Despite what Craig Ferguson says, reading Denver blogs won’t make you poop funny. Colorado Pols sees plenty of signs that John Hickenlooper will soon launch a bid for Colorado’s governorship — including Republican boss Dick Wadhams dubbing him “Hickenritter.” Which is not nearly as funny a name as “Dick Wadhams.”…
Watching the first round of the NFL playoffs this weekend, one thought kept flashing through my mind: Thank goodness the Broncos aren’t playing. Don’t get me wrong. As a Colorado native, Broncos fandom is part of my DNA, and after the team shocked me, and the rest of the football…
According to the New York Times, Colorado is America — at least when it comes to our opinion of health-care reform. Which ain’t too positive right now. “In Colorado, Craving Reform of Health Care and Congress,” published yesterday, quotes an array of average folks in Denver and Fort Collins with…
Craig Ferguson, host of CBS’s Late Late Show, specializes in oversharing — an approach that frequently leads to comic gold. He did so again in this past Friday’s broadcast, when he mentioned that he planned to spend the weekend in Denver. Why? It was a secret, he says in the…
On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer’s latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bill even as he argued that medical marijuana advocates may soon face greater restrictions because of…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 45. Harvey Park: The Maltese Falcons hint at a gardener who may be digging with a Sam Spade. The yard art pictured in figure 45 looks like a folksy, old-timer style of garden display, until the viewer notices the blood-red paint…
After Senator Chris Romer announced that he would be withdrawing most of a proposed bill aimed at regulating the medical marijuana industry, the Cannabis Therapy Institute, a prominent pro-marijuana organization, called his decision a “guarded victory” in a press release on view at the bottom of this item. And CTI…
Everyone knows that banjos are awesome. But are they also deadly? According to Colorado law, that depends on how you use them. If you use your banjo for, say, pickin’, you’re all good. If you use it for hittin’, such as in the case of 33-year-old Joseph Stancato, you’re not…
Photographer Aaron Thackeray ventured into the wild on Friday night for a glimpse of Denver in action; see his photos on the slideshow page. Also, Kiernan Maletsky climbed Mt. Hipster on Saturday night, taking in the Bad Weather California/Pink Hawks/Pictureplane show at the Hi-Dive. Read his review on the Backbeat…
Pierre Werner, aka Dr. Reefer, is one tough hombre. “I’m a convicted felon, so I can’t have any guns,” he says. “The only weapons I have are my fists.” And Werner used them early yesterday morning, when two men broke into the Boulder building, at 1121 Broadway, where his medical…
Senator Chris Romer has been working on medical marijuana legislation for many weeks — and he’s clearly grown frustrated with the chore. On Saturday, he published an essay in the Huffington Post declaring that “my attempts to bring medical marijuana out of the shadows through a complex regulatory structure are…
As we noted in this week’s cover story, Louisville game developer NetDevil is hoping to hit the big time with a family-friendly version of World of Warcraft thanks to its upcoming game, LEGO Universe. Most of the game’s development has been hush-hush, though the company released the first official game…
Senate candidate and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton is the latest GOP leader to blast Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s proposed energy reforms. The vitriol is pretty shrill — she refers to “new, draconian reforms,” as if the government was about to start beheading oil executives. Yet it’s also…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Remember that beautiful day in October when Balloon Boy Falcon Heene puked on the Today Show as his dad, Richard Heene, tried to convince America that the entire fiasco involving his runaway “experimental craft” had been genuine? Well,…
Over at the excellent social-media site Mashable, there’s an intelligent and thought-provoking post about the ways social media has changed us. And while its conclusions about social media’s impact on our society included important points about information availability, political discourse and child literacy, I couldn’t help but notice there were…
Don’t let these Denver blogs fall through the cyber-cracks. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna clues us in about a plan to create “the world’s greenest parking facility” at Denver International Airport. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with medical marijuana (H/T Portfolio). Over at Denver Stiffs, Andrew Feinstein remembers…
Update, 1:40 p.m. June 8, 2012: A new Broncos QB is said to be living in Shanahan’s spread. Learn more in our post “Peyton Manning reportedly staying in Mike Shanahan’s old Cherry Hills Village house.” Original post: FootballNewsNow.com reports that new Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan met with assistant coaches…
Dads are always doing embarrassing shit. That’s just a rule. With my dad, it was usually his clothes, which were always about a decade off and a few shades too bright. But sometimes he inflicted his lack of style and grace on me, by sending me to school with my…
Attorney Rob Corry has become the poster-lawyer for the medical marijuana business in Colorado, both through his legal gambits — like victory in a dispute over the Colorado Board of Health’s language switch involving the definition of a medical marijuana caregiver — to his primary role in the Colorado Wellness…
“The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth have just taken over operations and prohibit reproductive services at their hospitals. But they will allow us to give patients that request birth control these fliers that offer programs for families, with emotional and behavioral problems, at their Mount Saint Vincent Home.”…
Last August, Diego Alvarez was arrested in Avon on charges of felony cultivation of marijuana and felony possession of more than eight ounces of marijuana in a bust that made news throughout the state. Now, however, the case has come to a screeching halt. In a pre-trial hearing in Eagle…
Gino Rael, 26, is a registered sex offender who received a four-year deferred sentence in 2006 for enticing a child. So what did he allegedly do while in Boulder County Jail this summer on unrelated charges? Sent letters to young girls whose photos he and a couple of buddies saw…
