Word Dan Hawkins will be back as head coach at CU triggered the first test of the decision to retain him: Would recruits who’d previously committed to the school be excited or disgusted? At this early juncture, the news is mixed, but it leans toward the positive. According to Bleacher…
Today, a ban against texting while driving takes effect in Colorado — not that Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle expects it to have an enormous impact. In widely quoted comments, he called the measure a “feel good” law that would be tough to enforce. State representative Claire Levy, a Boulder…
Colorado at its best is a combination of the weird and the wonderful. And so is the story of how a tied vote for the Crested Butte town council was settled — by a wicked game of Ninja Bear Cowboy. According to the Crested Butte News, two candidates, Roland Mason…
In November, voters in Breckenridge approved the decriminalization of marijuana in the community — and the town council has now approved regulations relating to the measure. As of January 1, 21-and-older adults can possess up to one ounce of weed and transfer a like amount to someone else without breaking…
After news broke in October about Ricky Lee Harnish facing a likely ten-to-24-year sentence for the 1976 rape and murder of teenager Holly Andrews, even Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger admitted to mixed emotions. But no such confusion afflicted Linda Andrews, wife of Holly’s brother, Dave. As she said…
If anything, that line about a picture being worth a thousand words understates the impact of the just-released photo here, which shows Lakewood’s Marcus Leyba while being booked on Thanksgiving for child abuse resulting in death — the child in question being his three-month old. According to Lakewood Police Department…
The guy was in front of my house for maybe thirty seconds. He rooted around in the blue cart, emerged with a couple of metal cans — not even high-grade aluminum — and tossed them in the back of his battered hatchback. Then he was on to the next cart,…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has been among the state’s most vocal critics of current medical-marijuana policy. So it’s no wonder conservative columnist George Will sought him out — and they apparently got along famously. In a November 25 entry on his Facebook page, Suthers wrote: “Had breakfast with political…
It’s Cyber Monday, a date that sounds as if it should be associated with discounted internet porn and not Christmas shopping — but so be it. And just in time for the holiday shopping season, the happy elves at the U.S. Public Research Interest Group — whose Colorado chapter, COPIRG,…
Local blog-finding just got a lot easier. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets’ home loss to the Timberwolves last night “unacceptable.” And a few other choicer words. Over at Lakewood Edge, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Kevin Flynn describes the traffic woes expected to result from FasTracks work on…
Word broke last week that King Soopers and Safeway workers affiliated with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 would soon begin voting on the companies’ last, best and final contract offer. But customers and employees alike won’t know if a strike will disrupt holiday-season shopping for quite a while…
Josh McDaniels’ mouth has been getting him in trouble lately — first after he reportedly told Chargers linebacker Shaun Phillips “We own you” prior to a horrific 32-3 loss, and then when NFL Network cameras and microphones caught him fulminating to his players on Thursday about “winning the motherfucking game”…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 43. West Wash Park. One gnome goes down while another gets mounted. Gnomes were first introduced to gardening in the mid-1800s by a German ceramicist who sold his decorations to local gardeners based on their reputations of being “nocturnal helpers of…
Earlier today, we told you about a lawsuit aimed at Centennial for closing CannaMart, a medical-marijuana dispensary, in mid-October. According to Bob Hoban, one of two attorneys representing the patients and caregivers bringing the suit, a ruling in the case could turn out to be precedent-setting — not that such…
Starting with the opening of Beaver Creek last week and ending with shows at Rhinoceropolis and the hi-dive, it was a long weekend in Denver. See photos on the slideshow page, reviews on the Backbeat blog and more photos at On the Edge…
Tonight, the Denver Public Schools board will consider a range of reform issues involving low-performing schools and much more. But the agenda calls for the outgoing board, including three members who’ll be attending their last meeting, to vote on the proposals, leaving incoming representatives, three of them newbies, to either…
Anyone who thought Dan Hawkins would start talking about the CU Buffs more realistically after being promised another year as head coach were disabused of this notion following the squad’s not-quite-shocking loss to Nebraska on Friday. Among Hawkins’ post-game comments: “I think it’s one of those seasons where if you…
What’s most amazing about an attempt by the man seen here to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it from its moorings using a stolen U-Haul truck isn’t that he thought the scheme might actually work. It’s that he hasn’t been caught yet. Maybe he’s not as stupid as…
Tomorrow, a ban against texting while driving goes into effect in Colorado, for reasons made obvious in the clip above, featuring a since-fired Texas bus driver who was caught on video thumbing messages when he should have been looking at that car in front of him that he smacked. The…
Medical-marijuana patients and providers, as well as the attorneys who argue on their behalf, haven’t always found the courts to be in their corner. Witness the controversial ruling in the Stacy Clendenin case, which caused the Board of Health to alter its definition of caregiver — at least until a…
The 17,000 grocery workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union could begin receiving ballots to vote on Safeway and King Soopers’ “last, best and final” contract offer as soon as tomorrow. A yes vote would end seven months of bargaining. The ballots are scheduled to be…
We’ll leave it to the shrinks and pundits to try to figure out which Broncos team is going to show up in Kansas City next week. Will it be the upstarts who shocked just about everybody for six games? The head cases who fell flat against the Redskins and were…
