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Fifteen Denver TV News Stars Who Could Fall Victim to Cost Cuts

Today's departure of Tom Green from the CW2 morning show Daybreak and the hubbub over the awkward nature of CBS4 weather man Ed Greene's slow retirement announcement are the latest reminders that longtime personalities at news stations in Denver and across the country are increasingly considered to be expendable. Falling revenues and shrinking audiences have resulted in cost-cutting that regularly leads to the vanishing of big local stars, as exemplified by news of 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher's disappearance late last year and station anchor Adele Arakawa's impending exit in June. Which leads to the inevitable question: Who's next?
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Beer Calendar: A Black Project Lottery and the Big Beers Fest

If the Tweeter-In-Chief's latest musings on North Korea have you thinking that the apocalypse could come sooner rather than later, then Lost Highway Brewing in Centennial has the beer for you. Although the message laid out on the back of the can of Mountain Coast IPA (and the map on...
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Op Ed: Mr. Mayor, Please Zone Denver’s Parks!

Control of Denver's parks and rules for events there are currently under the director of Parks and Recreation. Civic activist Tom Morris argues that it's time they fall under they fall under zoning regulations.
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CanPay Brings Tech Alternative to Cash-Based Marijuana Industry

Banking has been a notorious pitfall for marijuana business owners. Even in Colorado, the first state to sell recreational marijuana legally, banks still refuse to work with dispensaries, growers and any other industry ventures for fear of federal scrutiny. The majority of Colorado's marijuana economy is all cash-based, which comes with a variety of safety concerns for customers and gray area for business owners and tax officials.  As a result, Littleton-based CanPay is becoming a popular solution.
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Boulder Isn’t Nearly as Young, White and PC as You Think

Around the country, Boulder has a reputation as a youthful, wealthy, lily-white, politically progressive utopia. But the truth turns out to be considerably more complicated. According to "Boulder County Trends," a fascinating new report from the Community Foundation Boulder County that's accessible below, the population in the area is growing older and more diverse in ways that are complicating the interactions of the well-off and their less financially secure neighbors. Moreover, the county's ideology doesn't always translate into fairness or charity in quite the ways most locals likely imagine.
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Colorado Town Overrun by Homeless Potheads? Not Exactly, Fox News

Fox News, which has a history of portraying Colorado pot smokers as apathetic morons, recently ran a piece suggesting that the Western Slope community of Durango has been overtaken by panhandlers in the wake of recreational cannabis legalization. The head of a business organization that created a Facebook video ripping the article as false says the Fox News reporter with whom he spoke seemed disinterested in any information that contradicted his conclusion that weed had put the town on the fast road to hell even though the supposed link between homelessness and cannabis has been widely discredited.
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The 21 Best Events in Denver, October 10 Through October 16

The spooky season is upon us, with Halloween parties and Day of the Dead celebrations crowding the calendar. But Mother Nature has already shown us a few tricks, and benefits for victims of earthquakes and hurricanes are flooding the town, too. Here are the 21 best events in Denver for October 10 through October 16, 2017.
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Are Oktoberfest Beers Having a Moment?

Maybe it's because the United States only imports foreign holidays that involve a lot of drinking. Maybe it's because there's now a direct flight between Denver and Munich, Germany. Or maybe it's because craft-beer drinkers are tired of relying on pumpkin brews for their seasonal fall treats. Whatever the reason,...
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Name.com Joins Nationwide Protest Against Net-Neutrality Rollbacks

Name.com, a domain/host registrar that got its start in Denver in 2003 and today serves clients around the globe, on July 12 joined hundreds of Internet companies in a Day of Action protest of the Federal Communication Commission's proposed rollbacks of Obama-era internet regulations.
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BoJack Horseman: the Smartest TV Show About Major Depression

BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix It’s not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She’d say herself that she’s an easy mark, TV showrunners. But it’s definitely a surprise when any show even tries. TV writers...
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Eight Shootings Near RiNo in Two Weeks, Gang Violence Rising?

As many as eight possibly gang-related shootings have taken place near the booming RiNo area over the past two weeks or so according to Mark Ungar, president of the Whittier Neighborhood Association, including a thus-far-unsolved broad daylight gun-down near 31st and Gilpin earlier this month that resulted in serious injuries for two men.
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Beer Calendar: Cans, Coffee Beers and Funk Yo Couch

It's hard to remember a time when Colorado didn't have dozens of options when it comes to canned craft beers, but that time wasn't really very long ago. And the rest of the country? Well, other states are still catching up. But things are changing quickly, according to economist Bart...
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Two Women Shot by Police in Santa Fe Carjacking: One Dead, One Critical

At a press conference that ended moments ago, a Denver Police Department commander confirmed that the two people shot by Englewood or Littleton officers on Santa Fe Drive after a suspected carjacking and chase early this morning were both women. One is dead, while the other is in critical condition at this writing. In addition, a spokesperson said it's unknown at this point if the suspects shot at police before cops on the scene opened fire or if a weapon was found in or near the stolen vehicle.
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Denver Eighth-Grader Creates Her Own Retail Line of Spice Blends

It's not every middle-schooler who has the gumption to actually start a small business, but when Emily Rudnick, who's in eighth grade at at Aspen Academy, was assigned the task for school project, she took the idea beyond what her teachers expected. The result is Rudspice, the 14-year-old's own blend...