hardly surprising anymore. Sides have long been drawn on the issue of use of force by law enforcement. Black Lives Matter activists blast police for racism and murdering people of color without consequence. Blue Lives Matter cops scold activists for…
Rising crime and violence on the 16th Street Mall earlier this year prompted new safety plans for the area from both public agencies, by way of a Denver Police Department plan to triple patrols, and the private sector, as seen in the hiring of unarmed security guards who came on board earlier…
On Saturday night, August 27, thanks to my daughter, I had the pleasure of watching the Denver Broncos take on the Los Angeles Rams from the south stands of what continues to be known as Sports Authority Field at Mile High — although probably not for much longer. And to…
A crowd estimated in the hundreds took part in Denver Go Topless Day, the local version of a national event intended to strike a blow in favor of gender equality and against local rules (like ones in Fort Collins) that treat the nipples of men and women differently. Both men…
From boobs to buildings, from 9News anchor Kyle Dyer’s departure announcement to some guy who was really honest about how unprepared he was for the Boulder Flatirons, this past week has been an eventful one in Denver. We’ve rounded up some of our most popular recent stories and shared them…
Shortly after we published an interview with officials with the Colorado chapter of the Libertarian Party — a group that started in this state, and 45 years later considers the two major-party candidates both “terrible” — we offered a look at the Aspen home Donald Trump visited on Thursday, after skipping…
A lawsuit filed this week by environmental groups claims that while the Obama administration talks a good game about cutting carbon emissions to address climate change, the U.S. Department of the Interior has been in “climate denial” in the way it continues to issue oil and gas leases on public…
He co-founded one of the first dispensaries in Denver and, earlier this month, he sold it to Willie Nelson for his Willie’s Reserve operation. Now Kayvan Khalatbari, who was featured in our January 2, 2014, roundup of leading ganjapreneurs, is looking ahead to other ways he can contribute to Denver’s…
