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Cory Gardner…the Moderate?

By Chris BianchiJanuary 12, 2018

At the exact halfway mark of his six-year term, Gardner is sharpening his voice against Donald Trump as he attempts to appease the independent voters that helped elect him in 2014.

Adam Lee’s Widow Upset by Silence Over His Loveland Ski Area Death

By Michael RobertsJanuary 12, 2018

On December 28, forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee died from crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski. More than two weeks later, Erika Mackey Lee, Adam’s wife, says her grief has been compounded by a lack of information from the resort about the circumstances that led to his death.

Denver TV Stations Won’t Join Donald Trump in the “Shithole”

By Michael RobertsJanuary 12, 2018

Yesterday, President Donald Trump inadvertently presented a dilemma for U.S. media outlets, whose executives had to decide how they should report about him calling certain African nations “shithole countries” during a January 11 meeting with senators over immigration policy. In the end, many national outlets went into the shithole with Trump, while plenty of local TV stations, including numerous ones in Denver, did not.

Illegal Pot Grows in Colorado and One Candidate’s Plan to Wipe Them Out

By Michael RobertsJanuary 12, 2018

As we’ve reported, George Brauchler, 18th Judicial District DA and candidate for Colorado Attorney General, opposed Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in the state, and he doesn’t think its passage has done anything to eliminate violent crime associated with pot. As AG, however, Brauchler says he would defend the state’s cannabis laws against threats from the likes of Attorney General Jeff Sessions while at the same time using a new strategy to attack the proliferation of illegal grows across Colorado, many of them allegedly associated with foreign drug cartels.

Seven New Names for Sports Authority Field at Mile High

By Teague BohlenJanuary 11, 2018

The signs are already coming down on what used to be Sports Authority Field at Mile High; with the demise of the Englewood-based sports retailer giant in 2016, it was only a matter of time until the contracts ran their course and the stadium’s name became available again. The time has come, and the Broncos organization is wasting no time in wiping the slate clean once again.

Superintendents Propose $1.4B Fix to “Modernize” Public School Funding

By Nora OlabiJanuary 11, 2018

Colorado’s current public school funding model was created more than twenty years ago. A group of Colorado superintendents from across the state, from small rural to urban districts, are working to update it in the hopes of pouring more than $1 billion back into the public school system. Working with legislators, they will push a bill this month to “modernize” public school funding.

Denver Post Puts Up Paywall for 1st Time Since Aurora Theater Shooting Trial

By Michael RobertsJanuary 11, 2018

This week, the Denver Post put up a paywall around the vast majority of its material for the first time since April 2015, when the paper opened access to all of its digital and mobile content so that more readers could see its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting trial. Now, the only way folks who’ve grown accustomed to reading the Post online for free during the past two-years plus can see all the articles they’d like is by paying to subscribe to either the electronic or print edition of the publication.

Rupert Murdoch May Buy Fox31 Before Group Ripped by John Oliver Can

By Michael RobertsJanuary 11, 2018

The announced purchase of Denver’s Fox31 and CW2 by the controversial Sinclair Broadcast Group, which was memorably ripped by HBO’s John Oliver for allegedly forcing its hard-right ideology on affiliates while attempting to build a conservative media empire capable of becoming a stealth Fox News, may not happen. Fresh reports suggest that in a bid to win FCC approval for its May 2017 purchase of 42 outlets owned by Tribune Media, Sinclair is on the cusp of selling ten of them, including the two Denver outlets, to 21st Century Fox and mogul Rupert Murdoch, who, in a surprising twist, suddenly looks to some observers like the lesser of two evils.

Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: Are Your Odds of Getting Caught Going Up?

By Michael RobertsJanuary 11, 2018

In “Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: How Likely Are You to Get Caught?,” published circa November 2015, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Tom Gorman estimated that 90 percent of illegally shipped cannabis packages weren’t being found by postal inspectors. More than two years later, figures from a pair of recent analyses maintain that hundreds more pot-packed parcels are being intercepted than in previous years even as our Ask a Stoner columnist suggests that successfully mailing weed out of state is still a snap if proper precautions are taken.

32,000-Plus Demand Resignation of Rep Steve Lebsock, Alleged Sexual Harasser

By Michael RobertsJanuary 10, 2018

At 9 a.m. today, January 10, at the Colorado State Capitol, attendees of a rally are expected to call for the resignation of Representative Steve Lebsock, a Thornton Democrat accused of sexually harassing at least eleven women, including fellow rep Faith Winter and lobbyist Holly Tarry. The group will be led by Erin Hottenstein, a Fort Collins resident whose petition calling for Lebsock to step down has been signed by more than 32,000 people at this writing.

New Evidence Stops Trial of Police-Body-Slammed Video Star Michaella Surat

By Michael RobertsJanuary 10, 2018

A mistrial has been declared in the case of Michaella Surat, a Colorado State University student who was charged with obstruction and resisting arrest after an April 2017 incident during which her body-slamming by a police officer was captured in a viral video. The reason? New evidence has been discovered by the defense team, led by attorney David Lane, and after learning about it, Judge Joshua Lehman dismissed jurors so prosecutors could review it in more detail.

Mile High Stadium Naming Clusterf*ck and Revenge of the Nerds

By Michael RobertsJanuary 10, 2018

This week, crews are removing Sports Authority signage from what has been known in recent years as Sports Authority Field at Mile High, presumably because the Denver Broncos are sick of playing in a stadium emblazoned with the name of a company that declared bankruptcy in March 2016 and liquidated all its assets a few months later. Since acquiring stadium naming rights in August of that year, Broncos executives have tried and failed to line up a new sponsor, and a branding expert says the type of tech companies most able to afford the $10 million per year the team wants are hesitant to get involved in a business relationship that could well conjure painful personal memories.

Convicted Wife Killer Harold Henthorn’s Freedom Bid Ends, Suspicions Don’t

By Michael RobertsJanuary 10, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by Harold Henthorn, who authorities say killed his second wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, by pushing her off Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park in 2012. In so doing, the jurists let stand a July 2017 affirmation of previous rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, which rejected Henthorn’s arguments regarding what his writ to the court calls “the doctrine of chances.” Specifically, the document, on view below, maintains that the original court biased the jury against him by allowing testimony about the suspicious death of Henthorn’s first wife, Lynn, and a serious accident suffered by Toni the year before her death.

Why Colorado Tokers Love Death by Lemons

By Herbert FuegoJanuary 10, 2018

Conjuring the voice of Katt Williams screaming “This shit right here?!” as he rants about the ridiculous names of pot strains, Death by Lemons might sound like an absurd attempt by the breeder to get some attention, and some tokers think it is.