The Life and Death of Phil Anschutz’s Examiner.com

When Examiner.com debuted just over eight years ago, it was ballyhooed as a bold effort to harness the power of citizen journalism with the financial support of the ultimate deep-pocketed investor, Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz. The site’s impending death should be much quieter. Michael Roth, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for Anschutz Entertainment…

Denver Chemist’s Solution for Stopping Glue Sniffers

“Horseradish!” That was Lewis Emanuel Trenner’s “Aha!” moment. He usually kept a tape recorder next to his bed in order to capture random thoughts that came to him during the night, and his daughter Anita, who was a high-school student in 1965, still recalls her father shouting “Horseradish!” After learning…

Dear Stoner: Who’s Open After 7 P.M.?

Dear Stoner: My friend said his landlord has been giving him shit for smoking pot. WTF? It’s legal! Deb Dear Deb: It sure is, but that doesn’t protect renters who smoke pot in a house owned by someone else. It’s not uncommon to see no-smoking stipulations in leases, and they…

Broncos Won’t Consider Pot Business’s Mile High Stadium Name Bid, Source Says

In May, as we reported, O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, announced that it had “submitted a proposal to partner with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, home of the Denver Broncos, to sponsor Denver’s landmark stadium.” The company stressed that “the proposal from O.penVAPE states that…

Sarah Palin and GOP Senate Hopeful Darryl Glenn Are Facebook Boos

Darryl Glenn, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, characterizes himself as “an unapologetic Christian-Constitutional-conservative-pro-life-Second-Amendment-loving American.” But onetime Alaska governor/ex-veep candidate Sarah Palin, who continues to have EDM-star status among a certain percentage of the GOP faithful despite holding no current electoral office, winnowed that description down to a single word:…

Donald Trump Has a No Good, Very Bad Day in Denver

Donald Trump would probably tell you he had a good day Friday. Others might have a different take.  The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in Denver Friday morning at the Western Conservative Summit, “the largest gathering of conservatives outside Washington, DC,” its website boasts. Trump tried to sell the crowd on…

Items Taken During Homeless Sweeps and Kept at Facility Have Been Destroyed

In the weeks following the controversial March 8 and 9 street sweeps that dismantled homeless encampments along Park Avenue West, Westword learned via Colorado Open Records Act requests that the city had spent months preparing a revised “public encumbrance removal procedure” that dictated how the city would confiscate, and then…

Will “Jesus” Be Banned From Colorado Springs Bus Benches?

“This is against everything our nation stands for.” That’s how Pastor Lawson Perdue sees the announcement that he can no longer use the word “Jesus” on bus benches promoting his church, the Charis Christian Center. This edict was made even more surprising because of where it took place — in Colorado…