With March Madness getting underway in earnest today (we don’t count the play-in game), plenty of politicos are displaying hometown or home-state pride by touting the chances of local teams. That’s not really an option this year for Governor Bill Ritter — but rather than being left out, he’s issued…
The re-introduction of streetcars is guaranteed to reduce automobile congestion and invigorate redevelopment on East Colfax Avenue! Especially if the project is built as a public/private partnership that includes the use of these seven “hopper” trolleys that promote Colfax businesses… In addition to announcing street names, the driver of each…
On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over the rules pertaining to ballot initiatives that’s supported by some strange bedfellows — among them the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and Mason Tvert, the marijuana advocate who fronts SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation). Tvert says he isn’t the driving force…
Boulder’s Catharine Pierce, 52, doesn’t like anything to get between her and her garden — which is why yesterday afternoon she tended the flora and fauna in her front yard topless. Pierce lives within a block of the Shining Mountain Waldorf School, a pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade facility, which may…
Assurant Health, the country’s oldest provider of individual health insurance policies, has had a few public relations problems lately. In addition to the debate over such companies making hundreds of millions in profits by canceling or rescinding health coverage for sick people and the grilling of CEO Don Hamm by…
A report is set to be released today on a virtual fence intended to be placed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirms that the $1.1 billion program has been dumped, due in large part to the fact that the damn thing doesn’t work the way it…
Yesterday, reporter Joel Warner told you about Araphaoe County’s decision to return two pounds of marijuana from Colin Olmstead more than a year after it was seized. The ganja was being driven to a dispensary at the time. The handover took place yesterday afternoon, and Timothy Tipton of Cannabis Health…
Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Denver field division of the DEA, lately hasn’t been too fond of the mainstream media. Much of it has to do with how reporters covered the case of Chris Bartkowicz, a Highlands Ranch man who was arrested by DEA agents last month…
On July 24, 1909, Colorado dedicated a memorial on the west side of the State Capitol to local soldiers killed in the Civil War. The monument shows a Union soldier facing south and includes four plaques listing the names of the battles. In 2002, the state decided to clarify the…
Tom and Courtney Myers moved into their home in Cherry Creek Farm more than a decade ago, and for many years, they enjoyed their cookie-cut sliver of the moderately affluent neighborhood. Their split-level house, which they share with their aging black Labrador, Max, boasts glinting dark wood floors in the…
The Man With the Metal Ceiling Bob Tarde has lived in the same one-bedroom apartment in Centennial for more than two decades, plenty of time for him to decorate it with hundreds of forest-scene plaques, “home sweet home” garb and other accumulated tchotchkes. Behind the knickknacks, Tarde has also painstakingly…
“Bad Medicine,” Joel Warner, March 11 Taking Your Medicine I think that marijuana should be legal and that the War on Drugs is shredding the Bill of Rights. But if pot advocates want pot to be legal, then why not just ask the voters of Colorado to…legalize it? Don’t hide…
A recent story in the Topeka Capital-Journal about a 2005 renovation at a Kansas women’s prison has a familiar ring to it. Inmates and corrections employees have long claimed that they were forced to remove asbestos flooring without adequate training or equipment, and state officials have failed to produce records…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents against their Homeowner’s Associations and the companies that manage them. A proposal making it’s way through the state legislature could address some of the disputes that often result in expensive legal bouts and, in the…
Yesterday, unctuous yakker Glenn Beck guested on Peter Boyles’s KHOW talk show — and of all the topics in all the world that Boyles could have brought up, which one did he raise? The birther theory. But while Beck stopped short of calling the supposition that President Barack Obama was…
Wouldn’t you like to look over some Denver blogs? At 5280, AJ Vicens says coach George Karl’s family blog about his cancer treatment is more interesting than last night’s Nuggets victory over the Washington Wizards. He’s right — but still loved the win. Colorado Pols tallies up the winners and…
A lot of things have been said about former Cleveland QB Brady Quinn since he was traded to the Broncos — some positive, others not so much. But who would have guessed that an NFL Network commentator would refer to him by the C-word superimposed boldly across the top of…
On Monday, we shared mug shots and offense information for Denver’s top fifty most wanted criminals — a post supplemented by a sequel noting that the Denver Police Department had already rounded up four of the scofflaws, including accused sexual abuser Freddie Ray Lazzo. Now, the department’s tracked down three…
A study of the tags on the retaining wall pictured above suggest that this may be the work of the street toughs enrolled at the nearby Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning. The hand-painted reminders of “Hope!!” and “you would do better” are lessons lifted straight from the mean hallways…
Owen Loftus, spokesman for Republican senatorial candidate Ken Buck, was in an odd position: As of a few moments ago, he wasn’t sure if his guy had bested frontrunner Jane Norton or not. “The last numbers we saw were from about 11:25 last night,” he says. “I think we were…
If the charges against Angel Rayas are accurate, he’s been a busy boy — and a bad one. Not to mention a candidate for an especially disturbing episode of Hoarders. According to Channel 7, the 33-year-old homeless man, whose last known address was the Denver Rescue Mission, filled a storage…
A Channel 4 report far more impressive than the startling news that a couple of guys in Boulder were busted for driving under the influence of marijuana involved the racially motivated attacks that took place in LoDo last year; see our photo gallery of arrested suspects by clicking here. Earlier…
