Onetime Regis High baseball coach Walt Weiss will no longer be the second-most famous person at the school — after Olympian Missy Franklin. The ex-Colorado Rockies shortstop has just been hired to manage his former (and currently sorry) squad. Does that mean he’ll hang onto the astonishing Castle Rock property…
In responding to the passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, Governor John Hickenlooper said, “Federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug so don’t break out the Cheetos or [Goldfish] too quickly.” And like magic, a new phrase was born, and so was a new…
Some of Colorado’s favorite ski resorts will mark big anniversaries this season, and you’re invited to the party with The Edge, our annual insider’s guide to all of Colorado’s ski and snowboarding destinations. Copper Mountain turns forty, Vail and Steamboat celebrate fifty years in business, and Loveland is entering its…
The morning that Michael Risch inserted himself into the battle between a Fortune 100 company and the man known as the “father of the iPod” began like any other, with a wake-up call from his six-year-old son. Risch, a professor of intellectual property law at Villanova University, padded to the…
The patent system in America may seem hopelessly dysfunctional, but there are people trying to improve it — including a Denver lawyer. On July 1 this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that the Mile High City will be one of three cities — along with Dallas and…
“Garden of Weedin’,” William Breathes, November 1 Going to Pot I am a retired teacher who remembers subbing back in the late ’70s in Lakewood. There were a lot of stoned students then, there are lots of stoned students now, and when legalized, there will be a lot of stoned…
The movie Argo, which stars Ben Affleck as a mustached CIA agent named Tony Mendez, tells the little-known, mostly true story of how Mendez rescued six American embassy workers hiding in Iran; the workers had evaded capture by Islamist militants, who held 52 of their co-workers hostage for 444 days…
Up until the final days of this year’s presidential race, pundits on both sides of the aisle agreed that Colorado remained a toss-up, and a key battleground for both candidates. In the end, however, the state, like virtually every close race in the country, ended up going to Obama, and…
It took nearly three years, but Joseph Nieto has finally been sentenced in Colorado for robberies he’s admitted to committing with help from Christina Drummond, who played Bonnie to his Clyde — at least according to the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, which bequeathed their nicknames. Details and photos…
Denver blog posts have a wait time of zero minutes. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco notes that the NFL has reiterated that marijuana remains on the league’s banned-substance list, no matter what happened in Colorado. Denver Frank offers the history of misheard lyrics. Wha? Mile High Mamas’ Lori on the Tao…
Last week, on the eve of his one-year anniversary as Denver’s Manager of Safety, Alex Martinez told us that one of the next big goals for his office is pushing the Civil Service Commission to implement serious reforms — and he said he’s not entirely confident about how things will…
It was after 10 p.m. that a woman wearing a blue dress and a donkey mask came up to us and put her snout, through which her eyes were visible, up against our face — so we were peering at each other through a tunnel of plastic hot with her…
Our recent post about the Boy Scouts’ release of its so-called perversion files (reports about hundreds of abusive Scout leaders and the like) focused on local offenders like Floyd Slusher, seen here. But one of our readers knows that not every perpetrator is named in the documents…from terrible personal experience…
In announcing the passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, during a newscast this morning, National Public Radio floated the possibility that the measure could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court owing to pot’s illegality at the federal level. And if the proposal wound up there,…
Sell the house. Lay off employees. Shut down the business. Prepare for the children to move back home. These are some of the stories of gloom, doom and dread that Mitt Romney supporters at Denver’s official GOP watch party shared as news broke — rather suddenly, and before they even…
Yesterday, hours before we’d learned that Colorado’s voters approved Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, we visited the Marijuana Memes Facebook page, confident that whether the proposal won or or fell short, the picto-messages would look different in the morning — and that certainly proved to be the…
Mike Coffman has been declared the winner in the race for the 6th District, with Joe Miklosi, his Democratic rival (update), waiting until past 1 a.m. to concede; see his statement below. This loss demonstrates once again the power of the incumbency even in the case of what seemed to…
The passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, led to a social media explosion, with notables such as Lady Gaga and Big Boi weighing in via Twitter. But lotsa lesser-knowns (plus more ringers) got their tweet on, too. We’ve collected our fifteen faves — some serious, some…
Moments ago, 9News projected that Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act had won approval from a majority of Colorado voters. Proponent Mason Tvert, speaking amid a boisterous celebration at the measure’s victory party, puts the historic achievement in perspective…
This afternoon, we stopped by the office of Secretary of State Scott Gessler to get a status report on the elections, and he tells us they are going well — and much better than some other swing states. He also dismissed news that he’s facing both criminal and ethics investigations…
Some Arapahoe County voters who wanted to cast their ballots today had to wait in a long line for several hours at one vote center — prompting some of Colorado’s top politicians to visit the site and assess the problem. At CentrePoint Plaza in Aurora, voters said they had to…
In Colorado, a state that will play an important role in today’s presidential election, Barack Obama has battled negative press regarding Abound Solar, a Loveland solar-panel company that went bankrupt this summer despite federal support. It’s become a talking point against the president, but Federico Peña, a top Obama surrogate…
