Cory Voorhis, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was fired for leaking information from a restricted database to Republican Bob Beauprez’s 2006 gubernatorial campaign, began making his case to get his job back before a federal administrative judge Wednesday. The Denver hearing encapsulated the dramatic twists and embarrassing turns…
When Ray LaHood, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, stood up to address the U.S. Conference of Mayors last week, he gave a special shout-out to John Hickenlooper, who’d met with him in Denver the week before — and cooked dinner for him. “As you know,” LaHood told the…
“Everybody Must Get Zoned,” Kenny Be, January 21 Code Medicine I appreciated Kenny Be’s “Everybody Must Get Zoned.” The spin on “stoned” and “zoned” was not wasted on me, especially having attended recent zoning-code update meetings and the city council hearing on medical marijuana! As a concerned citizen, I’ve been asking in…
Tim Canaday keeps an old wooden snowboard in his office at the Never Summer Industries factory as a reminder. The board, fit for a history museum, has rubber straps for bindings and metal fins bolted to the tail and midsection, to keep it steady in deep powder. He constructed the…
More kids are enrolled in Colorado schools than ever before: 832,368 to be exact, according to numbers released this week by the state Department of Education. And Denver Public Schools is contributing heavily to that growth. The city’s enrollment is up 4,493 students from 2005, making it the third fastest-growing…
The great Colorado debate over medical marijuana finally reached the gold dome of the State Capitol on Wednesday when Democratic Senator Chris Romer introduced the first of two proposed bills dealing with the issue. More than 150 people, including a large number of disabled medical marijuana patients, turned out before…
Ef Rodriguez has been among our most popular-ever featured Twits. But today, he’s not that happy with the service that’s made him a must-follow. Why? As he explains in this Huffington Post blog, Twitter has introduced a new “local trends” feature to a select number of users, allowing them “to…
Like sands through the hourglass, so go the blogs of Denver. Colin at South Stands Denver sifts through the various rumored destinations for Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall, including St. Louis, Cincinnati, Dallas and New England — but not a penitentiary. Hey, he’s been on his best behavior lately! Colorado Pols…
People in charge of a place called the Colorado Humane Society may not seem like logical candidates for Shmuck of the Week recognition. But back in December 2008, owners executive director Mary Warren, her husband, Robert Warren, and Mary Warren’s daughter, Stephenie Gardner, more than earned this honor after Attorney…
In December, King Soopers employees approved a new contract offer, while Safeway workers rejected pretty much the same package. But Albertsons staffers were mostly silent — until now. According to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 website, “Albertsons has offered a tentative agreement for Denver, Colorado Springs and…
As President Barack Obama prepares to make his first State of the Union address tonight, the promise of a health-care bill actually earning passage looks pretty sick thanks to the election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown — a man who Colorado candidates Scott McInnis and Jane Norton desperately wish to…
The only way to get to know a city is by foot. A car could pass the northwest Denver home pictured above a dozen times and the driver would never see the spectacle that sprawls across this lawn. At twenty-miles-per-hour, the rocks on the folding chair and the flattened sign…
Swiping televisions used to be easier when they didn’t all used to be so friggin’ huge — especially if you’re as relatively small of stature as a suspected robber who was in the midst of trying to manhandle a 46-inch set in Boulder when the home’s owner confronted him earlier…
Governor Bill Ritter’s proposal to place a sales tax on candy and soda is far from sweet according to Rick Enstrom, an owner of Grand Junction-based Enstrom’s, one of the state’s most venerable candy companies. Enstrom is scheduled to testify about the measure at 1:30 p.m. today before the Colorado…
Emphatic Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden — the target of new complaints from Balloon Boy lawyer David Lane about restitution charges — is the latest to join the fight to prevent a gun ban at Colorado State University, which previously allowed concealed weapons on campus for those with permits. The…
Art Cormier’s name has popped up plenty of times in Westword over the years. Take this 2005 piece about the Regency Hotel, a once-elegant joint turned into a nexus for neighborhood complaints under Cormier’s ownership. Now, shortly after controversy enveloped Amazing Jake’s funplex, a Cormier property in Aurora, he’s got…
Two weeks ago, David Lane, attorney for Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene, griped that a $47,000-plus restitution charge for leading law-enforcement officials on a wild experimental-craft chase was way too high. That complaint has now been formalized: A motion challenging the amount was filed on Friday — and this morning,…
Yesterday, we shared Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger’s defense of the organization’s forthcoming Super Bowl ad, starring Florida QB Tim Tebow and his mom, against protests by a variety of women’s organizations. Since then, critics have been out in force, with Women’s Media Center president Jehmu Greene even…
The Denver Post has labeled Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, a “drug-war soldier” who didn’t get the memo that the battle was over. Medical marijuana advocates are calling him the leader of a “war on patients,” since behind the scenes he’s helping…
It’s impossible to travel around our fair city without noticing all the dispensaries. They seem to be popping up on every street corner, sometimes right across the street from each other. So what does this mean from an urban-development perspective? There’s likely no one better equipped to answer that question…
Davies loves a good debate. The avid Denver Post reader posted 624 comments in response to articles on the newspaper’s website during a nine-month period that started last February — an average of fifteen comments a week — on topics ranging from Afghanistan to global warming, campaign finance to Xcel…
The world will have to wait a little bit longer to learn the fate of the Niwot urine-drinker. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the retrial of Joseph Cardillo has been postponed because his new attorney needs time to catch up on the case. And what a case it is…
