Lately, dispensary owners and marijuana growers have been watching their back. Over the past few weeks, Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided two marijuana testing facilities, one in Denver and one in Colorado Springs, as well busting a Highland Ranch marijuana grow on Friday that its owner had bragged about on…
The 2010 census gives states a new option for how to count their prison population, a move that could provide additional political leverage to urban areas — which, in Colorado, means more power to the Front Range and less to places like Fremont, Logan and Crowley counties. In the past,…
Senate Majority Leader John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, are brainstorming ways to keep Colorado’s colleges from suffocating amid crippling losses in revenue from the state. Atop the mount of potential solutions, the bipartisan duo says: Let the schools raise tuition as they see fit…
Look what we found: three blogs about Denver stuff. KaptainKirk at Mile High Report walks us through NFL.com’s new website for updates about the league’s labor situation. Players and teams have until March 5 to reach a new collective bargaining agreement — but at least if everything goes to hell,…
Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lines. That…
It’s no surprise that Said Ali Mohamud was arrested by Boulder cops for driving drunk last week. He’s reportedly had numerous alcohol-related infractions since 2008. More unexpected was his ability to circumvent the alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet he wore by stuffing some plastic between this doodad and his skin, thereby preventing…
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg wants to hear from parents. Next month, he’s launching the Superintendent’s Parents Forum, an every-other-month gathering between district officials and a group consisting of two parents from each DPS school — which by our count, adds up to about 300 parents. Possibly 300 angry…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 51. Baker: Graffiti made with yarn is called scarffiti. The entry door of the building pictured in figure 51 opens directly onto the city sidewalk, yet it hasn’t prevented the act of personalized decoration. It appears that the lack of a…
Lists about cities! Here in Colorado, we love ’em! Because they’re usually flattering — like the ones that named Denver the 13th best place in the country for singles and in the top ten for raising children. But these achievements are piddling in comparison to Boulder’s finish in a new…
Photog Aaron Thackeray endured ravers at the Aztlan (above), couples at the clocktower, hipsters at Rockbar and models at Suite 200. See his photos at westword.com/slideshow…
Attorney Warren Edson was practicing medical marijuana-related law before doing so was cool. And now, with the industry growing in Colorado like never before, he’s expanding his operations by merging his practice with Kumin Sommers LLP, a San Francisco-based firm with a specialty in medical marijuana law in California, whose…
On Friday, backers of the Personhood Amendment, which says the term “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point, announced that they’d collected enough signatures to put the measure on the 2010 ballot. Of course, a very similar initiative, promoted by 21-year-old Westword profile subject Kristi Burton, was soundly…
View Larger Map Last week, we told you about a triple stabbing early on Super Bowl Sunday that left two men injured and one dead at 675 S. Raleigh Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The Denver…
An argument at El Jalisciense II Mexican Restaurant early Saturday morning resulted in the death of one man and the arrest of another for investigation of first degree murder. The Lakewood Police Department describes Joel Vargas-Ramirez, 28, as a “habitual traffic offender.” According to an LPD release, he fled the…
The Denver Post prides itself on being a family newspaper — but its embrace of social media can make it difficult to keep grown-up language at bay. Case in point: On Friday, AM 760 host David Sirota, whose syndicated column frequently appears in the Post , tweeted about a Joel…
You didn’t think attorney Rob Corry would remain silent after the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on the home of Chris Bartkowicz, did you? After all, Corry’s among the most vocal of all Colorado’s medical marijuana advocates, and if he has problems with Representative Tom Massey’s bill to regulate the industry,…
Last week’s DEA raid of Genovations, a Colorado Springs medical marijuana laboratory, was the second time in recent weeks that the agency had swooped in on a lab that had applied for a license in an attempt to prove its forthrightness and responsibility; the same scenario played out in January…
Every year around this time, the Westminster Kennel Club puts on its hifalutin, thoroughly mockable parade of purebreds, all vying to star in the next Christopher Guest movie. And around the same time, a down-home dog show unfolds at the National Western Stock Show Complex, sponsored by the Colorado Kennel…
Some creative researchers at Northern Arizona University have discovered what could be a literally sound solution to saving Colorado’s forests that are rapidly dying at the jaws of pine beetles. The answer could lie in the sound of the beetles — the original beetles, not the blokes from Liverpool. Rolling…
We recently wrote about how a DEA raid at Full Spectrum Laboratories, a Denver medical marijuana testing facility, was triggered by the lab applying for an analytical lab licensure through the DEA. Now DEA agents have hit another marijuana testing lab — Colorado Springs-based Genovations — not long after the…
Three Denver blogs for the price of one. Nate Timmons at Denver Stiffs calls the $4.5 million, one-year contract extension the Nuggets just gave coach George Karl a “no brainer.” Agreed. Just hope he doesn’t lose his head and kill J.R. Smith. Becca Blond at the Colorado Independent writes that…
Yet another memorably monikered scofflaw is allegedly off the streets. First it was Timothy McGlothin, thought to be one of the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, whose arrest was announced yesterday. And now it’s Richard Charles MacNeill, who Aurora Police think is the so-called Band-Aid Bandit, who’s allegedly been sticking it to…
