Katie O’Donnell and her eighteen-year-old son, Conner, found relief from the sun under a tree outside Senator Cory Gardner’s office in downtown Denver around noon today, July 6. In many ways, the tree has been the only comfort Gardner has provided O’Donnell and her son in recent weeks. At age…
Breckenridge is a true Colorado treasure for a variety of reasons that haven’t been mentioned in all of coverage of the July 4 wildfire, including great beer, great skiing and an incredible arts district. Here are ten reasons Breck is cool.
As expected, Denver has been named the new home of the Outdoor Retailer shows thanks to a five-year pact confirmed at a press conference this morning. And the advocacy group Conservation Colorado links this economic coup with controversy over public lands policies in Utah, Outdoor Retailer’s previous home, and the plan to shrink Bear Ears National Monument pressed by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Denver Parks and Recreation crews have embarked on a series of landscape improvements outside the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center only days before Mayor Michael Hancock is scheduled to deliver his 2017 State of the City Address at the rec center.
Approximately 3,200 school counselors from across the country and the globe are expected to descend on Denver for the annual conference of the Virginia-based American School Counselor Association, which gets underway on Saturday, July 8. And while ASCA assistant director Eric Sparks expects the event to be a lot of fun, plenty of serious topics will be discussed, and that’s appropriate. Sparks enumerates ten of the biggest challenges facing school counselors in 2017, and his run-down collectively illustrates how these educators are on the front lines of major societal changes whose impacts will be felt on young people for many years to come.
Red Fawn Fallis, a member of Denver’s indigenous community, has been in jail in North Dakota ever since she was arrested at Standing Rock on October 27, 2016; she is the most seriously charged water protector, having been accused of possessing and discharging a firearm as she was being restrained…
Colombian Gold deserves the accolades every other popular landrace enjoys. Its buds grow fat and tall in South American mountain ranges, tough against the intense sun, dry air and cold breezes of high altitude, making it a strong candidate for Colorado growers, both in the basement or outdoors. The high it produces boosts energy and happiness, yet is easy to manage during every stage, a quality many pure sativas tend to lack.
For forty years, the Golden-based NREL has led the country in providing the foundational technology for innovations in solar, wind, biomass and battery efficiency – all to make renewable energy companies more successful, one breakthrough at a time. But as the climate begins to rapidly change, researchers are facing new pressures to push America’s energy economy in a new, sustainable direction.
Although Colorado establishes the age at which you can legally consume alcohol at 21, state statutes include five exceptions that allow underage drinking that would otherwise be illegal. Moreover, none of the exceptions sets a minimum drinking age, although one of them comes close.
A reader asks our Stoner how to smoke hash without any dabbing tools.
Rick Wainwright, whose acquittal in a 2009 criminal case helped cement the concept that Colorado’s six-plant threshold for medical marijuana patients can be expanded, is suing Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and state attorney general Cynthia Coffman over a new law that tries to limit large home grows under the theory that they may be part of the illegal gray and black markets for cannabis. Wainwright sees the legislation as a stealth effort to target and criminalize law-abiding MMJ caregivers like him.
Nevada became the fourth state to open recreational marijuana dispensaries July 1, following the footsteps of Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. As newly liberated cannabis consumers flock to dispensaries for some of Nevada’s first legal herb, media reports are already showing the state is experiencing growing pains Colorado’s cannabis industry can relate to.
Sweet Leaf had a very good 4/20. So good, in fact, that the owners of the Colorado dispensary company told vice president Nichole West to plan a big thank-you party for the cannabis industry. And this summer, it’s hosting invite-only parties at the Metlo.
In fall 2017, the City of Denver plans to turn over management of the Globeville Recreation Center to community members or organizations, and the Birdseed Collective, a nonprofit started by Anthony Garcia Sr., hopes to get the contract.
The medical establishment is skeptical of laser treatments for traumatic brain injuries, but two Centennial researchers claim they’ve found a way for their patients to “say goodbye TBI.”
Representative Jared Polis is among the biggest names to enter the race for Colorado governor in 2018, and in the following in-depth interview, he cites his experience in business, the nonprofit world and Congress, as well as proposals related to education, energy, infrastructure and more, as reasons voters should cast a ballot for him.
Rent in Denver continues to rise at a rapid clip as measured both month-to-month and year-to-year. But rent prices are going up more quickly in at least six metro suburbs than it is in Denver proper.
Russ Zieglowsky, a 52-year-old former city councilman from Washington, Iowa, has added to the disturbingly high death toll at Colorado water attractions this season. Counting his death during a commercial rafting trek along the Taylor River in Gunnison County, at least nine people have lost their lives on a Colorado lake or river since late April.
Thanks to Initiative 300, Denver could soon have cannabis-friendly yoga classes.
On the Fourth of July, it’s time to celebrate our liberties — including the right to possess and consume marijuana in Colorado. Take that, Jeff Sessions!
On the Fourth of July, people don’t just eat hot dogs and watch fireworks: They remember the principles on which this country was founded, and its reputation as a haven for people yearning to live free. And they argue about immigration.
Since Westword ran a cover story on May 23 about the “sovereign” movement — in which adherents generally reject statutory laws in favor of common law and believe that the U.S. government is corrupt — we’ve been receiving calls, letters and e-mails concerning eight individuals who were arrested along the…
