Those who feel political polls conducted long before an election frequently have very little news value can point to two new pieces of evidence to bolster their argument. Yesterday, media organizations ballyhooed a poll showing that Governor John Hickenlooper leads Republican challenger Bob Beauprez by a surprisingly large 6 percent…
It’s the Major League Baseball All-Star break, and that’s appropriate, because the Colorado Rockies are broken. The team has gone from better than expected to as horrible as usual over the course of the season to date, with owner Dick Monfort making a bad situation infinitely worse by suggesting to…
Canada’s Adam Campbell is an elite ultrarunner who decided to challenge himself by competing in the Silverton area’s Hardrock 100, an incredibly difficult one-hundred-mile course featuring “33,992 feet of climb and 33,992 feet of descent for a total elevation change of 67,984 feet and an average elevation of 11,186 feet,”…
The Denver Police Department has released little information thus far about a double stabbing that took place around the stroke of midnight in central Denver. Here’s what we know thus far about this still-developing story. See also: Fifty homicides in year five of Mile High Murder: See where they happened…
More than six months after limited recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, lots of out-of-towners (and some locals, too) remain confused about the rules. But we at Westword are here to help. Smokin’ Smart: A Guide to Colorado’s Pot Rules, by director and co-star Bailey Geoghan, takes a 1950s-style…
Our post about the reaction to Michael Bloomberg suggesting that Colorado Springs and Pueblo are so rural that they may not even have roads prompted a slew of comments from folks calling the ex-New York City mayor out of touch or weighing in on gun control, the topic that prompted…
Denver blog posts like to raise the roof. Our Cafe Society blog counts down the ten best rooftop patios in Denver. Denver Egotist shares the story of Develop Denver. Coyote Gulch: Garfield County Commissioners approve deep-injection wells. See also: Denver metro’s ten best new restaurants of 2014 so far…
Yesterday, we posted about the evolving language standards among mainstream media outlets, epitomized by 9News using “fart” on its home page and in a headline of a story that didn’t otherwise include the word. The phenomenon is even more pronounced on the social media sites of such outlets. Example? Today…
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration maintains lists of the most wanted fugitives at each of its major offices, including the Denver branch, which covers Colorado as well as several neighboring states. The current roster features 51 people — most of them men, with a majority originally hailing from Mexico and…
When accused sexual assaulter Michael Miller was released on bond yesterday, the judge in his case ordered him not to access the Internet. However, the dating profile that allegedly connected him to at least one victim remains online at this writing, offering a stark contrast with the behavior described in…
Update: Sunday night’s pit bull attack on a toddler (see our previous coverage below) fueled an intense debate among readers about whether blame for the gruesome incident should be placed on the owner, the child’s guardians or the dog’s breed, which is banned in Commerce City, location of the attack,…
Earlier this year, we told you about a lawsuit against the Denver Broncos and its owner, Pat Bowlen, after police twice ejected a Cannabis University vehicle from a Mile High Stadium parking lot, allegedly because the word “cannabis” was printed on it. The complaint has already been amended once. But…
Melanie Asmar’s report about a man who received a disorderly conduct citation for saying “Fuck it” at a Sam’s Club in Aurora incited a passionate response that’s definitely giving the First Amendment a workout. Here’s a case in point. See also: Reader: There’s nothing natural about breastfeeding with both tits…
Denver blog posts have learned to pace themselves. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the view of a reader with strong opinions about what makes for a good dive bar. Colorado Peak Politics says Dems desperately want Jared Polis to drop his support for a fracing initiative. South…
In recent days, we’ve posted about the series of lightning storms that have hit the Colorado, with one strike hitting so close to Arvada’s Chad Greenlees that he was briefly knocked out while recording a video of the light show. This incident pales in comparison with a pair of tragedies…
Colorado Mesa University Missed Connections is one of the busiest college-friendly Facebook pages of its type. And while we don’t know which posts brought kindred souls together, or which ones induced vomiting, we can guess. Continue to see our photo-illustrated picks for the five best and worst pitches on the…
The images above, from 9News’ home page, represent breaking news in at least one obvious way. But there’s also significance to the headline beyond the story itself — an Associated Press report about an English study claiming that passing gas may be beneficial for health “in small doses.” The banner…
Our post about Auto Advantage’s list of the ten cities with the least courteous drivers — and Denver’s finish as the ninth most courteous city for drivers — prompted a debate about whether motorists in the metro area place on the politeness scale. The following reader places them well above…
Denver blog posts have the music in them. At our Backbeat blog, Mike Seeley lists the ten best songs by awful musicians — and includes OneRepublic. Colorado Pols rounds up info about counties where clerks will start issuing same-sex marriage licenses — including Denver — following yesterday’s ruling in Boulder…
Were Danielle Cordova, Matt Ackerman and Paul Mannaioni responsible for a hash-oil explosion that seriously burned all three of them? Or were they merely bystanders who were too badly hurt to escape along with several others seen fleeing from the fiery scene? The Denver District Attorney’s Office has charged the…
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a big fan of gun-control measures passed in Colorado following the Aurora theater shooting. But he just handed opponents of the laws an easy way to dismiss him as an out-of-touch elitist unfamiliar with the West. To whit: In a just-published interview,…
There are often advantages to doing something before anyone else — but being first isn’t always a good thing. Just ask Michael Clasen, who appears to be the first person charged under Colorado’s new revenge porn law owing to “intimate” images of an ex-girlfriend he allegedly posted on the day…
