Amazon has just announced the twenty finalists for HQ2, a second headquarters for the giant company that’s expected to create 50,000 new jobs and result in a $5 billion investment for the winner. And Denver made the list, besting more than 200 other applicants.
From January 18 to 21, the annual conference of the Washington-based Gay Christian Network will take place in Denver; get the details below. According to Isaac Archuleta, GCN’s interim executive director (who’s from Denver), the gathering will give gay Christians living in less welcoming places the opportunity to gather in a warm and inclusive environment with other folks like them.
On January 19, 2017, the day before Donald Trump’s inauguration, we listed the ten worst American presidents of all time as chosen by members of the CU Boulder history department and interviewed Professor Thomas Zeiler, a key part of the group, about Trump’s odds of joining this roster. A year later, we checked in again with Zeiler in an effort to gauge The Donald’s progress in regard to this dubious potential achievement, and the prof says Trump has reached the peak in record time. According to Zeiler, Trump is already the lousiest chief executive ever elected in the U.S., and he sees no way for his status to rise during the remaining three years of his current term.
Any physician who doesn’t know the difference between THC, CBD and hemp-seed oil isn’t worth talking to about medical marijuana.
As we’ve reported, Erika Lee, widow of Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee, who was killed last month beneath the Magic Carpet lift, a conveyor belt used in beginner ski lessons, has been frustrated by the dearth of information released to date about the circumstances of the tragic incident. But the first major study of the accident, just released by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board, raises as many questions as answers. The report reveals that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the lift even though Lee spent more than an hour beneath it. The device only stopped after crushing Lee to death.
And don’t miss the library’s Pink Progression art exhibit, which will highlight the stories of participants in last year’s Women’s March in Denver.
Prominent among a new guard of activists who captured Denver’s attention in 2017 was Tay Anderson, the eighteen-year-old who ran for the Denver board of Education. He has big plans for 2018, too.
Fort Collins-based New West Genetics received certification for its ELITE hemp genetics from the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and Colorado Department of Agriculture.
Today, January 17, a hearing continues in Adams County court to determine if a fifteen-year-old accused of killing ten-year-old Kiaya Campbell in June 2017 will be tried as an adult. Such efforts have been attempted at least fourteen times in Colorado over recent decades, and the results are decidedly mixed no matter what decision was ultimately made.
As we’ve reported, rent prices have been moderating in Denver and its neighboring communities during recent months, following a long period in which rental costs continued to go up and up and up in the Mile High City’s red-hot housing market. As recently as last month, year-to-year rent increases in Denver were ranked among the highest in the country. So it comes as a shock to discover that two bedrooms in Denver proper are now more affordable than comparably sized units in eleven other metro-area places.
Last night, January 16, Denver Post CEO/publisher and Digital First Media executive vice president Mac Tully announced that he will resign from his positions effective January 31. His announcement to staff, included below in its entirety, follows the reintroduction of a paywall at the paper for the first time since the Aurora theater shooting trial and the ongoing move of most newsroom journalists from the Post’s longtime downtown Denver headquarters to a printing plant in Adams County.
Cactus Breath typically sticks to the West Coast and doesn’t stray much, but at least one Denver pot shop carries it.
Most of the coverage on the Sweet Leaf investigation has focused on those arrested and the dispensary chain itself. But what about Sweet Leaf’s medical marijuana patients?
After Donald Trump’s election, Queen Phoenix quickly rose to prominence as a protest organizer. But now she’s disappeared, leaving behind disappointed supporters and a pending trial.
A bill in the Colorado Senate calls for a tracking agent to be “applied” to marijuana and hemp plants, which could mean spraying, rubbing, spreading and many other things.
While a legislative fix is underway to Colorado’s undocumented immigrant drivers license program that will open eligibility to more people, the state is sitting on a growing pot of more than $2 million that could be used to cut the significant backlog of requests.
As we’ve reported, the Denver Post has put up a paywall over its content for the first time since the Aurora theater shootings trial. This change roughly coincides with most occupants of the paper’s newsroom moving out of Denver, to the Post printing plant in Adams County, and editorial page editor Chuck Plunkett, who penned a weekend column about the two subjects, believes the paywall is making plenty of staffers feel better about relocating.
At this writing, the weekend bust of Denver Broncos receiver Carlos Henderson on marijuana charges has not yet been entered into the NFL Player Arrest Database, a resource that aims to catalog all baller bookings since 2000. When the information about Henderson is added, the Broncos arrest number will hit 49, tied for the most of any team in the entire National Football League over that span.
Strains like Blue Dream will always be popular in dispensaries because of their high yields and toughness against fungus and temperature fluctuation.
According to lawyers for Dr. Teresa Brigance, who was seriously injured by a ski lift at Keystone, a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against her essentially offers blanket immunity for resorts in regard to anyone hurt or killed at a Colorado ski area even if negligence was the cause.
Shorter Community AME Church was nearly packed to the brim on Saturday, January 13, when several hundred Denverites congregated there for a six-hour summit to discuss Denver’s response to gentrification.
The list of licensed recreational pot shops in Colorado was fewer than four pages long when sales began on January 1, 2014, according to the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Today, it’s nearly thirteen pages.
