Denver is ground zero for pedal-powered programs, from its flourishing pedicab scene to B-cycle, the city’s innovative bike-sharing program that’s drawn the ire of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. But is it ready for the next step in gear-and-chain conveyance that’s turning heads across the pond — the pedibus?…
These three Denver blog posts lead to some interesting places. Bronco Talk’s Jon notes that many guessed Denver would have a 3-13 record last year, but the team finished 8-8. By that logic, this year’s 6-10 predictions should translate to 12-4! Mile High Mamas: Will the new teaching approaching at…
Jared Jacang Maher’s 2009 Westword feature “For Two Decades, Pit Bulls Have Been Public Enemy #1 in Denver — But Maybe It’s Time for a Recount” examined Denver’s controversial pit bull ban — a subject further illuminated by photos of the city’s pit bull row and leaked images of piled-up…
Football fans are likely to get a full dose of Tim Tebow in Thursday night’s exhibition closer against the Minnesota Vikings, giving him the best chance yet to beat out Brady Quinn for the Broncos’ backup quarterback position — although, at this point, Johnny Unitas’s corpse could probably outplay Quinn…
The apparently damaging attacks on Republican guv candidate Dan Maes just keep coming. Hot on the heels of a front-page Denver Post story about allegedly catastrophic fundraising difficulties, which prompted Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams to call Maes opponent John Hickenlooper the luckiest guy in the world comes a Post…
Slight changes to the scheduled attractions at the annual Colorado State Fair in Pueblo could transform the dated farm show into a much needed economy-boosting job fair… Big experience, extreme references and speed résumé would be the three main events at the State Fair Job Fair Olympics. As seen in…
An update about yesterday’s Boulder County marijuana grow seizure of 3,000 plants. After a closer count, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office thinks the plant total was closer to 3,500 — and after more inspection of the nearby area, law-enforcement types located a second operation whose crop is currently estimated at…
Police impersonators tend to be delusional types. Remember the Colorado Springs man who tried to pull people over in a 1995 Cadillac equipped with a white strobe light? He’d likely identify with the mustached man who patted down and cuffed a bystander at a Colfax bus stop while clad in…
The Broomfield City Council recently voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the community rather than place the issue on November’s ballot. That didn’t sit well with MMJ advocates in the area, who launched a petition drive earlier this month. The goal: collect 1,300 signatures — the number needed to…
At yesterday’s Nuggets press event, new GM Masai Ujiri implied the team has a legit shot to keep Carmelo Anthony. Problem is, everyone thinks Carmelo is as good as gone, with reports about an Anthony trade demand followed by rumblings that Chauncey Billups could be dealt, too. The latest? Speculation…
“There’s No Place Like Home for Somali Refugees in Greeley,” a November 2008 feature by ex-Westword staffer Lisa Rab, told the tale of the Somali community in Northern Colorado, and those members who’d lost jobs in what Rab described in a followup post as “a clash over prayer breaks at…
In April 2009, we told you about Gunnison’s Tausha Marsh, accused of faking cancer to collect thousands in donations. When she pleaded guilty to this crime in February, Marsh’s MySpace and Facebook pages begging for bucks were still online. And even as she prepares to serve 36 days in jail,…
At the 2008 Libertarian National Convention in Denver, some party members derisively passed around shots of Scope to wash the bad taste from their mouths following the presidential nomination of former Republican, Bob Barr. It wasn’t just that Barr was seen as an impure strain of Libertarian; some members felt…
Proposition 62, the latest iteration of the Personhood Amendment, which would give the unborn constitutional rights in Colorado, has been approved for the November ballot — and opponents launched their campaign today with a boisterous rally at the State Capitol. Westword photographer Johnny Molfetta was there. Page down below to…
According to Christopher Fichtner, a psychiatrist and former Illinois mental health director, the country’s on the verge of radical marijuana policy change (i.e., legalization) — something Fichtner writes about in his new book, Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point. And it looks like Colorado might just push the country over…
On Friday, the Colorado Department of Revenue’s medical marijuana advisory committee met at a session belatedly opened to the public — and the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute were troubled by the draft regulations released in conjunction with the get-together. So much so that they’re ramping up an effort…
Yesterday, we told you about the Facebook tribute to Brian Hoyle, the scooter rider killed in a hit-and-run accident late Friday. Now, the woman who was allegedly behind the wheel in the crash — Sarah Trujillo, 23 — has been formally charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of…
We bring you these three Denver blog posts. BigMedia.org’s Jason Salzman asks Ken Buck this provocative question: Do you support a ban on the use of the morning-after pill even for a woman who is raped by a family member? DenverInfill’s Ken offers an invitation to explore Denver’s West Corridor…
Here at Westword, we regularly receive news tips — many legitimate and worthy of further investigation, others not so much. But few are as flat-out bizarre as this one, left on our tip line at 12:02 a.m. this morning: “Uh, it’s all good, but the Mafia runs Denver, and Hickenlooper…
Boulder recently placed fourth in the best-cities-for-the-next-decade roster assembled by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and earned honors as the finest place to raise abducted children courtesy of The Onion, whose writers may nor may not have been joking. But the folks at The Daily Beast are serious about Boulder being America’s…
As we noted yesterday, 9.12 Project Colorado chair Lu Busse attended the Glenn Beck Restore Honor rally in Washington, D.C. Saturday, sharing her take in a People’s Press Collective post. But Busse offers up plenty of outtakes below, including her guess at the actual size of the crowd and her…
Captain Englewood Real name: Sheila Jones; Occupation: Journalism Adviser; Suburb of operation: Englewood; Hair: Wash-n-wear; Eyes: Dotted Suburban superhero skills: Captain Englewood represents the pinnacle of human intellectual perfection. While not superhuman, she is as smart as an Englewoodian can be. She is twice as smart as Englewood High School…
