A year ago, Dan Baer didn’t think he’d ever run for office. But now, he is in a predicament: what to do next after his campaign, which started with a fundraising bang, came to an abrupt end.
Medical and recreational cannabis flower and concentrates from Little Brown House and its sister dispensary, Reefer Madness, are being voluntarily recalled after Denver Department of Environmental Health investigations determined that the products carried potentially unsafe levels of banned pesticides. DEH investigators found evidence of residual levels of myclobutanil, a chemical…
In August, our Alan Prendergast wrote, “It’s not easy to prove that Mayor Michael Hancock and his minions are violating the Denver City Charter in their pursuit of a $300 million stormwater diversion project” that would involve closing City Park Golf Course for two year and bulldozing hundreds of trees. And he was right. Denver District Court Judge David Goldberg has ruled against the plaintiffs in a 2016 lawsuit that tied the project to Interstate 70 expansion, which opponents deride via the phrase “Ditch the ditch.”
History Colorado’s 29th Annual Cemetery Crawl will take place tomorrow, Saturday, October 28, at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, and while it’s officially sold out, there may still be a chance to attend. Get details below. But former Denver auditor Dennis Gallagher, who’ll accompany historian and host Tom Noel, also known as Dr. Colorado, during the event, notes that threats against two historic cemeteries in the city may be scarier than any pre-Halloween meander through the tombstones.
The Boulder County coroner’s office has announced that former CU Boulder student Eric Bolling Jr., son of ex-Fox News personality Eric Bolling, died in Boulder last month from an accidental overdose involving a mix of cocaine and fentanyl, a powerful painkilling opioid that’s wreaked havoc in Colorado during recent years. This conclusion confirms statements made earlier this week by the elder Bolling. His comments arose amid castigations of disgraced star and Denver TV alum Bill O’Reilly for suggesting that the death may have been caused by Bolling’s departure from Fox News following reports of sexual impropriety.
Growing and processing industrial hemp has become a big business as barriers break down in states with legalized cannabis. Now one Boulder laboratory is starting a study with a university agriculture program to learn more about desirable hemp genetics, much as that program has studied grapes for the wine industry…
On Thursday, October 25, the plaintiffs — Michaell Baca, Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich — and Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced they had reached a deal that would allow the lawsuit against Williams’s office to move forward with a few conditions.
A $5.5 million study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will monitor 2,500 sets of twins aged 23 to 29 in Colorado and Minnesota over a five-year span to see how marijuana has affected them.
Last year, as we’ve reported, the mother of Paul Castaway, a suicidal man who was holding a knife to his own throat when he was killed by Denver police officer Michael Traudt in July 2015, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the case, with attorney Matthew Buck arguing that Castaway was “effectively murdered” during an incident captured on video, as seen below. Now, a U.S. District Court judge has denied a motion to dismiss the excessive-force aspect of the case against Traudt, keeping the case alive and on track for what could be a blockbuster trial.
This week, Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks shared on his Facebook page a racist email he received as a way of underscoring and decrying the hateful speech, messaging and behavior he feels has been unleashed by President Donald Trump and the forces behind his rise to power. According to Brooks, Caucasians and people of color have reacted to the post very differently.
On yesterday’s edition of Channel 2’s Daybreak, co-host Natalie Tysdal vomited on live television. And while some stations try to downplay their on-air gaffes, the folks at Channel 2 did just the opposite, sharing the footage on social media with pride. See it below and access links to many of Denver TV’s all-time best bloopers, including an inadvertent penis shot, a reporter who made a horrified child cry and a weatherman who told a female colleague, “Congratulations on your big hooters.”
A reader wants to know about the difference between hemp oil and CBD oil. Our Stoner has the answer.
The owner of a Denver dispensary chain wants to be the new organizer of a 4/20 festival at Civic Center Park so bad that he’s camping outside city buildings. Pepe Breton, co-founder of Euflora, wasn’t very happy with how the last 420 Rally shaped out, so he’ll be sitting outside of…
When the Boulder Valley Velodrome – a 250 meter outdoor cycling track with steep, banked turns – opened in Erie in 2015, it was the culmination of more than a decade of effort by its joint owners, Doug Emerson and Frank Banta. Now it’s for sale.
More Americans than ever support cannabis legalization, according to a new Gallup poll.
The effects of legalized cannabis on Colorado are still heavily disputed, but Dr. Larry Wolk, the state’s top health official, says that we’ve been pretty responsible with this legal pot thing.
Denver police officer Ryan Burke was arrested last month after allegedly harassing his former girlfriend so persistently at an area hotel that representatives from the business called his fellow cops on him. But this is hardly the first time he’s been in trouble with either his employer or local officials. He’s been suspended twice during the past four years by the Denver Police Department, and the Denver City Council paid thousands to settle an excessive-force lawsuit that named him. The latter was used to help establish a pattern and practice of law-enforcement brutality by attorneys for the family of Marvin Booker, whose death in Denver jail resulted in a $6 million settlement — and the Booker case was recently sent to a grand jury because of new information about a potential coverup.
Once again, there’s good news and bad news in Zumper’s latest report about rent prices in Denver, this one focusing on the fall of 2017. The good news is that the average cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment in the ten most expensive Denver neighborhoods right now is typically down from the levels we documented in our spring and summer roundups. The bad news is median rent for a one-bedroom in the most sought-after location is up by more than $100, bringing the cost to a jaw-slackening $2,000 per month.
Last week, as we’ve reported, a charge of domestic violence via telephone was dismissed against Steffan Tubbs, the longtime host of KOA’s Colorado Morning News, who subsequently wrote on social media that he was “always innocent” and identified himself as a domestic-violence victim. Now, Tubbs’s attorney and his accuser are speaking out and sharing startling and sometimes contradictory details about the incident and the relationship from which it sprang even as the Denver City Attorney’s Office confirms that the case is currently under appeal.
LSD is an indica-dominant hybrid hailing from Barney’s Farm, a world-famous strain breeder based in Amsterdam. Barney’s took Skunk #1 and Mazar I Sharif, a rare indica hybrid from Afghanistan, and created an intense, mind-bending experience similar to that of Girl Scout Cookies or other potent hybrids — but with a much more calming and relaxing effect.
Poor Mike Pence. The vice president of the United States is headlining a Colorado Republican fundraiser on October 26, and apparently the state Republican Party is having such a hard time selling tickets that they’re offering a “Groupon-like deal” to see him: $150 for one ticket or $275, the original price for a single ticket, for two.
If Colorado has an electoral twin, it’d be Virginia. Here’s why we should pay attention to the outcome of the November 7 gubernatorial race in our northern sister state.
