Another indication of Colorado’s importance in the cannabis-reform movement: Today, the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, better known as NORML, opened a satellite office in Denver. We spoke to NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre about the reasons NORML wanted to have a permanent base of operations in…
Denver blog posts are what they eat. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the view of a reader who says it’s easy to be a vegetarian without being a jerk. Coyote Gulch on the Greeley earthquake, which is said to have been near oil and gas wastewater injection…
Our latest post about alleged pot profiling, featuring Idaho State Troopers pulling over three Colorado drivers for incredibly minor traffic infractions (but then finding cannabis), led to an intriguing debate about the practice. Here’s the post of a reader who feels such law-enforcement behavior is to be expected given that…
Last October, we shared the unsettling story of Reba Doyle and Scott Liles, who were caught on video striking and shaking their baby. Now, Doyle has been sentenced to jail time and probation for the incident. Continue for the details and the clip, which — warning — some readers may…
Which Colorado school districts deal with the most discipline issues? The Colorado Department of Education has compiled the data for the 2012-2013 school year (the most recent one available), and the figures are staggering. Several districts in the state handled well over 10,000 incidents during that span, and statewide, there…
News feeds are full of items about actress Ann B. Davis, who died yesterday in San Antonio at age 88. But almost lost within the salutes to her role as Alice the housekeeper on the iconic sitcom The Brady Bunch is information about the time she spent doing real-life housekeeping-type…
Cold Crush is among the most acclaimed nightspots in Denver, earning write-ups in both our Backbeat and Cafe Society blogs, with the latter naming it the best new bar of 2013. No wonder it earned a Best of Denver award earlier this year. This morning, however, the attention focusing on…
Denver blog posts know the ropes. The crew at our Backbeat blog share ten rules to follow if you’re going to an underground dance-music concert. Denver PR Blog salutes another Great Moment in Journalism: The evolution of the page-one newspaper sticker. Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek on Andrew Romanoff’s immigration-debate challenge…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about the arrest of David Pineda on suspicion that he’d stabbed his wife to death; see our previous coverage below. The victim of this terrible crime has now been identified as Isabel Pineda, a professional housekeeper — and tonight at 8:30 p.m., her…
Our post about the rescue of Canadian teen Samuel Frappier from Long’s Peak, which he attempted to climb without the proper experience, gear or clothing, prompted strong reactions from our readers — particularly when it came to the question of whether he should have to pay for the crews that…
It’s been a couple of years since a commercial TV station in Denver has produced a locally oriented Sunday public-affairs show — so when political reporter Eli Stokols’s overseers at Fox31 asked if he’d be interested in taking on such a project, he eagerly accepted. But now comes the hard…
Just in time for summer vacation season, Cities Journal has come up with its picks for the top twelve small cities in Colorado — and while there are plenty of great spots that didn’t make the cut, those that did are generally worthy selections in our opinion. Look below to…
This week’s Denver Cruiser Ride found participants embracing the Seven Deadly Sins in a very lively way. For proof, look no further than photos by our Scott Lentz, who was on hand to catch all the greed, gluttony, sloth and lust. Check out a sampling of the shots below, and…
Overnight, a man’s refusal to pay for a cab in Boulder turned into a hours-long SWAT team standoff in which he and a police officer were both injured. What happened? Here’s what we know thus far…
Over the years, marijuana activists have frequently talked about the tipping point — the moment at which so many states have legalized pot that the federal government is forced to change its policies in regard to a substance still considered a Schedule 1 narcotic by the Drug Enforcement Agency. In…
Our posts this week about radio personality Tom Martino, who pleaded guilty to a disturbing-the-peace charge in regard to a December incident involving his wife, Holly, found the self-proclaimed Troubleshooter asking the public not to assume he’s angry or violent based on his aggressive persona as an on-air consumer advocate…
Denver blog posts still have trouble spelling the word “pavilion.” At our Cafe Society blog, Jonathan Shikes reveals that the Denver County Fair has decided to shelve a plan for a beer pavilion even as it’s enlarging its pot pavilion. Coyote Gulch on endangered fish and the Flaming Gorge Reservoir…
Earlier this month, in reporting about the firing of Gloria Neal and the impending death of the progressive AM-760 format at Clear Channel-owned KKZN-AM, we speculated about possible new approaches, noting along the way that business-centric radio “hasn’t been markedly successful in this market for decades.” Well, lo and behold,…
Last week, we told you about new rules for Washington Park set to go into effect on Memorial Day weekend — an apparent response to Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt’s unsuccessful effort to ban alcohol at the park due to what he described as “belligerent, drunken behavior.” Mere days later,…
How does a new Twitter account get followers fast? One surefire way: Give away money. Yesterday, the folks behind Hidden Cash Boulder tweeted clues to the whereabouts of envelopes containing $40 under the hashtag @HiddenCashCO. Now, less than 24 hours later, the feed has more than 2,700 followers, and that…
Estately.com, the site behind our recent list of the ten best states for hippies, has a new target: the Internet search quirks of all fifty states, including Colorado, produced by running “hundreds of search queries through Google Trends to determine which words, terms and questions each state was searching for…
For a year-plus, we’ve shared claims of pot profiling from drivers who say they were pulled over on bogus pretenses in other states simply because their vehicle had Colorado license plates. For instance, a 65-year-old was told she fit the profile of a drug smuggler because she didn’t fit the…
