The La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood was named one of the nation’s Ten Great Neighorhoods this week by the American Planning Association. I happen to live in the neighborhood, which is bounded by Colfax Avenue to the north, 6th Avenue to the south, Speer Boulevard to the east and the South…
The media can broadcast the trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, the judge in the case has ruled. But the television stations won’t be able to set up their own camera in the courtroom, as they’d requested. Instead, they’ll be allowed to broadcast footage captured by a closed-circuit…
Quentin Tarantino wants to make his next movie in Colorado. Colorado wants that, too. This morning, the state Economic Development Commission approved $5 million in film incentives for the Tarantino Western The Hateful Eight. State film commissioner Donald Zuckerman said Tarantino is eyeing a location in Telluride for filming. “What’s…
Update: The pro-life group Alliance Defending Freedom is appealing a Denver judge’s recent decision to throw out a lawsuit alleging that Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains used state money to pay for abortions. “The state acknowledges that about $1.4 million of state taxpayer money flowed from state government agencies…
Will televising the trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes lead to more harassment of victims and witnesses than if the trial isn’t broadcast? That’s one of the main questions Judge Carlos Samour has to consider in deciding whether to allow a video camera and a still camera at…
Just 22 percent of Colorado law enforcement agencies and district attorneys complied with a new state law that requires them to submit reports about their contacts with students — a number that the group Padres y Jovenes Unidos says is disappointing. The Smart School Discipline Law was passed in 2012…
The Harm Reduction Action Center, which houses Denver’s biggest syringe exchange program, will soon have a new home. After a few years on Santa Fe Drive, the organization is moving to a larger space at 231 East Colfax Avenue. See also: Syringe Exchange: New Law Allowing Participants to Carry Needles…
BREAKING NEWS! Hyena cubs are pretty cute. The Denver Zoo now has three of ’em: females Nia and Tavi, and male Kelele. According to the zoo, hyenas are matriarchal — and Nia has established herself as the Beyonce of the group. Visitors can see the three cubs at the zoo’s…
Hollie Presley sits at the kitchen table in her tidy southwest Denver home, surrounded by paperwork. Her four-year-old, Isabella, watches a cartoon in the living room, while her infant son, Parker, reclines in a bouncy chair within arm’s reach, his belly full from his last bottle. The paperwork chronicles Presley’s…
Should the trial of Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes be televised? Television station KUSA has asked the judge’s permission to set up a single video camera in the courtroom during Holmes’s trial, which is scheduled to begin December 8. KUSA would share the footage with six other television stations…
Last year, we told you about the dearth of condo construction in the Denver metro area. Some say the reason that developers are steering clear of building condos is that most projects end up as the subject of costly construction-defect lawsuits. One of the local policy makers concerned about this…
This past Sunday, Angela Hudson showed up at Washington Park with eight giant inflatable bubbles. Her plan, she says, was to host a casual game of bubble soccer, in which players play soccer whilst encased in plastic bubbles. (Video below!) Even though the Facebook invitation had been forwarded to 800…
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit alleging that Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was using state funds to provide abortions. The lawsuit was filed by former Colorado lieutenant governor (and longtime Planned Parenthood foe) Jane Norton. It accused Planned Parenthood of violating Colorado’s Abortion Funding Prohibition Amendment by…
Earlier this week, we shared the story of Heather Lizotte, the former chief financial officer for Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office. Lizotte, who still works there but in a demoted position, has accused Gessler of harassing and retaliating against her after she “began to push back on the financial…
Counterterrorism is the FBI’s number one priority, FBI Director James Comey said in a visit to Denver on Wednesday. That includes monitoring what Comey called “homegrown violent extremists,” Americans who become radicalized via the Internet. “In their pajamas, in their basement, they can get all the inspiration they need, all…
The former chief financial officer for the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is accusing Secretary Scott Gessler of harassing her, retaliating against her and eventually demoting her after she “began to push back on the financial mismanagement” she reportedly saw in the office. Heather Lizotte took issue with Gessler’s use…
Did the city of Denver’s “failure to reasonably maintain” Red Rocks amphitheater cause rocks to fall on concertgoers in 2011? That’s the question at the heart of an ongoing lawsuit between the city and four people who were injured in the rockfall. The case is currently moving through the Colorado…
The Colorado state fish has a new home. Last week, biologists released 1,200 greenback cutthroat trout into Zimmerman Lake, about an hour and a half west of Fort Collins. The four-inch-long, one-year-old fish were raised in hatcheries and are the descendants of the last known wild greenback population, which lives…
TripAdvisor.com has come up with a list of the top ten zoos in the country according to the vacation-loving folks who leave reviews on the site — and two from Colorado made the cut. Which ones? And where did they land? Continue reading for videos from the top ten zoos…
State and federal biologists have been trying to protect the greenback cutthroat trout ever since it was included on the first-ever Endangered Species Act list in 1973. But in 2007, a University of Colorado study cast doubt on whether the fish they’d been saving were actually greenbacks at all. Another…
These are the tools you’ll need to extract sperm from some of the rarest trout in the world: a towel, a small glass dish like those used on cooking shows to hold chopped ingredients, gloves, fish tranquilizers and your thumb. On a recent day, no fewer than ten biologists, staff…
The question of who won the election to represent District 4 on the Adams 12 Five Star school board now rests with the Colorado Supreme Court. Candidate Rico Figueroa has appealed a district court judge’s recent ruling that the District 4 seat should be declared vacant. The judge had ruled…
