We recently shared a Comment of the Day that’s among our most viewed ever. The 2014 item is headlined, “Reader: Denver Rent Prices Are So High They’re Pushing People Into Homelessness.” As was the case at the time of its original publication, the post generated a landslide of responses, including…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Lindsey Bartlett names the ten best falafel spots in Denver. Colorado Pols: “Colorado Senate Republicans Get Ugly on Orlando.” Mile High Report offers up “everything we know” about the Von Miller contract situation…
There are an infinite number of ways that a person can become a Schmuck of the Week. And Jared Howard appears to have found a new twist on an old favorite: squealing. The 23-year-old Texas college student was caught with a car full of marijuana while in Colorado — after…
For the Denver Sheriff Department, cutting down on excessive force allegations makes both sense and cents. Note that the City of Denver wound up paying a $6 million settlement to the family of Marvin Booker, who died in custody at Denver jail, and $3.25 million to Jamal Hunter in response to…
A few hours before members of the Arvada Fire Department responded to a blazing home scrawled with messages reading “My Wife Is a Cheater,” police in the community were dealing with what another tragic situation. One person is dead after a shooting at a suburban home. Is this a case…
It isn’t often that a news organization has a huge scoop on video but chooses not to publish it out of principle and compassion. But that’s precisely the decision made by the Aspen Times in regard to footage shot by staff photographer Jeremy Wallace during a rafting trip that ended in…
A few months back, the Denver Dance Memes Facebook page announced that it was “under new management.” Fortunately, though, the new management seems just as funny and crazy (and politically incorrect) as the old one. We first assembled our picks for the most twisted Denver Dance Memes posts in 2014, followed…
A recent study confirmed that marijuana-related arrests are up in Nebraska counties near the Colorado border. Representatives of law-enforcement agencies in such areas frequently complain about the resources required to stop the flow of cannabis over the border. However, the study’s authors can’t say definitively whether the increasing number of…
In case you missed it… At Westword Food & Drink, Patricia Calhoun asks: “Will 3.2 beer finally dry up in Colorado?” Coyote Gulch: “The Colorado River Aqueduct marks 75 years of water delivery.” Chalkbeat Colorado’s Nicholas Garcia: “Denver teachers to get 2.6 percent average pay increase in 2016, and there may…
Last month we reported that four female pilots, with help from the ACLU, had filed discrimination claims against Frontier Airlines with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The pilots charge that Frontier Airlines has unfair practices regarding pregnancy and does not provide adequate accommodations to female pilots who are breastfeeding. Now, the…
Over the past few years, the Denver Fire Department has received more than its share of bad publicity. Note criticism over an alleged lack of diversity in the ranks, the firing of a DFD captain who denied accusations that he used offensive language and a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed…
In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, at the exhausted end of a nine-hour meeting, the Denver City Council approved a $383 million hike in stormwater fees, more than half of which help pay for a flood-protection project in northeast Denver that has been a source of protest and angry…
In recent months, we’ve been keeping you up to date about the murder of Lauren Mann, a former CU student who was killed in Vienna, Austria, where she’d been working as a nanny. Now, a Gambian national identified as Abdou I. — Austrian law precludes his full name from being…
The Denver Post has far fewer subscribers than it once did — and if even more cut ties over its new arbitration policy, the paper seems okay with it. A document obtained by Westword includes talking points for staffers dealing with angry subscribers. In it, the call takers are told to stress…
The weird stuff you find on the Internet…. We recently stumbled upon a post shared this past February on the Colorado State Memes Facebook page entitled “The Completely Biased Map of Colorado Springs.” But taking a look at it proved trickier than anticipated, since the link was dead, as was everything…
The legalization of limited recreational marijuana sales hasn’t prevented police from staging cannabis-related raids — note the Pueblo County Sheriff’s war on allegedly illegal pot grows, which has resulted in the confiscation of at least confiscated 5,900 marijuana plans and 35 arrests in 25 homes since mid-March. But police agencies appear…
Dear Stoner: I’ve been dealing with migraines for years, and my prescribed medication rarely works. I’ve been thinking about medical marijuana as an alternative treatment. Does it do anything for migraines? Ken Dear Ken: They say that those who deal with migraines and insomnia are the most intelligent and creative…
Folks reacted strongly to our post about Casey Nocket, who has pleaded guilty to defacing Rocky Mountain National Park, the Colorado National Monument and five other national parks in the west. As we noted, Nocket used acrylic paint rather than chalk to create her “artworks” — something she admitted in…
In case you missed it…. The Westword Food & Drink crew names the ten best brunch restaurants in Denver, 2016 edition. The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins asks: “What Happens to Bernie Sanders’s Political Revolution in Colorado?” Mile High Report’s Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann reports that the two Broncos currently leading the quarterback competition are…
Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration has faced tough criticism in recent months over how Denver is approaching the issue of homelessness. Many advocates have condemned crowded shelters and enforcement actions, like the controversial street sweeps that made headlines during March and April of this year, charging that the city would do…
According to RTD, Civic Center Station, located on Broadway between Colfax and 16th Street, is among its most used transit centers. But just over two weeks from now, the 15,000 passengers who use it a day will be unable to use it — for a year. Why? RTD is embarking…
The local dance community is in mourning. Two promising young dancers — Sarah Ball, eighteen, and Peter Kim, nineteen — were killed during a highly unusual crash that took place in the Boulder foothills. The vehicle they were in is described by the Boulder Daily Camera as “Korean War-era truck” that…
