Students at the University of Colorado Denver will be able to take a new class on conservative thought this summer thanks to the efforts of the Leadership Institute, a Virginia-based organization dedicated to taking campuses back in time. The class, Conservative Political Thought in America, incorporates the writings of some…
Both Pitkin and Summit County are finally getting around to making laws governing medical marijuana shops. This move comes more than two years after the first medical marijuana centers opened in the counties…
It’s the stuff of Saturday-morning cartoons and “The Far Side:” a hapless postal carrier being chased around the neighborhood by the family dog. But the vicious attack on a Denver postal carrier on Monday demonstrated that mail carriers face real danger even on their regular routes. In fact, Denver ranks…
First, he said he “misspoke” when he said that Barack Obama — the President of the United States — was “not an American.” Then he tried to explain away the comment as “boneheaded.” And Congressman Mike Coffman — usually a sensible public servant — continued to act bone-, as well…
A few years after Harold and Kumar visited White Castle — but before they escaped from Guantanamo Bay — Kumar Patel’s real-life alter ego, Kal Penn, served a two-year-stint as the associate director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement. In 2008, the House and 24 star campaigned in…
Denver blog posts are not related to Rod Blagojevich. Mile High Report fan poster metalman5050’s post questioning John Elway’s claim that the team doesn’t have a Plan B in case Peyton Manning is hurt has generated an amazing 380 comments. Good reading. The Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard on a poll…
John stings, or undercover operations where a cop — usually a female cop — poses as a prostitute to catch men willing to pay for sex, are more rare than stings in which the roles are reversed. This week, the Denver police announced the arrests of 29 people as the…
After a long delay, CU-Boulder has finally released the figures about how much it spent to shrink the annual 4/20 event on campus. The administration doled out $124,561.34, while student government spent $154,236.18. CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard thinks those numbers should be considered separately, rather than as a combined $278,797.52…
Last month, we shared word that the Denver Post planned to lay off two-thirds of its copy editors — a number estimated by sources as sixteen. Turns out that was a bit high: Only eleven are exiting, with a severance package as a parting gift, because several staffers from other…
Our post about Rachel Maddow’s takedown of Mike Coffman over his recent birther comments spurred lots of vituperative debate in the comments section. Here’s the view of a reader who feels that laughing off Coffman’s comments or dismissing him as a fringe character are the wrong tactics…
The school year’s ending for lotsa students — and so is our salute to bizarre classroom posters from the ’70s. Our first batch of rare finds featured captions, while our second and third groupings didn’t, so we came up with our own. Ditto in regard to our fourth showcase of…
Medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones was recently acquitted after not one but two trips to court in relation to what law enforcers counted as 140 plants — a figure Jones’s attorney, Rob Corry, questions. However, Corry has no doubt the prosecution of his client was an enormous waste of taxpayer…
Yesterday, we recapped how Rachel Maddow had made Mike Coffman a national laughingstock over recent birther comments and his bizarre interview with 9News’ Kyle Clark, when he said he stood by his statement that he misspoke and he apologized five times in a row. Now, plenty of Maddow’s MSNBC colleagues…
This dispensary has closed. Originally in Five Points on Welton Street, the Silver Lizard preemptively moved to its current location last January because of its proximity to a school. Though the move undid all the staff’s work on Welton, it seems to have worked out for the best, and the…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. The first time Magalie Lerman knew she had a drug problem was not the first time she overdosed. Nor did she realize the second time. Today, Lerman is two and a half years sober…
This week’s feature, “Sucker Punch,” traces how an assault at a heavy metal concert turned into a habitual criminal prosecution in Arapahoe County, with one of the defendants facing a mountain of time while the other got probation. In the three-way race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District,…
Denver blog posts are a mile high. Denver Frank: Let’s all sing “The IKEA Song!” The Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard offers a progressive Colorado scoreboard for the recently wrapped legislative session. The Ralphie Report’s Jon Woods on the transfer of Shannon Sharpe. No, not that Shannon Sharpe…
Update below: In October 2010, Denver Policeman Hector Paez was booked on a sexual assault charge for allegedly coercing a woman to perform oral sex on him to avoid going to jail. Last September, a mistrial was declared in his case, which is slated for this winter. But his accuser…
Micah True, the world-famous “ultrarunner” who was found dead in New Mexico in April, was profiled Sunday in a mammoth New York Times piece by Barry Bearak, who described True’s days as a furniture mover and prizefighter in Boulder. That’s when True, then going by the moniker “The Gypsy Cowboy,”…
Yesterday, Doctor Who fans in Boulder reportedly hacked a highway sign, changing its message to “WARNING DALECKS AHEAD.” These sci-fi fanatics are hardly the first pranksters to pull off such a stunt. Here’s a collection of ten more examples of road-sign hackery. Count down to the best ones below…
As the Hewlett fire near Fort Collins wound down, we noted that James Weber, who admits to accidentally starting it, may be on the hook for restitution in the $3 million range. One reader questions the fairness of such a charge given that the Colorado Forest Service concedes a prescribed…
Ever wonder who can afford to go to presidential fundraisers? Or who gets to attend without paying big bucks? We asked photog Christopher Morgan to find out during yesterday’s event at the Hyatt Hotel, which President Barack Obama highlighted shortly after delivering the commencement address at the Air Force Academy…
