Should bakers and cake-makers be able to sell delicious wares made in home kitchens at farmer’s markets and roadside stands? That’s the question lawmakers will debate today when they take up House Bill 12-1027, the so-called “cottage food bill.” Sponsored by Republican Representative Laura Bradford, the measure would allow counties…
The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. “I tried to understand why we didn’t care about the environment or the aftermath,” she says. “I…
Update: On Tuesday night, 9News announced that sacked Mullen High School coach Dave Logan, who’s also a KOA radio personality and voice of the Denver Broncos, would be the next head coach for Cherry Creek High. The Denver Post countered by claiming the deal wasn’t done yet, publicly disagreeing with…
Update: We now know the name of the second person killed in a quadruple shooting at the Timberland Apartments in Colorado Springs on Tuesday: Andrew Encalade, age 23. If that name sounds familiar, it should. His older brother Adam, age 26, was injured in the gunplay but survived…
According to keynote speaker and DU prof Sam Kamin, “Marijuana at the Crossroads,” a Sturm College of Law symposium that starts tomorrow (see the schedule below), aims to get beyond the usual pot palaver. Sample subject: Are attorneys breaking their professional oath simply by specializing in medical marijuana?…
As we’ve noted in this space before, interesting comments beget interesting comments — something that was proven again after we shared the all-capped thoughts of a pit bull lover earlier this week. Here, a reader suggests that pit bull blame is being misdirected…
How did CU land New Jersey cornerback Yuri Wright, a top 100 recruit coveted by plenty of other major universities? Part of the thanks go to a series of profane tweets that got him expelled from his prep school — after the football season was over, of course. Most mainstream…
To pot prohibition supporters, Operation Sweet Leaf, a raid on 25 reputed cannabis grows, paints the picture of growing criminality that begs for a police crackdown. But Mason Tvert, one of the main proponents of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, which recently submitted about 160,000 signatures aimed at landing…
Victoria Jackson doesn’t want to meet at her house. “The Nation of Islam wants to kill me,” she explains apologetically in her inimitable shrill voice. Instead, she picks up a reporter at a Miami-area strip mall. Her weathered Honda Civic is adorned with “Nobama,” Marco Rubio, and Tea Party bumper…
Over the past few years, Boulder has ranked as America’s healthiest, happiest, brainiest, foodiest, most sustainable and worst dressed city — the list goes on. More recently, the University of Colorado at Boulder was named the top party school. So it’s no surprise that CU has topped another list –…
Tonight is the night RedPeak Properties will finally release its draft drawing of three five-story apartment buildings it plans to build near Highland Square that have caused so much neighborhood uproar. Of course, last Wednesday was supposed to be that night, as well. That meeting was delayed until tonight so…
As part of a Medical Marijuana Day of Action prompted by U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s seizure letters to 23 dispensaries near schools, the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA) held a rally outside the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, whose approach to allegedly fraudulent MMJ license applications…
In the next few weeks, federal regulators will decide whether the Upper Colorado River needs additional protections in the face of growing demands from thirsty Front Range towns. Which is why hikers, rafters, anglers, and people interested in the economic future of Grand County will be gathering outside the EPA…
Denver blog posts front and center. Mile High Report’s Ian Henson on who might succeed Dennis Allen as Denver’s D-coordinator. Free Colorado’s Ari Armstrong brews up a Tea Party survey. Denver Egotist asks: Would this ad make you come to ski in Colorado?…
A group of parents associated with the Ricardo Flores Magon Academy is airing its concerns about the charter school, which was the subject of our recent feature story, “A Hard Line.” They’re circulating a petition to remove the school’s leader, Marcos Martinez, and have sent a list of concerns to…
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is the country’s most powerful cannabis advocacy organization, and it’s long had a close link to Colorado, which hosted its 40th anniversary conference last year. But relations between NORML and Colorado’s medical marijuana community are strained due to comments by…
Of all the constitutional freedoms cited in defense of the Occupy movement, the First Amendment is staked most territorially. But in Occupy Boulder, attorneys defending protesters arrested for illegal camping are using the Fourth Amendment in a push to dismiss evidence gathered when police officers opened tents to look inside…
Our interview with Law Enforcement Against Prohibition executive director Neill Franklin, who co-wrote a letter criticizing U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s seizure threat to 23 dispensaries near schools attracted many comments that went beyond the subject at hand. Example: this list athletes who one reader counts among notable pot aficionados…
Several times in early February 2009, Jennifer Boynton would leave her Northglenn apartment with the intention of getting in her car and leaving. It was only once she was staring at her empty parking space that she remembered her car had been totaled the morning of February 2, when a…
The hearse that carried John F. Kennedy’s body from a Dallas hospital to Air Force One one fateful November day in 1963 is coming to Boulder. Developer and car collector Stephen Tebo — not, not that Tebow — picked it up for $176,000, and he says that one day it’ll…
U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s seizure letters to 23 dispensaries near schools — and his promise that he’s not bluffing — has led to protests from national organizations like Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). Now, local groups are staging a Medical Marijuana Day of Action, which includes a letter-writing campaign and…
Bodhi the elephant has a new buddy. The Denver Zoo has welcomed its second male elephant, a 41-year-old named Groucho who came from the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas to live in the Denver Zoo’s new mega-exhibit, Toyota Elephant Passage. He’s a big boy: At 11,000 pounds, Groucho is now…
