On Tuesday, January 30, the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus sent a letter to the Chief Justice of Colorado’s Supreme Court, Nancy Rice, demanding that all state-run probation offices cease voluntary assistance with federal immigration enforcement.
On January 30, Tom Tancredo announced that he was dropping out of the 2018 Colorado governor’s race, and in talking about his reasons for doing so, he speaks in the sort of unfiltered manner that is incredibly rare for any politician, no matter his ideological beliefs. Take these comments about the angry mood among some members of the electorate as epitomized by Internet trolls.
Mere months after getting a tattoo on the left side of his chest that read, “Save Your Heart for Someone Who Leaves You Breathless,” Corey Clemons’s heart stopped. In the immediate aftermath of his fatal shooting in Aurora two years ago, few details were released, and that remained the case even after Lloyd Rickey Henderson was arrested and charged with the crime days later. But now, in the wake of Henderson’s conviction and sentencing, we know that the gunman felled Clemons in front of his mother after using a bullet to intervene in a clash between her son and her live-in boyfriend that both parties would have otherwise survived.
Opium cannabis provides heavy pain and stress relief without instantly making you comatose, giving users a solid hour or so of visual and cerebral effects before pulling them down a hole of blissful fatigue.
At this writing, former Denver disc jockey David Mueller, who singer Taylor Swift said “grabbed my bare ass” at a Pepsi Center concert in 2013, is on the air at his new station, KIX 92.7 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and trying his damnedest to dodge controversy. During the portions of the broadcast we heard, Mueller, referring to himself simply as Jackson (and not Stonewall Jackson, as has been widely reported), studiously avoided any mention of the angry pop star looming over his career while hosting one of the most awkward and boring shows in the history of radio.
The 2018 race for governor of Colorado just got a lot less interesting. Tom Tancredo has reportedly dropped out of the contest, citing an inability to raise enough money for him to be competitive.
Just as Amazon compiles data about consumers’ searches and web activities to push product recommendations, the company is obtaining a shocking amount of economic, demographic and infrastructure data from the cities bidding for HQ2.
Amendment 64, the initiative that legalized retail marijuana, allows cities to decide whether to ban or allow marijuana businesses, and if so, which type of businesses.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to ban Zen magnets, but owner Shihan Qu has powerful forces on his side.
Harold Mortis has been sentenced to forty years in prison for the 2016 murder of Tyrone Adair Jr., a performer better known to local music lovers as BossMan Goodie. But Mortis’s senseless act also played a major part in the death of Cold Crush, the hip-hop club where the slaying took place, even though the nightspot didn’t close for good until nearly a year later.
We recently shared information with you about the ten Denver neighborhoods where rent prices rose the fastest in 2017. Now, we offer the other side of the coin — the ten neighborhoods in Denver proper where rent fell by the largest percentage.
The highs given off by cannabis strains vary considerably; certain sativas might make you make anxious and uncomfortable in crowded places, while some indicas can wipe your mind of all wit and put you on an endless yawning spree.
According to a just released final report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), 27-year-old Durango resident Abel Palmer did almost everything right on January 21, when he and a companion chose to partake in some backcountry skiing between Red Mountain Pass and the Town of Silverton, in an area known to locals as Sam’s Trees. But one small mistake, during which he accidentally entered an area he hadn’t planned to enter, led to him becoming the first person in Colorado to die in an avalanche during 2018.
It turns out that, yes, Denver does have a busing program for its homeless, but it’s not robust or conspiratorial.
Becca Williams provides the cannabis, always CBD-dominant and usually in flower form, but there’s no requirement to smoke.
On June 28, 2017, Eric Ashby went missing in the Arkansas River while reportedly searching for a $2 million treasure hidden by New Mexico author Forrest Fenn. Four weeks or so afterward, human remains were found on the river in Fremont County, and just shy of six months later, they’ve finally been identified as Ashby. He is now officially the third person from Colorado to perish while looking for this prize during a period of about a year and a half.
On Halloween night of 2015, 34-year-old Richard Darling allegedly committed a truly horrific crime. He was accused of murdering an acquaintance, Rey Pesina, then dismembering and “filleting” his body before putting it in a barrel and setting it ablaze. More than two years later, Darling has been found guilty of first degree murder, and in the wake of the verdict, the 18th Judicial District DA’s office released his arrest affidavit, which offers shocking details on the circumstances that led to Pesina’s death.
A new survey maintains that nearly half of all marijuana users in legal cannabis states such as Colorado have gone to work high, and of those who’ve done so, 39 percent of them are stoned on the job at least once a week. But the unscientific poll can hardly been seen as the definitive word on a subject that’s stirred controversy here for years.
Denver’s cannabis party is finally gaining steam as we get further into the new year.
A Colorado Springs police officer says growhouses are the “new meth houses.” But readers disagree.
If we pay people to recycle cans, why not pay them to take public transportation?
The enforcer of the Trump administration’s immigration policies threatened last week to subpoena 23 jurisdictions that are shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation, or so-called sanctuary cities.
