A reader comment about preferring stoned skiers over drunk assholes spurred lots of conversation about the distinctions between the two. Some readers rejected both types, while one came down firmly on the side of those who smoke, even though she doesn’t personally do so. Here’s her take…
Denver blog posts are rooting for everyone to survive. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels offers a guide to starting a Walking Dead fantasy league. Is your money on Rick? Glenn? Maggie? Michonne? Colorado Peak Politics on a reporter with Colorado ties and the federal search of her home. Denver Egotist:…
On Saturday, proud owners of pit bulls (and some other breeds) took part in Littleton’s Parade of Pit Bulls, an event staged in conjunction with National Pit Bull Awareness Day. With Halloween right around the corner, many of the parade participants were in costume, and photographer Darian Simon was on…
Late last night, a report of shots fired in Commerce City resulted in an ugly accident. Specifically, a train hit and dragged a car that the shooting suspects had used in a failed attempt to escape. Although three people have been arrested, there are a lot of unanswered questions at…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett is one of the most open and accessible elected officials in the state — but in the matter of newly released true bills accusing John and Patsy Ramsey of culpability in the 1996 murder of JonBenet Ramsey, their daughter, he’s keeping mum, with his only…
It’s been almost a year since we dipped into the pool of weirdness known as Boulder Craigslist’s “Rants and Raves” to highlight the ten weirdest posts there. And whaddya know: We discovered a fresh supply of bizarre posts — some funny, some odd, some completely indescribable. Look below to check…
The Broncos’ 45-21 win over Washington Sunday wasn’t the laugher the score implies. Denver trailed 21-7 in the third quarter before reeling off 38 points — an onslaught Broncos coach turned Washington head man Mike Shanahan apparently (read: definitely) tried to slow by having players fake injuries. Fans at the…
Yesterday’s post about radio preacher Kevin Swanson’s claim that buying Girl Scout cookies promotes lesbianism inspired a heaping helping of responses, many of them flat-out hilarious. This was one of our favorites…
Denver blog posts are always attractive. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks Colorado’s pot laws could convince ballers to sign up with the Nuggets. Colorado Pols: Jennifer “CAPartyGirl” Kerns tries to export Colorado voter recalls of gun-law reformers. Coyote Gulch: Can the Weld County commissioners advocate for the 51st State…
After nearly seventeen years, the death of Boulder’s JonBenet Ramsey is still capable of commanding attention, as exemplified by the way the national media’s covered the release earlier today of a never-acted-upon 1999 grand jury indictment aimed at her parents, John and Patsy (who died in 2006). But for some…
We’d like nothing better than for our Mile High Murder archive to be starved of content — but that’s definitely not the case this week. We’ve already posted about the killing of John Goggin, for which Floyd Sandoval has been arrested, and the death of Vincente Penaloza and the ongoing…
Moments ago, at the order of Senior District Judge J. Robert Lowenbach, 1999 grand jury documents accusing John and Patsy Ramsey of criminal conduct in the death three years earlier of their six-year-old daughter, JonBenet, were made public. The pages were released as the result of a lawsuit filed by…
When he was arrested earlier this week, Eugene Martinez was listed as Colorado’s most wanted sex offender — and he’s not the only person accused of such crimes to be rounded up lately. Indeed, nineteen of the top 100 most wanted sex offenders in the state have either been busted…
Update below: Yesterday, the Denver Post announced that six members of the staff would be laid off, with five of them serving as community managers for YourHub, the paper’s citizen-journalist arm. Is this the beginning of the end for YourHub, which began its life under the umbrella of the Rocky…
A number of high-profile crime reports have emanated from the CU-Boulder campus over the past couple of months. By comparison, the main Colorado State University complex in Fort Collins has been relatively quiet. No more. Late last night, a woman reported being sexually assaulted at knifepoint on a CSU athletic…
One way to tell if a topic strikes a nerve is when a Comment of the Day about it inspires more people to share their thoughts. That was the case when it came to reader responses regarding an executive’s warning about public pot-smoking at Arapahoe Basin. Here’s another memorable take…
Denver blog posts cover all kinds of games people play, whether they take place on fields or not. The Redheaded Slut shares her reaction to taking part in a “Dexter-style serial killer scene for my babygirl.” Colorado Pols: “Nice photo, but they don’t ‘frack’ peaks.” Mile High Hockey’s Steve House:…
Police responding to a call from a concerned mom about her possibly suicidal son wind up shooting him four times — yet the student is facing a criminal charge? That’s the scenario in the case of Jordan Koehn, a 24-year-old CSU graduate student who pointed a gun at his own…
Among the least-insured groups in the country are young men in good health. How to get them to take advantage of the new health-care law, now known by supporters and critics alike as Obamacare? The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and ProgressNow Colorado Education, the folks behind the 2011 Thanks Obamacare!…
As we’ve reported, the International Drug Policy Reform Conference is taking place in Denver. And while the gathering will feature plenty of in-depth panel discussions and distinguished speakers (see the full program below), several events will feature a celebratory feel — among them today’s “No More Drug War Rally and…
Kevin Swanson is on a roll. Back in August, as we reported, the radio preacher and co-host of Generations Radio argued that Colorado was becoming “the worst possible hellhole on Planet Earth” due to a “drugged-out, marijuana’d-out, homosexual culture where children are abused as much as possible.” His latest target?…
Update: Last week, we shared with you the story of Jeremy Yachik, a Berthoud police officer under investigation by cops in Loveland over alleged child abuse caught on video; see our previous coverage below. Now, Yachik has been charged with multiple child abuse counts — and an arrest affidavit on…
