The 17,000 grocery workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union could begin receiving ballots to vote on Safeway and King Soopers’ “last, best and final” contract offer as soon as tomorrow. A yes vote would end seven months of bargaining. The ballots are scheduled to be…
Don’t even think about getting a marriage license in Denver today. Or having your cat’s balls cut off. Or getting a permit to zone something. (Does that even make sense?) Or paying your late fee at the Denver Public Library for the new Philippa Gregory novel, The White Queen, which…
Say, you know what makes a boring city council meeting less boring? Furries. Just ask the Durango City Council, which was visited by a human-sized hen Tuesday night during a debate about a chicken ordinance. Watch the faux feathers fly above. All in favor of live personifications of agenda items…
Floridians just don’t get us Coloradans. Take this comment posted to a 9News story about the Arvada Senior High School mascot — Barrelman — that aired yesterday on First Coast News in Jacksonville. rustyjax wrote: this could’a been a funny story if they had given more key details such as,…
A funeral director allegedly tells a family that the county coroner recommended him to bury their twelve-year-old child — when the law prohibits such recommendations. A mortuary embalms a body without the final okay from the family; in the meantime, the family decides to use a different mortuary. A funeral…
Denver Public Schools officials have suggested a series of plans to “turn around” the city’s six lowest-performing schools. But before they approve the changes, they want to hear from the public. The Board of Education will hear public comment on the recommendations at meetings tonight and Thursday night from 7…
Today marks the last day of work for 176 city employees who were laid off in order to help close a $160 million gap in Denver’s budget. (Read this Denver Post story by reporter Christopher Osher for more.) Most of the layoffs — the equivalent of 108.5 positions — occurred…
MTV is looking for overweight home-schoolers who have been affected by natural disasters for the next season of The Real World — and it’s coming to find them in Denver, which hosted its own cast of seven strangers picked to live in a house in 2006 and 2007. Real World…
It’s officially The Future. Denver announced today that its Public Works Department is piloting a program in which shoppers at Cherry Creek North can call parking meters from their cell phones and deposit money via their credit cards — and then call back to extend the time on their meters…
Kim Cordova and Cindy Lucero, the president-elect and secretary-treasurer-elect of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, stood in front of the union’s empty headquarters in Wheat Ridge this afternoon and, with an audience of a reporter and a single news camera, called the current president a thief. “The…
The number of swine flu cases reported in Colorado last week fell for the third week in a row, as can be seen on this handy-dandy chart courtesy of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. But a decline in H1N1 didn’t stop the department from making a handy-dandy…
Editor’s note: Westword is live blogging Governor Bill Ritter’s presentation to the state’s Joint Budget Committee about his proposed 2010-11 budget. The state is facing a $1.02 billion shortfall. The most recent posts are at the top. For the complete story, read from the bottom up. 3:50 p.m.: Ritter answers…
Sean Wenlock stands at the end of a seafoam-green diving board, his toes curled over the edge like upside-down question marks. He’s still. He looks like he’s contemplating something, but it’s impossible to know what. The 29-year-old in the red-and-black swim trunks with the flames on the sides couldn’t tell…
For Orthodox Jews, anyplace outside New York City is known as “out of town.” And anyplace not touching the Atlantic Ocean — like say, a square state surrounded by other square states in the middle of the country — is considered way, way out of town. “In New York, once…
Allen Andrade, the 32-year-old convicted in April of murdering transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, has a MySpace page. A disturbing one that alternates Christian imagery, hate-speak and pleas not to judge him. It appears to have been set up by one of Andrade’s siblings. (He has at least two sisters,…
I’m in love with a stripper (radio station). Cue the medieval flute-sounding music. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, allow T-Pain to school you.) I was driving in my car this afternoon, and I got a text from a friend of mine. (Don’t worry. I didn’t holler back…
Forbes.com — America’s go-to source for tax law updates, breaking commodities news and sexiness — has named Denver the 13th best city for singles. “With a brunt of popular sports teams — Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rockies — as well as a lively bar scene, Denver isn’t just for skiing,”…
When Michael Bennet was just a baby/his mama told him, son/always be a good boy/don’t ever play with guns. But that (weird, re-imagined-by-me Johnny Cash lyric) didn’t stop him from voting for them. Now he and fellow Sen. Mark Udall are in trouble — at least with the press –…
Gotten enough marijuana (news) this week? No? Then you’ve come to the right place. As reported in the Latest Word’s extensive, twelve-hour live blog of Monday’s packed Colorado Board of Health medical marijuana hearing, pot dispensaries in Colorado appear to be safe … for the moment. The health board rejected…
There’s a new farmers’ market in the heart of downtown Denver. Three months ago, the spot at 15th and California streets that’s now home to Tiri’s Garden and the Tiri’s Garden Farmers’ Market was an empty asphalt lot, a plot of well-positioned real estate that seemed destined to remain vacant…
The Latest Word is at a Colorado Board of Health’s hearing, where the board will consider new medical marijuana regulations that some believe will jeopardize the newly booming industry, as Joel Warner reported last week (“Will Monday be judgment day for Colorado’s medical marijuana industry?”). We’ll update throughout the day…
Your dog’s poop could cost you a lot more come September — if you don’t pick it up, that is. The Denver City Council last night passed a bill that allows the city’s Department of Environmental Health to set fees and fines related to animal control and care. And the…
