When Gosia Kung moved from Krakow, Poland, to Denver at 25, she immediately gained twenty pounds. This has a lot to do with the fact that she stopped walking everywhere. While she never applied for a driver’s license in her dense urban home city, it was first on her list…
In which counties are Colorado children at the most risk? The Colorado Early Childhood Needs Assessment, a just-released report, answers that question via reams of data on infant and child deaths, child poverty numbers and high school dropout rates. So how does Denver measure up?…
Denver blog posts work hard for the money. Mile High Report’s KaptainKirk notes that Tim Tebow has signed with the William Morris talent agency for his off-the-field endeavors, which haven’t included acting thus far. But if this football thing doesn’t work out…. Free Colorado’s Ari Armstrong sees Secretary of State…
Somewhere Byron “Whizzer” White is smiling. The late, great University of Colorado football star and U.S. Supreme Court Justice never cared much for his colleagues’ bleeding-heart Miranda decision back in 1966, which required that suspects in custody must be advised of their rights before being interrogated. And this week, the…
We don’t enjoy busting on Denver cops and sheriff’s deputies. They have dangerous jobs, they don’t make much money, and if I hear something go bump in the night, you better believe I’ll call them…
Yesterday, a member of the Englewood Police Department shot and killed a man outside a Walgreens store. And the dead man was notorious long before he breathed his last. Jeremiah Barnum was at the center of what former Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher once described as “Denver’s most famous hate-crime…
William Breathes’s post about the upcoming debate about the resurrected THC driving bill inspired plenty of cyber-conversation about Senator Steve King’s proposal. Here’s one reader’s attempt to demonstrate the differences between measuring alcohol and marijuana impairment…
At a certain age, kids want to go to public restrooms unaccompanied. But parents always worry about bad things happening there — and the story of David Rigoulot illustrates why. Rigoulot has been given a three-years-to-life sentence for entering a bathroom stall with an eight-year old and touching his genitals…
Update: The decision to stage a “Fuck the Police” rally is controversial even for the Occupy Denver members who support Saturday’s event — get details below. Still, occupier Tim Holland explains why the organization as a whole hasn’t signed on: While Occupy Denver (by which he means the entire group…
The private information of as many as two dozen medical marijuana patients was improperly handled, according to 7News. The John Ferrugia report claims that “sensitive information in the medical marijuana registry, including names, dates of births and Social Security numbers” were sent out via mail, stapled to a packet of…
The local Team Pit-A-Full organization continues to push an online petition against breed-specific legislation exemplified by Denver’s pit bull ban. But such efforts are complicated by stories like one out of Colorado Springs, in which Bud Linton, pictured, shot a pit bull dead after it allegedly attacked not one, not…
Our tour of new college meme pages has featured CU Boulder, Colorado State University, UNC, Colorado College, DU, Metro State, Colorado Mesa University and Colorado School of Mines. Today, though, let’s laugh along with our neighbors to the north, by sampling the cleverly named University of Wyoming Memes for Great…
In the wake of the Kyle Dyer on-air dog bite incident, 9News was accused of downplaying the story by declining to run the video and encouraging other outlets to follow suit. Now, though, the criticism has taken a turn, with some media observers accusing the station of exploiting the bite…
Apparently marijuana isn’t as easy for teens to get as pot opponents argue. Otherwise, would there be a market for spice, also known as synthetic marijuana? Police believe the demand was high at a Sun Mart near East High School — the site of a prominent bust in which investigators…
My first real experience with cannabis genetics involved smuggled Northern Lights seeds from the Picasso coffee shop in Amsterdam. Though I was just a kid and what I grew wasn’t anything to brag about, the experience gave me a new love for the plant…
“That happened at my stepmom’s school, Columbine,” says one Girl Scout, about eleven years old, at the front of the group. “They shot lots of people.” Behind her, another Girl Scout asks where Columbine is. Another just asks, “Why?” Too young to have read about the event in the papers…
The Harm Reduction Action Center has a new home, in a storefront at 733 Santa Fe Drive, and a new program: the city’s second legal syringe exchange, something the nonprofit has advocated for for years. “It’s been 21 months since Governor Ritter signed this into legislation,” says director Lisa Raville…
Representative Wes McKinley wants to save the earth with hemp, and not in some philosophical, hippie-dippy way either. Through a bill he has introduced this session that would study how hemp plants clean contaminated soil, McKinley is hoping to eventually revive industrial hemp production in Colorado and the rest of…
Denver blog posts tweets #WelcometoColorado. Mile High Report’s KaptainKirk links to a CBS Sports post quoting Broncos coach John Fox insisting that Tim Tebow and Brady Quinn are close and hinting that Quinn might return to the team. Really? Colorado Pols notes that independent expenditure groups are already taking aim…
Senator Steve King’s proposed THC driving bill, which would set an intoxication standard of five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood for medical marijuana patients and a zero-tolerance level for non-patients, is up for discussion on Monday. And opponents are gearing up for a fight…
This morning’s out-of-the-blue snowstorm is already over: #WelcometoColorado. Right now, this Twitter hashtag is trending — and it may stay popular for a while, since it works for pretty much any observation that’s uniquely CO. Check out some Mile High samples of fresh tweets below…
It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week’s feature, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth.” Perry was among several inmates considered strong candidates for clemency — all of whom were serving disproportionately long sentences and appeared to…
