What a difference five days make. On Sunday, following the Broncos’ lackluster loss to the Atlanta Falcons, Denver fans took to Twitter to declare that rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch sucked. Now, plenty of those same Broncos loyalists are looking at Lynch more positively — but only because Trevor Siemian, who…
Last month, the federal government sided with Colorado in a lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by Oklahoma and Nebraska, which claim that our marijuana laws should be dismantled due to residual harm being caused across state lines. Kansas hasn’t joined the suit, but its attorney general, Derek Schmidt, appears…
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Yesterday, we examined Amendment 70 by way of an interview with a spokesman for the campaign, as featured in the post “Why You…
Whether you’re going to an event downtown and don’t want to mess with parking or you’ve had six IPAs and need to be put to bed, Uber and Lyft are there for you. And in a growing city like Denver that’s full of car-averse millennials, drivers are everywhere. To pay homage…
Since last year, as we’ve reported, the Colorado Springs Police Department has been under intense scrutiny over a controversial traffic stop involving Ryan and Benjamin Brown. Both men were busted and Ryan was face-planted in the snow despite having done nothing wrong, as documented in a video accessible below. The original…
America’s passed the halfway mark! On October 11, Pew Research reported that 57 percent of Americans think that marijuana should be made legal, while 37 percent think it should remain illegal. Just a decade ago, the country polled nearly the opposite way, with 60 percent opposed and 32 percent in favor of…
On Sunday, October 2, more than 150 people gathered at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons for another Mason Jar Event Group seasonal dinner. Gathered on the banks of North St. Vrain Creek, guests socialized as they smoked cannabis and enjoyed the first course — organic roasted-squash soup served with grilled Brie-and-green-apple sandwiches —…
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Today we examine Amendment 70 by way of an interview with a spokeswoman for the campaign. Tomorrow we’ll feature a Q&A with a…
Did you ever eat generic cereal out of a bag instead of the expensive stuff out of a box? They basically taste the same — but still, something’s not right. That’s because our snooty minds are triggering a knee-jerk reaction, making us think that brand names and pretty packaging matter…
U.S. News & World Report is out with its annual rankings of national universities. And while six Colorado colleges made the cut, they didn’t exactly challenge Princeton, Harvard and the University of Chicago (the three highest finishers) for academic supremacy. Of 310 universities analyzed by the publication, Colorado’s top school landed in…
Cities and counties across Colorado have ballot measures related to marijuana regulation. Many of them involve adding additional sales taxes or excise taxes, which are paid when unprocessed marijuana is sold or transferred from a cultivation facility or site to a retail store, manufacturing facility or another facility. But there…
Suite 201 of the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building was bursting at the seams Tuesday, October 11, when the Board of Adjustments took up an appeal that argued the zoning department had erred when it permitted micro-apartments and a restaurant in the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. The board…
Yesterday morning, passengers boarding a United Airlines flight from St. Louis to Denver were met with a surprise at the end of the jet-bridge — a figure seeming to rise from the hazy hangover of Sunday’s second presidential debate. It was Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, waiting to gate-check his…
In the spring of 2014, two Palestinian women from the West Bank landed in Boulder. They’d come for yoga training, though not instruction in sun salutations or Bikram technique. Instead, they were working with Calming Kids Yoga, a local organization recognized by the American Medical Association that uses yoga to…
High Times magazine launched in the summer of 1974 and has documented the evolution of the marijuana industry though the decades. Now, in partnership with Emerald Brand Solutions, the magazine has created a clothing line to honor the industry and how far it’s come. “The fashion trend in general is about…
Our recent post “Renters Grade Denver: What Got an A-? And What Got a D?” revealed Denver-centric results from the United States Renter Confidence Survey, in which the folks at Apartment List quizzed 30,000 renters nationwide. Turns out, though, that Denver wasn’t the only Colorado city to be analyzed. Of…
Dear Stoner: Why do you and all of the media refer to marijuana buds as “flower”? The flowers on the marijuana plant are produced by the male plant. The real magic happens when you successfully eliminate all of the males and their flowers and keep the females from getting pollinated…
In late 2015, as we’ve reported, Grand Junction’s Sydney White was sentenced to thirty years behind bars related to the death of Angel Place, an eleven-month-old in her care. Prosecutors said Angel died after White kicked her in the head. “I did a horrible thing that I am not proud of,” she…
Nine states have ballot measures regarding marijuana legalization, five of which will consider legalizing recreational marijuana in November. Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada are looking to legalize marijuana and create retail markets and Arkansas, Florida, Montana and North Dakota are proposing medical marijuana legislation. 1. Arizona – Recreational In…
In August, as we’ve reported, Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, who’d vacillated about whether to formally endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, said, “I’m voting Republican up and down the ticket. A Republican president will make a difference, even a Republican president named Donald Trump.” Well, never mind. After the release last…
Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. And today, many state offices will be closed to mark what remains a national holiday, after the feds followed Colorado’s lead in 1937. But in Denver, we’ll be marking Indigenous People’s Day. Last week Denver City Council…
The headline of our first post about Paxton Lynch, the Broncos’ number one draft pick this past April, reads, “Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos’ Star QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?” Yesterday, during his first start — a desultory 23-16 home loss to the Atlanta Falcons that wasn’t…
