The Colorado Board of Health will hold a meeting tomorrow that could result in another affliction being added to the Medical Marijuana Registry’s list of debilitating conditions. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a rising problem among combat veterans, will be considered for approval during a public rule-making hearing aimed at updating the…
Denver blogs aren’t are feeling a little low in the Mile High City. Westword’s Bree Davies wonders about Colorado pride. “Is it anything more than a t-shirt,” she asks. Colorado Pols writes about how Facebook has deleted a post by Tom Tancredo advising ISIS to attack America on 4/20, rather…
It’s difficult to imagine a more severe form of long-term isolation than the past seven years of solitary confinement experienced by former Colombian rebel commander Simon Trinidad, the subject of this week’s Westword cover story, “Gone Guerrilla.” Serving sixty years for his (much-disputed) role in the kidnapping of three American…
On Monday night, while a lame-duck Denver City Council debated spending $400,000 to bus the homeless to a shelter on the outskirts of town, a dozen demonstrators and homeless advocates gathered in the rain in front of a locked public restroom on Welton Street by Sonny Lawson Field. A year ago,…
In an effort to increase residents’ participation in recycling by making it more convenient, Denver became the first place in Colorado to switch to single-stream recycling back in 2005. But a decade later, the glass that Denverites so carefully place in their purple bins is reused only once — as filler…
Working on her sociology dissertation landed Maren Scull in some strange situations — like the time she ended up alone in a motel room with a newly released ex-con. Then again, most dissertations don’t involve male strippers. But Maren Scull’s did. She spent 18 months studying a strip club, Dandelion’s,…
Need a job? The position of sheriff for the City and County of Denver is open, and the job description was just posted yesterday on the site of the national company leading the search. “Hillard Heintze is uniquely positioned to ensure the candidate pool reflects the characteristics Denver desires in its next…
Fifty years of bloody conflict in Colombia — thousands of deaths from firefights, sniper attacks, bombings, assassinations and mass executions — and it all comes down to this: a group of government negotiators and rebel leaders sitting around a big table, talking about land reform and crop subsidies and what…
Regulated marijuana has more than a few obstacles in the way towards legitimacy, but at least federal lawmakers are addressing one of its biggest: banking. Introduced by Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley (Democrat), Senate Bill 1726— better known as the Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act of 2015— would “create protections”…
Denver blogs are enjoying the weather, food and summer pastimes. Everyone’s buzzing about Avanti, the multi-restaurant concept that opened today in LoHi. You can check out Mark Antonation’s Avanti preview, peruse an Avanti slide show or go in depth with Farmer Girl chef-owner Tim Payne. Weather5280 offers predictions for the…
“You do not want to be a victim in this country.” — Tom Teves, father of Aurora theater shooting victim Alex Teves More than seventy victims of mass killings from the last twenty years and their families — many connected to the Aurora theater shooting and the Columbine massacre — have come…
The big event this week is Colorado Board of Health public rule-making hearing at 10 a.m. July 15 in the Sabin-Cleere Conference Room of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to consider modifications to the state’s MMJ regulations. The deadline for written testimony is up, but it still…
Forsooth, the festivities of ye olde Colorado Renaissance Festival were greatly upset this Satyr-Daye by the young scallywag Connor Ward, aged 22, when the knave allegedly disturbe’d a jousting match, seize’d a sword from a nearbye haystack & absconde’d therefrom, with various citizenry in close pursuite, finally to be tackle’d…
The temperature’s rising — and so are tempers around Denver, as many areas of town suddenly find old buildings being scraped off and new, bigger buildings coming in. The Whittier neighborhood is one of these hot spots, The north Denver neighborhood was the focus of Lauri Lynnxe Murphy’s “The New…
Katherine Archuleta has had a long, distinguished career in public service — much of it in Colorado — and it came to the end of a tough chapter on Friday, when she resigned as director of the Office of Personnel Management, where she’d been given a warm welcome just twenty…
I thought I was hallucinating when I flew into Denver late last Sunday night and ran past a tiny grove of aspen trees on Concourse A on my way to the train. Turns out, I had just had a close encounter with one of Denver International Airport’s latest amenities: “Wish…
Castor, the oldest Komodo dragon at the Denver Zoo, has died. Castor was a 21-year-old male dragon whose father, Naga, once belonged to President George H.W. Bush. He was born in 1994 at the Cincinnati Zoo and came to Denver that same year. In his 21 years, Castor fathered seven baby…
Colorado’s marijuana moguls are high on helping others. They may have trouble finding banks that will handle their cash, but they have no problem handing some of that cash to good causes. But can those causes take the cash? As we reported in the recent post “Colorado’s Ganjapreneurs Are High…
A new survey by RealtyTrac about renting versus buying in the Denver area drew some strong reactions from our readers. According to the report, it’s more affordable to pay the mortgage on a three-bedroom property in about two-thirds of the country than it is to rent a similar-size place. In…
Denver blog posts love great tastes that taste great together. At our Food & Drink blog, Jonathan Shikes features five tequila-barrel-aged beers from Colorado breweries. The Colorado Independent’s Nancy Lofholm notes that a giant pot party in the quasi-town of Stoner is raising reefer-madness fears in southwest Colorado. Denver Infill’s Ken…
Another shocking act of violence has shaken the Denver metro area. Two men were shot to death yesterday evening outside an apartment complex in Thornton. Right now, representatives of the Thornton Police Department stress that there’s no danger to the public at large and add that they’re talking to three…
Dear Mexican: I live in New York, where taco trucks are a fairly recent addition to the urban landscape. I’ve noticed that they always serve their tacos with double tortillas. Why? I’m a longtime lover of Mexican food and own several Mexican cookbooks, but their recipes never call for this…
