When the going gets tough, these three Denver blog posts get going. Colorado Pols wonders if a bill co-sponsored by Cory Gardner, Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn would disallow federally funded abortions for victims of statutory rape. Denver PR blog: Pure Brand’s new offices are supposed to look like a…
If syndicated columnist and AM 760 talk-show host David Sirota’s parents ever hoped their son would one day become a member of the Supreme Court, their wish has (kinda) been granted. Today, Sirota is announcing that he has been named one of nine justices on the Supreme Court of Assholedom,…
The decision by school districts throughout the area to close today due to cold temperatures, not snow, has led to a lot of eye-rolling among old-timers, who remember the days when only Acts of God could justify class cancellations. Representing this viewpoint is one reader from Wheat Ridge, who entitled…
Got word last night and sadly confirmed that Steve Chase, 54, owner of La Conte’s Clone Bar and Dispensary, died of a heart attack January 27. An employee I spoke with said the shop was mourning his loss, but added they plan to stay open…
This icon pictured above was inspired by the signage of a defunct restaurant housed in the clubhouse of a bankrupt country club from which the neighborhood got its name. It’s a fitting homage to the regenerative character of Wellshire. This is a neighborhood where residents can turn virtual cesspools back…
A medical-marijuana-grows compromise proposal passed through Denver City Council’s special issues committee yesterday, with public input on the measure slated for February 14. At this point, however, attorney Warren Edson is uncertain if the tweaked proposal might still doom as many as 90 percent of MMJ grows in Denver…
Our own Jonathan Shikes named Secretary of State Scott Gessler Shmuck of the Week in part for deciding after being elected that he couldn’t live on the office’s $68,000 salary. Plenty of commenters seemed to agree with this designation. But one reader offered a defense of Gessler’s honesty and warned…
No, the Broncos aren’t in the Super Bowl — but a memory from the time when they were has just surfaced. It’s an ad taken out in a Green Bay newspaper to taunt the Packers, who Denver would go on to defeat in the 1998 Super Bowl. When seen in…
Attorney David Lane may have lost his last high-profile case — an excessive-force complaint against Denver cop/ex-American Gladiators contestant Vicki Ferrari — but he’s hardly shying away from taking on big challenges. Note that he’s just filed a lawsuit against the Air Force Academy, alleging that a National Prayer Luncheon…
A search for the terms “Denver” and “temperature” moments ago prompted a reading of eight below zero. That’s pipe-busting weather — and as an incentive for folks to make sure theirs don’t erupt, the City of Westminster offers the tale of a home in the area that flooded mere days…
As predicted in our post about Carmelo Anthony’s awful play versus the 76ers, Melo went off last night against the New Jersey Nets, who pulled the plug on a deal when he balked at signing a contract extension — yet the Nugs still lost handily. Not that it matters, since…
I first stepped into Denver at Union Station. A group of families had taken the train out from Chicago for a ski vacation, and the kids had commandeered the dome car — where, early the next morning, we woke to our first glimpse of the mountains. By breakfast, we’d pulled…
A revised version of a proposed Denver city ordinance that, according to attorney Warren Edson, would have closed 137 of Denver’s 150 medical marijuana grow operations, and potentially dispensaries associated with them, passed through Denver City Council’s Special Issues Committee this afternoon…
Beginning tomorrow, as part of Denver Union Station’s ambitious redevelopment into a modern transit hub, the historic station’s underground pedestrian tunnel connecting Wynkoop and Wewatta streets will be closed. And here’s the really bad news: It’s never, ever going to reopen…
A program that delegates federal immigration enforcement powers to local officers is not netting as many serious criminals in Colorado as in other states, says a study released today by the Migration Policy Institute…
Last March, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joined “nearly a dozen” state AGs in challenging the constitutionality of just-passed health-care legislation. Now, he is celebrating a U.S. District Court ruling in Florida that concludes Congress “exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate.” Look…
Denver blog posts right here. 5280’s Joshua Zaffos lauds Aspen’s Torin Yater-Wallace, youngest-ever medalist at the Winter X games. Face the State’s Greg Campbell on an emissions test even your tires can fail. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson has a (pink) bone to pick with the Susan G. Komen Foundation…
Among the entrepreneurs who says Denver City Council amendments about medical marijuana grows could cost him dearly is Wellspring Collective’s Morgan Carr. Below, read a letter to the chair of the council’s special committee in which he lays out his concerns in detail…
Update: Last week, a jury sided with Vicki Ferrari, a Denver cop and former American Gladiators contestant in a lawsuit charging her with excessive force in relation to an interaction with David Kraus, manager of a local Grease Monkey, back in 2007. On Friday, we heard from Kraus’s attorney, David…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration… The photo of the “little air” snowboard ramp above was taken this past weekend. That the iced 3/4 pipe has weathered an unseasonably warm January is testament to good design and careful construction. However, until off-the-shelf snow-making machines are available at…
How did I wind up with a book from the collection of ESPN’s Rick Reilly? It was definitely an act of generosity on his part, but not because he directly targeted me for his largesse despite my coverage of him tongue-bathing the State Capitol dome in 2009 after incorrectly predicting…
Earlier this month, we reported that a rally for Marvin Booker, who died in Denver jail this past summer, would take place Saturday on the 16th Street Mall. That evening, a crowd of approximately 200-300 people — some sporting bandannas, some waving signs — turned minimally violent as trash cans…
