Subject: Greeley

• After Midnight

  March 19, 2009

• How Will Colorado Public Radio's Switch Impact Northern Colorado Listeners?

  June 16, 2008

• Broncos Training Camp: Elvis Is In the Building

  July 25, 2008

• Greeley shows its softer side on illegal immigrants

  August 13, 2008

• A little abstinence to liven up your drive

  August 20, 2008

• Shmuck of the week: JBS Swift

  September 12, 2008

• The Toast of Greeley

  December 18, 1997

• So what did Greeley Mayor Ed Clark's fake Obama dollar look like?

  You know the greatest thing about Greeley mayor Ed Clark? He really knows how to relate to the young people of America. Like in June, Clark spotted a fifteen-year-old boy riding his motorbike down a neighborhood street, and somehow the former cop just knew that what the boy really wanted was to be violently yanked to the ground. The boy was so happy he filed an emergency restraining order against Clark. Thanks, Mr. Mayor! And just last week, Clark was working his day job as head of security for

  November 24, 2008

• Wells Fargo recruits Somali bankers in Greeley

  Now is a great time to enter the banking industry, wouldn't you say? As our economy collapses, some unlucky schmuck still has to make cold calls from the vacant desks at the newly merged WaMu Chase Wachovias of America, asking customers to entrust their savings to the corporate titans who so recently, and royally, screwed them. That's why Wells Fargo is looking to hire personal bankers in Greeley. And who better to fill the post than a group of people for whom banking is a step up the economic

  December 5, 2008

• Stuff Journalists Like: A disturbing look into the mind of newsies

  Journalists are an unusual bunch. We complain about our godawful pay and long hours, but we also live for such things. We make fun of all the self-indulgent and pointless press awards we constantly bestow upon each other, but if we don't get any ourselves, we quietly mope for weeks. And while we spend nearly every waking hour reporting on what others are up to, deep down we'd all prefer to talk about ourselves and our fellow journalists. To celebrate these strange newsroom tendencies (as well

  December 24, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  February 15, 2001

• Bronco A-Go Go

  August 9, 2001

• Best Appearance by a Minister at the Colorado Legislature

  April 4, 2002

• Best Wildflower Walk

  April 4, 2002

• A Colorado immigration story hits page one of the New York Times

  Yesterday's New York Times switched the national spotlight onto a fascinating story based in Greeley. "Paying Taxes, and Fearing Deportation" focuses on Amalia's Translation and Tax Services, a business that has prepared tax returns for a mostly Hispanic clientele since the '90s. Last October, the Weld County Sheriff's Office, knowing that the Internal Revenue Service requires every worker, whether in this country legally or not, to pay taxes on income earned in the U.S., seized thousands of r

  February 2, 2009

• Best Beef Museum

  March 27, 2003

• Pop Quiz

  July 31, 2003

• Pop Quiz

  October 2, 2003

• Best Used Bookstore for Local Literati

  March 24, 2005

• If you're looking to build an office building, read this blog

  Photo courtesy of Flickr. What's that? You want to build an $8.3 million, 51,000-square-foot office building somewhere along the Front Range? And you're wondering about building permit fees and estimated plan approval times in various cities and counties? Why, it's your lucky day! Colorado State University has released the obviously-titled "Colorado Front Range Comparative Study and Scorecard: Building Fees and Estimated Approval Times for 20 Local Governments." In short, they've gone and don

  March 26, 2009

• Denver Blogs: Get ready for a Greeley-Fort Collins smackdown!

  A Flickr photo"Kiss my bun, Greeley!" In which we try to help you find interesting blogs, as opposed to the other kind. Got tips? A Greeley Tribune writer refers to a certain nearby town as "Fort Weenie." It's on... (5280) Authorities recently seized 126 marijuana plants from Bennett the town, not Bennet the senator. Otherwise, it would've been one toke over the line, sweet Jesus. (Square State) Telephone scammers are having to work harder these days. The economy is tough on everyone. (Denve

  March 30, 2009

• There's no place like home for Somali refugees in Greeley

  November 27, 2008

• Strange but True

  January 1, 1998

• Dream On

  July 31, 2008

• Fry Me to the Moon

  November 20, 1997

• Various Artists

  Psychedelic States: Colorado in the 60s
  Gear Fab Records

  October 18, 2007

• Vitamins

  Emerald City

  March 8, 2007

• Vitamins

  Vitamins EP (Self-released)

  May 4, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 4, 2005

• Sharpening Klawz

  The UNC Bears tangle with tougher grid foes.

