What do you do if you suspect your kid is on drugs? A) Fry an egg in a pan and say, “This is your brain on drugs.” B) Make him watch the E! True Hollywood Story of Lindsay Lohan. C) Attend a Time to Act Community Program. The first two…
We’ve got the news straight from the Horse’s tweet: Moments ago, newly minted football operations veep and Twitter fan John Elway revealed that the Denver Broncos have hired John Fox to succeed the disastrous Josh McDaniels as the team’s head coach. Which is good in some ways, not as good…
A Denver blog post collection. Hope you like it. 5280’s Vanessa Martinez draws a parallel between Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” and bigotry reported by Ali Hasan. At Colorado Education News, UCD’s Paul Teske writes that the time to implement reforms is now. Denver Egotist: Want to…
In these days of declining print revenue, newspapers are more willing than ever to print advertisements where none have gone before. Case in point: Yesterday, the first-ever ad appeared on the Denver Post’s editorial pages — an accomplishment SE2, the agency that packaged it, compares to climbing Mount Everest. So…
For his latest review, William Breathes visits La Conte’s Clone Bar and Dispensary, located in an old building that may have been a speakeasy. But there are plenty of other options available in our newly updated listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
If Denver really is the wild west of medical marijuana, then La Conte’s Clone Bar and dispensary makes a pretty good town saloon…
The Colorado Court of Appeals recently rejected ex-CU professor Ward Churchill’s bid to get his old job back. Benjamin Whitmer, whose Try-Works blog rallied pro-Churchill forces when the controversy over his firing was at its hottest, thinks that’s wrong. But he’s moved on from what he calls the Internet “flame…
On Tuesday, the health department’s medical marijuana advisory committee, considered whether or not bless language requiring docs to have a permanent location in order to recommend MMJ — a provision that would have doomed the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of the Rockies, which sends a mobile unit to far-flung locations…
A recent Melanie Asmar post spotlighted Greeley school board member Brett Reese’s fondness for a letter claiming Martin Luther King Jr. was a sexual degenerate, a Communist and a modern-day “plastic god” prompted laughter from one reader. Of course, there’s nothing funny about such hate speech, as our commenter makes…
When was the last time anyone other the parents of players paid attention to the CU Buffs men’s basketball team? Well, there’s finally a reason to start. Last night’s victory over Kansas State marks the second straight win over a ranked opponent — which has never happened before in school…
On Wednesday, President Obama called for a new era of civility in light of the tragic Jared Loughner-Gabrielle Giffords shooting in Tucson, while Colorado Senator Mark Udall suggested that the members of Congress sit together for the State of the Union address rather than separate by political party…
The inclusion of the photo at right in a 9News story about a blaze that broke out overnight near Boulder raised concerns of another runaway conflagration like last year’s Fourmile Canyon fire. But no: This one consumed just an acre or so before being contained. Before this status was achieved,…
The talk of a blockbuster Carmelo Anthony trade to the New Jersey Nets continues to build, and with it the pressure on Melo. Throughout the process, he’s been cautious with his public comments — but in the past day or so, posts on his Twitter feed have grown increasingly whiny…
Update: Given the information contained in the arrest affidavit for Theodore Madrid, it’s no surprise that he’s now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of two-year-old Caden Rodgers. According to the document, Madrid was well over the legal limit for drunkenness behind the wheel — .177 blood alcohol…
Update, January 20: Westword published today a much longer cover story on Landau, his lawsuit and life. Read it here: “Black and Blue: Alex Landau was pulled over for making an illegal left turn and ended up beaten bloody.” ___________ On the night of January 15, 2009, nineteen-year-old Community College…
The November feature story “Mean Streets” detailed how frustrated taxi drivers had been attempting to launch company of their own, Mile High Cab, since September 2008. The process culminated in a Public Utilities Commission ruling two months ago that rejected the attempt — but the drivers weren’t ready to throw…
Gruesome video footage taken at a Colorado federal penitentiary of two inmates taunting guards and mutilating the corpse of their cellmate won’t be released to the news media any time soon — even though the videos were shown in open court to two juries in a failed effort to obtain…
Now and then, local companies show us medical marijuana-related products. Enough, actually, that we decided to showcase our Colorado Stoner MacGyvers in quasi-regular product reviews. The latest is below…
In the pilot episode of the cult series The Tick, the title hero promises to deliver “one steaming hot cup of justice.” That’s exactly what’s needed in Aspen, where a coffee shop is suing a former employee for turning off the espresso machine on his last day of work…
Update below: An item on the DenverRadio.net message board reveals that last week, veteran KOA radio host Mike Rosen used a variety of racial slurs on the air — and claimed that his new boss, Greg Foster, head of AM programming for Clear Channel’s Denver cluster of stations, gave him…
Just found these three Denver blog posts. Colorado Independent’s Scot Kersgaard: Ed Perlmutter hopes to continue holding grocery store meetings despite the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy. Big Media’s Jason Salzman chats with 9News’s Adam Schrager, who’s trading Denver for Wisconsin next month. Inside the Rockies’ Steve Foster considers what the Rockies…
The most-asked question that new Denver mayor Bill Vidal has heard since it became clear he was going to be the 44th leader of the city has been this: What is he going to do about the cop problem? Allegations of police brutality among the ranks of the Denver Police…
