Update: Earlier this week, we told you about an investigation in Las Vegas targeting Pierre Werner, who ran a Boulder dispensary under his nickname, Dr. Reefer, before Colorado law established that a former felon like himself couldn’t own an MMJ center. Now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada has unsealed…
There’s low, and then there’s really, really slimy-low. And selling crack to homeless addicts who are going through drug rehabilitation is about as low as it gets. Parrish L. Wright, a longtime security guard for a Colorado Coalition for the Homeless clinic, was arrested recently and charged with doing just…
Let’s end our Denver blog post collections for the week with this triumvirate, shall we? 5280’s Michael de Yoanna muses about the prospect for a Ted Haggard reality series on TLC. Maybe Kate Gosselin and her kids could join his congregation! Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton offers an apt one-word review…
North Metro Drug Task Force Commander Jerry Peters has long argued that criminals are abusing Colorado’s medical marijuana system — and now he’s got more evidence go back up his contention. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, working with the NMDTF, has just announced a major bust featuring multiple arrests and…
The cowboy and cowgirl figures seen in the photograph above have “cut out” from the National Western Stock Show and have been seen in multiple locations in and around the Globeville neighborhood. The shadowy characters seem to enjoy hanging out in garden settings near barbecue pits. While the cutouts appear…
“Boulder Accidentally Discloses Secret Marijuana Grow Sites,” published by the Boulder Daily Camera, reveals that the city put a map on its website showing the whereabouts of sixty cannabis cultivation centers. Along the way, the piece quotes Boulder assistant city attorney Kathy Haddock as asserting that the map should never…
Plenty of locals were excited when the Denver Broncos’ braintrust decided to make Super Bowl-winning former quarterback John Elway an executive with the team following the Josh McDaniels disaster. But one of our readers, who weighed in on a Denver Blogs post about Atlanta Falcons assistant Mike Mularkey canceling an…
Monday’s edition of The Bachelor featured one of the most desperate contestants yet: Madison McKinley, who boasts a pair of vampire fangs. And while she identified her home as New York, she’s really from Vail, and did plenty o’ modeling in our fair state. Look below to see samples of…
Sometimes it seems that every day is Tim Tebow day on ESPN — but it really was yesterday, with the debut of the documentary Everything In Between and a slew of appearances on the radio and TV sides of the operation. Arguably the most amusing of them was a behind-the-scenes…
The arrest of Richard Troupe, 52, for shedding his pants and asking a worker at a Burger King if she’d like to hold his Whopper strikes plenty of people as hilarious, for obvious reasons. But Longmont Police spokesman Jeff Satur isn’t laughing, and neither is the young woman who turned…
A chronic whine from oil and gas interests has to do with the glacial, foot-dragging pace of government. But a presidential commission report on the British Petroleum offshore well explosion that killed eleven people blasts the now-extinct Minerals Management Service for moving too quickly to approve risky technology…
Yesterday, we told you that the bed bug-killahs are in town: An estimated 500 pest management professionals are attending the inaugural National Bed Bug Forum in Broomfield, which runs through tomorrow. The shindig is hosted by the National Pest Management Association, which also recently conducted the nation’s largest bed bug-related…
Outgoing Governor Bill Ritter mounted up for a ride through the streets of downtown Denver Thursday as part of the National Western Stock Show Parade, an annual tradition that kicked off at Union Station at noon. See him in action below…
This week’s cover story, “Extra Bold,” which profiles Rick Griffith, the founder of MATTER studio in Denver, opens with writer Joel Warner’s observation of Griffith’s “Notice to all employees” sign. We asked Griffith about the inspiration for the sign in this video…
Governor Bill Ritter signed Colorado’s medical marijuana bills into law this past June — and ever since then, advocacy organizations such as the Cannabis Therapy Institute have challenged many of the legislation’s provisions and the regulations being written for them. Now, such arguments have been formalized via a petition to…
We cornered these three Denver blog posts. Mile High Report’s Sayre Bedinger notes that new Denver exec John Elway tweeted graciously after Atlanta’s Mike Mularkey canceled his Friday interview with the Broncos. Colorado Education News: A whistleblower speaks. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna reports that Saks is leaving Cherry Creek at…
In his latest review, William Breathes reveals that Earth’s Medicine isn’t his favorite MMJ center on the planet. But neither is it the only one, as you’ll discover upon checking out our newly updated center listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. I have yet to find a decent shop on Federal, and Earth’s Medicine is no exception. I felt rushed the short eight minutes I was in the store — and during my brief follow-up phone call, it was clear the owner had better things to do…
The word “JAIL” painted over the entry of the playhouse pictured above suggests that this is the backyard play area of children who may be playing a little too rough. That the structure lacks doors hints at the high volume of pretend incarcerations, and the closed blind intimates at the…
Our friends at Channel 7 have an important question for you: Can you identify the man who went through security at Denver International Airport today wearing nothing but a particularly stylish pair of briefs? The station’s reaching out to the masses via its Twitter feed. Look below to see the…
This past June, Christian Hanson was accused in a murder-for-hire plot involving fellow Greeley-area gang member Jesse Rodriguez. Hanson was convicted of this charge and others in November, and today he was sentenced to 176 years to life two days after another alleged cohort, Jesse Arispe, was indicted by a…
Our interview yesterday with the Denver Post’s Mike Littwin about his column moving to the op-ed pages prompted a nasty attack on the Mile High City’s paper of record. That was followed by a defense of the broadsheet — sort of…
