Today, President Barack Obama is coming to Denver to raise funds for Senator Michael Bennet — a display of favoritism in the primary that frustrates longtime Obama fan Polly Baca. But his appearance is welcomed by Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente and other medical marijuana advocates, who’ve been looking for a…
Yesterday, AllAccess.com broke the news that NRC Broadcasting had sold its two Denver FMs, KJAC/102.3 and KCUV/105.5, to Moreland Properties — owned by none other than automobile pitcher Dealin’ Doug Moreland — for $5 million. Expect them to sound different soon, and to feature a lot of car ads. Reached…
Looks like Longmont’s Jason Kay will get a chance to suffer for his art. Last month, Kay came up with the idea of relabeling Gatorade bottles with photos of golfer Tiger Woods and his wife alongside the word “Unfaithful” and then placing them on grocery store shelves — a stunt…
On Tuesday, we told you about the murder of Nathan Bozonier, 16, who was hit by a vehicle and then beaten by an unknown number of suspects. The latest developments: Part of the bumper from the vehicle that struck Bozonier fell off at the crime scene — and this chunk…
Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for future FasTracks rail lines. That means…
Tryouts for the Denver Roller Dolls aren’t scheduled to start until 7 p.m., but when I get there at 6:10, the dirt parking lot of the Wagon Wheel Skate Center in Brighton is already filling up. From the outside, the facility looks like any other big white barn on this…
“You’re in Bad Hands,” Alan Prendergast, February 11 Health-Care Hell Insurance companies that practice this type of disgusting behavior against people should be driven out of business. The CEO should be sitting in a jail somewhere for a very long time. Sooner or later these companies will act against the…
Yesterday, we told you about a $4.1 million settlement paid by the Eighth Judicial District of Larimer County to Timothy Masters, who spent nearly a decade in jail on a murder beef before being freed based on DNA evidence in 2008. That’s a lot of folding green for a county…
What is it with bizarre flight disruptions lately? First there was the man who commandeered a bathroom and insisted on shaving topless — followed by the drunken guy who tried to disembark from a plane in midair. And now, the latest installment in Denver’s uproarious passengers saga: North Carolina’s Alan…
Earlier this month, the Boulder City Council considered an ordinance that would have criminalized the displaying of nipples — at least those belonging to a woman — by way of trying to undermine events such as the Naked Pumpkin Run and Naked Bike Ride. In the end, the council kept…
Three, count ’em, three blogs about Denver, assembled just for you. At Mile High Report, T.J. Johnson writes: “We can be sure of a few things.First, Al Davis eats children on Halloween. Second, Kyle Orton is coming back for another year (at least) as the QB for the Broncos.” Let…
Want to see some of the bone-breaking roller derby action described in this week’s feature, “Denver’s Roller Derby Rivalry Could Start The Sport Rolling Across The Country”? Today’s your lucky day. (Thanks be to YouTube. Amen.) The above clip shows of one of the more controversial moments of the past…
Yesterday, the Justice Department formally accused Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz of “possession with intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense 224 marijuana plants” — greenery the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered in his house thanks to a story on 9News, as DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin acknowledged in a Westword interview. Since…
#5 of the 22 Major Arcana: Mike Coffman, the Emperor…..
No one can question Polly Baca’s Democratic bona fides. She was elected as a Dem to both houses of the Colorado legislature and served on the Democratic National Committee, including an eight year stint as vice chair. So she was in unfamiliar territory at a press conference yesterday in front…
Last August, we told you about an indictment against Donald Hertz, a Washington man who made threats against Boulder’s Dr. Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions. It looked as if Hertz would plead guilty to the charges against him — but yesterday, he unexpectedly…
Denver gazillionaire Phil Anschutz is a media mogul thanks to his ownership of Examiner.com and many other properties. But he remains so zealously protective of his privacy that he doesn’t even want his name associated with something as positive as the ongoing Random Acts of Kindness Week. Anschutz funds the…
Earlier this week, the state legislature spent many long hours hashing over Senator/Shmuck emeritus Dave Schultheis’s latest brainstorm: a “Religious Bill of Rights.” As Education News Colorado noted, the measure would have allowed “high school students and parents of younger students to opt out of classes for religious reasons, permitted…
In many ways the friction between Mason Tvert, head of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) and Lieutenant Ernie Martinez, head of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA), personifies the ongoing clash between law enforcement and marijuana activists. While the two both sit on the mayor-appointed Denver Marijuana Policy Review…
Back in November, Andrew Gelston Graham was found dead on a lawn near his suburban home, and in the immediate aftermath of the crime, clues were scarce. Even videos taken of Graham and other passengers as they disembarked from the light rail shortly before he was attacked didn’t immediately lead…
The news that Nuggets coach George Karl has a form of throat cancer and will miss a number of practices and games over the next month and a half came as a shock. After all, the last big news about Karl coming out of the Nuggets front office involved him…
Execs at the liberal ProgressNow Colorado organization wanted to ridicule Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis for, in their view, sticking it to the middle class rather than eliminating tax loopholes for fat cats. So they assembled what they referred to as a McLobbyist Happy Meal for delivery to the Capitol,…
