We’ve already gone on record with our fearless prediction of a Broncos win over the Baltimore Ravens in tomorrow’s playoff game — and the folks at Denver Broncos Memes are just as confident. Check out a gallery of our favorites below. It’s a great way to celebrate what’s been officially…
In the home state of Columbine, threats of school violence are taken very seriously, as well they should be. Hence, the decision by officials at Niwot High School to cancel classes and activities today following the discovery of a thirty-person “hit list,” as well as bomb threats. Get details and…
A judge has ruled that there’s enough evidence to try alleged Aurora theater shooter James Holmes for murder. Holmes is accused of killing twelve people and injuring seventy others by opening fire at the Century 16 theater on July 20. He’ll be back in court Friday at 9 a.m. for…
Best Colorado Meds is an orphan from Fort Collins, left to fend for itself in a partially hidden Wheat Ridge location after being ousted due to a dispensary ban. My budtender told me the owners hope to reopen in the Fort and keep the Wheat Ridge store running, too –…
This week’s cover story on Scott Gessler delves into two of the Republican Secretary of State’s biggest controversies — allegations that he misused public dollars for partisan travels and accusations that he has suppressed voters. Gessler earned the latter criticisms for his initiatives to prevent voter fraud, and for our…
A national organization that opposes the legalization of marijuana and is advocating “smarter approaches” launched today in Denver — and also announced that the group will soon open a chapter in Colorado, where voters in November passed Amendment 64. The advocates behind the group, called Project SAM, talked at length…
Denver blogs is all about the Broncos today. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco listens to someone impressed by rising star Chris Harris’s play: Champ Bailey. Bronco Talk’s Jon Heath has gathered all the details you need to know about watching the game right here. Baltimore Beatdown’s Bruce Raffel has five questions…
Through witness testimony, prosecutors this week laid out a timeline of the actions accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes took in the months before the July 20 attack. The earliest date mentioned was April 19, when he set up a Match.com profile. The last was July 19, when Holmes allegedly…
On the day Governor John Hickenlooper signed Amendment 64, he also announced the formation of a task force intended to make recommendations about the measure’s implementation. Since then, some observers have complained about the task force’s membership. Hence, a number of reformers are announcing today the creation of an A64…
On the first day of Colorado’s legislative session, dueling protests competed for the attention of passersby on either side of Lincoln Street. As the crowd at the Capitol for a pro-guns rally grew, an anti-fracking group remained small. Still, both shouted, sometimes at the Capitol and a few times directly…
In a recent post, Sam Levin presented one Amendment 64 task force member’s argument in favor of the State of Colorado taking over sale of recreational marijuana, rather than allowing private businesses to do so. Voters don’t want that kind of system, maintains one reader…
Project SAM, a national organization that opposes marijuana legalization, is scheduled to formally launch during a 10:30 a.m. press conference today at the Denver Press Club. The event is only open to accredited journalists, but Marijuana Policy Project spokesman and Amendment 64 proponent Mason Tvert is showing up an hour…
We love us some Kenneth Faried, who regularly doubles the energy and effort of any other player on the floor. And even he’s amazed by the numbers he’s racking up. When told in a live post-game Altitude interview broadcast over the Pepsi Center speakers that he registered nineteen points and…
The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver during 2012, and the total of forty is down from 47 in 2011. Indeed, 2011 saw forty homicides through the first three-quarters of that year, while 25 took place during the initial nine months of 2012. But that…
The Aurora theater shooting preliminary hearing of James Holmes and the tragic mass killing at a Newtown, Connecticut school have spawned calls for new and stricter gun laws. Against this backdrop comes news related to the bloodiest metro-area incident so far in 2013 — an Aurora triple murder in which…
At 9:36 a.m. on August 28, Minerva Padron, an administrative assistant to Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, answered a call to the office’s election number. On the other end of the line was an agitated male who said he wanted to talk to someone about letters that Gessler had…
The video titled “Thank you, I will miss you guys” is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky, handheld shot trained on the face of then-21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a faux-hawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent, discernible…
Dear Stoner: Where’s the best place to get stoned on the hill? Sparky Snowboarder Dear Sparky: We don’t mind a little puff on a powder day. But resort owners and the U.S. Forest Service do. Remember, there are only a handful of ski hills on private land. Most are located…
“Too Many Mornings,” Alan Prendergast, January 3 In Mourning Thank you, Alan, for writing this very thoughtful piece on a very special person. Even though we will most likely never know the full story of what happened, I feel that you have brought us closer to the truth. I hope…
Could Amendment 64 be the reason that the Colorado Medical Marijuana registry saw the first decline in active patient numbers in almost a year? Like a late holiday gift from a strange uncle who only sends sensible socks, the Colorado health department posted the figures for October and November late…
Last year, Hani “Henry” Sawaged, owner of Daveco Liquors, which boasts of being the world’s largest liquor store, earned Schmuck of the Week honors after pleading guilty to a sales-tax underpayment scheme. He and two brothers, Ghassan and Bassam Sawaged, have now been ordered to pay well over $1 million…
A preliminary hearing for James Holmes, the accused Aurora theater shooter, concluded today, and numerous victims and members of the public were on site to watch. A lot of reporters were there, too, taking notes on the horrific details of the July 20 shooting — and given the chilling testimony,…
