We know plenty of you haven’t called the Mile High City home for long. That’s why in October of last year we started our Tips for Transplants series, in which we broke down our best advice for newbies by month (because November in Denver is very different from November in…
Late on September 6, the U.S. House of Representatives’ rules committee blocked floor consideration of an amendment that would have prevented the Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions from interfering with state-legal medical marijuana. Many in the House opposed the move, as do many readers.
Comparing Harvey’s rainfall numbers to Denver’s might help explain the staggering scope of devastation. And it might help illustrate how astonishing the rain amounts were.
Denver Inter Neighborhood Cooperation will host an explainer of the lawsuits pertaining to the Platte to Park Hill Storm Water Diversion and the I-70 expansion.
At the end of April, Jeff Hunt, director of the Centennial Institute, launched a campaign to end Denver’s 4/20 rally. In response, rally attorney and activist Rob Corry challenged Hunt to a debate. The two will finally meet up to discuss marijuana on October 6.
Colorado’s 238 charter schools were also required to disclose to the State Board of Education which curriculum standards they choose not to adopt.
In September 2016, we told you about attempts to convince a national grocery chain to build in Montbello, a diverse Denver neighborhood that qualifies as a food desert because it doesn’t have a single full-service supermarket. A year later, every major retailer approached by the community has declined to launch such an effort, even though Montbello was named America’s fastest growing “suburb” in a survey released earlier this year.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would consider whether Denver’s Masterpiece Cakeshop discriminated against a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, by refusing to make them a wedding cake just over a year after the case was rejected by the Colorado Supreme Court. Now, the administration of President Donald Trump, as represented by the Department of Justice, has weighed in, filing an amicus brief that sides with baker Jack Phillips, who says the denial was based on his religious beliefs.
Incredibles, known for its cannabis-infused candy bars and concentrates, has announced plans to expand into multiple states across the country with medical and recreational marijuana programs.
According to the latest Denver Metro Real Estate Trend Market Report, accessible below, the average price of a home in the area came in at $434,478 for the month of August 2017. That represents a 2.75 percent decline from the previous month but was more than 8 percent higher than the same time last year. And speaking of higher, the prices for the most expensive home and condo sold in metro Denver last month were absolutely eye-popping.
Last night, September 6, the U.S. House of Representatives’ rules committee blocked floor consideration of an amendment that would have prevented the Department of Justice, headed by pot-hating Attorney General Jeff Sessions, from interfering with state-legal medical marijuana. When something similar happened this past June, the Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell, a major national voice for progressive cannabis policies, branded the development a “gigantic nothingburger” despite claims to the contrary by Smart Approaches to Marijuana, an anti-legalization group headed by recent Westword profile subject Kevin Sabet. But to Angell, the latest development is reason for much more concern.
“The change in federal policy will not impact the Denver Police Department as it has no intention of requesting surplus military equipment,” says Doug Schepman, a DPD spokesman.
Yesterday, September 6, Joseph Seeds Jr. was rescued by helicopter from Capitol Peak, a fourteener in the Elk Mountains range, where five climbers died over a 43 day period between July 15 and August 26. He avoided becoming the sixth casualty on what has been described as Colorado’s most dangerous fourteener thanks to terrific work by extremely busy rescue crews located in the area in and around Aspen and his tremendous experience when it comes to scaling the biggest peaks in the state.
On Wednesday, September 6, Fair Districts Colorado filed three ballot initiatives with the Secretary of State’s office that will attack what they believe is widespread gerrymandering of election districts.
Shortly after a former first-year student sued the University of Denver over what his complaint describes as “false allegations of non-consensual sexual contact” with a fellow DU freshman that led to his expulsion, the law firm representing him has filed a similar suit against the Colorado School of Mines. The Mines student in question says he was never given a chance to properly defend himself against inaccurate claims that he’d taken advantage of a drunk female student during a threesome and captured and distributed a video of the encounter.
Shawn Geerdes has been ordered to spend 144 years in prison for murder and arson in the death of Jason Dosa, his partner in a cannabis business. The length of the sentence speaks to the brutality of the crime, Geerdes’s hefty previous criminal history and the determination of the 18th Judicial District DA’s office, headed by 2018 gubernatorial candidate George Brauchler, who maintained in a recent Westword op-ed that at least eleven marijuana-related homicides have taken place in his jurisdiction since limited legalization of recreational pot in January 2014.
A reader hasn’t experienced any pain relief from cannabis-infused tinctures and transdermal patches and wants to know why.
With so many dispensaries already in the Mile High area, it can be tough to know who’s new.
A Jefferson County Public Schools investigation has concluded that a principal and a psychologist at Governor’s Ranch Elementary School violated district policies in their response to one student’s alleged threat to shoot another.
Months-long negotiations between Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers’ Association (DCTA) concluded on September 1, ending the possibility that teachers would be left without workers’ rights just weeks into the 2017-2018 school year.
President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, prompted the walkout of more than a thousand Denver students on September 5. Among the demonstrators making their feelings heard was Marco Dorado, whose story we shared in a March post headlined “Meet Marco Dorado, Exhibit A in What’s Wrong With Trump’s Immigration Policies.” But yesterday, someone else told Dorado’s tale: Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, who used him as an example of why eliminating DACA is cruel and counterproductive during a speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
As our Alan Prendergast reported, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch has ruled that Colorado’s sex-offender registry violates the due-process rights of three plaintiffs, thereby amounting to cruel and unusual punishment. Boulder attorney Alison Ruttenberg, who filed the case in 2013, sees the opinion as the potential death knell for a law-enforcement tool that, in her view, perpetuates factually dubious notions that fall apart when examined in an evenhanded way.
