In March 2014, we noted that the Colorado Supreme Court had agreed to hear a challenge to Douglas County School District’s controversial voucher system. More than a year later, the court has ruled — and its decision marks a victory for the plaintiffs and a setback for DougCo school board…
Back in October 2014, we told you about the arrest of Scot Copher for allegedly trying to hire a fellow prisoner to kill a teenager he’d abused for years. Not long before, another prisoner, Christian Harvey, had been acquitted of a similar hit scheme hatched behind bars. Not Copher. He’s…
Since last October, we’ve been keeping you up to date on the progress of an amazing project being assembled by Chris Harrison and the folks at Videoblend: one-hundred Instagram videos that reveal 100 reasons why Colorado is awesome, issued under the AWSMColorado umbrella. Our first collection assembled reasons 100-88, while our second,…
Last week, we shared body camera footage of Trinidad Officer Ron Arlint killing Todd Dye, a wanted man hiding in a supposedly abandoned trailer. In that case, the video exonerated Arlint, since it showed Dye pulling a weapon and the officer returning fatal fire. A new body camera clip out…
Drug warriors hated Amendment 64, a 2012 measure that aimed to legalize limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. But A64’s passage hardly struck a fatal blow against the War on Drugs, as a pair of events last week demonstrate. On Friday, the United Nations issued its 2015 World Drug Report,…
Our post about ESPN host Colin Cowherd saying he’d trade Peyton Manning in a minute if he was in charge of the Broncos because his arm is cooked inspired a lot of fan debate. A large number of respondents agreed that Manning’s best days are behind him. However, there was a considerable…
Denver blog posts put safety first. At our Music blog, Ben Westhoff argues that we’re still a long way from being realistic about drug use at festivals. At Denver Stiffs, Evan Wheeler grades the NBA draft of the Denver Nuggets and the team’s northwest conference rivals. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel offers…
It took months of work by local activists, working in conjunction with a statewide land trust, a national conservation group, and other funding partners, but the backers of an innovative “healthy living park” in the heart of Alamosa have finally secured the money to complete the acquisition of 38 prime…
A window into the marijuana industry’s present and future will be open until Wednesday this week as the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Cannabis Business Summit comes to Denver. Check that out and more in this week’s Cannabis Calendar. The National Cannabis Industry Association’s Cannabis Business Summit will take place in…
We recently wrote about Denver’s hottest housing markets and why so many properties are selling for above list price. But the heat isn’t limited to real estate in the metro area. In fact, a slew of markets in Colorado are among the most scorching in the entire country. The source…
One of the selling points for pedicabs is that people who’ve overindulged can use them to travel safely from place to place. But that wasn’t the case for one Denver woman. After passing out in a pedicab, she awoke semi-nude in a downtown alley to discover that she’d been sexually…
Last week, in the context of a roundup about deaths and accidents on Colorado waterways (among them was Steven Kelly, who posted a Facebook video just before a fatal tubing trip), we told you about the search for Joseph Goodwin, known to his friends as Joey, who vanished while recreating…
Thomas Mitchell recently wrote about an MSU Denver study looking into the impact of marijuana legalization. The report’s authors found that both crime and homelessness appear to have gone up in Denver since recreational sales launched, although linkage to cannabis proves elusive — and a city representative suggests that the crime…
Denver blog posts are ready to commune with nature. At our Arts blog, Mary Willson shares her picks for ten great summer hikes along the Front Range. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons weighs in on the defensive emphasis of new Nuggets first-round draft pick Emmanuel Mudiay. You can tell what the…
Dear Mexican: Where is my America? I’m half-Hispanic and half-Italian. I was born in Coney Island to a drug-addicted father and was raised by my mom, who had to work. We were very poor. I’ve always had to struggle for basic possessions. Spanish was not spoken in my house, so…
The term “going postal” became part of the American lexicon decades ago for unfortunate reasons — a slew of incidents during which postal workers lashed out violently at co-workers, including one in Edmond, Oklahoma circa 1986 that left fourteen people dead. As such, neither local law enforcers nor the federal…
Between edibles and extracts, there’s a new product on the shelves every time I walk into a dispensary, often replacing one that floundered just weeks before. As I tell this to Guy Rocourt, he just smiles and explains why that’s an advantage for the products pushed by Neos, the hash-infused…
When the office of Denver Clerk Debra Johnson came up with the idea of a monthly event dubbed Free Wedding Wednesdays, the folks there had no idea the first one would correspond with same-sex marriage becoming legal in Colorado owing to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to punt on the…
Last August, Denver mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Police Chief Robert White appeared on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to tout the use of body cameras. Now, an incident in Trinidad provides a particularly vivid reason why municipalities should welcome body cameras, rather than opposing them. The body-camera video from the…
Dog lovers in Denver are always looking for dog parks at which their prized pooches can run free and socialize with other creatures for whom butt-sniffing is as polite as can be. Fortunately, the Mile High City has plenty of options, as this City of Denver map proves. But which are…
Nuggets guard Ty Lawson likes to document his life. For instance, his YouTube account offers fans an inside look at his day-to-day activities, including his fondness for the Lyft ridesharing service — a clip that became more than a little embarrassing when he was busted for another DUI earlier this year…
Summers in Denver are getting too expensive. It’s not that everything is overpriced — it’s just that there’s too much awesome stuff going on. Concert at Red Rocks? Duh. A game at Coors Field and a visit to Blake Street Tavern afterward? Absolutely. Some brewery is roasting a pig on…
