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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Masterpiece Cakeshop Gay Discrimination Case

By Michael Roberts

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to 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. Attorneys for Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips argue that a Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins violated his rights as an artist not to create works that violate his personal beliefs, and they may find a find that Neil Gorsuch, a Coloradan who ruled in favor of religious freedom in an important case prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, has sympathy for this view.

Thornton’s First and Only Dispensaries Will Have Familiar Faces

By Thomas Mitchell

The city of Thornton has only allowed one dispensary for each of the city’s four geographical quadrants, setting the stage for open recreational dispensaries as early as late summer. Although Thornton city officials say none of the stores are close to finishing construction, the locations and licensees are set, and they’re all familiar brands to consumers used to buying cannabis in Denver or Aurora.

Op-Ed: Drug-Ring Bust Is Proof the Legalization System Is Working

By Todd Mitchem

The recent arrests and legal actions against a former Marijuana Enforcement Division official and several marijuana industry license-holders here in Colorado has been touted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as an example of why this industry is not working. In actuality, a regulated system like the one in Colorado has created a boom for us in the areas of job creation, revenue generation and increased law enforcement support.

Reader: Broadway Is So Busy, Giving That Lane to Bikes Is Crazy

By Patricia Calhoun

A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this “magnificent thoroughfare” and detailed how Denver’s booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there’s no development that captures the public’s imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project,

Legal Pot and Colorado Crash Rates: Two Studies, Two Different Conclusions

By Michael Roberts

Only days after the release of a study saying that collision claim frequencies in Colorado are about 3 percent higher overall than would have been expected without marijuana legalization comes a competing report stating that the crash fatality rates haven’t changed significantly. These seemingly contradictory findings leave one marijuana reformer confused but certain that the sky isn’t falling.

Why Denver TV News Is Playing Down Sports Since Drew Soicher’s Departure

By Michael Roberts

Since longtime 9News sports personality Drew Soicher left the station late last year, many news programs on that outlet and other local network affiliates have been de-emphasizing traditional sports coverage despite Denver being one of the country’s most sports-crazy cities. A veteran anchor who left a net for cable says the reason has everything to do with the rise of online sports media at the same time station budgets are getting tighter and tighter.

USPS Pushes the Envelope With Total Solar Eclipse Forever Stamp

By Gabe Fine

On August 21, a total solar eclipse will traverse a seventy-mile wide trajectory across the mainland United States for the first time in nearly a hundred years. To commemorate this event, and in the process shine a light on snail mail, the U.S. Postal Service released its Total Solar Eclipse forever stamp on the first day of summer.

Colorado REACH Conference Brings STEAM to University of Denver

By Gabe Fine

The Fifth Annual Colorado REACH (Respecting Ethnic and Cultural Heritage) Conference opens today, June 22, at the University of Denver. For the past five years, the conference has offered training and insight on multicultural education and provided participants with tools for teaching in diverse classrooms. Michelle Campbell, chair of the conference,…

Live Like a Supreme: Tour Neil Gorsuch’s Home for Sale in Boulder at $1.675M

By Michael Roberts

Neil Gorsuch, who was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in April, is selling his Boulder County home. The property is described as a “Horse Lovers Paradise,” and if it sells for anything near the asking price of $1.675 million, it should add considerably to the net worth of Gorsuch, who may already be the wealthiest member of the Supreme Court.