The green market is headed for the stock market. Although dispensary businesses are having trouble securing financial services — because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level — several pot-related Colorado companies are either currently being publicly traded…or soon will be. How do they manage that? It’s never the…
Kelley Johnson, this year’s Miss Colorado, didn’t win the 2015 Miss America pageant. Instead, she finished as second runner-up behind eventual champ Betty Cantrell, Miss Georgia. But in all likelihood, Johnson will be remembered longer and more fondly than any of the other contestants — and may have found a clever…
Back in 2009, our Alan Prendergast assembled the definitive list of Denver’s eight worst intersections. And according to more recent information assembled by the McDivitt Law Firm, many of them haven’t improved since then — although the rankings are in a different order. Look below to count down the top…
We Broncos fans have mighty high expectations. And sometimes, a win isn’t enough to put smiles on our faces. Yesterday’s 2015 NFL season kickoff against the Baltimore Ravens is a case in point. The Ravens are an excellent team considered a Super Bowl contender in many quarters, and Denver squelched…
One of the most shocking news stories in Colorado during 2015 involved the attack on Michelle Wilkins, whose unborn baby was cut from her womb, allegedly by Longmont’s Dynel Lane, this past March. A number of details about the horrific incident surfaced in the months that followed, including Wilkins’s revelation…
Our Ask a Stoner columnist recently sat down with Governor John Hickenlooper. Among the topics they discussed was the upcoming marijuana-tax-holiday: September 16. Among the interesting responses to the conversation (which also included Andrew Freedman, Colorado’s director of marijuana coordination, was the following take. In it, a reader argued against buying…
Denver blog posts rave on. At our Arts blog, Amber Taufen lists the six most annoying types of old-school ravers. Colorado Pols: “Anti-Iran Deal Resolution Dies, Local Republicans Get Nasty.” Denver Frank shares fake reviews in an IKEA store…
As we all know, Colorado is the standard-setter when it comes to limited legal recreational marijuana sales. But plenty of other states are trying to catch up — and Westword’s Voice Media Group sister papers are documenting the process. The L.A. Weekly has an interview about legalization in California with pot…
Dear Mexican: Why is it that Mexican immigrants like my parents, who have done well enough in this country to provide a home (a house, paid off in ten years, in white Orange County), an education, food, clothes and toys for their children, can complain about El Hombre Gringo and…
Jake and Kendra Warrum were among 2014’s most popular Schmucks of the Week — probably because of the disconnect between idealized photos like the one above and the crime they were accused of committing. Cops said the Warrums burned down their house for the insurance money last September 14, then accepted donations…
Most tales about the criminal justice system focus on adversarial relationships, with alleged criminals on one side, police and prosecutors on the other, and judges left to decide who wins the day. The Kathy White story is different. White, a former bookkeeper, was in prison when she was she was…
On Sunday, September 13, your Denver Broncos officially start the 2015-2016 season against the Baltimore Ravens. And when you watch the game, there’s a good chance you’ll see some new faces. Seven rookies made the main 53-man roster, as opposed to the practice squad. Six of them, including linebacker and…
In our 2012 post featuring ten Best of Denver bike rides, we showcased a number of locations chosen with mountain biking in mind. Now, the National Forest Foundation, a nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Searvice, has upped the ante. The organization recently posted about eight mountain bike rides not…
It’s the American Dream: Go to college, get a degree, graduate with honors, start selling weed. To be fair, I was an English major, so becoming a budtender in the wild, wild West of Denver’s marijuana industry seemed like a pretty reasonable gig. I’d had my first dispensary experience several…
According to prosecutors, Zachary Oliver chalked up 243 violations at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center (LMYSC), a detention facility for juvenile offenders, before escaping in August of 2014 — a crime abetted by his brutal beating of an elderly guard with a pillowcase filled with rocks. In the wake…
Earlier this year, numerous gang-related shootings took place in Denver, as well as in Aurora, raising concerns about violence levels throughout the metro area. And if such worries had ebbed in recent months, an incident yesterday afternoon has rekindled them. A teenager was hit multiple times during broad-daylight shooting in Aurora…
The best way to make people want something is to tell them they can’t have it. Every time I drove by Mile High Green Cross on my way home from work in the past, I wanted to stop in — badly — but couldn’t. The medical-only dispensary’s reputation for OG…
In a recent Comment of the Day, a reader argued that Denver isn’t an affordable city for most people anymore. This argument prompted lots of responses — many in agreement, but some rejecting the premise. One of the takes that prompted the most reaction, though, was the following post, which…
Denver blog posts celebrate beauty of every description. At our Arts blog, Michael Paglia celebrates the groundbreaking at the new Kirkland Museum and predicts that it will elevate the Mile High art scene. Denver Egotist shows what it’s like to longboard a Colorado hill at 70 miles per hour. Big…
It’s probably not all that surprising that officials in oh-so-health-conscious Snowmass Village decided a few weeks ago to remove fluoride from the town’s water supply, deeming that the additive offered more risks than benefits. What is surprising is that the humble villagers (median household income: $81,362) beat the residents of…
Gambling was supposed to create a historic jackpot in Colorado. In 1990, Coloradans approved a constitutional amendment allowing “limited-stakes gaming” in Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City, a proposal pushed as a historic-preservation measure designed not just to save those crumbling mining towns by allowing gambling in their old buildings, and…
Traffic nightmares on Interstate 70 approaching Denver have been a part of our lives for ages — and they’ve been getting worse. Now, a new Peak Period Shoulder Lane — shorthanded PPSL — is expected to be installed along a thirteen-mile stretch from Floyd Hill to Empire by year’s end…
