Earlier this month, we noted that the new Denver Police Department body camera policy didn’t require off-duty officers to wear the devices despite a recommendation from the city’s Independent Monitor, Nicholas Mitchell. The rationale offered by the DPD: The cost of outfitting off-duty officers with body-worn cameras, shorthanded as BWCs, as well…
Three years ago, anti-virus pioneer John McAfee made several appearances in Westword — first as a major player in a feature article headlined “The Hot Yoga War” and later due to his status as a fugitive in Belize, where authorities wanted to question him in regard to a murder. These days, McAfee,…
Dear Mexican: I’m tired of debating these pasty whitebreads that the Camino Real has had people back and forth across the border for over 500 years, and that a fence is redundant and that people will always be crossing our southern border. The whitebreads insist that the wall can end…
Aurora City Councilwoman Sally Mounier is a car person. The 77-year-old came of age in a time when drag racing was the pinnacle of cool and owning a car meant freedom. These days, the grandmother of twelve drives a twenty-year-old Cadillac, which she describes as “a big boat.” But it’s…
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…
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…
Dear Readers: The Mexican is currently in the rancho, scheming about how to get close enough to Donald Trump to smear a bean burrito in his face — HA! But I did want to share two cosas. A couple weeks back, I published a letter from one Dickhead in Denver,…
Dear Mexican: I recently received the biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. While reading about his friendship with Jimi Hendrix, I came to a part in which Ronnie describes Jimi as part black, Cherokee and Mexican. I’ve always read about Jimi’s grandmother being Cherokee, but this was the first…
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has big problems with Colorado’s marijuana laws — and as a recent open letter to Trump shared in this space makes clear, not everyone in these parts is down with what comedian Andy Jett describes as his “xenophobic, irrational perspective on immigration.” But he’s got a big fan in Grand…
It’s one of the more bizarre series of events in recent Colorado municipal history. Joshua Canvasser was appointed to serve on the board of the Longmont Housing Authority. But when it came time for him to do so, the City of Longmont couldn’t find him. One possible reason: Canvasser is…
Dear Mexican: I’m a gabacho, but I’ve been loving menudo for about 45 years. What are your thoughts on why menudo is the Food of the Gods? I Ain’t Mexican but Mi Estómago Damn Well Is Dear No Soy Mexicano But My Stomach Sí Es: You are one smart gabacho!…
Bureaucrats aren’t terribly fond of employees who go behind their backs and over their heads to expose waste, fraud, corruption, or just plain incompetence. That’s why there are laws in place that are supposed to protect government whistleblowers from retaliation. But according to Representative Mike Coffman, the Department of Veteran…
Samantha Hill knew it was going to happen.Her cellmate was leering at her and acting strangely. Although Hill had only been housed with him for a few days at the U.S. penitentiary in Florence, she’d been in prison long enough to recognize the warning signs. But when her cellmate began…
Dear Mexican: I’m writing about an epiphany I had recently about government-sponsored clamors for crackdowns on immigration, especially against members of a certain race/creed/color/ethnic group. It seems that whenever there is a cacophony of support for deportation and closing our borders, there’s also a war going on that’s going rather…
Everyone in the country’s talking about Donald Trump, including local comic/entrepreneur Andy Juett, who shared this letter he wrote to the Republican presidential candidate: Dear Donald Trump, I am a nobody. A single father who has delivered mediocre sex to a spectrum of women. Some you’d marry and some you’d…
“OMG I got recognized on the street!” Fort Collins’ Brittiany Hoagland posted on Facebook in recent days. “A mother out for a walk with her dog and kiddo stopped her phone conversation to ask, ‘Are you The Topless Girl?!. “‘…Yeah.’ *prepares for verbal attack* “;’Right on!’ And she keeps walking…
Dear Mexican: Some time back, you discussed the Chivas soccer team. This reminded me of my time in San Francisco’s Mission District, when the traficantes would whisper, “Chiva…chiva” as I walked down 16th Street. When I asked someone what it meant, they said, “Stuff.” Now it’s baby goats? I know…
Yesterday, we reported on the Denver Civil Service Commission ruling that Officer James Medina should get his Denver Police Department job back, despite having been fired for use of excessive force. Alex Landau could tell you just how difficult it is to hold DPD officers accountable for such actions: He’s…
Dear Mexican: I wasn’t born in this country, but I got here as quickly as I could at the age of ten. I was born in Mexico and live in Houston, a city that is bursting at the seams with Mexicans and Latinos from every country south of the border…
Last November, we introduced you to Gordon Klingenschmitt, who we described as an “exorcism-doing, gay-slamming just-elected State Representative” — from the Colorado Springs area, naturally. Since then, Klingenschmitt, a preacher who delivers regular YouTube sermons for his ministry, PrayInJesusName.com, has provided plenty of fodder for critics, claiming, for instance, that…
These days, the Confederate flag doesn’t have a lot of defenders. Yet Manitou Springs activist Patricia Cameron has been arrested for burning one — and the circumstances of the bust have resulted in national headlines. Turns out Cameron was cited late at night about three weeks after the well-publicized torching…
Dear Mexican: Why is it so easy to escape from Mexican prisons, and why is it always accomplished the day before execution? And why have the proper authorities not figured it out yet? See Madero, Pancho Villa, Luis Terrazas Jr., etc. Fuga Frank Dear Jailbreak Fred: Don’t forget El Chapo!…
