Maybe the heat is getting to everyone. When last we looked, our post on Mitch Woolhiser’s problems with deductions, “Medical marijuana dispensaries can’t deduct business expenses on state tax returns,” had close to 300 comments — many of them from the same handful of people. And tempers were flaring hot…
There’s always 2026? In a disappointing development for folks who have been pushing Denver to make a bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, news broke this week that the United States Olympics Committee is not going to pursue 2022, which means Denver is out of the running for that year…
John Buechner, former mayor of Boulder and former head of the University of Colorado, thinks he has some solutions to the challenges of local government — mainly that elected officials don’t actually get that much done and citizens don’t really care. He outlines his prescription for low-level politicians in his…
Really, the stubble on that chunky female cheerleader should have been the first clue. But instead, notorious Colorado con man Charles Daugherty, who went by “Cheyen Weatherly” when he posed as a Colorado Springs high-school cutie, would go through many more identities and many more mysterious chapters before his story…
DANK advertises its location as being discreet, which is an understatement when you’re trying to find the shop in a maze-like warehouse district full of similar-looking structures. There are no big weed leaves or green crosses hanging on the front of the building that the dispensary shares with several other…
At least seventeen folks in Denver chose to ignore the ban on private fireworks yesterday, earning them citations or arrests, according to the Denver Police Department. And most of them were adults…
In this Tumblr edition of Denver blogs, we present a few bright blog posts from around Denver. Here’s an incredible long-exposure photograph of last night’s fireworks over Sports Authority Field at Mile High, from the vantage point of the Speer Boulevard overpass above I-25. Go to the blog to see…
A statewide moratorium on new medical-marijuana businesses ended Sunday, but don’t expect to see many new dispensaries popping up right away…
Gang violence is a hot topic in Denver this summer. This week’s cover story, “Flash Point,” details the city’s plan for cooling it down. Denver has seen several high-profile shootings in the past few months, and there’s been speculation that many are gang-related, including the death of Denver police officer…
Wild horse activists managed to block the complete removal of a small but hardy herd of mustangs in northwest Colorado this week. Bureau of Land Management officials contend that severe drought conditions require roundup and removal of the West Douglas herd, for its own well-being — but opponents say chasing,…
The Fourth of July brought some good news for Colorado Springs, where the Waldo Canyon fire has been blazing for more than ten days: The firefighters have now reached 90 percent containment of the fire, and expect to have it completely contained by tomorrow…
Denver is big on bikes — but is it big enough? The Alliance for Biking and Walking ranks Colorado twelfth in the nation for “bicycle friendliness.” Bicycling Magazine also lists Denver as the twelfth best bicycling city in the nation…
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of reports about biking and bike safety in Denver and beyond. If you’re a cycling fan, the good news is that a lot more folks are biking in Denver and the city is spending significantly more money to build paths for…
“Better cities, better entrepreneurs…and vice versa,” proclaims [i4c], which is running a contest to make things better for three entrepreneurial ventures. The prime mover behind [i4c] is Galvanize, an organization founded last October that’s dedicated to “growing start-ups through capital, community and curriculum.” And now the finalists have been announced…
One handy gauge for checking on the relative financial health of the world’s one-percenters can be found right here in Colorado — well, okay, the other Colorado, the one populated with champagne wishes and caviar dreams. And the latest figures for real estate transactions in the Gucci-padded wonderland known as…
Exactly six months after Arapahoe County District Court blocked Marla Sneed’s house from foreclosure, the 53-year-old mother of three is back to square one. Or perhaps square negative one: Earlier this week, she received a letter from PNC Bank demanding a payment of more than $42,000 by July 15 lest…
Here’s the problem: In Denver, 56 percent of public school fourth graders are not proficient in reading — a measurement that experts say is closely linked to dropout rates, graduation rates and possibly even incarceration. It’s an alarming trend that is much worse for minority and low-income students. And it’s…
Denver blog posts have the music in them. Purple Row’s Andrew T. Fisher mulls the possible benching of Todd Helton, an all-time Rockies great who’s currently slumping in a very big way. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on Obama, Romney, Hispanic voters and the Associated Press. Colorado Pols: If Joe Coors…
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of reports about biking and bike safety in Denver and beyond. Denver has dramatically increased its spending on bike lanes and other bike-related projects over the last six years, and for good reason. The advocacy group BikeDenver reports a major increase…
Marijuana, even of the medical variety, remains illegal at the federal level — meaning that dispensary owners can’t take business deductions on tax returns they submit to the feds. But since MMJ is legal in Colorado, shouldn’t they be able to deduct legitimate business expenses on state forms? Mitch Woolhiser,…
Update by Michael Roberts: We’ve now go more details about the vote yesterday that averted a possible strike by 2,300 janitors working in the Denver area. According to the Service Employees International Union Local 105, the vote in favor of the four-year pact, which was tentatively reached less than 24…
Last week, in a post by Sam Levin, Mayor Michael Hancock described as a distraction speculation that Denver police officer Celena Hollis’s suspected murderer was a gang member. That’s the sort of assertion guaranteed to spur conversation. Here’s the response of a reader left dizzy by Hancock’s approach to the…
