The Importance of Choosing Your Personality on Social Media

Denver blog posts have a lot of selfie confidence. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies writes that it’s a choose-your-own-personality world whatever your social media preference. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger weighs in on Terrance “Pot Roast” Knighton saying he’d like to catch Peyton Manning’s 500th touchdown pass. Mile…

Jefferson County Teacher’s Union Head on Why Payment Plan is Unfair

We’ve been reporting about teacher sickouts and student walkouts at Jefferson County schools — a reaction to complaints over moves by the conservative Jefferson County School Board, including a proposed history curriculum committee charged with encouraging patriotism and downplaying civil disorder and a new compensation package to which teachers object…

Photos: I, Too, Am CU Shatters More Stereotypes One Sign at a Time

This past April, we told you about I, Too, Am CU, a powerful tumblr and Facebook campaign that features photos of students from underrepresented groups posing with signs to both highlight and undermine the most prevalent stereotypes they confront on a daily basis. Since then, the messages have been amplified…

“A Healthy BDSM Relationship Is Built on Trust and Consent”

“Special Farces,” Joel Warner, September 25 Ballad of the Green Beret Bad behavior shouldn’t preclude a medical discharge if such is warranted by injuries, etc. It’d be like telling someone who was injured at a civilian job, “You’ve got a couple DWIs, and that erases the fact that you got…

Marijuana: Getting the MMJ Basics From Cannabis Pharmacy

The author of Cannabis Pharmacy, Michael Backes, will be discussing and signing the book at 7 p.m. this evening at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. So what can readers expect from this “sensible guide to medical marijuana?” See also: Marijuana: Reviewing The User’s Guide to Colorado Marijuana Law…

Ello: The Next Facebook or a Pretender to the Social Media Throne?

Denver blog posts are all about socializing. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies tells the origin story of Ello, a new social network created right here in Colorado. Big Media: “Gardner cites nonexistent entity as backer of his contraception proposal.” Colorado Peak Politics charges Senator Mark Udall with…