Business interests and politicians such as Governor John Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock have come out against the 2011 Denver Paid Sick Days Initiative. But the proponents at Campaign for a Healthy Denver are fighting back with an event today and a video that promotes the cause via a tie-in…
These aren’t fat times — but plenty of places in Colorado are doing very well, according to G. Scott Thomas, who oversees the On Numbers blog for Business Journals publications. He’s ranked the affluence of 14,214 U.S. cities, towns and villages with populations of 1,000 or more. As for Colorado’s…
A few weeks back, we reviewed the Enjoy Jar, a four-part herb container meant to keep your strains separated from one another. After the review, the folks at Enjoy sent us a few more for the office. Instead of hoarding them for ourselves, we figured that we’d offer them up…
West High School has a new addition to its airplane hangar. (How many of you knew West even had an airplane hangar?) Yesterday, the U.S. Air Force Academy donated a jet engine to DPS’s Aircraft Maintenance Program, which is offered through the Emily Griffith Technical College but taught at West…
A third-grader at Foothill Elementary in Boulder brought a couple of unusual items to school yesterday: two live bullets. He’s still alive, too, even though he pounded one of the bullets with a rock. But is he looking at mandatory punishment under post-Columbine zero-tolerance policies a state panel wants to…
Denver blog posts for sale. Price? Free! Purple Row’s Andrew T. Fischer focuses on the future now that the Rockies have been officially eliminated from the NL West race. At Square State, Kathryn C. Wallace offers proof that all elections matter. Denver Frank shares a PSA titled “Drive Recklessly.” Thought-provoking…
Inspired by the 1999 assault on Columbine High School and the horrific roster of school shootings since then, officials developed a “zero tolerance” approach to disciplining students whose actions touch on violence, no matter how tangentially. Now, a panel appointed by the state legislature has decided that the policy isn’t…
In the handy guide detailed below, the Rocky Ford Clean Melon Queen shows you how to avoid listeria contamination by following these eight easy steps to clean Colorado cantaloupes…..
The results of a 2011 Ad Age survey measuring the consumption of media by type, generation and time of day balance affirmations of long-held suspicions with a few surprises. There are a few things we already knew. For instance, four in ten 18- to 29-year-olds spend their evenings watching TV…
Last week, we reported on the mounting criticism of Aaron Million’s proposed 550-mile pipeline to deliver water to the Front Range. The opponents’ campaign is just beginning, though — as new billboards take that message to the public and to water officials considering the Flaming Gorge pipeline at a meeting…
In 1993, the body of Alie Berrelez, age five, was found days after her disappearance. The case has haunted her family ever since. But today, more than eighteen years later, the Englewood Police Department has announced that new technology uncovered DNA in Alie’s underwear that points toward Nicholas Stofer, the…
Our post yesterday about the security response apparently related to Frontier airline passengers trying to join the Mile High Club on the 9/11 anniversary (we’ve now learned air sickness was the actual spur) drew quite the reaction from one reader, who thinks we’re just a leeetle too obsessed with sex…
The new-look Denver Broncos fell to the Oakland Raiders last night just like the old-look version has lately. But the team’s fans still kick ass, as is clear from photog Brandon Marshall’s gallery of shots from last night. Look below to check out the most memorable tailgaters, decked out in…
We tend to think of fire extinguishers as dampening trouble rather than causing it to flare up. But that wasn’t the case late last night at a Colorado Springs apartment at which police say a fire extinguisher was used as a weapon by a crew of goons…
Question for all those optimists expecting to see the Denver Broncos leave the Josh McDaniels debacle behind them: How are you feeling this morning? Depressed, probably — because all the flaws that led to McD’s ouster were still on view in their 23-20 home loss to the dreaded Raiders, including…
The headline potential is almost too good to be true: A movie called The Worst Movie EVER! hauls in the worst opening-weekend box office ever, selling exactly one ticket for a total gross of $11. And yet it is true, and it happened to Glenn Berggoetz, a Metro State professor…
“Kink of the Jungle,” Jenn Wohletz, September 8 Sex Marks the Spot I am a pro dominatrix (dominant surrogate) here in the Denver area, and have been for over a decade now. The people who schedule with me are everyday human beings who have very normal lives. They are successful,…
The roar of our all-terrain vehicles sends birds and chipmunks fleeing as we grind our way up the mountainside. We are high above the Roaring Fork Valley, skirting the edge of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area. The view is spectacular, a jaw-dropping vista of craggy peaks hovering over wildflower-studded meadows…
Despite rumors that state licenses wouldn’t be issued until next year at the earliest, several medical marijuana clinic owners in the mountains say they have reached the final stages of the application process and are within weeks of getting the final okay from the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division…
If you told Rockies fans at the beginning of the year that on September 11, Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Todd Helton would not be playing and the highlight of the game for a sub-.500 team would be a 6-foot-5 rookie pitcher from Mississippi, they might have punched you in…
Denver Public Schools board members — and their credit cards — have been making headlines ever since Education News Colorado uncovered that more than one overspent their $5,000 annual budget, with Westword cover subject Andrea Merida leading the pack. This week, the board is poised to take the next steps…
Denver blogs posts take a licking and keep on ticking. BigMedia.org’s Jason Salzman on a radio listener saying Michelle Obama recalls Planet of the Apes — and host Jimmy Lakey guffawing. Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams on federal loan guarantees earmarked for a southern Colorado solar plant. Geeks Who Drink…
