Last week, a Montana court ruled that hash and concentrates are not legally defined in that state’s medical marijuana laws and are therefore illegal for MMJ patients there to possess. According to Denver marijuana attorney Warren Edson, a similar situation isn’t likely to occur in Colorado — but the way…
Colorado’s minor political parties have banded together to express major gripes with new rules from Secretary of State Scott Gessler — rules that the groups say create conflicts of interest and threaten to undermine the integrity of upcoming elections…
Denver blog posts add up. Big Media’s Jason Salzman notes that talk-radio hosts such as KOA’s Bill Cunningham aren’t any more receptive to gun control after the tragedy in Aurora than they were before. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a final update on the Highland Park Apartments. Free Range Longmont’s…
Back in October, we relayed the story of one person’s battle (mine) to understand Denver’s new overnight parking meters. That quest took me to the Denver County Court Parking Magistrate’s Office to make my case to one of the magistrates: “city employees blessed with the magical power to reduce or…
Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries — a decision that’s expected to shutter more than 700 businesses. Could something like that happen in Denver? Attorney and longtime marijuana advocate Brian Vicente doubts it, but he doesn’t reject the possibility…
Update below: Each day seems to bring another shocking report in the Aurora theater shootings investigation. Today’s? Fox News maintains that suspected murderer James Holmes sent a notebook filled with plans and details of his assault to a University of Colorado psychiatrist — but it wasn’t discovered until after the…
Today, Mayor Michael Hancock will interview the last three candidates for Denver’s open Independent Monitor position — again. In the second round of a search that has lasted six months, finalists Kenneth Moore, Nicholas Mitchell and Gary Maas all share connections to Colorado. Last night, they answered questions from the…
Our post about the first lawsuit following the Aurora theater shooting — filed by a Beverly Hills attorney on behalf of Torrence Brown, Jr., who was traumatized but not physically injured in the attack — didn’t win a lot of support from commenters. Here’s one of the negative responses…
Three days after Jeremiah and Lindsay Wheelersburg escaped the Century 16 shootings in Aurora unharmed, the couple got some unexpected news: They are having their first child. For the pair from Aurora, it’s strange and wonderful news that gives them new perspective on one of their most traumatic experiences…
In the days since the Aurora theater shootings, the blogosphere has erupted with theories intended to explain the inexplicable — why James Holmes allegedly opened fire at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Predictably, these analyses range from the somewhat plausible to the incredibly bizarre and frequently offensive…
18th Judicial District Chief Judge William Sylvester has barred cameras from next Monday’s court appearance by James Holmes, the suspected gunman in the Aurora theater shootings. And while his order, on view below, doesn’t specifically mention the national guessing game about Holmes’s mental condition that followed videos from his first…
Ken Gordon is a crusader. Term-limited out of the Colorado Senate, the one-time candidate for Secretary of State, a position that oversees elections, has now decided to fix the system from the outside. Last year, he founded CleanSlateNow.org, a non-partisan organization working to get money out of politics by pressing…
Update: Yesterday, in an item below, we shared the story of Caleb Medley, a budding stand-up comic horribly wounded in the Aurora theater shootings. He attended the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises with his wife, Katie, only days before she was due to deliver their first child, and…
Update below: The Aurora theater shooting took place during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, starring Christian Bale, who released a statement afterward expressing his horror at the event that took the lives of twelve people. Now, he’s sharing those emotions in person, during a visit with victims of…
After some of the equipment belonging to Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes was traced back to a Chesterfield, Missouri company called Tactical Gear, reps spoke out about the ties online. Since then, as noted by our eagle-eyed sister blog at St. Louis’ Riverfront Times, Tactical Gear employees have been…
Cory Gardner is on fire. More than two hundred homes and thousands of acres of forests went up in flames in his district in the past few weeks, and the freshman congressman from Colorado knows exactly who and what to blame. Not drought, not climate change, not even the bark-beetle…
Jose Luis Vazquez Campos has lost his battle to stay in the United States — for now, at least. Despite a rally and petition stop Campos’s deportation, the father of two young boys was unable to process the paperwork to request that his case be closed. Last week, Campos said…
Denver blog posts are setting the pace. Colorado Pols highlights a Facebook post in which Senator Shawn Mitchell called Barack Obama un-American on the day he flew to the state to console Aurora shooting victim families. Guess he didn’t get the memo about giving partisan rancor the weekend off. The…
One year after his death, Alonzo Ashley’s family has filed a lawsuit on his behalf in U.S. District Court. A year ago this month, Ashley died of a heart attack and respiratory arrest after a skirmish at the Denver Zoo in which Denver Police officers contact-tased him. Fronted by his…
When employees of the Colorado Democratic Party office at 777 Santa Fe arrived to work on Monday, they were greeted with a nasty surprise: eleven smashed glass windows. But for many, it wasn’t much of a surprise at all. “I’m more annoyed than anything else,” says Matt Inzeo, the dems’…
It’s not about politics, it’s about the tens of thousands of people who die every year in America due to gun violence — including the twelve victims of the Aurora theater shootings. This is how Tom Mauser, father of a Columbine victim and now activist for gun control, responds to…
Last week, we told you about a Grand Junction billboard in support of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, featuring televangelist Pat Robertson, who’d made public statements in support of the measure. Nonetheless, one of Robertson’s reps asked that the billboard come down — and it has…
