The weather we’ve been enjoying this week has been simply glorious, particularly for January in Colorado — but that doesn’t mean rushing the season fashion-wise is a good idea, especially since a cool-down is predicted for the coming days. Courtesy of a vintage post, here are twenty warm-weather looks it’s…
Marijuana is the fastest growing industry in the U.S. So says a new report by California’s Arcview Market Research. And while the study, spotlighted in a summary on view below, doesn’t exactly qualify as an objective third-party report (it was largely funded by cannabis-biz outfits, including several in Colorado), the…
Plenty of readers were exorcised by William Breathes’s post about Wyoming’s possible lawsuit against the federal government for failing to stop Colorado’s pot laws. Here’s one particularly memorable example. See also: Marijuana: Wyoming Won’t Sue Colorado Over Pot Laws, but Might Take on Feds…
Denver blog posts are all about looking ahead. Our Backbeat blog offers up twenty predictions for the 2015 Denver music scene. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery that Wade Phillips could return to Denver as the Broncos’ defensive coordinator. Big Media’s Jason Salzman has some tips for reporters covering teen-pregnancy prevention…
The city councils of Wheat Ridge and Pueblo held meetings last night to determine the fate of proposed cannabis restrictions in their respective cities, but only one of them ended with a resolution. Meanwhile, Adams County is scheduled an afternoon announcement for the first ten dispensaries to be licensed there…
Jails across America are turning increasingly to private companies to cure the headaches posed by family members seeking to visit incarcerated loved ones. But the solutions developed by the emerging “video visitation industry” come at a steep price — including the stiff costs shouldered by inmates’ families, complaints about poor…
Update below: Did Colorado Springs landlord John Lorenz text a photo of pointed gun to a man living at his place — and then use the weapon to kill him later in the day? That’s among the assertions in a police report naming Lorenz, who’s currently in custody on suspicion…
Yesterday, we told you about the death of an eighth grader at Crested Butte ski resort during a school-club ski outing this past Friday. And now comes word of another fatality on the Colorado slopes over the weekend: Eighteen-year-old John “Jack” Lindsey, a Cadet 4th Class at the Air Force…
The State Integrity Project, created by the Center for Public Integrity and several other organizations, set out to discover which states are most at risk for corruption — and the news wasn’t good. Researchers didn’t hand out a single “A” grade, and more than half the states received a “D”…
The recently repaired Facebook outage shouldn’t have been that big a deal in Colorado, given that it mainly took place overnight. Nonetheless, local press figures took to Twitter anyhow to express their shock/prompt some laughs, as did social-media addicts on the other side of the planet, who had it far…
Editor’s note: To read an update about the Jessie Hernandez shooting, including information about a witness who says officers fired before one was struck by the car she was driving, click here. Original post, 5:44 a.m. January 27: Yesterday, Denver police officers shot and killed the driver of a car…
In recent years, Kansas has accused Coloradans of trafficking marijuana in that state on a regular basis — and its attorney general is reportedly still considering the possibility of joining a lawsuit against Colorado over the pot laws here, as filed by AGs in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Amid this tension,…
We recently published a Comment of the Day in which one reader described why she thinks Denver men suck — and seconds later, comments began to accumulate in a big way. Some folks agreed, others didn’t, and this writer divided dudes up into a handful of categories, not all of…
Denver blog posts straddle the line between nutty and well-nutted. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz tells you about five more insane (or maybe sane) new food products — including drinkable peanut butter. Colorado Peak Politics on reports that Senator Michael Bennet might be on Hillary Clinton’s short-list of…
Think you’ve got the best beard in Denver? Think again. That honor belongs to Bernas, the Denver Zoo’s new supremely hirsute orangutan, whose spray of facial hair frames his sweet smile like a fuzzy sunburst. See also: Drunk Woman Who Stumbled Into Elephant Exhibit Inspires New Denver Zoo Signage…
With votes on local marijuana regulation happening tonight in Wheat Ridge and Pueblo, and Adams County granting its first retail licenses, some noteworthy changes in your local cannabis infrastructure might be taking place this week, as you can see in our calendar below. See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Fox…
Many of the photos on Spencer Pannwitz’s Facebook page show the twenty-year-old from Parker engaged in adventurous activities: jumping, flipping, diving and contemplating nature from great heights. These images only make Pannwitz’s premature death seem that much sadder: He appears to have fallen from a fourth-floor dormitory window. More photos,…
Last week, we counted down the ten Colorado counties with the highest average income, based on data collected by the Colorado Springs Gazette. Today, we’re look at the subject from a different angle: the ten Colorado counties with the lowest average income. Continue for the photo-illustrated roster, featuring Gazette data…
The Denver Nuggets’ latest lost season just got a little more embarrassing. Ty Lawson, the alleged leader of the team, was busted for DUI (again), causing him to miss one game the team should have won — and he also missed a shot in his return to the lineup last…
Juggalos — fans of the group Insane Clown Posse — have long decried attempts to portray them as violent. But amid their ongoing efforts to establish a new reputation, self-described Juggalo Nicholas Damon is on the run, wanted for a slew of felonies, including assaulting a police officer. Photos and…
Earlier today, we told you that the birdshot pellet put up for sale by Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards sold for the asking price of $1,650. Westword has since spoken with the man who bought it, Georgia-based forensic consultant Anthony Meoli. Meoli says he bought the pellet to help…
Here’s yet another marijuana-bashing piece we unearthed, this one from a February 20, 1920 edition of the Routt County Sentinel. It follows the somewhat nonsensical ravings of a Dr. T.S. Blair of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — an apparent medical shill for Big Industry in the 1920s. See also: “Colorado Cannabis Time…
