These days, pretty much everything President Barack Obama does is criticized by someone or other. But his detractors will have to work overtime to fault him for his decision regarding the money he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s giving it away to worthy organizations, one of which…
Earlier this week, Peter Maroney was announced as the new president and general manager of sister channels 2 and 31 — the successor to the controversial Dennis Leonard, who stressed in a statement that he jumped instead of being pushed. Maroney, who most recently held similar positions at WTVR in…
Pot advocate Mason Tvert filed language on Wednesday for a November ballot initiative that would allow Coloradans 21 and older to use marijuana. Does that mean Colorado is about to be embroiled in a full-scale movement to legalize weed? Not necessarily…
As documented in Melanie Asmar’s December feature “Can a Mild-Mannered Grocery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers’ Labor Strife?,” United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 has been rocked by a power struggle between supporters of previous president Ernie Duran and those backing incoming boss Kim Cordova. The latest salvo in…
On February 26, the day before the first anniversary of the Rocky Mountain News’ final edition, we published an item about the status of the paper’s intellectual property — most importantly its name and web address. Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, the Rocky’s owner, had revealed that this material…
At first glance, the idea of tapping into the badly stretched state budget for a few million to open one wing of a new supermax prison doesn’t seem all that loony. After all, the Colorado Department of Corrections spent more than $200 million to build the new state pen, known…
Yesterday, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office revealed that a forty-year-old inmate charged with four counts of sexual assault on a child and one count of child abuse had been found dead in his jail cell — and in its release about this incident, the BCSO tried to establish its lack…
Keeping track of all the individuals and organizations duking it out on the front lines of the state’s medical-marijuana debate is trickier than picking through the med strains at your corner dispensary. To help weed through the chaos, we’ve created this guide to the state’s top marijuana power players, complete…
People write blogs about Denver every day. Here are three of them. Tim Lynch at Mile High Report thinks it might be worth it for the Broncos to spend a low-round draft pick to get dreamy but ineffective Cleveland QB Brady Quinn for backup purposes. Maybe if the draft was…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
The identity of Frontier is, well, up in the air, with a new name among the possibilities. But Frontier mechanics seem more interested in the amount of their paychecks rather than the moniker stamped on it — which is why, late yesterday, the union representing them filed an injunction in…
You’ve stopped by just in time to find a new “Mile Highs and Lows” review: The Wildflower Seed checks into Boulder Kind Care, whose owner is also a cancer patient. On top of that, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which offers the latest details about medical marijuana businesses throughout the…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
If Aurora’s bikini-clad barista coffee shop is a huge success, expect to see a lot more skin and the spread of lewdly themed food outlets… Food-service sexploitation is not just for young women. People of all ages in both genders can share in the scantily clad job boom, as you…
Cows are generally thought to be relatively docile creatures: lumbering, slow moving grass munchers that aren’t terribly difficult to round up. But not a heifer in Evans, which, during almost 24 hours on the loose, repeatedly evaded capture. And it wasn’t subdued until after a four-hour pursuit involving cops, veterinarians…
These days, people involved in the medical marijuana community are understandably paranoid about interacting with the press — and especially TV reporters — thanks to the story of Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz, who was arrested following a Drug Enforcement Administration raid on his home grow after showing it off in…
During the wee hours of March 6, a man was attacked in downtown Boulder by an unknown assailant, and viciously so: The victim suffered broken bones in his face and a brain hemorrhage that could have proven fatal if he hadn’t been found so quickly. As for the suspect, he’s…
“I’m a true crime author and historian,” Hustler magazine contributor Fred Rosen writes on his website. “I’ve found that most murders are a dime a dozen; the really good ones are rare. And the ones that say something about us as a society are even rarer.” As it turns out,…
Unfortunately, sex charges against men working in religious settings aren’t exactly unknown. However, Daniel Brock, principal at Silver State Christian School, was recently acquitted by a Jefferson County jury of improperly touching one student and attempting to do the same to another. Would the verdict have been different if jurors…
On Tuesday, Trevor Douglas, 25, argued that he should be acquitted of a marijuana-possession charge because he’s a member of Hawaii’s THC Ministry, and he views the herb as a holy sacrament. Unfortunately for him, the judge in the case didn’t buy his argument, surmising that Douglas was espousing philosophical…
If you’ve ever thought about running the 192 stairs at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — or you’ve simply stared in disbelief at the fitness nuts who do — then you may have heard of Red Rocks Fitness, a workout club founded by former BMX star Joe Hendricks. But that’s about to…
Karen needed a medical marijuana card. She’d smoked enough pot in her fifty years to know that it subdued her recurring headaches, her nausea, the pain that lingered from the knee surgery she’d had a few years earlier. With all the medical marijuana dispensaries proliferating around Denver, it just made…
