A broad proposal by the country’s largest private prison company to buy up and privatize state prisons has been met with a stiff rebuke from the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of justice policy and religious groups, who are urging all fifty state governors to reject the company’s…
The appointment of Callie Hendrickson to a board that helps shape the federal government’s wild horse management plan has touched off a frenzy of petitions and protests by horse advocacy groups. They say the Grand Junction woman is a defender of ranching interests who’s endorsed commercial slaughter of “excess horses”…
In these lean times, last week Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar proposed slashing costs and hiking a range of user fees — everything from the cost of a federal stamp for duck hunting to oil and gas drilling permits — to make ends meet at his agency. But one…
A former prisoner, now a shareholder in the country’s largest for-profit prison operator, has won a battle with company management over his campaign to hold the Corrections Corporation of America accountable for reducing sexual abuse at its facilities. The Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled that the shareholder resolution, calling…
It’s National Condom Week and Sir Richard’s Condoms, a Boulder company known for its one-for-one condom deal, is celebrating. How? Anytime you tweet or post to Facebook “your love for condoms,” Sir Richard’s will donate a condom to its project in Haiti…
It seems reasonable to say an unreasonable fellow like Shane Gring, 25, can tackle growing social concerns like substandard housing, environmental degradation and an unskilled workforce — but only if he raises $10,000 by March 7. Gring is co-Founder of team BOULD, Colorado’s only finalist competing for a spot in…
Opinions on the proposed signage upgrade at Sports Authority Field at Mile High remain split. On the same day the city’s Community Planning and Development Board issued a statement approving the changes, the Sloan’s Lake Citizens’ Group voted to oppose them — just like every other registered neighborhood organization within…
It’s official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies — BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell — reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That’s a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produced less oil than in…
Earlier this week, we contacted Boulder Daily Camera publisher Al Manzi after hearing the paper’s publishing company had told nearly twenty workers they would be laid off — and that they’d subsequently learned many of the paper’s ad-design chores would be outsourced to India. Today, Manzi got back to us,…
In its February newsletter, under the headline “PROPOSED SPORTS AUTHORITY SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL,” local neighborhood organization the Sloan’s Lake Citizens’ Group encourages its membership to write the city in response to the potential additions to Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Because of its lighting and view plane implications, the issue…
I know, I know. There are lots of other folks out there struggling to make ends meet, unsung worker drones subsisting on sweatshop wages. But let’s face it: Doug Lamborn is underpaid. I’m not talking about his base salary of $174,000 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives…
If you think the Super Bowl and sexy men’s underwear have nothing in common, you’d usually be correct. But this year, there’s a connection — and a local one at that. Pampered Passions Fine Lingerie in Englewood is running an ad in USA Today’s glossy preview publication for Super Bowl…
Today, Mayor Michael Hancock unveiled a new economic development strategy — the NASCAR-y sounding “JumpStart 2012: Revving Up Denver’s Economic Engine.” It includes a host of specific initiatives in seven broad areas, including a plan to develop a $20 million “pot of money,” in Hancock’s words, to loan funds to…
Should bakers and cake-makers be able to sell delicious wares made in home kitchens at farmer’s markets and roadside stands? That’s the question lawmakers will debate today when they take up House Bill 12-1027, the so-called “cottage food bill.” Sponsored by Republican Representative Laura Bradford, the measure would allow counties…
This week’s cover story, “Drilled, Baby, Drilled,” reports on the efforts of a group of federal auditors to hold energy companies accountable for underpaid royalties on oil and gas leases. On the eve of its publication, the U.S. Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) announced a $25 million settlement with…
The good news about Denver International Airport’s ambitious South Terminal Redevelopment Program (STRP) is that it’s only eight months behind schedule and a projected few million bucks over its half-billion-dollar budget at this point, despite the loss of its “signature” architect, Santiago Calatrava, over artistic (i.e., financial) differences. And the…
An increase in the number of home foreclosures has led to another housing-related phenomenon: the rise of the accidental landlord. These are the folks who buy foreclosed properties and instead of moving in, rent them out to tenants as a way to make money. But sometimes, says Nancy Burke of…
Famous for its ski bums, Aspen also has a modest contingent of real bums — although the homeless shelter downtown isn’t exactly as celebrated as the haunts of the 1 percenters. But that may soon change. Fresh on the heels of the uproar over the new sociology study The Slums…
After weeks of rumors that the local LGBT publication was on the block, Out Front Colorado officials announced yesterday that the mag has been sold to Transformation Communication Group. What exactly comes with this news, we’re not sure yet, but in recent months the main concern has been financial security…
Few people can endure the scrutiny involved in a lengthy New Yorker profile with their mystique intact. But the magazine hardly makes a dent in the armor encasing Phil Anschutz, despite the wealth of information about the “secretive mogul” amassed in Connie Bruck’s “The Man Who Owns L.A.,” in the…
It took nine years of fighting for money the government insisted it wasn’t owed. It probably cost him his job, too. But last week, former federal auditor Bobby Maxwell and the Justice Department finally reached a $26 million settlement with Anadarko Petroleum over underpaid royalties on oil leases in the…
Last night, after a long lecture about neighborhood crime and a short drive for membership, the Sloan’s Lake Citizen’s Group confronted its single largest neighbor: the Broncos’ stadium. After the deadline to increase signage at Sports Authority Field at Mile High was delayed last week, stadium district officials are bringing…
