The front page of the Denver Post declares, “Hard Times Getting Harder for Coloradans” — and Delta County, located in a particularly beautiful part of the state’s Western Slope, isn’t immune from such problems. It’s especially ironic, then, that officials there recently wound up giving $1 million in social-services money…
The “100 Days of Heat” campaign, in which local police agencies step up their efforts to put drunk drivers behind bars before they can kill anyone, is in full force this weekend in at least a couple of local municipalities. Lakewood is announcing a handful of sobriety checkpoints to be…
On June 10, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado senator) Ken Salazar announced the indictment and arrest of 24 individuals suspected of trafficking in illegally obtained artifacts in the Four Corners area. But who found these items in the first place? One theory: meth addicts. An article in Grand…
Even as an Atlas V rocket built by Centennial’s United Launch Alliance blasted off yesterday on a mission that may lead to man’s return to the moon, University of Colorado at Boulder scientists pinpointed an interesting landing spot for the next trip to Mars. A team led by CU-Boulder Research…
As noted yesterday, King Soopers is avoiding the nuclear option when it comes to negotiations with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Local No. 7, rapidly agreeing to go back to the bargaining table as opposed to locking out employees who overwhelming rejected the retailers latest contract offer. But…
He’s spinning in a better place…. Today in Backbeat Online: • RIP Mike Honcho. • Everything is ridiculous at the Air Guitar Championship. • Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3. • Q&A with the Church’s Marty Wilson-Piper. • Q&A with Adam Franklin of Swervedriver. • See the Epilogues for free next Saturday…
This summer, the Denver Police Department is planning on moving its mobile HALO surveillance cameras to a high-crime neighborhood near you. Read about our trip inside the HALO control center and click here to check out a slideshow of some of the cameras in their natural environment…
A cruise through the local blogosphere. Send thy tips. What do fans want the Broncos to do with Brandon Marshall? (Mile High Report) Jared Polis is pissed about the Defense of Marriage Act. But not pissed enough to piss off his fellow Democrats. (Colorado Independent) At CU, being true to…
If you have questions — and I know you have questions — AskColorado, an online information service provided by Colorado libraries, is there to help. The 24/7 (holidays excluded) web service puts you in touch with a librarian via a chat interface similar to your basic instant-messenger client, and lets…
One thing’s for sure: You can pretty much always count on Denver Chicano Renaissance man Gwylym Cano to come up with something completely different. His reputation as a filmmaker is built on the funny 1995 yarn El Corrido de Cherry Creek, but he’s also made a name locally as a…
The problem is a familiar one to Colorado residents by now: two million acres of dead trees, forested mountainsides turned entirely red. The high country has been turned into a giant tinderbox by a beetle the size of a grain of rice. The solution? Not to stop the pine beetle…
Colorado Public Radio met its $1.6 million goal at the (blessed) end of its recent Drive to Thrive campaign. But that doesn’t mean the organization is done with cutbacks. The network has just issued a press release announcing 3 percent pay reductions for all employees, as well as a year-long…
What do you get when you cross(dress) the Colorado Rockies in the latest creations of Denver fashion designers? A series of baseball cards for the Colorado Frockies: the boys of summer dresses. #21 Jason Marquis wears a Sam Grabowska skirt made from found and rescued garments……
United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, is earning some nice ink today in relation to its Atlas V rocket, which is scheduled to boost the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into space from a Florida launchpad at between 3:12 p.m. and 3:32 p.m…
At this writing, linebacker Boss Bailey’s page remains on the Denver Broncos’ website — but that won’t be true for long. Yesterday, the team cut him loose. And while that makes sense (he’s still rehabbing from the sort of microfracture surgery that makes comebacks slow and difficult), it’s still disappointing…
As one of the most prominent doctors in the country to perform late-term abortions, Boulder’s Warren Hern has been much in the news since the slaying last month of his friend and colleague, Kansas’s George Tiller. And now it appears that Hern is getting additional business of the sort he…
Twenty-five years ago today, KOA talk-show host Alan Berg was murdered in his driveway by members of a white-supremacist group called The Order — and as the Denver Post points out in a front-page story today, the act feels all too resonant thanks to this month’s slaying of a security…
Phil Anschutz’s slice of the Broomfield Event Center hardly represents his only recent investment. Last week, word surfaced that the Denver gazillionaire was negotiating to purchase The Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch, who may have decided that the right-wing bible had grown too conservative even for him. Now, the deal…
The Broomfield Event Center has been twisting since at least earlier this year, when Tim Wiens announced that he wanted out of his contract to manage the venue — a lack-of-success story almost from its opening in 2006. And while the willingness of Anschutz Entertainment Group/Kroenke Sports Enterprises, a joint…
“Senate to Repay Funds” reads the headline atop the Denver & the West section in this morning’s Denver Post — and there’s little doubt Senate President Brandon Shaffer didn’t enjoy seeing it. On the very day Shaffer was ostensibly the most powerful elected official in the state (because both Governor…
Once it became clear that the overwhelming majority of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local No. 7 members across the Front Range had rejected King Soopers’ latest contract offer, the company had the option to put further negotiations in the freezer section. Instead, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan…
Our February 4 story, “Medical Marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado,” described how the state’s medical pot laws have fueled a booming dispensary industry — an industry that was starting to look like the Wild West, with robberies and rip-off accusations thanks to lax regulations and fly-by-night entrepreneurs…