  September 23, 2004

• Year in Review: Pop Quiz

  Consider this your final exam on the past year. Cheating is encouraged, bribes will be accepted -- and grades will be posted at City Hall.

  December 25, 2003

• Monster Stash

  A modern-day Dr. Jekyll brings fears to life in his Greeley laboratory.

  October 30, 2003

• The Plot Thickens

  The down-and-dirty truth about Colorado's Garden City.

  February 8, 2001

• High and Dry

  Even in the best of times, farmers and developers fight for Colorado's water. And this summer's drought is far from the best of times.

  August 24, 2000

• Using Your Noodle

  Raman: the soup for a new millenium.

  December 2, 1999

• Strange but True

  December 31, 1998

• Taken for a Ride

  July 10, 1997

• Teen Anger

  After young Joe Gallegos was let back into society, all hell broke loose.

  April 17, 1997

• Strange but True

  December 26, 1996

• STRANGE BUT TRUE

  THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

  December 27, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  October 12, 1994

• Latino community set to march in Greeley tomorrow

  A Flickr photo. Over the past few years, Greeley has become a hotbed for immigration issues in Colorado. In 2006, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Swift meatpacking plant there, arresting more than 250 people, many of whom were detained and separated from their children. And last year, local law enforcement, led by outspoken Weld County District Attorney and now-U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck, seized thousands of records from a Greeley tax preparer with an eye toward catch

  May 1, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 1 edition

  May Day! May Day! Today in Backbeat Online: • Fight Spider with Spider is reading my mind. • Signtologist featured in 9News news report. • Ghost Buffalo gives up the... well, ghost. • A first look at Skyfox's new video. • Freaky Friday: "Rap Chop" (featuring Vince) -- Steve Porter. Today in Cafe Society: • Grub, gab and go green tonight. • MiniBar to open next week. • Candy Girls: Zero candy bar. • The restaurant roll call for April. • Get your cupcake on, Parker! • Rem

  May 1, 2009

• At march, cries of "Greeley! ¡Escucha! ¡Estamos en la lucha!"

  Translated, the main rallying cry at a Latino unity march in Greeley on Saturday was this: "A people united will never be defeated." More than 200 people shouted it enthusiastically -- "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!" -- as they walked through the rural town under an overcast sky, past railroad tracks and boarded-up houses, past townspeople and children lingering in open doorways, past Jerry's Market, whose slogan is "...with a little touch of Mexico..." The northern Colorado town ha

  May 4, 2009

• The Dont's and Be Carefuls at the Meadowlark

  May 21, 2009

• Yesterday's climate-legislation rally not so spontaneous

  Arguments continue about just how grassroots protests against healthcare reform like a recent shoutfest at an Ed Perlmutter event really are. But such displays of disaffection are positively organic in comparison with the rally about climate legislation that took place yesterday in Greeley. The Greeley Tribune reports that hundreds of locals raised their voices in unison against a U.S. House-passed bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. But the event was promoted by EnergyCitizens.org, a

  August 27, 2009

• Fairy-Tale Ending

  September 3, 2009

• Cheba Hut is a hit with Greeley judge

  ​Cheba Hut raised a toasty toast this week when a Weld County District Court judge overturned a ruling that had denied a liquor license to the sub shop's Greeley location. In April, Robert Frick, who rules on Greeley liquor licenses, turned down the company's request, citing Cheba Hut's pot-related marketing strategy, and spanking it with this: "This restaurant is founded upon the principles and theme of the illegal drug marijuana and incorporates other illegal controlled-substance-relate

  September 11, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 11, 2009

  Photo by Rob LeeSetting the stage.​Yeah, I hate typing that date, too. Today in Backbeat Online: • Our top 5 Monolith can't-miss acts. • Q&A with Frank Turner. • Q&A with Jinji Thompson of the Skyline Surrender. • Monolith Q&A: Monotonix. • MP3 Freeloader: DJ MU$A offers new mixtape, Techno Savvy. Today in Cafe Society: • A classic Denver Food & Wine Classic. • The DeKuyper Mix Master Bartender Contest will come to order. • Cheba Hut is a hit with Greeley judge. • Food

  September 11, 2009

• Can municipalities get away with regulating medical marijuana?

  ​With the Justice Department's announcement last week that it won't be prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states where the practice is legal, the feds loudly and officially passed the buck on the subject. That leaves it up to medical-marijuana states and their municipalities to determine just how to handle all that weed. And there's no other place in the country where the issue's more pressing than Colorado, where vague medical marijuana laws entombed in the constitution have led to a

  October 26, 2009