Earlier this month, eight former DEA administrators wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder encouraging him to crack down on new marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington, in part because they see the measures as violating international treaties regarding drugs. Officials in at least one foreign locale –…
Our post about Coy Mathis, a Fountain six-year-old who was born male but identifies as female, focused on a dispute with the school district over which restroom she can use. But a number of readers had strong views about the wisdom of raising a child as transgender. Here’s one…
Plenty of folks in Colorado like their nature as natural as possible. So when park officials began pushing for various amenities and improvements at a popular open-space area in Denver’s western suburbs — including close to $200,000 worth of “nature play” installations that look a lot like playgrounds — the…
Denver blog posts are curious, and Nuggets yellow. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons lauds unlikely hero Kosta Koufos for his inspired double-double in last night’s win over the Suns. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers us a Union Station/1650 Wewatta update. Coyote Gulch: Despite recent snows, Fort Collins will start watering restrictions…
It’s been a long time coming. After a bill to legalize civil unions in Colorado fell short in both 2011 and last year, the measure finally passed the Colorado House today. Next, the legislation heads to the desk of Governor John Hickenlooper, who’s promised to sign it. This breakthrough delights…
Yesterday, we reported about a terrible accident involving four teens whose car crashed into the side of a mobile home, apparently while executing the road maneuver known as a J-turn. See our previous coverage below. Now, the individuals involved in the case have been identified, revealing just how tragic the…
Update below: James Holmes, the suspect in the July 20 shooting at an Aurora movie theater that killed twelve people and wounded seventy others, was widely expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity at an arraignment hearing today. Instead, Judge William Sylvester entered a not-guilty plea for Holmes…
Yesterday, CU-Boulder announced that for the second consecutive year, the campus would be closed on April 20 in an effort to squelch the annual 4/20 event there; see our original coverage below. Why take this controversial tack again? CU-Boulder spokesman Bronson Hilliard is straight-forward, deeming last year’s approach a “great…
Last week, we shared our picks for the ten latest and greatest Colorado pride items on Etsy — our second Colorado-centric collection culled from the crafty website. But what about Colorado items with a sense of humor? We found plenty of T-shirts that fit the bill. Look below to see…
If police are right, Nebraska’s Adam Manlove is an extremely efficient criminal. Whereas many scofflaws may only commit one offense in a whole day, he’s accused of having stolen four vehicles and caused eight accidents in several different parts of the metro area in fewer than four hours. Even law…
After the passage of Amendment 64, which allows Colorado adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, opponents of the measure lamented about all manner of potential societal harm, including possible negative impact on employment and job productivity. Now, such critics have new ammunition with…
The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has settled on the advisement that he will read to James Holmes should the suspect plead not guilty by reason of insanity at tomorrow’s arraignment. It includes warnings that if Holmes enters such a plea, he’ll be subject to a court-ordered psychiatric…
Denver blog posts make the world, or at least Mile High, go ’round. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels notes that only one Nuggets contract made Bill Simmons’s list of the NBA’s worst. Sorry (or maybe congrats), JaVale. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on whether an e-mail from the Pueblo Chieftain’s general…
In this space yesterday, Christian Sederberg, a member of the just-completed Amendment 64 task force, argued that overtaxing marijuana will keep alive the very black market the measure was intended to shrink or eliminate. But lower prices actually fuel other kinds of underground, and illicit, commerce, according to one of…
Has there been an uproar among students and staffers at Boulder High today — the first full school session since news broke that principal Kevin Braney had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and a couple of other charges? Far from it, says Briggs Gamblin, spokesman for the Boulder…
A plea deal in the case of Rollin Oliver, the 22-year-old charged with murder in the shooting death of Denver police officer Celena Hollis last June, may be in the works, according to a court document. “There is a possible disposition in this matter,” notes the register of actions, which…
Update below: As we’ve reported, the debate over Colorado gun-control legislation has gotten ugly, with the most prominent example being executive Franklin Sain’s arrest for racist and sexist e-mails sent to Rhonda Fields, a rep whose son was shot to death. The negative PR garnered by Sain hasn’t stopped the…
We love us some Urban Dictionary, in part because it features plenty of unusual definitions for words we thought we knew pretty damn well — like, for instance, “Colorado” and “Denver.” Our latest collection, featuring original (and unedited) definitions we’ve photo-illustrated, features words inspired by CU-Boulder, from “Penalty Shotgun” (it…
We’ve been hearing more about marijuana profiling — law enforcers in other states targeting cars with Colorado license plates due to the pot laws here. One of our writers was stopped and searched twice in one trip. Anecdotal evidence (including a report about a so-called Colorado drug pipeline) suggests that…
I was doing some cleanup and recycling dozens of green and blue plastic medicine jars containers laying around my house when it hit me: I’ve been through a lot of different herb in the last three years. Though we didn’t run bud pictures in the first few months of our…
Last week, we spoke with a Kansas-based attorney about alleged profiling of Colorado drivers there as a result of our marijuana laws. The topic continues to spur a lot of conversation locally, and a Kansas resident weighed in, too. Not that he’s planning on moving here……
Denver blog posts bring it. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the Nuggets running the Clippers out of the Pepsi Center last night. Chauncey Billups didn’t sound like a Nugs believer on ESPN Radio yesterday. Wonder what he thinks now. Mile High Mamas on how to find hope in autism. Denver…
