In the wake of sex abuse coming to light in Hollywood and the media, victims of abuse in the sports world are coming forward. Jamie Naughright granted her first interview decades after Peyton Manning allegedly “placed his ‘naked butt and rectum'” on her face when he was a student at the University of Tennessee.
Part of the City Park stormwater drainage project entails cutting down 260 trees, which protesters were none too happy about at a vigil they held this week for the trees. Readers have their own opinions about the trees and project as a whole.
Coloradans approved Amendment 64 five years ago; since then, more than 200 retail pot shops and MMJ dispensaries have opened in Denver, serving hundreds of strains. Here are ten of our favorites.
Another medical marijuana cultivation has seen its products recalled because of potentially unsafepesticide residues, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
The library’s Archives and Special Collections division started an initiative in 2015 to collect and document media coverage, oral histories, business and political materials, scholarly opinions and other content pertaining to the marijuana and industrial hemp movements in Colorado.
Jenn Superka is used to getting letters from realtors asking if she’d consider listing her home. But a letter she got in October had a different tone, she says. She calls the tone offensive.
Some of this might seem a little remedial to those with experience, but believe it or not, a lot of people actually ask us about this stuff.
On a recent edition of KWGN’s morning program Daybreak, co-host Natalie Tysdal was joined by Jason Granger, founder and CEO of Infinity Marketing Group, for a segment in which he showed off three phone apps that allow users to track the whereabouts of family or friends. But neither viewers nor staffers at the station knew at the time that Granger was arrested, convicted and served time in jail last year for stalking a former family member.
Twenty-five years ago this week, Colorado voters approved Amendment 2, whose backers portrayed it as outlawing “special rights” for gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The measure’s passage on November 3, 1992 provoked outrage nationwide, with Colorado’s branding as the “hate state” resulting in boycott calls from singer Barbra Streisand and other members of the national entertainment community. But while Amendment 2 was deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 1996 ruling, a University of Denver professor sees its legacy in the current Masterpiece Cakeshop controversy and other cases she considers to be problematic on every level.
Yesterday, November 2, as we reported, 47-year-old Scott Ostrem was arrested for allegedly killing three people at a Thornton Walmart the previous evening. In the hours since then, we’ve learned much more about Ostrem’s victims, Victor Vasquez, Pam Marques and Carlos Moreno, and the man who apparently took their lives at random. Far from being a terrorist, Ostrem appears to be another angry, frustrated white man taking out his failings on innocent people.
The Thornton Police Department has announced that Scott Ostrem, the only named suspect in a triple murder at a Walmart store yesterday, November 1, has been taken into custody.
In honor of Amendment 64’s fifth anniversary, here are some our favorite, most viewed and most interesting stories about pot since it was made legal.
Yesterday, November 1, as expected, your Denver Broncos pulled downward-spiraling quarterback Trevor Siemian from the starting lineup in favor of Brock Osweiler, who was F-bombed on social media after leaving the team in 2016 and heavily ridiculed upon his return earlier this year following big-time failures in Houston and Cleveland.
The folks at Delta County High School, on Colorado’s Western Slope, are learning what can happen when you mess with Cidney Fisk. The teen is suing the public school and a slew of other related individuals and entities in United States District Court, alleging that her identity as an atheist and criticism of activities such as allowing a Christian group to hand out Bibles on campus resulted in a wide range of discriminatory acts, including the arbitrary lowering of her marks in a student government class.
Making caramel is much easier than you might think, and adding marijuana to the equation doesn’t change the process much.
The City of Denver has agreed to pay $4.65 million and make major changes in its jail policies to settle claims involving Michael Marshall, who died in a Denver detention center circa 2015 during a mental-health crisis.
Fifty years after the Summer of Love, when underground LSD labs in Denver helped fuel a revolution, psychedelics are making a major comeback through microdosing.
Dispensaries might get all the attention, but hemp farmers are getting the acreage – 23,343 acres to be exact, according to a new study. And the state growing the most? Colorado, by far.
City Park Golf Course course is neither Denver’s prettiest nor its most accommodating. The clubhouse is only accessible from holes one and eighteen, and the driving range doesn’t allow drivers. But like an old, comfortable sweater, it’s become my go-to course.
Monday, November 6, marks exactly five years since Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in the state. To mark the occasion, Brian Vicente, an attorney who co-authored the measure, will join other key figures in the campaign at a reception, dinner and fireside chat about the march to victory and the way the industry has developed during the half-decade since then. In advance of the celebration, whose details are featured below, Vicente offers reflections on the past and a look ahead to the future of legal marijuana in Colorado and beyond.
According to a recently filed lawsuit, Michael Bailey spent 52 days in jail because the Colorado sheriff’s office where he was wanted for a minor offense didn’t bother to pick him from the facility that held him. And a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is backing the complaint, says his story is far from unique.
Our recent post about the most expensive neighborhoods for rent in Denver this fall included ten areas in which the average cost for a one-bedroom apartment ranged from just under $1,500 to $2,000 per month. In contrast, the ten least expensive Denver neighborhoods in terms of rent prices right now all boast an average rent price of less than $1,000.
