As seen by CNN’s decision to assign a reporter (who got high as a kite) to spend a week covering Colorado cannabis, the national media remains fascinated by the state’s launch of recreational pot sales. A case in point is the eruption of attention for the installation of pot amnesty…
In recent years, there have been plenty of complaints about the supposedly intrusive nature of airport searches conducted by Transportation Security Administration personnel. Now, however, Highlands Ranch mom Jamelyn Steenhoek has filed a criminal complaint with Denver police accusing one agent of sexually assaulting her during a search. Details about…
A hat tip to Denver Egotist for alerting us to a clip starring CNN’s Randi Kaye, who appears to have really enjoyed the week she spent covering recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Especially hilarious: A giggly, occasionally incoherent Kaye looking absolutely shit-hammered during a conversation with host Anderson Cooper thanks…
Last October, we shared a list of Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. But Denver has its own roster. It’s more than 150 strong, with all of the men and women on it wanted for failing to register after sex-crime convictions. To give you a feel for those at large,…
Around this time last year, we began hearing reports that cars with Colorado license plates were being profiled by law enforcers in other states looking to make marijuana busts. But are similar assumptions being made about Coloradans even after they reach their out-of-state destinations? That’s the claim of one man,…
Update: Two juveniles were taken into custody following the explosion of what’s been described as a “chemical device” at SkyView Academy charter school. At least five people required treatment at an area hospital; see our previous coverage below. Now, authorities are detailing a possible charge against the pair for possessing…
We received a lot of feedback from our post about a driver who crashed into State Patrol vehicles while allegedly under the influence of pot, with much attention paid to a spokesman’s concerns about people new to pot taking the wheel. Among the comments is this one, from a reader…
Denver blog posts can go all night long. At our Backbeat blog, Leslie Simon wonders why there’s such a stigma against jam bands? South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels declares the AFC Championship game forecast to be awesome. Colorado Pols on “UdallGate” — which isn’t something he uses to get into…
Richard Dolin insisted that his baby daughter — five-month-old Marlayna, seen here — received many if not most of the injuries that eventually took her life from rolling off a couch onto a concrete floor. But prosecutors didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to shocking injuries completely inconsistent with this explanation…
Last month, CU professor Patti Adler was called on the carpet over a prostitution skit that’s long been part of a class entitled “Deviance in U.S. Society,” with Adler supporters blasting the university for what they saw as attacks on academic freedom and Adler personally. In the end, the administration…
Back in October, the Denver Post laid off several people, but quite a few others are leaving voluntarily, with the sports department, a key to the paper’s pageview prowess, being especially hard hit. Three Broncos reporters have left in a span of just over a year, including Joan Niesen, who…
In the week leading to the Broncos’ playoff game against the San Diego Chargers, we had a lot of fun hating on QB Philip Rivers and his supposed bolo-tie mojo. And to make things even better, Denver won! With that in mind, we focus our good-natured ire at the Broncos’…
In recent weeks, we’ve posted about several satirical Colorado marijuana sales stories that some are taking seriously, including one that claimed pot overdoses killed 37 people and another about Representative Michele Bachmann supposedly driving stoned that prompted an official denial from Fort Collins. A piece about folks buying weed with…
Denver blog posts are sometimes about snow jobs. At our Show & Tell blog, Adam Roy shares three ways to stay safe this ski season. Coyote Gulch shares the January 2014 Colorado Basin Outlook report. Big Media’s Jason Salzman: Mike Coffman wants the re-deployment of advisory troops in Iraq –…
Last week, we interviewed National Cannabis Industry Association deputy director Betty Aldworth about numerous national pundits decrying Colorado’s marijuana reforms. Aldworth found many of the critics’ claims to be offensive, but one of our many commenters was less annoyed…
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,…
Last month, Wichita anchor Justin Kraemer doomed his jump to a Colorado Springs TV station with an Anchorman-style gaffe: He said, “Let’s get the fuck out of here” at the end of a newscast. Now, the still-unemployed newsman is trying to make lemonade out of lemons with a parody video…
Update: We now know the identity of the man shot to death at 36th and Lafayette on Sunday: Jose Diaz-Luevano, 67 — the man a child was referring to when he burst from the home shouting, “They shot my Papi!” See our previous coverage below. Clay Baeza-Garcia, 33, has been…
In January of last year, we reported that there’d been three official ski area fatalities at that point of the season — but the most high-profile skiing death, of longtime ski patrol vet Patsy Hileman, wasn’t included. The situation is almost identical this season. Three fatalities, including that of Sean…
At 8:15 a.m. today, Secundino Martinez, twenty, will make his first Boulder County appearance in relation to a stabbing at a Longmont house party early Sunday morning. And while he was initially busted on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder, that’s now doubled, sadly enough. Two teens have died,…
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…
Last week, William Breathes wrote about a Texas ski tourist who wrote a letter to a Steamboat paper warning that if he and his friends and family were subjected to too much legal weed during an upcoming visit, they’d vacation elsewhere in the future. The reaction to the post was…
