It’s been a very rough week for cycling in Denver, with the tragic death of 23-year-old Gelseigh Karl-Cannon on Tuesday — the second bike fatality in the city this year. Denver residents who want to support a good cycling cause will have a chance to do so this weekend at…
Denver blog posts make hay. Colorado Pols’ list of the 2012 election cycle’s biggest losers is topped by Mitt Romney and his Colorado advisers — with Frank McNulty coming in second. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein previews the Nuggets v. the Jazz. The Redheaded Slut: Maybe I’m a service submissive after…
Amid the chaos of election-day preparation this week, news broke that Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Colorado’s chief election officer, is facing both criminal and ethics investigations for allegedly misusing public dollars for personal trips. We now have more details on the process of the Independent Ethics Commission, which could…
Onetime Pueblo resident Robert Bruce is becoming a TV star of sorts — but don’t expect the results to be especially flattering. That’s because the episode of the ID-TV program Who the [Bleep] Did I Marry? in which he features focuses on his wife’s discovery that the hunk to whom…
Remember the infamous incident in which a Longmont driver honked at two cyclists on an open road for several minutes ? Something similar happened again — only this time, someone got hurt. Byron Nix was knocked off of his bike after a truck hit him and crushed his bike on…
In August, we told you about the arrest of Alfonso Carrillo on racketeering charges related to an elaborate real estate scam. Now, Carrillo’s wife, Maria Carrillo, is facing similar charges. And while allegations against two others ID’d in the first indictment have been dropped, a named fugitive remains at large…
Colorado’s voters may have approved Amendment 64, but the federal government is unlikely to allow implementation of the marijuana measure and will probably threaten to sue or begin making arrests to stop it. That’s the prediction of Sam Kamin, a University of Denver professor and national expert on the Colorado…
Our post about the crash that killed cyclist Gelseigh Karl-Cannon in Cherry Creek North focused on the incredible promise of the young Columbia grad while noting the rising concern over bike safety. According to one of our many commenters, Karl-Cannon appears to simply have been in the wrong place at…
Ask Broncos fans to name the most hated team figure of the last fifteen years and nearly everybody will automatically answer, “Josh McDaniels.” To be certain, the Broncos were dismal under his watch. He orchestrated some much maligned trades, made a plethora of questionable draft picks and, most unforgivable of…
One of our favorite local websites is Unseen Denver, which describes itself as a story of “gritty love between my hometown and the people who live within her.” That translates visually to street-art images that even many longtime locals may never have seen before — some elaborate, some simple, all…
Grassroots Grown has been on my radar for a fall visit since an ill-timed drop-in this past spring to the greenhouse-only dispensary. And it was well worth making a return trip…
Claudia Folska, the subject of our recent feature story “Fare Treatment,” won her race Tuesday for a seat on the Regional Transportation District board of directors, besting three opponents. Folska, who is blind and uses RTD to get around, will represent District E, which includes parts of Denver, Aurora, Greenwood…
Colorado voters — and even small children — were exposed to a seemingly absurd amount of political advertising this year in a battleground state that wound up not being a key to President Barack Obama’s victory. Perhaps that is why residents overwhelmingly passed the state’s other measure on the ballot,…
Denver blog posts enjoy being watched. Colorado Pols on Representative Mark Ferrandino’s elevation to Speaker of the House — and John Morse’s election as president of the State Senate. Coyote Gulch on why it costs ten times more to clean out a reservoir than to build a new one (H/T…
Update, November 8, 3:55 p.m.: I just connected by phone with George Brauchler, the winner in the much-scrutinized race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, discussed in detail below. He mused that, aside from the Craig Silverman-Bill Ritter slugfest for Denver DA in the 1990s, this may have…
While Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, has received all of the pot press since election day, pro-dispensary voters in Fort Collins are celebrating a different win — the victory of Measure 301, which overturns a ban on retail medical marijuana centers in city limits passed a year…
After generating months of headlines and backlash from voter rights’ groups, Secretary of State Gessler’s anti-fraud initiative resulted in 44 individuals being removed from the voter rolls in the state. But Gessler, in an election day interview, told us he wishes he could’ve done more and that it’s likely fraudulent…
Our post about Mike Coffman’s narrow but decisive victory over Joe Miklosi in the 6th Congressional District noted that even seemingly vulnerable candidates (Coffman was blistered nationwide over birther comments and poor spin control) are hard to defeat thanks to the power of incumbency. That frustrated one reader, who hopes…
After Katherine McKinley, 57, was struck and killed by a bus at Denver International Airport last month, driver Yakov Rakhshtut did not go through the booking process. Rather, he was simply given a summons for the incident; it’s on view below. But after looking at the facts of the case,…
Update below: The hit-and-run death of Dan Peterson earlier this year has increased the focus on car-versus-bicycle accidents — a major theme of Sam Levin’s feature “On a Roll.” The latest incident of this type, a crash in Cherry Creek North, took the life of Gelseigh Karl-Cannon, 23, a recent…
The Denver Elections Division has released a map graphically depicting support in the city for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act — and the results are fascinating. For instance, many of the areas with the most medical marijuana dispensaries voted for the measure in the highest percentages. See…
The passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, was a big win for attorney Brian Vicente, one of the measure’s main proponents. But amid questions about when and how the proposal will take effect come suggestions that court challenges are inevitable. Vicente disagrees and explains why below…
