Local health officials say the rate of gonorrhea in Denver specifically and Colorado in general are rising at alarming rates and describe the need for testing, treatment and prevention efforts in regard to the sexually transmitted disease to be urgent.
Residents and neighbors met this week at two facilitated discussions to talk over the possibilities of changing the name of Stapleton, the residential development that replaced the airport of the same name honoring five-term former Denver mayor Benjamin Stapleton…who just happens to have been a member of the Ku Klux…
Although the International Church of Cannabis doesn’t practice Christianity, it’s still more than happy to help ring in Christmas. The Elevationist church will host a pop-up holiday market Friday, December 14.
On December 16, 2016, the End of Life Options Act, passed by Colorado voters during the previous month’s election, took effect. Two days shy of a year later, Compassion & Choices, the group that led the campaign for the measure, originally known as Proposition 106, estimates that 45-55 terminally ill adults requested prescriptions for medical aid in dying.
In recent years, glamping, a term for so-called “glamour camping,” has become a thing in places such as Colorado, with the website GlampingHub.com currently linking to more than 1,000 Airbnb-type listings for luxurious cabins and the like in the state. This week, however, a proposal for a full-scale glamping facility, complete with modified tents outfitted like motel rooms, is expected to win approval in the Silverton area, with a debut possible as soon as next year.
While touting data in a federal report showing that marijuana use among Colorado teens is falling, attorney Brian Vicente, who co-authored Amendment 64, the measure that legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in the state, predicted that weed haters would try to twist the numbers to their advantage, and he was right. Days later, Colorado’s most prominent anti-pot organization is acknowledging the stats regarding teen use but raising alarm about the level of consumption among young adults.
It’s best to play along and appease both crowds – unless pissing off the old man is something you look forward to on the holidays.
Even in our fourth year of retail sales, Colorado’s cannabis industry and its citizens saw changes aplenty to rights and regulations.
The health agency of the United Nations has officially recommended that cannabidiol (CBD) not be internationally scheduled as a controlled substance.
The Colorado Department of Revenue will now display legal cannabis sales revenue data on its website dating back to 2014, when retail cannabis sales began. Previously, the DOR only included monthly tax and license revenue reports.
Samantha Francis and her husband Joshua founded Lambenations, a “sheep-protection group,” earlier this year that has so far called for three sheep-related racing events in the U.K. to end. Now they have they are set on ending mutton bustin’ at the National Western Stock Show.
“The sadness turns to anger,” says Andrea Feltman when talking about her son, nineteen-year-old Kyler Grabbingbear, who was unarmed when he was shot to death in Thornton by an Adams County deputy early on December 7. In conversation, she breaks down into tears on several occasions, overcome by a sense of loss even as she’s in the midst of planning her boy’s funeral services, scheduled to take place on Saturday, December 16, followed by a vigil at the scene where he died; get details below. But her voice is firm when referring to the actions of the deputy, whose identity has not been publicly released at this writing. “Kyler wasn’t shot,” she stresses. “He was slain. He was murdered.”
For more than twenty years, KBPI has been rocking the Rockies in general and Denver in particular at 106.7 FM. But change is afoot. The station is now being heard at 107.9 FM in Denver, as well as the same dial position in Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, and while it’s currently simulcasting on 106.7 FM, that might not be the case for much longer.
Over the years in this space, we’ve periodically offered mini-tours of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver. And comparing the six priciest listings at present to the ones in our previous roundup, published in October 2016, demonstrates that the prices for luxury properties in the Mile High City remain sky high, even if they’ve moderated a bit.
Hazelnut Cream is more likely to be part of a basic bitch’s Starbucks order than a weed purchase, yet thanks to the commercial boom in cannabis breeding, here we are.
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner is being both celebrated and castigated for his role in the apparent defeat of fellow Republican Judge Roy Moore in Alabama’s U.S. Senate election yesterday, December 12. As is clear from a collection of tweets on view below, those who backed Moore’s opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, see Gardner’s decision to criticize and withhold financial support from Moore as a heroic act, while fans of the judge and President Donald Trump, who offered the alleged sexual assaulter his full-throated endorsement, see his moves as downright traitorous to the GOP cause.
Marty Lenz, a Denver native and former Colorado State University footballer who worked at several metro-area stations before becoming a prominent media personality in San Francisco, has been named the new host of KOA’s signature program Colorado Morning News. He’ll succeed Steffan Tubbs, who was fired by KOA following his arrest last July on suspicion of domestic violence by telephone. That charge was subsequently dismissed and Tubbs says the station hinted that he might be able to return before shutting the door on that possibility a few weeks back.
Legal cannabis and homeless are two hot-button issues in Denver, and the two came to a head Monday, December 11, during a Denver City Council meeting. Experts from Colorado homeless centers and research institutions explained to council members that for the most part, the data just isn’t there to prove a connection between legal cannabis and homeless.
The Gaylord Rockies in Aurora isn’t opening until the end of next year, but the resort and convention center already has more than 600,000 room nights booked between February 2019 and 2028.
Big cities aren’t well represented in a new survey of the safest places in Colorado. Of the twenty communities considered the state’s safest, only three are in the Denver-Boulder metro area. Moreover, all of the latter are suburbs or outlying localities, and two fall toward the bottom of the roster.
Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board is calling on the Denver Sheriff Department to allow nursing mothers in custody to provide breast milk to their infants rather than discarding it in an approach known as “pump and dump.”
A new federal study shows that marijuana use among teens in Colorado has fallen below levels seen prior to the implementation of Amendment 64, the measure that legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in the state. Given the report’s origins, attorney and activist Brian Vicente, who co-authored Amendment 64, says haters of progressive marijuana laws such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions will find it more difficult than ever to suggest that these statistics are flawed.
