Last week’s cover story, “Mean Streets,” detailed allegations of discrimination, abuse, assault and bribery at Yellow Cab, Denver’s oldest taxicab company. The accusations came to light courtesy of a federal lawsuit filed last summer by 21 former Yellow Cab drivers — the details of which you can read below…
Six years ago, Peter Spitz’s wife, Teresa, shot him three times in his face while he slept, then killed his mother. Spitz woke up blind. The attack and its aftermath are the subject of this week’s cover story, “Blindsided.” It’s a domestic tragedy of such horrific proportions that outsiders wonder…
Get into the flow of these three Denver blog posts. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein recaps the Nuggets’ inability to get George Karl his 1,000th win last night — and wishes Melo had taken the last shot. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna asks: “How healthy are we?” Denver Infill’s Rick shares the…
Last month, the Sleeper house — the Colorado mountain home made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper — sold at auction for the bargain basement price of $1.53 million. And it could well be on the market again soon, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, a website that places the Sleeper house…
The folks at the Colorado Adult Immunization Coalition wants you to get a flu shot — and to encourage people to volunteer for jabbing, they’ve created the “Enough is Enough” contest, with those who upload photos of themselves being injected to a Facebook page automatically eligible to win free Nuggets…
Denver City Council’s decision not to provide a service-dog exemption to its longtime pit bull ban isn’t just bad public policy, in the opinion of Jennifer Reba Edwards, attorney and founder of the Animal Law Center. It’s also illegal — which is why her firm is suing the city, as…
At 2 p.m. this afternoon, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s medical marijuana advisory committee will meet to discuss new regulations for physicians (they’re on view below) that Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of the Rockies executive director Vincent Palazzotto feels could be devastating for patient access in the…
Our posts featuring takes on a medical marijuana database proposal from Cannabis Therapy Insistute’s Laura Kriho and Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation’s Betty Aldworth prompted some lively conversations. Consider this reaction from one reader ready to just say no to MMJ centers…
It’s the time of year for the giving and receiving so-called White Elephant gifts — which, for those of us into kitsch stuff, can be better than receiving something allegedly classier. Understanding this, our friends at Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado have assembled their “must-have” White Elephant gift list –…
The election’s been over for a month, but people on governor-elect John Hickenlooper’s e-mail list got one last fundraising message today. Turns out Hick’s campaign still owes $9,500 to small vendors and local businesses, and he’s hoping to raise that much by midnight tonight. Look below for his pitch…
It won’t make the body scans or perverse groping security pat-downs any easier to handle, but medical marijuana patients traveling to one of five states from DIA can now pack their cannabis openly instead of, say, hiding it in a shampoo bottle…
The speed with which Josh McDaniels’s Denver Broncos career went south was absolutely stunning — and we documented every misstep. Below, we’ve linked to and excerpted from twenty posts over twenty months that tell the tale, from personnel mistakes involving the likes of Jay Cutler and questionable on-the-field decisions to…
Now that Denver Broncos management has given Josh McDaniels the heave-ho, the orange hordes are laying odds on the chances of the team’s most celebrated quarterback returning to the team as head coach. John Elway, back with the team? It’s a tempting prospect. But first you’ll have to pry him…
As the state’s medical marijuana community has blossomed and solidified, many different advocacy groups have taken root. There are pro-patient groups, industry trade groups and now, if all goes as planned, there will be a new, medical-themed organization – the Medical Marijuana Doctors Association…
Looky here: Three Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols weighs the odds of Mark Udall and Michael Bennet backing or attacking Barack Obama’s tax-cut compromise. Denver Egotist measures the Mile High City’s awesomeness using Westaf’s Creative Vitality Index. Get our your slide rule. Inside the Rockies’ Tracy Ringolsby tweets that Jim…
The college searches of six Cherry Creek High School students are getting national exposure thanks to “The Choice,” a New York Times blog series starting today — and it’s a win-win situation. Why? Do the math…
It’s official: Darold Hinojos has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Joey Fuller. The arrest affidavit, on view below, alleges that Fuller was killed simply for stepping out of his apartment and inquiring about a commotion caused by Hinojos’s search for his girlfriend…
When it comes to Twitter, Tim Tebow is no Chad Ochocinco. Other than taking part in a Thanksgiving-themed promotion for Jockey, the underwear company he promotes via photos that caused multiple, small orgasms among fans in July, he hardly tweeted last month. But after the Broncos fired Josh McDaniels yesterday,…
Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho is extremely concerned about the proposal for a new medical marijuana database; she says it would be open to 24-7 law-enforcement access that violates privacy and could lead to federal prosecution of patients. But Betty Aldworth, executive director of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation, says…
As we all know, Criminal University doesn’t require an IQ test or entrance exam, and that’s lucky for Mark Scott Albaugh — because he never would have been admitted otherwise. The alleged offense by Albaugh, a registered sex offender, displays a lack of smarts, not to mention general repulsiveness, that’s…
Our item yesterday about a Denver Post-related copyright-infringement lawsuit against a blogger for re-publishing an entire Mike Rosen column drew some snarky remarks. For instance, one reader thinks Rosen does pretty much the same kind of thing in his role as radio host for KOA…
Colorado’s Department of Revenue unveiled draft regulations for the medical marijuana industry at a marathon meeting yesterday — and most concerning for the Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho was a plan to phase out the current MMJ registry and replace it with a database she says will include “24-7 access…
