Our post about three Denver teens suspected of traveling overseas to join ISIS just over a month after nineteen-year-old Arvada resident Shannon Conley pleaded guilty to a similar plan prompted a wide variety of comments, with frustration, alarm and everything in between represented. Here’s a post by a reader who…
Denver blog posts have equal love for hip bros and bro hipsters. Our Show and Tell blog offers twenty ways to tell the difference between a hipster and a bro. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek: “CSU newspaper wins election-season battle against Clerk Myers.” The Redheaded Slut on coloring outside the…
Earlier this week, we reported about a motion filed by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes asking for the current December 8 trial start date to be pushed back. Prosecutors have now responded, and they raise no objections to the request, making it likely that the…
Update: Rocky Mountain National Park may not have been the only site in Colorado tagged by accused vandal Casey Nocket. The National Park Service announced in a memo on October 29 that it was investigating Nocket for allegedly defacing Colorado National Monument, as well as RMNP and seven other national…
Did marijuana contribute to — and perhaps even cause — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri? That’s the implication of a blog post by Dr. Christian Thurstone, an addiction specialist who’s also a major player in Project SAM,…
To mark the Halloween season, USA Today assembled its picks for the country’s top haunted houses — and one from Denver made the cut. Count down all ten below, featuring images and text from each of the attractions — and be sure to click on the links to learn more…
Remember Luke Chrisco, the guy who was arrested back in 2011 for hiding inside the tank of a porta-potty in order to scope the underside of users at a Boulder-area yoga festival? Well, he’s back with another memorable gambit. Even as he faces a possible return to a cell for…
One of the most enjoyable things about the Broncos’ 35-21 win over the Chargers last night (and there were many of them) was the sight of San Diego QB Philip Rivers’s frequent temper tantrums. Ranting, complaining, yelling into his own helmet: He put on quite a show in defeat, and…
Green Tree’s Northglenn location is in a former used-car dealership, which is somewhat confusing, since the other auto dealership next door parks cars for sale in Green Tree’s parking lot. I couldn’t tell if I was about to walk in the front door and be offered weed, or the Jeep…
Our post about Children’s Hospital tips about how to talk to kids about marijuana didn’t garner a lot of compliments about the advice from our readers. Here’s one example. See also: Marijuana Makes You Feel Fuzzy and Other Pot Facts From Children’s Hospital…
Denver blog posts are on the cyber-road again. At our Backbeat blog, Drew Ailes counts down six ways to avoid being robbed on tour. Colorado Pols thinks pollsters are still getting the Latino vote wrong. Denver Frank wants Aurora overturn its pit-bull ban. See also: Denver’s Five Best Restaurant Walk-Up…
Does a new Colorado law invite voting fraud by allowing pretty much anyone the ability to print out legal ballots from home computers? That was the argument made by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly this week in a video on view below. Only problem: It’s not true — and the person…
You can’t possess pot inside Denver International Airport. You can’t eat it, smoke it, grow it or give it to a friend, and soon, vendors there may not be able to sell pot-themed merchandise, either. “We have started the process to restrict marijuana promotional merchandise at Denver International Airport and…
Accidents happen in school science labs — but they hardly ever result in criminal accusations. Daniel Powell is an exception to this rule. He’s been charged with multiple assault beefs for a methanol explosion that injured four students, including one who spent weeks in the hospital for burns that initially…
Update: National and even international attention continues to focus on three Denver-area girls who were taken into custody because of suspicions that they planned to join the ISIS terror group in Syria (see our previous coverage below). But even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was thanking Germany for…
The folks at the Movoto real-estate blog have just come up with their list of the ten best zip codes in the country — and no, none of those in the Denver area made the cut. However, the site also ranked a whopping 28,061 zip codes nationwide, including plenty from…
Timothy Heckler has made his mark on the Denver Police Department — and more. Heckler’s bust for alleged tagging while wearing a Tigger costume — just in time for Halloween! — has inspired a new DPD Facebook feature entitled “What in the Wednesday.” But his own Facebook posts are stranger…
Update: Roderick Penny, who was the only person indicted in the Rollin 60s sweep described below, had been at large when our original post was published. He has now turned himself in to police. See our previous coverage below. Original post: Yesterday morning, members of the Aurora Police Department and…
“Risky Business,” Patricia Calhoun, October 16 Choice cuts Abortion: I say if you don’t want one, don’t get one. Otherwise, shut up about it. Leon Wilcox Posted on Facebook And now people are trying to take that right away…insane to think how backwards things are moving. Annalise Ackelson Posted on…
Dear Stoner: I saw they are getting rid of the red card for a new, smaller card. What’s up with that? Blue Over Red Dear Blue: It’s true. After nearly fifteen years of listening to patients gripe about the hassle of cumbersome paper “red cards,” the Colorado Department of Public…
The Denver Police Department has done a good job of scaring people into thinking there will be a rash of regular pot users willing to spend ten bucks on a candy bar so that they can secretly dose a little kid while trick-or-treating on Halloween; see a DPD video below…
Our post about a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment official’s recommendation that almost all marijuana edibles be banned revved up our readers — and also caused the department’s head to walk back the suggestion to some degree. So today, we’ve got a Comment of the Day bonus: several…
