In the future, your home and its appliances might talk to you, make decisions for you, and, if the National Renewable Energy Lab is successful, help you save money. And, you know, make Planet Earth a greener place. Get more details and see photos of our domestic future below…
Editor’s note: This election cycle, Westword is exploring the public records of television stations for information on how candidates are spending money on ads in Denver. In Denver, the Obama campaign is spending a lot more money on TV ads than is Romney’s. After digging through more public records, it’s…
Unsurprisingly, reporters at Michael Hancock’s press conference this morning were more interested in the news that the mayor fired a close friend and aide, Wayne McDonald, than the stated topic of the event (his plan to solve the city’s structural budget gap). “We had received an accusation which we looked…
With the fight for Latino votes in the presidential race heating up nationally this week, Colorado GOP leaders recently criticized President Obama in this space for playing politics via his new policy easing back on deporting undocumented youth. Today, local Democrats struck back by criticizing the GOP for criticizing Obama…for…
Editor’s note: This election cycle, Westword is exploring the public records of television stations for information on how candidates are spending money on ads in Denver. So far, Barack Obama’s campaign is spending more money than Mitt Romney’s on Denver TV ads. A lot more…
Since the High Park fire began raging nearly two weeks ago a mere fifteen miles or so from the city she calls home, Fort Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat has been getting calls of fear like she’s never heard before. “I’ve had citizens call and say, ‘I’ve never been so scared…
Just a few weeks after Denver began enforcing its urban camping ban, Mayor Michael Hancock said the new policy is going well, adding that some of the folks who were sleeping on the street have since gone to live with friends and family. And they haven’t gone to the suburbs,…
Over the weekend, while reporting at the launch of Mitt Romney’s Colorado campaign headquarters, we asked some of the state’s GOP officials in attendance, what they thought of President Barack Obama’s new policy about deportations and undocumented youth. Unsurprisingly, they’re not pleased…
Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, who is now running for president as a Libertarian, stopped in Denver yesterday for Pridefest. He took a break from schmoozing with potential voters to chat with Westword about his campaign, the Libertarian Party, marijuana, gay marriage and his ongoing battle to get…
In the Denver metro area, immigrants are more likely to own small businesses than folks born in the United States. Not that much more likely, but the data presented in a new national report should at least call into question notions that immigrants influence the economy simply by displacing U.S…
Mitt Romney’s in town! Well, actually, he’s not. But his campaign is — and the Colorado team is officially in full swing with the official opening of the presidential candidate and presumptive Republican nominee’s offices in Lakewood on Saturday…
This experience probably would’ve been a lot more informative after an inappropriate amount of drinking the night before. The team behind a product called the Hangover Recovery Shot stopped in Denver yesterday to schmooze with potential investors at a business conference, and invited Westword to swing by and try their…
Tucked inside a small room in an industrial building just south of I-70 and west of Holly Street, three leaders from a clean tech company called Coolerado explained to Congresswoman Diana DeGette how they are turning the traditional air conditioning process upside down…
Today, we have for you a piece of news that you probably already knew just by looking around you: Parts of Denver are rapidly getting whiter! So much so that Denver’s 80205 zip code managed to make it onto a list of the fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods in the country. Hooray!…
The massive High Park fire has forced the annual Ride the Rockies bike tour to alter the path to its final destination. The bike tour will still end at at Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins as planned, but officials announced this morning that the cyclists will have to take…
Garry Golden, a professional futurist, stopped by the Denver Public Library last night to, well, talk about the future. Not in a very concrete, fortune-telling, predictive kind of way, but rather in the more abstract forward-thinking, advice-giving, philosophical realm. This is the work of the futurist…
This could get tiring. Senator Mark Udall has announced that he will head to the Senate floor every day to push the same piece of legislation — the Wind Production Tax Credit — until Congress responds and passes it. That means speech after speech after speech on the same issue,…
Editor’s note: New York City’s Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his third dispatch from the road. The open road makes me dizzy. Very dizzy…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship is returning to Denver this summer — maybe in part because local tweeters were shouting and screaming for it. “It’s a great market all the way around for us,” UFC President Dana White said at a press conference this morning at the Pepsi Center, announcing the…
Editor’s note: New York City’s Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his second dispatch from the road. Contrary to the lessons of my upbringing as a native New Yorker, there is an exciting world beyond the Big…
At a Denver Public Schools event about so-called “health justice” earlier today, Alicia Leon, a Denver single mother of four, said the challenge of living healthily is simple: Processed food is cheap, available, and easy to prepare, while fresh produce and healthy meals are expensive, harder to find, and time-consuming…
Editor’s note: New York City’s Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his first dispatch from the road. A frantically shouting security guard ran toward my car, waving his arms back and forth as I struggled to find…
