Cities and towns all over Colorado are flummoxed over how to regulate the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. Several have instituted moratoriums on new dispensaries until they can hammer out some rules; even more have at least considered ways to slow the industry’s growth. In Boulder, a city with a…
Denver’s roller derby leagues are on the move. The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, who formerly bouted (that’s what you call a roller-derby-off) at the Bladium Sports and Fitness Club in Stapleton, just announced that they’re moving to the downtown Fillmore Auditorium, in partnership with Live Nation. Their first bout will be…
More kids are enrolled in Colorado schools than ever before: 832,368 to be exact, according to numbers released this week by the state Department of Education. And Denver Public Schools is contributing heavily to that growth. The city’s enrollment is up 4,493 students from 2005, making it the third fastest-growing…
The world will have to wait a little bit longer to learn the fate of the Niwot urine-drinker. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the retrial of Joseph Cardillo has been postponed because his new attorney needs time to catch up on the case. And what a case it is…
Jeff Johnsen, the executive director of Mile High Ministries, a collaboration of urban churches in Denver, thinks its time that Evangelical Christians spoke up about immigration. “The way we’ve worked out our social concern is caring for the poor: helping the homeless, feeding those who are hungry,” Johnsen says. “But…
He knows if you’ve been naughty. He knows if you’ve been nice. And now Denver County Juvenile Court Judge Kerry Hada is giving bad kids a chance to get on the court’s good side with a post-Christmas present: On February 16 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Hada is running…
The final tally of money raised in last November’s contentious Denver Public Schools school board election is in. And according to Education News Colorado reporter Nancy Mitchell, that tally is “jaw-dropping.” The three non-incumbent candidates who won seats on the seven-member board raised a total of $312,191. The bulk of…
In November 2007, Mark Nichols of Highlands Ranch sat down with his teenage son, Matthew, and one of Matthew’s friends. He had a pair of dice in his hand. He told them that if he rolled anything other than snake eyes, he’d pay them $10. But if he rolled snake…
The Denver Marathon is now the Rock ‘n’ Roll Denver Marathon — and it has a 2010 date: October 17. So what exactly is a Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon? Is it like a Rock ‘n’ Roll McDonalds? Not quite. According to CGI, a company that runs Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathons…
Want to ride in this year’s Triple Bypass? Well, you likely can’t. Registration for the 120-mile bicycle ride from Evergreen to Avon — and over three mountain passes — sold out yesterday in under one hour. That’s record time; in 2008, the 3,500 slots were snapped up in eleven days…
The future of charter schools in Denver looked bright in 2009. Despite voting to close P.S. 1 and Skyland Community High School charter schools because of sub-par academics, the seven-member Denver Public Schools board approved six new ones. They include the expansion of two existing, high-performing charters, as well as…
Five students stand together at the front of a bright, spacious classroom. The tables that serve as desks are pushed aside and the chairs arranged in rows to form an audience. Spencer Isensee, an outgoing, ponytailed eighteen-year-old junior at P.S. 1 Charter School, begins the group’s end-of-quarter presentation. “For this…
The evidence against P.S. 1 Charter School, the subject of this week’s feature, “P.S. 1 Didn’t Make the Grade, But Can Anything Replace Denver’s Longest-running Charter School?,” is harsh. Several reports from Denver Public Schools officials and the Colorado Department of Education detail what they see as the school’s problems:…
Rozita Swinton may finally get the help she needs. The 35-year-old Colorado Springs woman, who authorities believe made a hoax call that triggered a massive raid on a breakaway Mormon polygamist sect in Texas in April 2008, pleaded guilty today to one charge of false reporting on an unrelated charge…
If you can’t make it to the National Western Stock Show to see Miss Rodeo Colorado Kasie Pigg — either the way cartoonist Kenny Be imagined her, or the way she appears on her website and her Facebook page — you can read all about her via her Twitter feed…
La La Vazquez, former MTV veejay and fiance of Nuggets starter Carmelo Anthony, knows a bit about love-themed reality shows — especially the VH1 kind that star gold-toothed-’80s-rappers-who-once-had-relations-with-the-Russian-chick-from-Rocky IV and crazy bitches who cat-fight other crazy bitches. But is she planning to produce a reality show of her own? Word…
Everyone knows that banjos are awesome. But are they also deadly? According to Colorado law, that depends on how you use them. If you use your banjo for, say, pickin’, you’re all good. If you use it for hittin’, such as in the case of 33-year-old Joseph Stancato, you’re not…
Nearly one in eight youth in juvenile corrections facilities nationwide report having been sexually assaulted, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Justice. There are other shocking statistics, too: 80 percent of the abuse was committed by a staff member; 95 percent of youth say they…
The debate over whether TSA’s full-body scanners are porn-y or not has been ignited again by reports that one of the fancy machines would have detected an explosive packet carried aboard a Detroit flight on Christmas day. Security folks say the machines are awesome. Privacy folks say they’re intrusive. Take…
Vail’s Gay Ski Week is back! According to the Associated Press, the days-long celebration of everything gay and ski-y was canceled last year due to the economic downturn. But this year, the economy is apparently healthy enough for Vail to host the event, which is scheduled for January 27 to…
Christmas is over. Fold up the stockings, chug the rest of the egg nog and start planning for how you’re going to dispose of that tannenbaum. You could take the easy way out. Starting Monday, Denver’s Treecyle program will cart away your tree for free, provided that you strip it…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just negotiate-away your overdue library fines? If you could stroll into the Denver Public Library, offer them $1 and have your borrower status upgraded from “terribly horrible” to “awesomely awesome”? Well, you can’t, despite what the New York Times says. Yesterday, the Times…
