Update below: This morning, the Hasan Family Foundation, the organization that paid Scott McInnis $300,000 for his “Musings on Water” — the ones that included sections directly lifted from Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs’s work — formally asked for a refund. The organization, whose local face was Ali Hasan, a…
Earlier this week, the city council in Broomfield, where a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses is about to expire, voted a ban forward by a 5-4 margin. If it passes on a second reading, July 27, it becomes law. Why not put such a measure on the November ballot? Broomfield…
Update below: The headline “Josh Green Thinks Scott McInnis is Sleazy, Should Quit” may come as a shock to locals. After all, that’s the name of a McInnis spokesman. Have his own people turned against him? Not quite. The author is a different Josh Green — a writer for The…
This sketch appears to show a nice, clean-cut young man. But what he’s suspected of doing was neither nice nor clean. Yesterday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says, a man fitting this description tried to grab a fourteen-year-old girl near the Cherry Knolls pool, and might have succeeded had she…
Denver Post editor Greg Moore defends a story about an alleged second example of plagiarism by Scott McInnis, as well as the decision to deal with questions about it in an article that began with repudiations of McInnis by Rolly Fischer, the candidate’s designated fall guy. But a writer McInnis…
The time has finally come. My battered, torn and frayed red card expired on the 13th, forcing me to join the club of thousands of doctors-recommendation-carrying medical patients waiting for a card…
With the drama about where LeBron James would land finally resolved, NBA observers are speculating about possible destinations for Carmelo Anthony. Thanks to a wedding toast this past weekend, most prognosticators think that if Carmelo leaves Denver, he’ll form a Melo-Chris Paul-Amare Stoudemire triumvirate in New York. But one columnist…
Three Denver blog post selections. 5280’s A.J. Vicens wraps up Colorado’s night at the ESPYs by sharing SNL “newsman” Seth Meyers’s Jesus joke about Tim Tebow. To read it, click. At the People’s Press Collective, Daniel E.L. Johnson warns that Scott McInnis will hurt all Republican candidates by staying in…
Just published: Our latest Mile Highs and Lows dispensary review, in which William Breathes makes a return visit to Mile High Medical (after walking out the first time). And that’s not all, folks. To peruse our newly updated dispensary directory, click here…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana clinics, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our dispensary list here, and keep reading for William…
Joy Behar must have the Dog the Bounty Hunter residence on speed-dial. Last month on Behar’s CNN/Headline News program, Colorado alum Dog commented on Joran van der Sloot — and last night, his beloved, Beth Chapman, weighed in on Mel Gibson’s alleged rants against ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva…
Get ready for the shock of your life: There are a lot of Crocs haters out there — which explains why a 2009 article about the Niwot, Colorado company’s financial troubles has been the most viewed item on the Washington Post website this year. But that doesn’t stop people from…
King of the ‘Glenn Real name: Ruben Hernandez; Occupation: Communitarian; Suburb of operations: Northglenn; Hair: Black; Eyes: Smiling Suburban superhero skills: King of the ‘Glenn has the coordination, endurance, strength and reaction time that is superior to any Northglenn resident who has ever competed at Boondocks Fun Center…
How is Scott McInnis responding to pressure that he drop out of the governor’s race due to plagiarism problems? Via his Twitter feed. That’s very Paula Abdul of him. Trouble is, the second he shared his intention to stick around, a well-known progressive wondered if a certain someone had actually…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the nicknaming kings of local law enforcement, have another scofflaw on their radar: the JV Bandit, who earned his handle for wearing a letter jacket on one of his jobs. Go team! Will he be wrapped up as quickly as the Formally Known…
At last night’s ESPY awards, Nuggets coach George Karl won the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance — and he didn’t use his time at the microphone to mumble platitudes about Karl’s cancer fight, which kept him off the team’s bench for the final (and key) part of last season. Instead,…
Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices…
For the past three days, the Denver Post has run big stories about guv wannabe Scott McInnis. Day one’s offering, about apparent McInnis plagiarism in lousy water articles, was a slam dunk — and likely dooms his campaign, with even the likes of Dan Caplis turning against him. But day…
As Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems worsened, Republican power brokers began to consider what to do should he drop out of the guv race. And while there’s plenty of debate about who the best candidate should be, there’s wide agreement among such folks about who it shouldn’t be: Dan Maes, the…
Anyone who thought Scott McInnis’s plagiarism problems might not kill his campaign prior to yesterday’s Caplis & Silverman show on KHOW likely reconsidered afterward. That’s because Republican stalwart Dan Caplis joined the Denver Post is calling for McInnis to give up the ghost and let another Republican with a better…
“Signed, Sealed, Rejected,” Alan Prendergast, July 8 Bite the Ballot This is an interesting and informative article, but the one piece that is missing is why we do not have more openness and transparency in the initiative process. In Colorado, an anonymous group can use made-up names, run thirty-second TV…
The annals of American entrepreneurship are filled with up-from-nothing yarns: Some of the first Nike soles were made on a waffle iron; Apple started with computers built in a garage; the founders of Whole Foods showered with a hose at their first store, where they also lived. And so it…
