Yes, it’s the season for blustery rhetoric and high-pressure posturing down at the statehouse. But few stunts can match, for sheer unintended hilarity, this recent blast from Colorado Senate Republicans, denouncing a bill to restore voting rights to state parolees as a conspiracy by Dems to stuff the ballot boxes…
Yesterday, we told you about a fight at City Pub that ended with a man dead — although Denver police couldn’t immediately determine whether he died as a result of injuries sustained during the brawl or from some other reason. Now, the autopsy is complete and the man has been…
Over the past several years, northwest Denver has been the site of heated clashes over new development, struggling schools and other hot-button issues — and the political pot got stirred into a frenzy when Denver City Council District representative Rick Garcia split for a gig with the U.S. Department of…
We’ve kept you abreast of developments regarding the University of Wyoming’s attempt to ban controversial professor William Ayers from speaking on campus — an effort that led to a lawsuit filed by Denver attorney David Lane. Yesterday, United States District Court Judge William Downes held a hearing in Casper at…
Here’s a trio, a triumvirate, a triptych of blogs about Denver. At Mile High Report, John Bena notes that neither Sports Illustrated’s Peter King nor coach Josh McDaniels think Tim Tebow’s a guaranteed bench-sitter this next season. Delighted by that news, or terrified? Jefferson County’s Department of Health campus is…
The Denver Post isn’t exactly known for writing about itself in hard-hitting fashion: Note its coverage of the bankruptcy filing by parent firm MediaNews Group’s holding company, which attempted to bury the word “bankruptcy.” As such, it’s not especially surprising that the same quote that leads the Post article is…
So if you weren’t disturbed enough by the story of Linda Trabucco, a 44-year-old former teacher sentenced for an inappropriate relationship with a student beginning when he was in ninth grade, there’s this: The Aurora Police Department is on the lookout for a man who allegedly tried to snatch a…
Unexpectedly spicy release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office about Linda Trabucco, 44, a former teacher who was sentenced today to sex offender probation of five years to live and five years in community corrections for a three-year relationship with a student that began when he was in ninth…
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Today’s 2 p.m. senate committee hearing about House Bill 1284, a medical marijuana regulatory bill, is shaping up to be a showdown between legislators such as Senator Chris Romer, who’s talked about floating a slew of new, more restrictive amendments, and MMJ advocates who fear the measure is getting worse,…
A blog from the Huffington Post yesterday certainly sports a grabby headline. It reads: “Tom Tancredo Says Arizona Immigration Law Goes Too Far, Still Supports It.” The problem with this take, which has replicated rapidly across the web in the last 24 hours? According to Tancredo, it’s completely inaccurate. “Russell…
Today at 2 p.m., the public will be able to comment as House Bill 1284 reaches a senate committee. It’s sure to be a contentious session, since even pro-regulation advocates like Matt Brown see the latest version of the measure as regressive, and Senator Chris Romer is eager to add…
“Mike and I thought we did the good deed of the day,” says Paul Shoemaker — and why wouldn’t he? After all, Shoemaker and Mike McGee, co-workers at a Sprint outlet at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, were heading on break when they heard a cry for help from an…
There’s a reason political campaigns are known as the silly season… Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis has been bedeviled by implications that he’s not very charitable since at least last August, when he came unglued during an appearance on KHOW’s Caplis & Silverman show when questioned about an allegedly broken…
As the Nuggets stumble toward what looks to be a surefire first-round playoff loss to the Utah Jazz, J.R. Smith is turning to his usual soapbox: His Twitter feed. That’s not always a good thing, given criticism of his allegedly gang-friendly spelling last year, plus more recent incidents involving him…
Months after the Bureau of Land Management’s controversial roundup of wild horses in Nevada last winter, official counts of the number of animals injured and killed in the operation continue to rise. And activists opposing the BLM efforts to reduce free-ranging herds have just released new photos and accounts of…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cSouth Park Death Threatswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party The controversy over South Park’s latest depiction of the prophet Mohammad went from veiled death threats to a censorship controversy when Comedy Central added some extra bleeps to last week’s episode…
Welcome to today’s Denver Blogs entry. Here are three links that fit the category. Mile High Report’s John Bena collects readers’ responses about the Broncos 2010 draft class. At this writing, most of those voting in the poll give Josh McDaniels a “B,” which is too low according to one…
Cameron Boll, a nineteen-year old CU student, was allegedly drunk last week when he used concrete to smash the top of a Boulder Police car. But at this point, Boulder Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley doesn’t know whether to attribute his later behavior — which included calling paramedics “Communists” and “Nazis”…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 60. Bear Valley: April full moon brings frustration and fertility to the front door. In colonial America, the April full moon was named the “Egg Moon” as a springtime symbol of hope for a future that would be fertile with life…
As noted in a just-published blog, House Bill 1284, which aims to regulate the medical marijuana industry, will be the focus of a senate committee hearing at 2 p.m. tomorrow. During the get-together, the public will have a chance to comment on numerous alternations in the measure that some MMJ…
Starting with Thursday night, our crew of drunken shutterbugs racked up more than 200 “Over the Weekend” nightlife photos — everything from a Human Rights Campaign rally to random beauty-school students getting hammered in a burrito shop. See photos of it all at westword.com/slideshow, and read a review of Yeasayer…
