Yesterday’s Denver City Council special committees meeting about medical marijuana, intended to bring Denver in line with state MMJ law, brought out advocates worried that new rules may outlaw Denver grows owned by entrepreneurs without a retail outlet in the city. And that’s not all, according to attorneys Bob Hoban…
Fort Morgan is typically a quiet community — but not for a while last night. Patrick Rice, allegedly under the influence of “medication,” led police on a chase, then held off the cops for an hour before shooting himself in the chest, presumably with a rifle — which doesn’t sound…
On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier. The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things…
Unauthorized immigrants make up just more than 3 percent of the U.S. population, but they’re accused of sucking up public benefits and dodging taxes. Illegal aliens are tax dodgers. That’s one of the most shocking findings of FAIR’s most recent report on the “cost of illegal immigration. “Most illegal aliens…
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers? In 2007, the U.S. Senate debated the doomed McCain-Kennedy “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that aimed to secure borders, enforce workplaces, modernize the visa system, and allow non-criminal undocumented immigrants already in the country to pay a fine and stand in line for…
To FAIR patriarch John Tanton, The Camp of the Saints, a 1973 apocalyptic book by French novelist Jean Raspail, stimulates honest discussion. The graphic book tells the story of the downfall of Western civilization and the decline of the European white race at the hands of immigrant invaders. The setting…
Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was dissed by Russell Pearce over Prop 200’s dismissal. In late October, days before the election, state Senator Russell Pearce directed his e-mail wrath at retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whom he decried as an “activist judge” with a “lack of trust…
As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it’s been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying the report is just — well, crazy…
The invitation is alarming: “Come find out what nasty things Colorado Governor Ritter is contemplating doing BEHIND closed doors.” The nasty thing it’s referring to is Secure Communities, a federal program that would check the fingerprints of anyone arrested in Colorado against immigration records, possibly triggering a call to Immigration…
A special-issues committee of the Denver City Council met today and discussed measures that could shut down an untold number of grow operations in the city. The committee met with stakeholders from Denver neighborhood associations and from various members of the medical marijuana community…
First there was Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. Now it’s Big Pot’s turn to flex its muscles. That’s the idea behind the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA), reportedly the first national trade group for the cannabis industry — and one that’s packed with familiar Colorado names…
Here we have three Denver blog posts. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna shares the madness after Michael Bennet started bitching at a food bill debate near a hot microphone… Lakewood Edge’s Charley Able reports about a trio from his town allegedly involved in a $100K theft ring. WhoSaidYouSaid’s already got just-declared…
Ahmed Odawaay, one of the beleaguered Denver cab drivers featured in this week’s cover story, “Mean Streets,” supplements his income by helping prospective taxi drivers train for the Denver Department of Excise and License test they must pass before they can hit the road. We’ve included a sampling from Odawaay’s…
Colorado Ethics Watch is on a roll. Back in September, the organization successfully argued that Clear the Bench Colorado, which wanted to throw the bums off the Colorado Supreme Court, should have registered as a political committee subject to donation limits rather than an issues committee. And now, that same…
For wildlife, Interstate 70 is the forage-lined kill zone that bisects Colorado. Last June, the ARC-International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition invited architects, engineers and ecologists to create the next generation of animal overpass for the top of West Vail Pass. The five finalists of the competition will on display…
The April 2009 police beating of Michael DeHerrera continues to be a matter of debate, with the Office of the Independent Monitor and former Manager of Safety Ron Perea coming to very different conclusions about whether officers at the scene used excessive force or were justified in their actions. Now,…
Our Monday post about Josh McDaniels “Not My Coach” t-shirts on sale before the Broncos’ horrible loss to the St. Louis Rams (but after McDaniels was fined by the NFL for not reporting improper recordings of a San Francisco 49ers practice) prompted some impassioned takes — including one from a…
As part of our Caregivers’ Cup coverage, we shared bong porn: photos of work by glass master Wes Richards, who was creating a five-foot-tall, Colorado-themed bong to serve as a traveling trophy for winner of the Cup’s people’s choice prize. Well, the cup, which will be awarded to Matt H…
The folks at Portfolio.com have a serious crush on Boulder. Less than five months after declaring the community’s quality of life the best of any midsized city in the U.S., the business publication now says Boulder has the “strongest brainpower” of the nation’s largest 200 markets. And that’s not the…
“Trashing the Truth,” a 2007 series by Miles Moffeit and Susan Greene about DNA evidence, remains the finest piece of journalism by the Denver Post over the past decade — a controversial but deserved Pulitzer Prize finalist. Three years later, however, neither writer works for the paper: Moffeit was asked…
The Josh McDaniels job death watch continues — and after Broncos owner Pat Bowlen’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t endorsement of McD earlier this week, few NFL observers give him much of a chance to beat the reaper. Consider yesterday’s edition of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, during which hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon…
The controversy over airport body scanners and TSA pat-downs has plenty of Colorado touchstones, including Rocky Flats Gear, a line of underwear intended to protect your junk for radiation. And then there’s Colorado lawyer Gary Fielder, who’s filed a lawsuit against the TSA on the issue — and there’s video…
