Colorado’s Getting a Spaceport in Adams County
The Colorado Air and Space Port will replace the Front Range Airport in Adams County, servicing aerospace vehicles that make horizontal takeoffs and landings.
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Gaia Hits Filmmaker Patty Greer With an Old-School Weapon: a Lawsuit
The lawsuit is also in the court of public opinion.
Supersonic Planes to Be Built in Denver and More on the Aviation Summit
The future is now at the International Aviation Forecast Summit, where approximately 400 heavyweights in the airline industry have gathered at Denver’s downtown Hyatt Regency to discuss the trends travelers will be experiencing a few years from now. The event ends today, but Boyd International Group namesake Mike Boyd, the man behind the 23rd annual assemblage, offers insights about some of the changes headed our way, including the rise of supersonic aircraft from a company based in the Mile High City.
Claim: Jail Nearly Let Inmate Jeremy Laintz Die to Prove He Was Faking Illness
A new lawsuit claims the medical staff at Pueblo County Detention Center was so sure inmate Jeremy Laintz was faking an illness, despite plentiful evidence to the contrary, that they nearly let him die. And while he lived through his ordeal after he was placed in a medically induced coma and choppered from Pueblo to Denver, he lost part of a lung, six toes and suffered other debilitating injuries that could have been prevented if he’d simply been given antibiotics a week or two earlier.
How Sweet Leaf’s Success Story Went Up in Smoke
Sweet Leaf was growing fast. Then came the raids, and it all went sour.
Where in Metro Denver One-Bedroom Rent Is Up the Least
New data shows that median one-bedroom rents have actually gone down by a small amount in a handful of metro Denver communities on a month-to-month basis. But it’s a different story compared to this time last year. In twelve cities examined, rent costs are up in every one by this metric, half of them by double digits.
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Ask a Stoner: Can I Sell Edibles Out of My Food Truck?
Not unless you’re slipping them inside “special orders” for black-market buyers.
New Director of City Homeless Agency Shifts Focus From Shelters to Housing
Chris Conner, the new director of Denver’s Road Home, has big ideas and ambitions to house the city’s homeless.
Denver Weed Prices Are Low Compared to Those in Other Major Cities
One study shows that we don’t have it too bad in Denver compared to other cities with legal marijuana.
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Jimmy Kimmel Saying Jack Phillips’s Life Is Gay Causes Right-Wing Sh*tstorm
On August 14, a new lawsuit was filed on behalf of Masterpiece Cakeshop’s Jack Phillips.
Twitter: Paxton Lynch Is Terrible and Broncos Need to Cut Him Now
How can a preseason game be meaningless and consequential at the same time? That question was answered during the Denver Broncos-Chicago Bears square-off on Saturday, August 18, thanks to quarterback Paxton Lynch and the explosion of frustration from Twitter Nation that greeted his miserable and embarrassing performance.
Over 16,000 Tickets at Four Red-Light Intersections in 2018, Denver Plans More
More than 16,000 citations have been issued at the four Denver intersections presently outfitted with red-light cameras. And the Denver Police Department confirms that plans are in the works to add such devices to two more.
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Congress Must Act Now to Preserve the Land and Water Conservation Fund
Enacted into law in 1964, LWCF provides funding for the acquisition and management of federal, state and local public lands nationwide so that all Americans can enjoy access to the outdoors.
Reader: Can’t We Admit That Med Was Just a Gateway to Rec Marijuana?
Readers debate whether MMJ is still needed today.
A Day Spent at a Denver Swingers’ Party
Westword spent a day with the main swingers’ club in Denver. Here’s how it went down.
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Brianna Titone Could Become Colorado’s First Transgender State Representative
Brianna Titone hopes to make history this fall, but she’s got her work cut out for her, running against a GOP incumbent in a fairly conservative district.
How Alex Lupa Wound Up in Jail Over a Court Error From Nine Years Ago
For most people, a traffic citation is an unfortunate but minor occurrence. But for Alex Lupa, a small infraction led to big problems, including a night spent in jail at the very moment his right to legally stay in this country was hanging in the balance.
Colorado’s Most Popular Fourteeners Today
The third annual 14ers.com analysis of the most popular Colorado fourteeners shows that their use by hikers continues to go up in most major ranges in the state and particularly along the Front Range, where the numbers are nearly as elevated as the peaks themselves.
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Anti-Pot Groups Twisted Facts to Exaggerate Stoned Driving Problem
For years, anti-marijuana groups have spun data in an attempt to prove that the sky is falling as a result of progressive cannabis laws in Colorado. The latest example involves a vast exaggeration about the level of stoned driving in the state, complete with an assist from the Denver Post.
Colorado’s New Marijuana Czar on Social Consumption, Other Challenges
Colorado’s foray into legal marijuana is still pretty young, but the state is already on its third director of marijuana policy since 2014.
Denver Bronco Adam Gotsis Dodges Prosecution on Rape Charge
In March, Denver Broncos defensive lineman Adam Gotsis was busted on a rape charge out of Georgia, casting a shadow over his professional football career and making the Broncos the NFL team with the most arrests since 2000. Now, however, Gotsis is in the clear after prosecutors announced that they were dropping the matter.
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Why Denver Post Joined United Editorial Effort Against Trump’s Press Attacks
Today, August 16, the Denver Post published an editorial taking President Donald Trump to task for consistently branding any media coverage he doesn’t like “fake news” as part of an effort joined by more than 200 newspapers across the country. Its defiant headline reads, “We Tell the Truth: Denver Post Decries Trump’s Attacks on Journalists.”