The pool of medical marijuana caregivers and patients could get smaller under provisions of a bill that’s now been endorsed by a bipartisan Senate committee. SB 15-014, sponsored by Senator Irene Aguilar, a Denver Democrat, swept through the Colorado Senate Health and Human Service Committee by a 5-0 vote Thursday,…
There’s a certain romance about lovers who commit crimes as they cross the country, Bonnie-and-Clyde style. But it’s not quite as thrilling a concept when the targets aren’t banks or other high-value targets, but fast-food restaurants. Which brings us to our latest Schmucks of the Week: Chanzie Cox and Michael…
Over the past couple of years, we’ve shared plenty of stories about drivers who feel they’ve been pot-profiled in other states because their vehicle had Colorado license plates. Most recently, we shared the story of Gabriel Campbell, who was pulled over in Texas for an extremely minor infraction — after which…
If you thought the national and international media’s fascination with Colorado’s marijuana legalization experiment would start to wane by now, you were wrong. Major news organizations continue to crank out stories of widely varying quality about the pot scene here — and based on the sampling below, they don’t seem…
The Fiat 500: Launched as the Nuova (new) 500 in July 1957, it was a cheap and practical town car. Measuring only 2.97 metres (9 feet 9 inches) long, and originally powered by an appropriately sized 479 cc two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the 500 redefined the term “small car” and is…
As we’ve documented (with help from lots of readers), Denver’s rent prices are rising at a more rapid clip than most renters would like. But while one recent survey put Denver among the twelve U.S. cities where rent has gone up the most, RealtyTrac numbers shared by MainStreet.com places Denver…
Winter is finally getting serious in the Denver area. And that means potholes. Plenty of them. Right now, 7News is encouraging viewers to tweet the locations of the worst potholes they see during their commutes to the appropriate hashtag #ColoradoCrater. Here are the top five to date, featuring tweets and interactive…
For a medical marijuana dispensary, Groundswell has probably had the most non-patients visit over the last few years than any other shop in Denver. Not for the pot, but for the well-received art gallery showcasing local artists located in its front room. But the gallery part of the medical marijuana dispensary is…
The responses continue to come in over our post in which Denver was named one of the ten best cities for single women. Some of those responding agree with the premise. Others aren’t especially impressed by the selection, however. Here’s an example: Christi Tov writes: Denver is great for a…
Denver blogs offer plenty of thumbs-ups. At our Music blog, Drew Ailes offers six reasons he won’t like your band on Facebook. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger address rumors that the Broncos want Peyton Manning to take a pay cut. The Colorado Independent on the “frack task-force fail.” Send your story…
In 2014, ten undocumented immigrants entered sanctuary in churches around the country in order to avoid being deported. Arturo Armando Hernandez Garcia was one of them. As explained in this week’s cover story, “Sacred Ground,” Arturo has been living at the First Unitarian Society of Denver church for four months,…
Back in January, we told you about a Colorado Springs bombing that struck a complex that included the local NAACP office. The working theory early on was that the NAACP had been the target of the attack — and as we noted, the organization’s president, Cornell William Brooks, scheduled a…
Dear DPS Community, I would like to apologize for our late notice in closing schools this morning. We know how important these decisions are, and we take them very seriously. The most important factor is the well-being of our students and their families. Whenever possible, DPS tries to keep schools…
Denver has seen more than its share of controversial police shootings, including the one that took the life of seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez last month. The same can be said of Weld County, which has experienced four fatal police shootings over the past eight months. The most recent of these involved…
There are plenty of amazing places to call home in Colorado — but which of them stand above the others? The Movoto blog came up with its list of the top ten. Count down the photo-illustrated top ten below, complete with excerpts from Movoto text and information about methodology. To…
By now, the power and influence of Reddit, which refers to itself as the “front page of the Internet,” is known to just about everyone. Except, apparently, former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner. He made his most candid comments to date about the botched investigation into the 1996 murder of Boulder’s…
It was one of the most shocking stories of 2014 — one whose details seemed too terrible to be true. But apparently they were. Jena Harman and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, have reportedly pleaded guilty to keeping her seven-year-old child in caged outdoors on their remote Wyoming property — even…
The Colorado Legislature is well into the 2015 session, considering bills that would repeal the ban on large-capacity gun magazines and prohibit powdered alcohol; there are also measures that deal with privacy from drones, college-tuition tax deductions and expanding rail service in southeastern Colorado. But if you’re a medical marijuana…
The ten best cities for single women include Denver, according to the NerdWallet website. According to one reader, that’s accurate in terms of quantity. Quality, though, is another matter, she writes. Here’s her take. c.burnett writes: If you can’t get a guy in Menver, then you have issues. Finding a…
Denver blog posts can get pretty freaky. At our Food & Restaurant blog, Jenn Wohletz lists five questionable new foodie products, including (and we’re not kidding) a baby-shaped flask that allows you to drink out of the infant’s head. At Mile High Report, Kyle Montgomery weighs in on the disputed…
As discussed here a few weeks ago, a new report issued by the Prison Policy Initiative takes a harsh look at the burgeoning video visitation business in prisons and jails. More than 500 detention facilities across the country now contract with private companies to provide some form of pay-to-visit technology for families of…
The results of the last election resulted in shared power at the Colorado General Assembly. Democrats remain the majority party in the House, but Republicans gained control of the Senate. Will good ideas from one chamber face ignominious defeat in the other one? A new proposal making progress in the…
