Report: Clean-Energy Jobs Boosting Colorado’s Economy
The clean energy industry now accounts for 62,000 jobs and is playing a growing role in Colorado’s economy, according to a new report distributed this morning to state lawmakers
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Three Head Coaches the Broncos Should Cross Off Their List
Sadly, Gary Kubiak has had his fill of the migraine-inducing job of coaching the Denver Broncos, and that means the team is beating the bushes for its fifth head coach in the past seven years.
R.I.P., William (Bill) Potts — Denver Sculptor of the People
William E. (Bill) Potts, a trailblazing Denver sculptor who used salvaged wood, house paint and sometimes crude tools to create vivid figures and tableaux prized by celebrities and schoolkids alike, died last week at the age of eighty.
Rocky Mountain National Park: Business Is, Alas, Booming
News that Rocky Mountain National Park’s visitor numbers are headed for another record-busting year may be a cause for celebration in some quarters, but it’s also an occasion for groans and trepidation among those who wonder if the park’s most precious features can survive its ever-growing popularity.
JonBenet Ramsey: Twenty Years of Plot Twists in Colorado’s Biggest Murder Mystery
Here are some of the most notable stories that Westword has run over the years dealing with Colorado’s most infamous unsolved homicide.
Colorado Fuel and Iron: New TV Doc Explores Infamous Steel Empire
A new documentary screening on local television this weekend takes a fresh look at what was once the most powerful corporation in Colorado — a company that played a crucial role in the deadliest labor struggle in American history.
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Prison Deaths and Hepatitis C: A Health Crisis Behind Bars
Through an open records request, Westword obtained records for fifteen years (2001-2016) on causes of death that the Colorado Department of Corrections submits to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Close to twenty percent of the deaths during that period were attributed to “end stage liver disease” or related illnesses.
Eight Great Books by Colorado Authors: Holiday Gifting Made Simple
Books make great gifts for the holidays. It helps, of course, to find books that address your particular recipient’s passions and obsessions — and while you’re at it, why not throw in a few titles by local authors?
Mentally Ill in Solitary: Suit Against U.S. Supermax Headed for Settlement
Attorneys who sued the U.S. Bureau of Prisons over alleged abuses of mentally ill inmates have reached a tentative settlement that could have a profound effect on how solitary confinement is used at the nation’s highest-security prison.
JonBenet Ramsey: CNN Revisits the Coldest Case — Again
At least one cable channel is betting that the glut of JonBenét Ramsey specials three months ago hasn’t exhausted the public fascination with one of the nation’s most infamous unsolved homicides.
Hep C: The Deadliest Killer in Colorado’s Prisons Is a Curable Virus
In Colorado, hepatitis C has long been one of the leading causes of death inside state prisons. But because of the enormous costs involved, only a lucky few inmates, around twenty a year, have actually received treatment for the disease since wonder drugs that can eradicate the virus became available a couple of years ago.
Scott Pruitt: Trump’s New EPA Chief Backed by Frackers, Keen on Coal
In Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, we have a particular breed of twenty-first century conservative, a champion of states’ rights (when it suits him) and poor, beleaguered industries, including poor little Big Oil and much-maligned King Coal.
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Battle Looms Over Proposed Car Dealerships Next to Dinosaur Ridge
A long-running battle over efforts to develop 130 acres of land at the southwest edge of the sprawling Denver metroplex is headed for a showdown in the next few weeks.
Video: Opponents of Stormwater Project, I-70 Expansion Find Common Ground
A new video makes a case that the campaigns to “Ditch the Ditch” and re-examine Denver’s stormwater plan, which have been fought separately and piecemeal for the most part, may have more in common than most people realize.
First Degree at Sie FilmCenter Explores Rare Prison Education Program
The role of education, or lack of same, in a person’s eventual incarceration has been the subject of much hand-wringing over the years, but a new documentary looks at a program that is actually trying to do something about the problem.
Trump’s Choice for Interior: What Will It Mean for Colorado?
For a guy who’s vowed not to load his administration with the usual corporate lobbyists and Washington insiders, Trump has stacked his transition team with energy moguls, climate deniers, anti-EPA crusaders, and other highly vested interests. His short list of Interior nominees reportedly includes such wild cards as Sarah Palin and multimillionaire Forrest Lucas, founder of Lucas Oil Products. Whoever gets the job, it’s likely that his appointee will be ideologically inclined to the drill-baby-drill mantra.
Interior Secretary Nixes Drilling Leases on Roan Plateau, Thompson Divide
In the twilight of the Obama administration, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to Denver yesterday to announce the adoption of long-range plans to protect the Roan Plateau and the Thompson Divide — two spectacularly scenic and environmentally fragile areas on the Western Slope — from oil and gas drilling.
Will Drainage Project That Runs Through Superfund Site Pollute the Platte?
Denver’s $300-million stormwater diversion project has already generated significant community resistance, but opponents of the Platte to Park Hill Stormwater Systems are increasingly focusing on a little-discussed aspect of the project: the decision to direct storm runoff to the South Platte River through a heavily polluted Superfund site.
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ComCor: Halfway House Under Scrutiny After Drug Deaths, Sex Allegations
A halfway house operation in Colorado Springs, where two men died from suspected drug overdoses last month, has also been sharply criticized by state and county officials for bungling two separate investigations into sexual misconduct among its residents. The same company recently fired an employee who was suspected of “assisting clients in altering urine samples” that are required as part of mandatory drug-testing for felons making a transition from prison to the community.
How Renick Stevenson Survived the Wild Beat Scene and Helped Transform Denver
The alley between Champa and Curtis streets is closed. A sign on a barrier warns that only people making deliveries or employees of local businesses are allowed, that trespassing is prohibited under penalty of law — part of the ongoing police effort to keep the homeless from setting up camp…
Could Aspen Water-Rights Filing Lead to a Dam Threatening Maroon Bells?
On Halloween, the scariest day of the year, Aspen officials filed legal paperwork preserving the resort town’s conditional rights to make use of water from two of the last free-flowing creeks in the Roaring Fork watershed. A mundane matter for most municipalities, perhaps, but not in Aspen, where the move…
JonBenet Ramsey Investigation: Distorted DNA Part of Ongoing Coverup?
A new report by two of Colorado’s premiere investigative reporters indicates that former Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy misrepresented DNA evidence in the JonBenét Ramsey investigation in order to clear her parents and her brother of any suspicion in the six-year-old’s 1996 murder. That revelation is unsettling enough, but it also…