Sean McAllister experienced a big up and an equally large down yesterday. As the head of Sensible Breckenridge, a marijuana advocacy organization, he was thrilled when residents of the ski town voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize pot in their community. But in his role as board chairman for the statewide group…
Say it ain’t so, Dave! Colorado Springs Republican state senator Dave Schultheis, whose untenable positions and fabulously xenophobic quotes made him one of Westword’s favorite Shmucks of the Week, has announced that he won’t seek reelection in 2010. A champion of small-minded racists, Schultheis wasn’t just vilified by Democrats; he…
It’s been a month to the day since the Daily Beast declared Denver to be the fifth-smartest city in the United States — and apparently the folks at the American Psychological Association think our incredible brainpower is working against us. An APA survey says Denver residents are more stressed than…
First, there was CU Buffs coach Dan Hawkins’ astonishing news conference, when he tried to talk (and talk) (and talk) away the sting of the previous week’s 20-6 loss to Kansas State. Then, after an even larger humiliation at the hands of the Missouri Tigers, Hawkins focused his post-game remarks…
After the closure of the Rocky Mountain News earlier this year, groups featuring former staffers launched not one but two high-profile online news projects, neither of which revolutionized the medium, or proved that the concept could be financially viable. INDenver Times is still publishing despite falling 47,000 people short of…
Last night was a good one for Republicans, who won governor’s seats in New Jersey and Virginia over opponents for whom President Barack Obama had actively campaigned. But the news wasn’t as positive in a New York congressional race either for right-leaning residents of the area or a right-leaning former…
Last month’s feature, “The Forgotten,” focused on clemency — an executive power that prosecutor-turned-governor Bill Ritter has been reluctant to use. We showed how modifying the sentences of even a handful of state inmates who’ve received draconian punishment, like the guy doing eighty years for burglary, could save the state…
State medical-marijuana rules have always been ridiculously vague and confusing, leading to the riotous growth of the local dispensary industry. Last week, the Colorado Court of Appeals weighed in on the matter, and this morning the Colorado Board of Health chimed in, too. Now, lo and behold, state medical-marijuana rules…
“A lot of people consider the practice of journalism with a lot of scorn, and sometimes it’s deserved,” says veteran newsman Greg Dobbs, who’ll talk about his new book, Life in the Wrong Lane: Why Journalists Go in When Everyone Else Wants Out, at 6 p.m. tonight at the Denver…
This week we decided to go a little meta with our Twitter poll. See, we know what Twitter has done for us (shameless self-promotion, convinced us that we needn’t put on pants to “socialize” with strangers, taught us to think in 140-character bursts). But we decided to use it to…
Here’s a trio of local bloggers doing what local bloggers do — blogging locally. John Bena at Mile High Report shows off an animated video co-created by Denver Stiffs mainstay Andrew Feinstein about a Bronco fan with a terrible secret… The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams fears that pine-beetle weakened…
At about 6:30 p.m. on Monday night, Aaron Siebers reported that he’d been stabbed in Edgewater by “three skinheads or Hispanic males dressed in black” who tried to rob him. Trouble is, a surveillance video from a business where this alleged attack supposedly took place didn’t show anything like what…
I’ve been looking for a second stamp for a week so that I could mail in my ballot in today’s election. I had one stamp, which I affixed to the large yellow-brown ballot I got in the mail. But then I saw the note that said mailing the ballot would…
Just because this year’s Naked Pumpkin Run has come and gone without mass arrests doesn’t mean Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett is done with high-profile cases for a day or two. He’s been appointed a special prosecutor to look into claims by attorney David Lane that Larimer County Sheriff Jim…
Just heard from a sharp-eyed viewer who saw a familiar face on the Today show this morning — one who had no business being there. Political reporter Chuck Todd was discussing a New York state congressional election taking place today, which pits a Democrat named Bill Owens against Doug Hoffman,…
Update, 3:23 p.m. Joel Warner here, back from the kerfuffle emergency Board of Health hearing. To make a long story short, the board voted 9-0 this morning to strike language stating that a marijuana caregiver has to have “significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient.” This summer, the…
“Prebles” will be jumping at the chance to lure the 2026 Winter Games to Colorado. It’ll be the fiftieth anniversary of the city’s historic 1976 Olympic snub, and Denver no longer feels mousey about the future!…
In the weeks leading up to Halloween, the Boulder Police Department worked overtime to prevent a chaotic revival of the Mall Crawl tradition that peaked in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and warned possible participants in the annual Naked Pumpkin Run that they could face arrest instead of a…
Geez, it was like Bravehart at 15th and Larimer on Halloween night — but with pillows. More random scenes like this and soon everyone’s going to start packing feather-filled heat just to go clubbing. Tell mom I’m going to a sleepover at the Denver County Jail, okay?…
Oh, the can of wriggling, worm-like items the Vance Fulkerson case has opened. Fulkerson, you’ll recall, is a former University of Northern Colorado drama instructor accused earlier this year of secretly filming children in his bathroom; in September, he learned of nine additional charges against him, including four felony sexual…
On Friday, a man suffering from what would soon prove to be fatal wounds was found behind the Sunrise Restaurant, 9115 East Colfax. The Aurora Police Department is now identifying the victim as Roger William Harris, 35, and offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of his…
Although the state of Colorado is currently grappling with medical marijuana, as exemplified by the Colorado Board of Health’s “Emergency Rulemaking Hearing” slated for later this morning (expect Sensible Colorado supporters to show up in force), local governments are on the front lines of the issue. And a new report…
