Get your blogs here. We catch ’em fresh daily. Send us links. Fort Collins will be the proud owner of Colorado’s second Smart Grid. (Square State) I don’t want to ruin the ending, but they painted photoshopped your name on the field, and Dan Hawkins recorded voice will call you…
The Boulder Daily Camera reported today that Boulder County has installed rules covering the use of social media by employees (CBS4 Denver also blogged about it). The gist of the rules seems to be requiring permission from a department head to post anything to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Really? Boulder County…
When Michael Bennet was just a baby/his mama told him, son/always be a good boy/don’t ever play with guns. But that (weird, re-imagined-by-me Johnny Cash lyric) didn’t stop him from voting for them. Now he and fellow Sen. Mark Udall are in trouble — at least with the press –…
At first look, you’d think that the stylish Tamarac Square mall was practically a ghost town: One by one, the unique retailers who’ve kept the place afloat for years are abandoning ship – in some cases, for newer shores; in others, not. The latest to take wing is the saucy…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses in the fashions of Denver designers. The stylish and wonderfully aesthetic left-handed swinger Seth Smith rounds the bases in a classic gown from a recent runway collection of James Silvrants…..
It appears that even deadly snakes couldn’t keep Matt Sowash and business partner Andrew Hicks away from poker. As Westword reported Thursday, the two men were arrested this week and accused of five counts of felony securities fraud. A June CBI affidavit used to obtain warrants for the arrests of…
We’re not that well educated, our transportation is West Virginia-esque, and you really want that much for that Highlands loft? But Colorado still ranks among the best states to do business in, according to a new study-type thing by CNBC.com. The financial-news channel scored all 50 states in a variety…
Earlier this week we told you about the Hummer driver who, in a fit of road rage, was believed by state-patrol troopers to have caused a multi-vehicle accident that left a motorcyclist in critical condition. Because he was driving a Hummer, and because I’m a predictable knee-jerk liberal with a…
Denver-area authorities have made yet another holy-shit-that’s-a-lot-of-weed bust on an sophisticated grow operation, no doubt worrying local stoners that they’re approaching their Entourage moment. Don’t worry, guys! That’s what Mexico’s for! The most recent bust happened in the Pike National Forest, where the West Metro Task Force was tipped off…
Baseball season is long and dense, epically so, the Infinite Jest of sporting seasons. So you can’t be blamed for jumping in and out, especially in a place where there is so much else to do, and especially when your team plays like Edward Norton in Primal Fear. But if…
Today in Cafe Society: -Denver welcomes a new Brazilian steakhouse. It looks like a great spot to take a vegetarian on a date. -Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival is underway. -That candy looks like ice pops. Brillant! Or is it… Today in The Latest Word: -Victim…
Join us every afternoon for a tall glass of ice cold blog. Bring links. A day after blowing a late-game lead to the D-Backs, the Rockies trade for some bullpen help in the form of Rafael Betancourt. (Purple Row) Just because we’re not paying them for four days doesn’t mean…
Poker tour entrepreneurs Matt Sowash and Andrew “Doc” Hicks were arrested this week and charged with securities fraud. Investigators have been working on the case for two years, ever since two other men hatched a plot to kill Sowash using rattlesnakes. In that case, detailed in the 2007 Westword feature,…
Ever wondered how your doctor stacks up compared to other doctors? Thanks to the Colorado Business Group on Health, you may be able to stop wondering and find out with a few mouse clicks. The nonprofit health organization has just launched a service based on scientific surveys that tells you…
Cherry Creek High School grad Matt Iseman has covered as lot of ground since leaving Creek behind for Princeton, then med school at Columbia and a residency back home at CU. That’s when he pulled the old switcheroo and quit doctoring altogether to stand up and tell jokes in Hollywood…
The proverbial wheels of justice turn slowly but not always surely. So it’s always interesting when the gears spit out a real acknowledgment of wrongdoing, even if the folks involved are all pointing fingers at each other. Recent documents filed in Mike Zinna’s long-running court battles with Jefferson County government…
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what happens in Denver? It’s too boring to tell stories about anyway. That’s the impression that a Wednesday story in the Wall Street Journal may have left on readers. Headlined “Government Meeting? Stay Away From Fun City,” the article was about how…
Get used to the words flashing on your TV screen and bouncing from your radio speakers: “Pay as you go.” And we’re not talking cell phones or Craigslist escorts (they do that, don’t they?) President Obama’s proposed “pay-as-you-go” plan — wherein every expenditure (except for lots of them) must be…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Chris Iannetta enjoys success at the plate in the eco-conscious, reclaimed fabric fashions of Baily Rose…..
OK, so CNN.com’s Freshman Year — the internet reality show starring Colorado Congressman Jared Polis — isn’t likely an accurate representation of how Polis spends his time. And he does allegedly visit an Aurora detention center in the most recent episode (although we don’t see it, and I’m convinced he…
The number of Colorado companies executing large numbers of jobs at once is falling, the Denver Business Journal reports this morning, a sign that slightly less sucky times may lie ahead: (T)he number of Colorado workers let go in June’s mass layoffs declined by more than half, to 832 in…
The ambulance-chasing is in fifth gear in the aftermath of Hep Breakout Heard Round the World. Personal-injury lawyer Frank “Strong Arm” Azar, who’s been on the case since the beginning, has hit the airwaves with quite possibly the scariest ad since Terry Tate Office Linebacker. The video of the commercial…
