Editor’s Note: The following is a guest-post by Chuck Strouse, editor-in-chief of Westword’s sister paper, the Miami New Times. It’s video side-bar to Strouse’s piece that ran in Westword this week, “Welcome back, Jim Crow: A tradition of keeping African-Americans voters from the polls.”As I show in my column this…
To keep up with the world’s exploding population, farmers will have to produce more food over the next fifty years than during the past 10,000 years combined. Given environmental issues and a scarcity of fossil resources, this daunting task seems almost impossible. But it’s a problem 31-year-old John-Paul Maxfield is…
Compared to the billions-a-day standard flow rate of tax dollars pouring into and out of Washington, $25 million amounts to scarcely more than chump change. But the passage of an amendment by Congressman Jared Polis yesterday, cutting that amount in oil shale subsidies, is a remarkable break with what adds…
Denver blog posts put their money where their cyber-mouth is. The Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard on ProgressNow’s 2,000-signature petition asking Mike Coffman to stop embarrassing Colorado. Bet local birthers were unhappy for another reason. Denver Frank: That’s the power of Pine-Sol, baby. Denver Egotist touts a free season-finale Mad Men…
Yesterday, the Denver City Council’s Businesses, Workforce and Sustainability Committee voted in favor of an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana advertising within 1,000 feet of schools, daycares, parks and rec centers. It’s a proposal Cannabis Business Alliance executive director Shawn Coleman actively supports as a way of preventing larger,…
This afternoon, just over a year after the Colorado Supreme Court agreed to hear the Ward Churchill case, attorney David Lane will appear before the jurists to argue why the professor, who was fired by CU-Boulder for reasons he sees as payback for a controversial 911 essay, should get his…
Yesterday, Patricia Calhoun wrote about former Westword cover boy Ali Hasan, who recently shared a lengthy essay about going through rehabilitation for sex addiction. In our comments section, Hasan took exception to Calhoun’s assertion that the experience added a “scandalous line to his resume.”…
As recently as 2008, linebacker Nate Webster was lowering the boom on opponents as a member of the Denver Broncos. But now he’s got a new team…of inmates. Webster’s been sentenced to twelve years for sex with the daughter of a onetime assistant coach with his previous team, the Cincinnati…
The death of author Ray Bradbury this week touched millions of readers worldwide. But it had very personal significance to Colorado Springs’ Barry Hoffman, who first made contact with Bradbury around a quarter-century ago, published limited editions of his work on his Springs-based Gauntlet Press imprint, and facilitated a unique…
FOUND Magazine, and the books it inspired, are exactly what they sound like, except more glorious and way more voyeuristic. Fans send in context-free notes, letters and photos created by strangers and discovered in classrooms, on street corners and spaces in between — and our fair state fares swimmingly in…
Update: The Denver Police Department has now released a mug shot of Andrew Simpson, the man accused in the brutal hit and run that ended the life of DU student Masoud Bahramisasharif — one that may have been preceded by a trip to a bar and a quest to buy…
How’d you sleep last night? If your answer includes “uninterrupted,” you’re in the minority among residents from the Denver area south to Colorado Springs thanks to a series of severe storms that spawned flash flooding, tornado warnings (and a DIA twister), lightning blasts and more, as you can see by…
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this month on legislation that forces police to scrutinize Latinos, both immigrants and citizens. President Barack Obama has deported 1.5 million people. And 41 states are attempting to limit the voting rights of young people and minorities. In “Crossing the Line,” Village Voice Media…
When and how should foster parents intervene in court cases involving the children in their care? That’s the question at the center of a case that the Colorado Supreme Court will hear tomorrow. It could be said the case started five years ago when the Montezuma County Department of Human…
From Pennsylvania to West Virginia (and Colorado), pictures of bright orange, iron-laced water pouring down streams and out of kitchen faucets have been shared by activists to demonstrate the dangers of coal mining. But one photo scheduled for display before Congress’ energy and mineral resources subcommittee was deemed “inappropriate” by…
One of the few hotly contested primary races in Colorado elections this year is the brawl between Leslie Hansen and George Brauchler over who will be the Republican candidate for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, vying to succeed Carol Chambers as top prosecutor in one of the state’s…
Denver blog posts bleed orange. Broncos Report defies the conventional wisdom that Peyton Manning is one hit away from a career-ending neck re-injury. Colorado Ed News: Jessica Keigan feels teachers must lead policy. Square State’s Zappatero on criticism of Mike Rosen’s Denver Post birther column — in the Denver Post…
Ten acres of habitat just wasn’t enough for Rinny the tapir. This morning, the 800-pound black-and-white mammal briefly escaped from her new home at the Denver Zoo’s brand new exhibit, Toyota Elephant Passage, and went on an adventure to a fenced-in landscape area. Rinny’s entire excursion lasted five minutes and…
They’re getting close! Updates to Civic Center Park have shuttered many of its features for months as crews repair work funded by $9.5 million from the Denver Better Bond Project. Surrounded by fences, the park closed to the public in March and partially re-opened in April, and now there’s an…
Last November, we introduced you to ThanksObamacare.org, a local website aiming to transform “Obamacare” from an attack label used by opponents of the 2010 health-care law to a term of endearment. This week, the site’s released a new video, “Don’t Deny Us,” which expands on this theme as political observers…
The tributes continue to roll in for Salida’s Ed Quillen, a veteran contributor to the Denver Post who died of a heart attack on Sunday. Here’s a sample — a salute to a specific column that demonstrated the qualities that set Quillen apart from the lion’s share of his peers…
Denver’s continuing pit bull ban remains a controversy lightning rod, with lovers of the breed putting blame for problems on owners even as critics see this type of dog as inherently dangerous. Now, two biting incidents involving pit-bull mixes in Larimer County (one dog is seen here) have revved up…
