Yesterday, Bob Doyle, executive director for the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance, touted a resolution calling for the Colorado Board of Health to oppose test-marketing of dissolvable tobacco products by R.J. Reynolds under names like Camel Orbs. The board supported this notion, but R.J. Reynolds has brushed off the…
Disgraced pastor turned media whore Ted Haggard has agreed to appear on Celebrity Wife Swap — and will trade significant others with Gary Busey. And no, this isn’t a post from The Onion. Having failed with his own reality-show attempt, Hag’s apparently now open to all comers, as it were…
Lobbyist Ronald Smith has rubbed shoulders with plenty of important politicos, including Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper — but he could soon find himself keeping company with a more captive crowd. He faces nearly two decades in stir after being found guilty of bizarre retribution against his ex-wife, including putting raw…
“Leave It to Beaver,” Alan Prendergast, September 15 Give a Dam I never thought I would read a cover story about beavers (or that Westword would devote its cover to actual beavers, rather than the kinky-sex version), but I read every word of Alan Prendergast’s excellent story about Sherri Tippie…
This week’s feature story, “Clear Thinking: Vodka makers hope pure spring water from Colorado pushes them to the top shelf,” focuses on Spring44, a Colorado-based company whose inspiration comes from a natural spring in the middle of Roosevelt National Forest, a spring that also supplies a key ingredient for the…
Last week, America was introduced to Jim Rice, former Wall Street suit-turned-poker player-turned-Denver medical marijuana dispensary owner. Jim Rice “survived.” And while he quickly became somewhat of a focal point of that episode for causing waves, Rice played it cool this week and positioned himself for the long run…
Trees need lots of things to grow: dirt, water, sunlight. And in the case of now-Governor John Hickenlooper’s ambitious plan to plant a million trees in metro Denver by 2025, they also need cold, hard cash. As such, the tree-planting initiative, called The Mile High Million, is hosting its first-ever…
The news that “lobbyist lawyer” Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum’s law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ,…
Stem cell research comes with a generous handful of misconceptions. The first, of course, is that the science deals entirely with embryonic cells. The second, it would seem, is that it’s difficult. Within the next three weeks, IntelliCell, a publicly traded stem cell research company, will open a lab facility…
Read Denver blog posts and you’ll grow up to be big and strong. BigMedia.org’s Jason Salzman on Mike Coffman joining the crowd referring to Social Security as a Ponzi scheme. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic reports that paywalls at the Greeley Tribune and other Swift Communications newspapers in Colorado are on…
This week marked the official end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy that allowed gays and lesbians to serve in the U.S. military so long as command didn’t learn about their sexuality. Luiza Fritz, who was discharged in 2008 for being a lesbian, would like to continue her service,…
Longtime UFC fighter Quinton “Rampage” Jackson has gone on to become one of UFC’s most valuable prize fighters, even defeating Chuck Lidell in 2007. But how is he preparing for this Saturday’s fight, UFC 135 at the Pepsi Center in Denver? We headed into his training facility to find out…
We here at Mile Highs and Lows are up to our ears in weed. We’re also pretty busy with weed news, too, which is why we’ve decided to bring on an intern. That’s right: We are looking for a college student to fill what is likely the first medical marijuana…
Is R.J. Reynolds, the massive tobacco conglomerate, trying to get kids hooked on nicotine via new dissolvable tobacco products bearing more than a passing resemblance to breath mints? Bob Doyle, executive director of the Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance, says yes, and this afternoon, he’s asking the state Board…
Kyle Garratt’s analysis of a recent ESPN Outside the Lines feature on Tim Tebow touched on the debate about whether or not the QB’s overt declarations of faith make him a polarizing figure. Our readers continued the conversation. Here’s one whose own Christianity doesn’t stop him from wondering about Tebow’s…
Update: Yesterday, we speculated that the Lakewood Police Department had a pretty good idea regarding suspects in the slaying of Juan Carlos — and that proved to be the case. The LPD has issued arrest warrants for two men: Justin Martinez and Mark Sepulveda, who goes by the nickname “Blizzo.”…
Cooper the chihuahua undoubtedly has many fine qualities, but long legs and an ability to run at great speed aren’t among them. Which helps explain why yoga instructor and acupuncturist Joan Zalk has been charged with animal cruelty — for walking Cooper while driving her car…
Jeremy Shipley reportedly did something a lot of us do at one time or another — got a little tipsy, then discovered he’d locked himself out of his apartment and tried to climb in a window. Problem is, said window was on the fourth floor. He soon fell and died…
Update: Earlier this week, we reported about how T-shirts featuring a buffalo mounting a ram and the slogan “Ram This” were confiscated at Saturday’s CU-CSU Rocky Mountain Showdown. We’ve now heard from the facility’s general manager, and he admits that the shirt seizures were against stadium policy and never should…
Pity the poor Rocky Ford cantaloupe, vilified across the country even though the listeria-inducing culprit actually came from Jensen Farms, a third-generation family operation in Holly, almost a hundred miles away from Rocky Ford. But those farmers of southeastern Colorado have little recourse. Even though Colorado is the only state…
After receiving $13 million to design DIA’s new south terminal hotel and commuter rail station, architect Santiago Calatrava abruptly quit the project because it lacked sufficient funding. Mayor Michael Hancock and DIA manager Kim Day claim to own Calatrava’s designs and will proceed to complete his world-class architectural vision on…
The Denver Zoo is the greenest zoo in the country, according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which awarded the zoo its first-ever (and aptly titled) Green Award. So what makes the Denver Zoo so environmentally friendly? One of the reasons has to do with elephant poop. Mounds and…
