According to attorney Jessica Corry, one aspect of HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill on the verge of becoming law, that’s most deserving of being challenged in court involves communities’ ability to ban MMJ dispensaries. That’s what Thornton has done, and earlier this week, it exercised its powers in…
Earlier this week, Jerrad Leonard, 27, was accused of drunkenly hitting a police car and several other vehicles in a brief flurry of automotive mayhem. In the end, six people went to the hospital. Don’t blame Dog the Bounty Hunter. Back in 2008, he busted Leonard as part of his…
Former ICE agent Cory Voorhis’s 2006 decision to access a restricted database and give materials to gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez wound up having unexpected repercussions years later. Some observers feel fallout from this action contributed to Governor Bill Ritter’s decision not to run for a second term, not to mention…
It’s been a busy day for the Corry family. Earlier today, attorney Jessica Corry spoke about a legal and industry coalition formed to potentially sue over portions of HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill nearing passage. Now, her husband and fellow attorney Rob Corry is going after Senator Scott…
Those Denver blogs keep turning out new posts — like, for example, these three. In a Mile High Report fan post, cptmorni puts NFL draft expert Mel Kiper’s criticism of Tim Tebow into context by quoting him on mega-bust JaMarcus Russell a few years back; Kiper said, “Look out, because…
The Daily Show’s send-up of the Denver medical-marijuana scene earlier this week didn’t thrill everyone in the MMJ community. Westword marijuana critic William Breathes, in a post about what viewers didn’t see, noted reading “blogs and posts from folks in the Colorado MMJ community… about how they were disappointed in…
Every week we introduce you to one of life’s biggest shmucks. Our latest: the Cesar Chavez Schools network. Since they began gaining steam in the late-90s, charter schools — those independent public schools whose freedom from some restrictive education law is supposed to allow them to compete with traditional public…
Earlier this week, we told you about a debate between former FEMA head turned KOA talk-show host Michael Brown and David Sirota, the AM 760 morning guy, over comments Brown had made to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto about the Obama administration’s response to the oil spill off the Louisiana coastline…
The mug shot seen here of John Angerer, who was charged with murder yesterday in the 2006 slaying of Longmont’s Angela Wilds, is among the most vivid we’ve seen lately — but it’s hardly the only memorable mug that’s arrived of late. We’re only a little over a third of…
It’s been five years since an investigative report that I wrote for my high school newspaper sent shock waves all the way to the Pentagon. For me, the bomb rush of media and interviews feels like a lifetime ago — and generally, that’s where I like to keep it. But…
Although HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill (read the latest version here), has been passed by the Senate, it won’t be law until the Colorado House and Governor Bill Ritter sign off on it. Nonetheless, the measure already faces the promise of legal challenges. Today, attorney Jessica Corry, who…
Senator Dave Schultheis can be a wonderfully entertaining ball of crazy. Okay, maybe his comments about how pregnant women with HIV should be allowed to pass the virus to their babies cuz that would teach them a big ol’ lesson about promiscuity wasn’t all that funny — and neither was…
Is the door-to-door sale of milk a right protected under the First Amendment? It might sound utterly preposterous, but that’s the argument a longtime Colorado milk delivery company is making in a federal lawsuit against the City of Fort Collins…
“What a long, strange trip it’s been,” state senator Chris Romer said earlier this week, as he contemplated the full Senate hearing of House Bill 1284, which will formalize the medical marijuana dispensary system in this state. And after a few detours to add more amendments, the long, strange trip…
In January, Alan Prendergast argued that herding sheep may be Colorado’s worst job. He cited research from Colorado Legal Services showing that the vast majority of herders, many of them brought to the U.S. by industry types from Peru, Bolivia or Mexico, “don’t get time off, don’t have access to…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office release about an indictment naming Xavier Joseph Duran is brief and fairly colorless. But the references to multiple counts of securities fraud and series theft are accompanied by an aside about a victim whose husband was a police officer killed in the line of duty…
It certainly seemed like a timely story: Students at Golden’s Fairmont Elementary told Channel 31’s Leland Vittert that they were suspended for displaying Mexican flags on Cinco de Mayo yesterday. But Denver Public Schools spokesman Michael Vaughn says these assertions are simply inaccurate. He’s told by school administrators that the…
Colorado sure loves its roller derby. Last month, the Castle Rock ‘n’ Rollers of Castle Rock were accepted as an apprentice league by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, the national organization that regulates all things derby. The apprenticeship is a mentor program that all leagues must complete before becoming…
Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver’s Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utterly forgettable films, the program puts all the students to work on one…
Back in January, Los Angeles-based Greenway University announced its intention to build the “premier worldwide medical marijuana training facility” in Denver, with CEO and founder Gus Escamilla predicting that the whole she-bang would be up and running in sixty to ninety days. More than three months later, Greenway’s in great…
Welcome to our Denver blogs roundup. Today, three little doggies are in the coral. Mile High Report’s ejruiz links to a report about April jersey sales, with the Broncos moving from tenth place to first thanks to a certain Tim Tebow. He sports the best-selling rookie jersey since 2006. But…
Even the wiseacres at The Daily Show have noticed Denver’s booming medical marijuana scene — not to mention William Breathes, one of our MMJ critics. But Breathes isn’t just a pretty face (albeit one whose mug was obscured by smoke and more during his Daily Show appearance) — and he…
