Republican congressional candidate Cory Gardner may have a very colorful skeleton in his closet: As a student at Colorado State University, it appears he was an official Ram Handler, one of the chosen few in charge of primping and pimping the school’s official mascot, CAM the Ram…
World famous wrap-artist Christo is in Denver tonight to drum up support for his Arkansas River cover-up project. The sold-out Seawell Ballroom event kicks off a four-city lecture series announcing the 45-day public comment period required after the BLM releases the environmental impact statement of the project on July 15…
Earlier this month, we told you about threats by the haters from Westboro Baptist Church to befoul a number of area locations, with several opportunities for bigotry against gays and Jewish residents of Fort Collins planned. If WBC does show up, the Lambda Community Center will be ready. But instead…
As part of its cutest baby photo contest, KOA is asking listeners to pick the best baby snapshots of station personalities. The pics are alternately adorable and hilarious, with April Zesbaugh’s drunk-on-milk image and Jon Caldara’s aggressively sullen shot standing out. Page through below to see how well, or badly,…
HB 1284, the measure designed to regulate the medical marijuana industry, contains a provision allowing municipalities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries either by a vote of city councils and the like or via ballot initiatives. Aurora has already taking the latter course, with Colorado Springs likely to follow. And now,…
Since the Broncos drafted Tim Tebow, the national-media hype has been off the charts, with Tebow haters clashing with fans who worship him. Leading the PR parade is ESPN, whose Tebow focus has made it a joke according to at least one commentator. But the net’s not backing off. Latest…
If elected, Scott McInnis pledges that he will be a jobs governor. But if those jobs are related to the burgeoning medical marijuana industry, he — or at least his spokesman, Sean Duffy — isn’t all that interested in talking about them these days…
At 7:30 a.m. this morning, just over three months after his rib-rattling bicycle accident, Governor Bill Ritter is scheduled to talk about Bike to Work Day at the Civic Center breakfast station at Civic Center Park. No, we don’t anticipate that he’ll collapse in hysterics from a bad case of…
We may never know what inspired the Hasan Family Foundation to shell out $300,000 for a series of remarkably slipshod “Musings on Water” by Scott McInnis. But as I pointed out in the first installment of our probing analysis, the candidate’s soggy prose offers clues about the kind of governor…
Denver’s public schoolchildren could soon be learning a lot more about the art of babymaking (and presumably, how to avoid it). The DPS Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution last week that calls for the district to ensure that kids “have access to science-based, comprehensive, medically-accurate, culturally relevant, and…
Back in 2008, librarian and former Denver Post reporter Carol Kreck was busted at a John McCain appearance for displaying a sign reading “McCain = Bush.” Which was hardly a shocking statement then, let alone now. Nearly two years later, Kreck has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City…
At last, the moment has arrived. At this writing, the trial of Carol Burdick, who says she was evicted from her apartment for putting a Peeps display over her door to celebrate Easter 2009, is underway. The tension is unbearable — especially for Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, who’s covered this…
A mini-Denver blogs roundup. Mile High Report catches Josh McDaniels on Jim Rome’s show saying Tim Tebow and Brady Quinn have a long way to go to catch Kyle Orton in the QB contest. The race is on. Ken at Denver Infill thinks the new zoning code could change Denver…
Plenty of cities romance corporations looking for a new home. But few go to the extremes of Longmont, which so wants Google Fiber to set up housekeeping there that it’s created a photo from space expressing its desire, plus a video contest and more. Check out examples of Longmont’s Google…
Brightonator Real Name: Teri G. Sanchez; Occupation: Empire Builder; Suburb of Operations: Brighton; Hair: Electric; Eyes: Bright Suburban superhero skills: Brightonator is a mutant with the superhuman ability to brighten the lives of all the people she coordinates at the Small Business Assistance Center of the Brighton Learning and Resource…
Last week, my wife and I accompanied our seventeen-year-old twin daughters on tours of four Big 12 campuses. Included among them were Texas and Baylor — and at both of these stops, counselors took the opportunity to ridicule the University of Colorado, with a Baylor rep making the point that…
Ken Buck’s looking more and more like your likely Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and the national media establishment is starting to notice. No less a magazine of record than Time is wondering if he’s the latest Tea Party star — and if onetime frontrunner Jane Norton will wind…
Roger Christie, head of Hawaii’s THC Ministry, is in Colorado for a series of events to promote using religious exemptions to get around new medical marijuana laws. And he hopes to take action in court by Independence Day to make the concept stick…
Bill Sullivan, the subject of our recent feature article about Operation Cock Block, will have some explaining to do this morning. He’s scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for Jamie White, the man from whose DVD and laser disc company he embezzled nearly $1 million in the 1990s…
Yesterday, we told you about a city council amendment aimed at shutting down Altitude Organic Medicine over what owner Brian Cook sees as an improper reading of an outmoded zoning rule. The amendment passed — but Cook’s hoping to fight it in court…
If the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is correct, Christian Hanson, 21, has been a busy — and bad — man. He was already in custody on kidnapping and sexual assault beefs. But now, he’s also suspected in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the more recent arrest of Jesse Rodriguez,…
The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a series of eye-glazing articles about Colorado water issues. Political junkies everywhere want to know what the Hasans…
