More surveillance cameras don’t make you safer, ACLU says

In a post last month, we told you about a new website called CommunityCam, which planned to use crowd-sourcing techniques to document and map all the security cameras in public areas throughout Denver and other nearby areas. The site’s founder mainly portrayed such surveillance devices as good things — no…

Photos: Ten weirdest CU Boulder Confessions, holiday edition

The CU Boulder Confessions Facebook page is a font of weirdness all year long, but especially around a holiday, as we found out earlier this year for our post spotlighting the top ten St. Patrick’s Day posts. As evidence, we offer the following examples, which include a rant about poor…

Photos: From hosurance to ho-ho-hosurance for the Got Insurance? campaign

Beginning in October, the Got Insurance? campaign, intended to get uinsured millennials to sign up for health care coverage, has generated controversy. Obamacare critics branded the first batch of images “brosurance,” because one shot featured a keg stand, while the second was dubbed “hosurance” due to references to birth-control access…

Photos: Aurora police train to shoot from a bike

Cops on bicycles aren’t always taken as seriously as their brethren in police cruisers, probably because they don’t look as cool pedaling and wearing bike helmets. But they’re every bit as tough as colleagues who travel with the help of four wheels instead of two — and in Aurora, they…

Marijuana patients to protest introduction of new tracking system

At 10:30 a.m., state officials will unveil the Marijuana Inventory Tracking Solution, or MITS, a system intended to keep tabs pot for sale in Colorado. But while the press is invited to the event, a number of medical marijuana patients coordinated by the Cannabis Therapy Institute have invited themselves –…

Photos: Top ten White Elephant gifts of 2013

For each of the past three years, we’ve spotlighted the top ten White Elephant gifts as chosen by the folks at ARC Thrift Stores; click for picks from 2010, 2011 and 2012. This year, however, there’s a twist: ARC has supplemented the choices with a video that should get you…

Reader: Peyton Manning is still Tom Brady’s bitch

After Peyton Manning and the Broncos blew out the Titans in ultra-chilly temperatures on Sunday, we shared tweets from those who felt Denver’s QB proved he can play in the cold. But not of our readers were convinced, with several believing that the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady…