Denver blog posts shoot…and score! Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson thinks Nugs Danilo Gallinari and Arron Afflalo have done a vanishing act versus the Lakers thus far. Big Media’s Jason Salzman offers tips for covering Cinco de Mayo. Denver Egotist touts an experimental short by We Drink It Black. Color us…
Update: At this point, neither representatives of the Denver Post nor the folks at the Denver Newspaper Guild seem eager to talk in detail about a plan to lay off two-thirds of the copy editors at the paper of record. However, we’ve gotten more information about the likely fallout. In…
Jeffrey Wells, a Department of Corrections parole officer based in Grand Junction, is well regarded by his fellow employees, who recently named him top employee of the quarter. But he’s less venerated by John Morgan and three other parolees, who are currently suing him for allegedly forging documents in order…
The Senate’s passage of a THC driving-limit bill fired up loads o’ readers, with most of them alarmed by the legislation. Amid the criticism, though, was this interesting observation about distracted driving…
Women in Denver are arrested for prostitution-related crimes more often than men and are punished more harshly, according to “Who Pays?,” a new study by the Denver-based Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. The question of why is still a bit of a mystery, but researchers think it may be tied…
Beginning at 9:45 a.m., Spirit Airlines will celebrate its return to Denver International Airport with a slew of events, including the first landing of a flight from the discount carrier in eight years. But something else is arriving along with this Las Vegas-to-Denver junket — terrible publicity related to call…
This past weekend, Denver police began investigating the death of a woman on South Bryant Street as a homicide. Since then, the DPD has launched a manhunt for Pedro Rios Lopez, who’s accused of murdering his estranged wife, Berta Rios Lopez, and leaving her body to be found by her…
Every story about Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer, including our cover story this week by Caleb Hannan, prominently features the word “old.” But because, rightly or wrongly, that word can have a negative connotation in our society, we decided to focus for once on something young in relation to the 49-year-old…
Two strangers get into a dustup at a nightspot for no good reason: It’s an incredibly common story that’s probably happening at this very moment somewhere on the planet. But an incident that took place at the Oasis Hookah Bar stands out because it’s being investigated as a bias-motivated crime…
In 2007, having served with distinction during two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force firefighter John Brownfield Jr. took a job as a correctional officer at the maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, 40 miles south of Colorado Springs. Ten months later prison officials caught the…
Shocker: The Partnership at Drugfree.org conducted a study on teen marijuana use, and the results are not positive. Equally big shocker: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who never misses an opportunity to criticize medical marijuana, is using the report to climb on the anti-cannabis soapbox again…
Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we’ve tried to aid the rehabilitation process by offering newly convicted felons some insiders’ advice for that difficult transition to life behind bars. We’ve provided former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio with tips on maintaining personal hygiene and avoiding snitches and bewildered newbies help in…
The best reason to have Jamie Moyer in the Colorado Rockies clubhouse is that he’s a good pitcher with the team’s best earned-run average. The second best reason is that it means the Rockies hitters don’t have to face him. The subject of this week’s cover story, “For 49-year-old pitcher…
Denver blog posts bring the pain — and pleasure. The Colorado Independent’s Troy Hooper on Michael Bennet arguing on Fox News, of all places, that allowing the wind tax credit to expire would cost thousands of Colorado jobs. Who Said You Said questions Diana DeGette’s position on the U.S. Postal…
Yesterday’s May Day events brought together protesters across the world in support of workers’ rights, with Occupy Denver joining other activist communities on marches, teach-ins and direct actions. But while Seattle erupted in scenes of violence and New York witnessed more than thirty general strike arrests, Denver experienced relatively few…
Yesterday afternoon, the Colorado Senate approved Senator Steve King’s THC driving bill by an 18-17 vote thanks to the support of Senator Nancy Spence, who’d recommended additional study for a similar measure that fell short of passage last year. Now, the proposal is headed to the Colorado House, and NORML,…
As Kelsey Whipple reported, the Denver City Council gave preliminary approval to an urban camping ban earlier this week. The issue divided the overflow crowd attending the public hearing on the issue, and it’s dividing our readers, too. Here’s a comment from someone in favor of the ban…
The morning after Denver Post execs detailed copy-editor layoffs at an employee meeting, the paper ballyhooed its rising circulation figures. But a local journalist crunched the numbers, and he thinks the news is worse than advertised due to “fuzzy math” that attempts to disguise a major decline in the print…
Colorado is under attack! By Miller moths! This earlier-than-usual invasion has inspired plenty of grumbling, as well as Melanie Asmar’s list earlier this week of the top five alternative uses for the irritating little buggers. Note that Asmar didn’t include anything about moths causing car crashes — but that appears…
Our collection of photos from Barack Obama’s visit to The Sink in Boulder included an absolutely hilarious shot of CU student Madalyn Starkey mugging alongside the Prez — one so funny that she soon became a major media darling, Internet sensation and memes subject; see examples below. But that doesn’t…
After the Nuggets’ desultory game one loss to the Lakers in their first-round playoffs matchup, there were legitimate questions about whether Denver even belonged in the same arena as Kobe Bryant and his L.A. crew. Game two was considerably less humiliating, with the Nugs making the Angelenos work a little…
In January, Senator Morgan Carroll told us she feared Senator Steve King’s reboot of the THC driving bill would be difficult to kill due to a clever maneuver that avoided her committee — and the tricks didn’t stop there. The measure appeared to die on the Senate floor a short…
