Denver blog posts don’t think 36 hours is enough. At our Show and Tell blog, Patricia Calhoun reveals where the New York Times would eat during 36 hours in Denver. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek on the civil-unions cleanup bill on the way to the chopping block. South Stands Denver’s…
Update: Last week, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of a man who’d allegedly robbed a Fast-N-Friendly outlet in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the person killed as 39-year-old Kavonda Earl Payton — and there’s a very large difference between his…
Last month, we told you about Granby’s extraordinary efforts to block a pot shop wanting to operate near town — by annexing the land in an “emergency” action. The law firm representing the ganjapreneurs had suggested that this action would be challenged in court, but its clients have now decided…
Scripps News recently crunched numbers on unsolved U.S. murders and discovered that the total of 200,000-plus since 1980 actually exceeds the population of Des Moines, Iowa. The data also reveals which states do the best job of solving homicides, and Colorado’s ranking is mediocre, with 26 states cracking a higher…
In 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, an organization that sent hot women into bars wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the company’s name — and they told customers to whom they sold branded merchandise that the money they collected would go toward fighting breast cancer. But Colorado’s Attorney General branded…
On a chilly morning like this one, a lot of us are tempted to start a car parked on the street and leave it running for a few minutes while we finish up inside. Here’s a story demonstrating why that’s a bad idea: A puffer car that was stolen yesterday…
In response to a recent post about Colorado’s high divorce rate (it’s in the national top ten), one reader offered some reasons why matches in the state’s capitol may not last. And sorry, dudes, but according to her, it’s your fault. See also: Photos: Top Ten States for Divorce –…
Denver blog posts are always hatching good ideas. At our Cafe Society blog, Lauren Monitz serves up a list of Denver’s ten best eggs Benedict dishes. Colorado Peak Politics wasn’t exactly wowed by President Obama’s State of the Union address…. …while Colorado Pols offers this headline: “GOP Talks Immigration, but…
Last Friday, comedian Ralphie May’s show in Grand Junction included some special guests — members of the Grand Junction Police Department, who responded to a row involving attendees reportedly pissed at May’s apparent intoxication. Afterward, May’s manager called his client the “first victim of legalized marijuana,” suggesting that he’d overindulged…
As we’ve reported, Denver police Officer John Adsit was critically injured in a crash that took place while he was on crowd-control duty during a December 3 East High School student walk-out prompted by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s no-indictment decision in the shooting death of Michael Brown. He remains…
A website called TheBlackVault.com has just published what it’s calling Project Blue Book, which consists of a reported 130,000 pages worth of declassified Air Force documents related to investigations of UFO sightings. The majority of the material is from the 1940, 1950s and 1960s, and there are dozens upon dozens…
You may recall Condomania as the company that ranks states by penis size — and Colorado rose much higher in the most recent survey. But the site also has a blog that recently introduced a new feature — the “Stop Having Loud Sex” note of the day — and the…
Last month, the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a complaint asking the U.S. Supreme Court to void Colorado’s marijuana laws because of the negative impacts legal pot was having across the border. Colorado Representative Tim Dore’s new bill doesn’t go quite that far. But the proposal, on view below,…
As we’ve discussed in previous coverage of skiing deaths, determining whether an accident is included in the official resort-fatality total depends on numerous factors, including whether the incident took place in-bounds or out-of-bounds. But the case of Suzann Pennington, 55, is even trickier, if no less tragic. Pennington died days…
Numerous studies have suggested that marijuana users are less violent than those who consume alcohol. But would substituting marijuana for liquor also cut down on sexual assaults currently plaguing so many colleges across the country? Yes, argues New York magazine’s Annie Lowery — and she believes higher taxes on liquid…
Denver blog posts boast plenty of beats per minute. At our Backbeat blog, Mary Willson reports that at least 14,500 people were supporting a petition about Red Rocks noise ordinances thought to target EDM concerts — and an additional 1,000-plus have signed on since the post’s original publication. Big Media’s…
Yesterday’s Martin Luther King Day Marade in Denver drew a large and enthusiastic crowd for a wide range of festivities. Photographer Ken Hamblin was on hand to capture images that demonstrate why the Marade is among the Mile High City’s most stirring annual events. Check out a sampling of his…
Colorado pride takes different forms — like, for instance, this reader’s response to posts on a Comment of the Day arguing that Colorado drivers suck. Continue to see what we mean. See also: Reader: Colorado Drivers Really Do Suck…
Today marks two weeks since a bomb went off outside the building that houses the NAACP offices in Colorado Springs, and while a suspect’s sketch was released days later, no arrests have been made. To emphasize the need for progress in the case, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, who’s been…
Which states have the rudest drivers — and what state’s drivers hate them most? Those are among the questions tackled by Insure.com in a recent survey, and the answers are illuminating and amusing, especially if you’re not from the state that most hates Colorado drivers (and those from plenty of…
The reaction among members of Twitter Nation to the departure of John Fox as the Denver Broncos’ head coach was mighty mixed — and if anything, the team’s decision to hire Gary Kubiak, John Elway’s former backup, to take over is generating an even more varied reaction. Some tweeters are…
The connection between a great teacher and students who want to learn can be a beautiful thing — and a tragic one when the connection between them is unexpectedly shattered. That’s what happened with the accidental death of 28-year-old Mitch Hanson, a teacher at Smoky Hills High School, from what…
