Our post highlighting reactions from both sides of the aisle to the gun-legislation-inspired recall-election defeats of Senator John Morse and Representative Angela Giron generated comments ranging from disappointed to gleeful. This reader’s views go well beyond issues related to firearms…
Denver blog posts are wet and wild. Mile High Report’s Jess Place offers three reasons for Broncos fans to dislike this week’s opponent, the New York Giants — and surprisingly, none of them have to do with Eli Manning hogging the spotlight in that DirecTV “rap” ad with big bro…
This week’s cover story, “The Cruelest Cut,” traces the evolution of the documentary The Paw Project, the story of Jennifer Conrad’s decade-long campaign to ban the declawing of cats — a common procedure in America but one that many veterinarians and animal rights activists regard as an unnecessary and obsolete…
Earlier today, we shared startling videos of Boulder-area flooding that’s already taken one life and resulted in closures throughout the city — and indeed, CU-Boulder has already closed the campus for tomorrow, too. You’ll understand why after checking out the photo above and a slew below from the City of…
In March 2012, Mike Littwin, widely acknowledged as the best known and most popular newspaper columnist in the city, was ignominiously bounced from his gig at the Denver Post in a cost-cutting tactic. Since then, Littwin sightings have been rare. But at long last, he’s back, reemerging as one of…
If you see the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara smiling today, here’s one likely reason: He provided the de facto name for the lead segment on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show last night. Sitting to the side of a continental-U.S. map plastered with the Caldara-uttered phrase “Wave of Fear,” Maddow explored the…
Visit Denver’s Denver.org website has inspired several recent posts saluting the city, including lists of best free attractions and tours, the top eleven hidden tourism gems, the thirteen best free day trips from Denver and the perfect gay-friendly weekend. Now, we bring you the site’s six top “Shop ‘Til You…
The ongoing flooding in the Boulder area is being echoed in other locations along the Front Range, including in El Paso and Larimer counties. The former has already seen one fatality: A thus-far unidentified body was found near Fountain Creek in the Colorado Springs area. And there’s been a dam…
Dear Stoner: I found a few seeds in a bag last winter and planted them in my back yard earlier this spring. I know enough to know I lucked out in getting a female plant, but when exactly do I harvest this thing? I can’t find any definitive answers. Green…
Over the years, Jennifer Conrad has come to see her fight as one against greed and stupidity, a nasty pocket of the stuff festering deep in the heart of her own profession. When her crusade began, though, Conrad wasn’t thinking that way. She was focused on one patient, Drifter, a…
“Design Flaw,” Melanie Asmar, September 5 An Apt for That I’ve wondered why there are all those huge apartment complexes going up around Denver. Thanks for the answer. Now I have another question: What is going to happen to all these complexes when they fall apart five years from now?Susan…
Now the Denver Police Department can throw the book at scofflaws. The good book. The Gideon Bible Association is in town to distribute Bibles — not just to hotels and motels, but to schools and law enforcement agencies, including the DPD. On Friday, Mary Beth Klee, deputy chief of administration…
The Colorado Department of Revenue has released its set of rules for the soon-to-be recreational marijuana industry. And there are a lot of them. The document is 144 pages long; see it below. Much of the language in the doc is taken from existing medical marijuana rules in Colorado (which…
Our post about the top thirty reasons for moving to Denver launched a debate weighing the relative merits of Californians and Texans who relocate here — one that’s spilled over into not one but two prior Comments of the Day. In the latest on the topic, one reader associates the…
Denver blog posts walk the straight and narrow. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels rips Von Miller after the suspended Bronco was cited for driving with a suspended license. Check out Colorado Pols’ recall election post-mortem. Denver Egotist: Photog Matt Nager exposes the skimpy swimsuits of San Mateo…
Our recent cover story, “Design Flaw,” contains some startlingly lopsided statistics: As of July, there were a whopping 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, while the number of condos being built was a meager 145 units. There are several theories as to…
Among the thousands of people who died in the attacks of September 11, 2001 were 343 members of the New York Fire Department. To honor their sacrifice, firefighters from all over the area, including Boulder, are taking part in a memorial stair climb at the CenturyLink building downtown. According to…
When the Obama administration announced that it wouldn’t sue to stop Amendment 64 and other state cannabis laws, anticipation about yesterday’s Senate hearing on marijuana shifted from whether the feds could be forced to make a decision to what they’d say about allowing measures to take effect. As such, the…
Reid Gates, seventeen, was Mr. Everything at Cedaredge High School. A track star who recently finished first among 3A high jumpers in the entire state. A football standout. And, not coincidentally, a straight-A student who’d begun thinking about enrolling at the Air Force Academy. But Gates won’t get a chance…
In recent days, we’ve shared the Internet Movie Database’s ten most popular performers from Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs and Aurora. But there’s a lot more state out there, and plenty of other notables from places beyond these four cities — like, for instance, Greeley, Conifer, Longmont, Crested Butte, Fort Collins,…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the naming of a suspect, Tilo Sandoval, in the brutal, bias-motivated attack against Jared Olson outside a local nightspot last week. See our previous coverage below. Now, Sandoval has surrendered to authorities. He’s being held on a $30,000 bond and is expected to make…
Late last night, it became official: Senator John Morse and Representative Angela Giron lost recall elections prompted by their support of firearms-control bills. The defeats thrilled gun-rights groups and conservatives, while disappointing progressives who’d recently rejoiced over the measures’ passage. Below, get reactions from the National Rifle Association, Rocky Mountain…
