Our recent post about public vaping bans in fourteen Colorado cities (with Greenwood Village likely to become the fifteenth) inspired a Comment of the Day that prompted a slew of additional responses. In it, a reader argued that smokers and vapers shouldn’t be so effing selfish in public. Plenty of vapers…
Denver blog posts have deep roots. At Westword Arts, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy tells those who responded to her recent post about Denver transplants what they’re missing in regard to homelessness and more. Colorado Peak Politics reveals that pink is the new orange when it comes to hunting gear in Colorado. Denver Infill’s…
This project has moved slower than traffic on I-70 at rush hour — after a thirty-car pileup. On Friday, January 15, the Colorado Department of Transportation released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on the I-70 East project, kicking off a thirty-day public review period. According to CDOT, the FEIS…
The tweet — in which a teacher is compared to a penis prior to the use of the hashtag #douchebag — seems like the kind of thing a pissed-off student might send. But it went out into cyberspace from the (now-deleted) Twitter account of a teachers union, the Douglas County…
The Broncos’ victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday’s NFL playoffs game hasn’t convinced many folks that Denver and Peyton Manning can defeat the Tom Brady-led New England Patriots and make it to another Super Bowl. Oddsmakers have made the Patriots the favorites in this weekend’s AFC championship game, even…
PassiveAggressiveNotes.com collects notes, signs and what-not written by folks who are mad as hell about something or other — but they’re trying (in vain) not to show it. As was the case for our previous collections of passive-aggressive notes from Colorado, we discovered lots of passivity that was as aggressive as…
People who have met the girl describe her as talkative and playful. She’s bright, outgoing, a bundle of energy and curiosity, always on the move. She just celebrated her sixth birthday a few weeks ago, but she’s already traveled to more places, in Europe and across America, than many girls…
Speeches made at City Park and Civic Center Park before and after today’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade were interrupted by protesting activists. The upheaval culminated in a speech at the podium by Black Lives Matter 5280 co-founder Amy Brown, who made an address directly to Mayor Michael Hancock…
Nearly two dozen states have legalized marijuana for medical use; four states, as well as Washington, D.C., now allow the sale of recreational cannabis to adults – and many more states are considering doing the same. Nevada already has a measure that would legalize pot on its November ballot, California…
Denver blogs are bleeding orange. The Mile High Report dished on all things Broncos, including analysis of the victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers and Von Miller’s new sack dance. Predominantly Orange hands out stars to Brandon McManus, C.J. Anderson and Kayvon Webster. And the Bleacher Report noted that the Broncos tweeted out a…
A just-released report on the 2013 Arapahoe High School shooting faults the school administration for failing to share information about troubled teen Karl Pierson, performing an inadequate threat assessment after Pierson declared that he wanted to kill a teacher, and ignoring other serious red flags in the months leading up…
There has been no shortage of scribes offering their versions of Colorado’s journey to legalizing cannabis, but few have presented it as the fascinating, epic comedy that it really is. Now Frisco bartender/author Johnny Welsh seems to have hit that target in his new book, Weedgalized in Colorado: True Tales from…
A proposal that could ban “street-side” panhandling may appear on Denver’s ballot in November. On Friday Gregory Stross, the attorney for the Denver Safer Streets Initiative, fielded questions from David Broadwell of the Denver City Attorney’s Office regarding language in the proposed ordinance that would make it “unlawful for a…
Realizing that this could be the time their schedules aligned for months, Governor John Hickenlooper and Liberty Media exec Robin Pringle married on Saturday morning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on the edge of downtown, surrounded by friends and family members. Official wedding photographer Evan Semón shared these photographs of the ceremony…
Colorado was one of the first states to make Martin Luther King Day a state holiday, and Denver’s annual march/parade in his honor — known as the Marade — is one of the largest commemorations in the country. The theme for this year’s Marade is “Remember, Celebrate, Act – A Day…
The first item on this week’s Cannabis Calendar pertained to a company dedicated to helping couples create the ultimate stoner wedding. This concept proved surprisingly contentious among our readers. One thread featured a debate about whether criticizing a marijuana-themed wedding was justified when so many ceremonies are awash in alcohol. Here’s…
Penny Parker, longtime reporter and On the Town columnist for the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post and then Blacktie Colorado, passed away on January 2. There will be a celebration of Penny’s life from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday, January 22, at the EXDO Events Center, 1399 35th Street,…
Denver blog posts know that going downhill can be a good thing. Earlier this month, the folks at Westword Arts shared a huge list of things to do at Colorado ski areas and ski towns in January — and there are at least 21 events on the roster that are still…
Dear Mexican: I’m trying to get my family tree together. My family is from San Julian, Jalisco. Both of my grandparents were part of the bracero program. What is the agency or institution where they hold the list of names of Mexicans who were part of the program? I would…
In a part-timer economy, fast-food workers and janitors aren’t the only ones feeling the pinch. Skimpy wages, long hours and a lack of benefits can also be found in the white-collar sweat shops operated by the Colorado Community College System. Last night, a group of CCCS instructors gathered at the…
Last year, a coalition of Denver officials, business representatives and cannabis advocates agreed to work together to create a workable policy that would create a legal way for adults to consume marijuana in a public place in the Mile High City. But more than four months have passed since the effort…
We tend to avoid designating someone as a Schmuck of the Week when the circumstances are tragic — and the death of Craig’s Dennis Otis in a crash for which his son, Logan Otis, has been charged with driving under the influence, most certainly is. But the alleged behavior of…
