Denver Police Chief Robert White’s controversial reorganization of the department is now in effect, and top officials say the major restructuring will create a stronger agency — even if many officers were forced to face demotions. In an effort to reduce “stagnation,” White opened up positions, so that many officers…
The contentious debate over the rights of permit-holders to bring guns onto college campuses was back in the spotlight last week with news that a University of Colorado staffer accidentally fired her handgun, injuring herself and a colleague. Now a representative of the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police says…
Since Colorado voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana, there have been concerns about contradictions that now exist between state and federal laws — including a contentious debate about workplace regulation. One Denver CEO told us that legal pot will make it hard for him to hire people, because he…
On a Sunday morning in September, two cyclists on an open road in Longmont filmed their bizarre encounter with James Ernst, 75, who drove an SUV and honked nonstop without passing them. Despite the video, which has now more than 450,000 hits on YouTube, Ernst has pleaded not guilty to…
Wayne McDonald doesn’t want his job back, but he would like to clear his name. That’s the main reason McDonald — a friend and former staffer of Mayor Michael Hancock who was fired amid sexual harassment allegations — has filed a lawsuit against the city, his attorney says. The lawsuit…
In addition to facing criminal and ethics investigations into his alleged misuse of public dollars, Secretary of State Scott Gessler has spent months responding to criticisms that he has intimidated voters with his anti-fraud crusade. And just a week before the race, his staff got a hold of a document,…
Update below: Representative Mike Coffman, a Republican, is announcing today his support of legislation that would exempt Colorado from federal marijuana policy. It’s a noteworthy move from Coffman, who is against the legalization of marijuana but respects Colorado’s ballot process and the support Amendment 64 received last week, when voters…
There was a lot of talk this election season about access to voting — which is one reason Karen Suhaka, who runs a Denver-based online research company, decided to collect voter-driven data on the performance of polling sites across the country. Her website, MyFairElection.com, cataloged reviews from coast to coast,…
Update: A University of Colorado staffer who accidentally fired a shot on campus last week, injuring herself and a colleague, is no longer employed by the university. A police report from the incident reveals that the ex-worker, Mary Beth Loeb, was showing her coworkers her handgun, and trying to unjam…
Since Amendment 64 passed last week, there has already been heated debate about how the measure will affect Colorado residents. The CEO of a local environmental equipment business says he’s sure A64 will make it harder for him to hire people, because they’ll be able to legally smoke weed but…
On Monday, we reported that after only two days on WhiteHouse.gov, a Colorado petition to secede from the United States already had more than 3,000 signatures — part of an odd post-election craze that now includes all fifty states. But Obama-haters aren’t the only ones speaking out. WhiteHouse.gov is now…
Secretary of State Scott Gessler told us last week that he supported Mitt Romney because he is very worried about the state of the economy. But a quarterly report released this morning by his office shows that at least in Colorado, there has been slow but positive improvement in several…
Since November 6, all sorts of venting has taken place on the White House’s petition website, including a call for Colorado to break away from the United States. But that’s not the only post-election attention Colorado is getting in citizen appeals to the Obama administration: A petition praising Amendment 64…
More cars and cyclists are crashing into each other in Denver, prompting heated debates about who is responsible in the collisions. But in a recent Boulder crash, there’s plenty of blame to go around. The accident report about the incident, in which a bike rider was knocked to the ground…
It’s been less than four months since James Holmes fired shots during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, killing twelve and injuring dozens more in one of Colorado’s worst tragedies. But that didn’t stop one student from wearing a “Joker” mask into a theater yesterday, prompting a…
There’s been a lot of talk this election about how divided our country is — and that was very clear in Colorado, where a roughly even split had two camps bashing each other — sometimes on opposite sides of the street. Taking the divisiveness to a whole new level, voters…
Add this to the growing list of signs that Denver is becoming more of a bike city: A local developer is now promoting a new apartment building as a bike-themed project. That means free bikes for tenants, bike-themed artwork in the interior, bike storage and even a bike repair room…
It’s been a very rough week for cycling in Denver, with the tragic death of 23-year-old Gelseigh Karl-Cannon on Tuesday — the second bike fatality in the city this year. Denver residents who want to support a good cycling cause will have a chance to do so this weekend at…
Amid the chaos of election-day preparation this week, news broke that Secretary of State Scott Gessler, Colorado’s chief election officer, is facing both criminal and ethics investigations for allegedly misusing public dollars for personal trips. We now have more details on the process of the Independent Ethics Commission, which could…
Remember the infamous incident in which a Longmont driver honked at two cyclists on an open road for several minutes ? Something similar happened again — only this time, someone got hurt. Byron Nix was knocked off of his bike after a truck hit him and crushed his bike on…
Colorado voters — and even small children — were exposed to a seemingly absurd amount of political advertising this year in a battleground state that wound up not being a key to President Barack Obama’s victory. Perhaps that is why residents overwhelmingly passed the state’s other measure on the ballot,…
After generating months of headlines and backlash from voter rights’ groups, Secretary of State Gessler’s anti-fraud initiative resulted in 44 individuals being removed from the voter rolls in the state. But Gessler, in an election day interview, told us he wishes he could’ve done more and that it’s likely fraudulent…
