Last November, we told you about shootings at Club Posh following a Halloween-night bash. Several days later, John Singleton died of his injuries. Singleton’s murder didn’t get much media attention beyond initial incident reports and our blog featuring memories about him shared by his wife, Maria Singleton-McGaughy. But the case…
On Friday, Corporate Accountability International called for McDonald’s to dump Ronald McDonald as its mascot, arguing that he’s a negative factor when it comes to addressing childhood obesity. Cut to early Sunday morning, when the Colorado Springs Police Department reports that two women were robbed at a local Burger King…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ announcement that he would be joining in a lawsuit with a dozen other AGs across the country to challenge the constitutionality of the new health-care bill was cheered by some political observers and jeered by others — with members of the latter group casting around…
The study of neighbors through their yard decoration… Figure 56a. Baker: Fallen Easter yard art struggles to get off the ground. Easter and Passover are the two holdout holidays to have dodged the doting hands of yard decoration. However, the display pictured above shows how that is changing. The legless…
It’s not all that unusual for former Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo to get fired up about what he sees as the unprotected border between the United States and Mexico. In fact, he did so earlier this month, when he suggested that the Obama administration was gleeful at the…
There seems to be some misunderstanding about marijuana law in Colorado. Medical marijuana has been legalized via Amendment 20, although there are plenty of disagreements about how the system should work, as our interview with Senator Chris Romer earlier today proves. But while possession of small amounts of marijuana has…
Holy undergarments: That was one hell of a weekend. It started on Thursday with an underwear party at Tracks Nightclub (NSFW), and the Hip Chicks Out and Heaven and Hell parties. It continued Friday when Twizted and the upstanding citizens of the ICP scene descended on the Ogden on Friday…
“Ask an expert,” urges a link on the Colorado State University page touting the Colorado Master Gardener program offered by Colorado State University on an extension basis. But not if that question is about marijuana. According to CSU spokesman Brad Bohlander, program reps have been receiving queries about marijuana-growing of…
Senator Chris Romer feels that many of those under age 21 who have medical marijuana cards obtained these licenses to toke under dubious circumstances — and he wants to make it harder for them to do so in the future. However, such distinctions between patients’ ages didn’t make it into…
So you think you’re a connoisseur, what with your cans of Beluga, Kobe steaks and stash of 1998 Dom Perignon? Think again if you haven’t gotten your hands on cannabis caviar, a new kind of top-shelf marijuana popping up at Colorado dispensaries that sells for the astronomical price of $1,400…
Ever since Northglenn Detective Daniel Joyce and Thornton Detective Robert Lopez filed a lawsuit last week alleging corruption within Operation Fortune Cookie, the news media has been rehashing the long, strange tale of the state’s largest — and likely most convoluted – indoor weed bust. (Here’s a play-by-play primer on…
The tales of Jefferson County School Board Member Laura Boggs’ “disruptive behavior” around town, including an instance where she reportedly called school “stupid,” rallied a good crowd for Thursday night’s school board meeting. There, the teachers-union group that publishes “Boggs Watch,” an e-mail newsletter chronicling the official’s alleged shenanigans, received…
A lot has happened in the eleven months since Westword last wrote about Colorado’s lack of a legal syringe exchange program — and how a group called Underground Syringe Exchange Denver, or USED, formed to fill that gap. But with the introduction of Senate Bill 189 this week, the state…
Thunder on the hoof! Again! Today, a runaway bull reportedly wreaked a bovine brand of havoc throughout the morning in Fort Collins before being shot with three tranquilizer darts and led, dazed, into a waiting trailer. Pretty impressive — at least until the bull’s performance is compared to that of…
The warrant out for Ari Misha Liggett’s arrest didn’t mention anything about potentially explosive chemicals. According to Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office bureau chief Bruce Williamson, the Centennial man was wanted for illegal weapons possession — specifically, a silencer. But Liggett’s arrest at a UPS office yesterday afternoon led to a…
You don’t have to be from Denver to read Denver blogs. They don’t discriminate. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic offers up a YouTube video in which Betsy Markey explains and celebrates her health-care vote, despite alleged threats made against her and the enmity of Tea Party groups. At this point,…
For the past eight years, Miles Moffeit has been one of the most consistently outstanding reporters for the Denver Post. “Trashing the Truth,” a series co-written with now-columnist Susan Greene that documents the failure of law enforcement agencies in regard to DNA evidence, and related stories about Timothy Masters, who…
So …I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I’m fully aware that they’re complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged statistics out of…
Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic church and school that was recently the subject of national headlines for its refusal to teach the children of a same-sex couple in Boulder, has now become the target of an abortion doctor in Colorado’s liberal metropolis. He says they’re harassing his patients. As…
It would be unfair to ask older residents to pay for the $30 million Colorado Capitol dome repair bill, because they won’t even be alive long enough to enjoy the improvements. If Colorado’s kids love the damn gold dome so much, let them pay for it’s upkeep. Americans have a…
American kids are born capitalists — capable of understanding that they can make some folding green from another kind of green just lying around the house. Example? A teen in Carbondale was busted for bringing some of his dad’s medical marijuana to middle school and selling it to students. Tony…
Yesterday, we told you about a rally to save the Frontier animals, as well as the airlines’ name, which could be changed by its new owner, Republic Airways Holdings as early as April despite the popularity of wacky ads like its latest, in which a cougar asks, “Who wouldn’t like…
