Last year, Denver found itself on the list of the most expensive cities to buy a house. But how about Colorado as a whole? How does it stack up, home-purchase expense-wise, to other states in the country? Answer: According to data compiled by the folks at FindTheBest.com, it’s in the top…
In recent years, we’ve published several posts featuring Deuel County, Nebraska Sheriff Adam Hayward. Why? Hayward is among the Nebraska badge-wearers most devoted to busting people who bring Colorado marijuana into his state —and he’s a prime target of those who feel Colorado drivers are being profiled when they cross state…
As implied by its headline, our recent post about the ten things Colorado drivers should do but often don’t when it’s raining focused on roadway behavior during inclement weather. But our readers quickly veered into a variety of subjects that didn’t necessarily have anything to do with precipitation. That’s exemplified by…
Denver blog posts are winning raves. The folks at our Music blog collect photos and memories on the occasion of Beta’s seventh anniversary. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin says that Hillary Clinton swims in scandal, but she never drowns. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger debunks myths about Broncos draftee Shane Ray…
Tired of spending money at dispensaries and interested in a basement garden? There are multiple classes this week on the process of cultivating your own private or commercial marijuana grows, the usual pot-friendly lineup at Green Labs and more in this week’s Cannabis Calendar. On Thursday, May 28, Clover Leaf…
Is this what the future of the Colorado hospitality industry looks like? Hotel rooms that are weed-friendly, equipped with private, cannabis- approved balconies? NATIV Hotel will open this week in the historic, 100-year-old building at 1612 Wazee Street that formerly held the Jet Hotel and, before that, the LoDo Inn…
1. Inmate movement during counts: Inmates are often included in counts at the DCJ, even though they are not currently at the facility. Inmates who are admitted to the hospital, in the community while under the supervision of the sheriff home detention program, or held at other facilities are included on…
Turns out Joey Chestnut is as good at eating burritos as he is at slamming down hot dogs. Chestnut is best known for having won the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest over and over and over again. His 2014 victory marked his eighth straight triumph. But Chestnut is no one-food…
We’re coming up on summer vacation season — which means a lot of us are looking for a place to spend a few days that won’t leave us destitute upon our return. The GoBankingRates.com recently assembled its list of the ten best and worst U.S. vacation cities. And fortunately, Denver made…
Congress can’t seem to get the veterans hospital in Aurora straightened out, but a Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to a Veterans Affairs funding bill yesterday that would allow Veterans Health Administration doctors to recommend medical marijuana to patients in states where it is legal. The 2016 Military Construction,…
The Denver Cruiser Ride kicked off its tenth anniversary season on Wednesday night; even the cold, rainy weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of this free-wheeling crew. But Darnell24 wasted no time throwing a wet blanket on the festivities, and wrote*: If you have ever lived in any other cities and…
Denver Health is changing the way it enrolls Medicaid patients into its health insurance plan. That’s good news for doctors and low-income patients who say that Denver Health’s “passive enrollment” system — which automatically enrolled any Medicaid patient with a Denver address into Denver Health’s plan, restricting them to seeing…
Like the old Chiffon TV ad said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” and it’s not nice to take her name in vain, either. So, hopefully, she won’t be reading this most, in which he lay the mantle of “partykiller” firmly at her feet. In addition to hindering, harming…
Denver blogs are chilled to the bone. It’s cold and rainy. Here’s where Mark Antonation thinks you should eat Asian noodle soups this weekend. Local photographer Mark Sink weighs in on architecture on the Denver Fugly Facebook page. Will A-Basin get more snow this weekend? Open Snow’s Joel Gratz always…
A package of Westword articles, including “Almost Home,” Kristin Pazulski’s November 5, 2014, cover story that took a long, hard look at Denver’s Road Home and the ten-year campaign to end homelessness in this city, won first place in Public Service in the large-paper category in this year’s Top of…
It was a cold, rainy night, but the weather couldn’t dampen the spirits of hundreds of Denver Cruisers who came out on May 20 for the first ride of the tenth anniversary season. What started a decade ago as a casual pedal through the streets of Denver by thirteen friends…
Hey, Westword readers. You love commenting on our stories, and we love reading what you have to say — the bad and the good. Late yesterday, we changed the way you can comment online: We’re be using Facebook comments for the foreseeable future. The bad news: all of your previous comments…
In late 1864, Territorial Governor John Evans and Colonel John Chivington, both ardent Methodists, founded the Denver Seminary, the forerunner of the University of Denver. Just a few weeks later Chivington led his volunteers on a raid of a peaceful camp of Arapaho and Cheyenne on Sand Creek; an estimated…
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been spreading the word about local dispensary owner Jim Rice’s bid for another shot on CBS’s Survivor. After placing twelfth in Survivor: South Pacific in 2011 (we followed his progress before he was voted out), Rice was hoping to get enough audience votes…
Everybody knows that crime doesn’t pay — at least, not in any of the 129 episodes of Dragnet available on Netflix. But one notorious state inmate has figured out how to make the risky business of breaking out of prison pay off. According to the terms of a hush-hush settlement…
With a thirty-day guarantee on its clones and thirty-plus to choose from, La Conte’s Clone Bar and Dispensary on Washington Street has become a go-to for some basement growers. Its younger sister at 105 East Seventh Avenue, which started out as a medical dispensary, hasn’t gained the same notoriety —…
Our post about Grassroots Colorado’s Break Room, a pot club, generated a lot of interesting takes. The Break Room is currently fighting prosecution and an eviction notice that the club’s attorney traces to a two-front attack by the City of Denver. But the lawyer is firm that his client did…
