The mayor of Kingston, Jamaica visited Denver over the weekend for some hands-on experience in the legal pot industry. Mayor Angela Brown Burke went on a two-day tour of Colorado marijuana business and met with law enforcement and policy makers from the Governor’s Office and Denver Mayor’s Office in an effort…
Many observers assumed that the amount of taxes and fees generated by marijuana sales would begin falling in the second year of limited legal sales. Nope. Just-released figures from January show that the state collected a record amount — just over $8.8 million. This total includes a windfall for school…
The last twenty seconds of Patricia Arquette’s acceptance speech at the Academy Awards ignited a national conversation about gender equality in the workplace. But many women in Colorado’s pot rush are creating their own. Cannabis industry members can’t help noticing the growing presence of groups such as the Marijuana Business…
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…
Last week, we shared data from ApartmentList.com showing that Denver rent prices are increasing 3.4 times faster than the national average. But the site has shared plenty of other information about renting in the area, too, including a list of the ten most-expensive Denver neighborhoods when it comes to renting…
Back In the mid-’90s, Bill Teck got fed up with all the talk about Generation X. Between Douglas Coupland’s book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture and Richard Linklater’s film Slacker, pop culture was failing to represent Teck’s experience as a Latino living in Miami, surrounded by people from…
Kayvan Khalatbari has his hands in many projects. His restaurant chain, Sexy Pizza, now has three locations in Denver, and he co-owns Denver Relief, one of the oldest pot stores in the city. Add in Sexpot Comedy (his live-comedy promotion gig), multiple charity efforts and a national cannabis consulting firm…
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…
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…
The oil and gas industry raised a massive war chest last year in anticipation of a showdown over anti-fracking ballot initiatives that failed to materialize — and then spent freely on advertising, contributions to PACs and candidate committees, as well as general promotion of the industry’s issues and causes across…
Lawyers for a Christian bakery owner who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple are calling out a member of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for a comment she made in which they say she compared the baker “to slave owners and perpetrators of the Holocaust.” At…
When Joshua Dorkin caught the real estate bug, he found out that being smart wasn’t enough — you have to know the business. But the resources he found were expensive or out of reach, so he decided to “democratize” the real estate business by starting BiggerPockets, an online community that…
How easy is it to find a job in three major Colorado cities? Tougher than it was last year, according to a new study by WalletHub. Denver, Colorado Springs and Aurora are included in the survey, and all three have slid considerably since the previous story. Continue to see the…
Eight-year-old Darrell Anderson should be asleep in his bed, but instead he’s sneaked a block north in his jammies to the corner of 27th and Welton streets, where he’s now hiding out behind liquor boxes, waiting patiently for the wooden door to swing open, waiting for a glimpse into the…
Denver is growing, with new office, retail and housing projects going up all the time. You don’t do more than look around the city to realize that, but according to the Denver Office of Community Planning and Development, 2014 saw 20 percent more development projects within Denver city limits than…
The Colorado constitution mandates that the minimum wage within the state be adjusted annually for inflation. On January 1, Colorado’s minimum wage officially went up to $8.23 — 23 cents more than last year’s $8 an hour minimum. But that $1.84 a day can add up to a major expense…
The battle over fracking in Colorado continued to attract national media attention in 2014, and with good reason. The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas, and the attendant debate over economic benefits versus possible health and environmental risks, has been playing out here with more twists and…
A few weeks ago a 56-year-old hunting guide on the Western Slope was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for violations of the Lacey Act. Christopher Loncarich’s crime consisted of going to absurd lengths to insure that the slaughter of mountain lions and bobcats in Utah and Colorado would…
If you thought you were getting screwed on ATM fees, you were right. Bankrate has crunched the numbers for the cities with the lowest and highest ATM fees, and Denver’s on the latter roster, with plenty of places that would seem to have higher costs of living offering better deals…
Although the Denver District Attorney’s Office only has the power to prosecute local and state laws, its employees are held to a higher standard when it comes to marijuana. Specifically, they aren’t allowed to possess, grow or sell pot, since all of those things are illegal under federal law. But…
As posts like this one prove, we have a soft spot for items that display Colorado pride — and the I Heart Denver Store, located at 500 16th Street, Suite 264, just happens to specialize in them. With the holiday gift-giving season upon us, we picked out twenty favorites from…
