The decade-long legal battle over one of Colorado’s most infamous death-penalty cases keeps getting stranger. First came the abrupt removal of Arapahoe County District Judge Gerald Rafferty, who presided over the trials of defendants Robert Ray and Sir Mario Owens — a move contested by Owens’s attorneys, who believed Rafferty…
At the second public meeting held to discuss the city’s proposed affordable housing plan, the cafeteria at North High School was packed with over one hundred community members. Among them were various organizations, grouped together by their matching T-shirts to make their presence known. They included Denver Homeless Out Loud,…
In a bizarre case of scientific improbability, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office yesterday issued warnings about THC in the water supply of Hugo, a town ninety minutes southeast of Denver. “There were signs of tampering with the local water supply,” said Captain Michael Yowell of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office…
At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing convened last week to consider “the potential medical benefits of marijuana,” lawmakers heard from cannabis advocates and doctors alike. Their testimony overwhelmingly supported marijuana being used for medical purposes; many of the speakers also supported rescheduling cannabis to a Schedule II substance. Numerous…
“Please Read! Do not erase. Your life may depend on it!” So begins “They Are Taking Over!,” one of the featured items on ConspiracyMadLibz.com, a new website launched the week of the Republican National Convention (and just in time for the Democratic confab that gets underway next week) by Krista…
Since at least 2014, when the owners of the former Hotel VQ began leasing 330 square foot micro-apartments for $900, local renters have complained about the high prices they were paying for small spaces in Denver. Of course, one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to the cost of…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Brett Sisman with sexually assaulting a woman he met using the dating app Tinder. The incident allegedly caused so many injuries to the victim that they were documented by as many as one-hundred photos. This is the second time in just over…
It was a cause for celebration. On Monday, July 11, Aurora City Council tabled a measure that would have allowed Denver Meadows RV Park owner Shawn Lustigman to sell the twenty-acre plot of land between Interstate 225 and Colfax Avenue – which happens to be by the R Line light…
Sharing weed stories has become commonplace over the past ten years or so. As with sexcapades, drunken stupors and fisherman’s tales, everyone has a story about some one-hitter strain that took them higher than they’d ever been. More than half the time, those stories begin with the words “This purple…
A few hours before festivities for the third night of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland got underway, Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Committee, predicted a change of tone at the gathering, whose first two days had been marked by controversy over plagiarism charges aimed at the…
Is Tom Cruise selling his spectacular Telluride home because Edge of Tomorrow underperformed at the box office (despite being pretty good)? Or is he simply sick of extraordinary beauty? Neither. He reportedly is bidding adieu to the property, which he purchased in the 1990s, because he simply is too busy to spend much…
On June 19, 2014, a shooting at a Red Rocks show featuring Nas, Flying Lotus and Schoolboy Q shocked the music community here and beyond — especially after law enforcement announced that Schoolboy Q’s sports-utility vehicle had been specifically targeted by the gunman. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, speculation…
Frank Ruybalid’s journey as Trinidad’s district attorney has been a rocky road, plagued by claims of mishandled evidence and ethics violations, a bungled drug sting that led to the arrests of innocent people, and dozens of dismissed criminal cases because of poor police work or inept prosecution. And things keep…
On the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the delegation from Colorado earned the reputation as upstarts when they walked out of the Quicken Loans Arena en masse following a failed attempt to force a vote that would have changed convention rules and challenged Donald Trump’s bid…
Dear Stoner: My dad has expressed an interest in getting in on all this marijuana business; as a supportive daughter, I’m wondering if there is any opportunity for a veteran civil engineer in the industry. Marisa Dear Marisa: Your dad is probably overqualified for 99.5 percent of the jobs in…
Denver is a city of great neighborhoods — some modest, like Westwood, others moneyed. And last Friday, it got a brand-spanking-new neighborhood: Union Station North. Not so long ago, there wasn’t much there there, even though the area is in one of the oldest parts of Denver, near where the…
The topic of violence on the 16th Street Mall isn’t going away. At least not yet. Shortly after we published a three-part series on the subject in this space last month, Denver officials announced a new $396,000 safety plan for the mall that called for a tripling of Denver police officers patrolling the area. But…
As we’ve noted, most of America didn’t get a chance to see Colorado senatorial hopeful Darryl Glenn speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, since major cable news network personalities talked over his words rather than focusing on his fierce delivery and the passionate reaction he elicited…
Democrats have adopted a platform that their members are trumpeting as the “most progressive platform in party history” — and when it comes to marijuana, Dems aren’t just blowing smoke. The Party of the Donkey has taken a position on marijuana that no major political party in the United States…
Though it’s no national model for policing, as Mayor Michael Hancock claimed in his State of the City speech, the Denver Police Department under Chief Robert White has made a concerted effort to change after being named the worst department in the country for excessive force six years ago. As…
On the website of the Marijuana Industry Group, among the most powerful cannabis business organizations in Colorado and the country as a whole, executive director Michael Elliott remains front and center at this writing. Elliott, who’s headed MIG under both its current name and its previous moniker, the Medical Marijuana…
Colorado got plenty of pub during day one of the Republican National Convention yesterday in Cleveland, thanks to the decision by delegates from the state to briefly walk out after the powers-that-be smothered the last dying embers of the “Never Trump” movement in Quicken Loans Arena, where the shindig is taking place…
