Booze and the airline industry aren’t good mixers. But that apparently didn’t stop an air traffic controller at the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center in Longmont, aka the Denver Center, from going to work with alcohol in his system — putting him in the same club with two Colorado-connected…
NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre has called the annual 4/20 celebration on the CU-Boulder campus “an orgasm of cannabis consumption” — one that definitely factored in to CU being named Playboy’s top party school. But a CU regent wants the bash moved off-campus — and now, student government leaders…
Update: Out Boulder board member Dave Ensign wants his hometown to become only the second community in the nation to compensate city employees for tax penalties they suffer when buying health insurance for same-sex partners — and he feels that his proposal before Boulder’s Human Rights Commission was well-received. “Every…
At around 7 p.m. last night, Lakewood Police officers rolled onto the 1800 block of Kendall Street following reports of a shooting. They soon found a fatally injured man inside a unit at the Plaza De Lago apartments — and they’re looking for three men who may be responsible for…
Yesterday, Denver Police said a man who died Monday at the Denver Zoo, now ID’d as Alonzo Ashley, went into such a cop-biting frenzy that he had to be contact-tased. But his girlfriend and family contend that he was merely suffering the effects of extreme heat when the situation spiraled…
Major changes — not to mention major headaches — are in the works at Union Station and along the light-rail corridors around the historic depot, where a new light-rail station is scheduled to debut right next to the Millennium Bridge on August 15. That station, which will replace the current…
“Inside Job,” Joel Warner, July 7 Career Suicide Joel Warner’s article about the city’s Career Service Authority allowed the public to see a once-nationally emulated public employment system reduced to mediocrity by bad management. Auditor Dennis Gallagher’s performance audit should be required reading by anyone curious about why city employees…
They took away the children eleven years ago. They took away the family photos just the other day — 212 glossy images of kids now grown, of smiling grandchildren he’s never seen or held. Charles Farrar kept the pictures in his cell in the Sterling Correctional Facility, a collection that…
Freaky weather shut down Film on the Rocks last week. But before being driven off by rains and lightning, at least the crowd got to see one spectacle: local stand-up comic and Westword alum Adam Cayton-Holland getting down on one knee and proposing to his beloved Lizzy. As shown in…
You pay enough for meds through the year, so wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to spend nearly a quarter-bag’s worth of money to get your red card? The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment thinks so, too, and is debating dropping its annual registration fee from…
Update: Judd Golden, attorney for Yukari Miyamae, accused of grabbing and twisting a TSA agent’s breast at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport, reveals that felony sex abuse charges against her have been dropped. But that doesn’t mean Miyamae is entirely off the hook…
The current baseball climate is perfect for creating Ubaldo Jimenez trade rumors. He’s far and away the best pitcher rumored to be available, he’s been injured and ineffective at times this year, and the Rockies are headed toward playoff irrelevancy if their play doesn’t change in a hurry. Those are…
Ed Salem, who recently resigned as principal of North High School, has been hired as a teacher at a new school in central Denver aimed at helping struggling students graduate. Salem’s decision to leave North came just before the district asked state officials to investigate the school’s credit recovery program,…
Boulder Meds owner Jay Epstein says his business application with the city of Boulder was denied because of a false charge on his Colorado Bureau of Investigations report…
Another week, another letter clearing Aurora Police officers of wrongdoing in a fatal shooting. But whereas the judgment by Seventeenth Judicial District DA Don Quick in the case of Oleg Gidenko, whose family received a $150,000 settlement from the city, stirred debate, there’s likely to be far less controversy regarding…
We’re late! We’re late! For some very important Denver blog post aggregation! Mile High Report’s Jezru is confident the NFL lockout’s all but over — confident enough to offer a refresher course that pushes the reset button in anticipation of the 2011-2012 season. Denver Frank introduces us to the best…
Remember Billy Jack? Then you’re probably over fifty. The indie flick was an unexpected smash in 1971 — forty years ago — spawning several sequels that delivered diminishing returns. But that hasn’t stopped director/star Tom Laughlin from trying to milk his primary claim to fame after the cow’s gone dry…
Outside the eight-sided ring on September 24 at the Pepsi Center, between $12 and $18 million will be generated by the Ultimate Fighting Championship when it returns to Denver. “It’s cool to be back here where the first one started,” said UFC President Dana White at a press conference on…
Yard Arteology, the study of neighbors through lawn ornaments… By looking at the arrangement of toys left in a yard, a yard arteologist can quickly tell if the objects are the playthings of children or the decorative elements of a yard artist. Telltale signs of a yard artist at work…
Could the broader approval of medical marijuana lead to legalization of marijuana for recreational use? That’s one theory put forward by cannabis activists like Morgan Fox, communications manager for the Marijuana Policy Project. Fox believes more than half of U.S. states could legalize MMJ by 2014 — and he says…
Our item about a debate between controversy lightning-rod Ann Coulter and Jessica Corry about whether just-freed murder suspect Casey Anthony represents single motherhood spawned some strong posts. Here’s one from a Coulter defender…
Charles Farrar is serving a 145-year prison sentence at the Sterling Correctional Facility after being found guilty on 22 counts of sexual abuse against his teenaged step-daughter, Sacha Bruce. Except he didn’t do any of it…
