Inspectors with the City of Denver paid GRACe, an artist co-working space in north Denver (the name is short for Globeville Riverfront Art Center), a surprise visit on Thursday, March 16, and asked owners Neil Adams and Zeppelin Development for what one owners says will amount to millions of dollars’…
With 2,500 visitors a day, the Denver Public Library’s Central branch is especially susceptible to trends affecting the general population. “We realize that the people that come to the library — not just our customers, but anyone who walks through the doors — is representative of what’s happening in society…
The project could be completed by 2022. But at 11,003 feet, the construction season for the project is short.
Seven Denver deputies face possible discipline in the November 2015 jail death of Michael Lee Marshall, a mentally ill inmate whose slow, agonizing death was captured on video.
In this industry, removing a question mark can mean a great deal — especially when it’s removed from a government website. Earlier this week, the National Institute on Drug Abuse switched the title of its website page from “Is Marijuana Medicine?” to “Marijuana as Medicine.” And that wasn’t the only change. Nearly every section of the site, which was last revised July 2015, has minor changes.These revisions may seem inconsequential, but for the cannabis industry and patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes, they appear significant.
For at least the past couple of years, home buyers in the Denver area have often had to offer more than list price if they really wanted a property. And this scenario isn’t fading from the scene. A recent survey of U.S. cities with the most homes sold over list includes two from Colorado, Denver and Aurora, among the top fifteen.
A lawsuit filed against companies that own five of Denver’s most prominent strip clubs, as well as similar venues in seven states beyond Colorado, claims that exotic dancers are being ripped off by an illegal system that charges them to perform and forces them to help cover other employees’ earnings out of tips they receive, whether they made enough to do so or not.
The Colorado Legislature is halfway through its session, so action inside the State Capitol will heat up this week. But the action will heat up outside, too, with rallies and protests. Keep reading for thirteen ways to get active at political and educational events this week.
On Monday, March 12, Jerry Burton visited the Denver Police headquarters, where he was able to retrieve a tent, a sleeping bag and some blankets from one of two locations where he had items taken by police officers as “evidence” that he’d violated Denver’s urban camping ban.
Colorado’s schools might be some of the most underfunded in the country — but last week, Denver Public Schools was one of eight districts in the nation to be recognized by the National Council on Teaching Quality as a Great District for Great Teachers.
Marijuana companies are accustomed to dealing with strict governmental regulations. They follow them diligently, because one misstep could cost an operating license, and potentially the entire business. What happened with Grow Depot and the Environmental Protection Agency is a cautionary tale, then. Because after an inspection went awry, the family-owned…
Julian Archuleta resigned as a Denver police officer after pleading guilty to stealing money from the scene of a car crash, a crime documented by his own body camera. But his punishment is a relative wrist-slap.
For decades, cannabis has been portrayed as an illicit substance associated with burnouts and addicts, one that clouds mental performance and drains ambition. However, long-standing opinions are beginning to change as more research continues to demonstrate the medical benefits of THC and CBD oil with regard to such debilitating conditions…
Figuring out the Denver streets where drivers are most likely to get speeding tickets right now turned out to be more complicated than expected.
The Colorado Springs Police Department has released data revealing the number of local homicides linked by a so-called “marijuana nexus” during the past three years, with the 2016 numbers showing that weed was a factor in more than a third of the killings. However, a spokesperson for the CSPD insists that the release of these figures doesn’t represent a departmental position on the issue and says the numbers were issued following a barrage of requests from news organizations apparently looking for bombshell evidence that marijuana has played a big role in boosting the Springs murder rate.
Our Stoner comes to the aid of two would-be go-gooders, advising how to ship pot out of state and what kind of marijuana would be good for a young adult with stomach pains.
Senator Michael Bennet is set to take part in his first town hall in more than two years, and rather than scheduling it in a majority Democratic area, he’s venturing into the Republican stronghold of Colorado Springs.
When he first went to prison, Charles Smith was angry, violent, mad at the world. But then he found both God and Stephen R. Covey. Today he’s helping other prisoners and running a business, GreenGold KushWear, which delivers messages about marijuana — on T-shirts.
When RTD’s “Dumb Ways to Die” ad campaign got a little too real — it’s tough to laugh at little Edward-Gorey-meets-balloon-animals when there are people actually dying on the tracks — the signs on many of the trains were switched to a new concept: Don’t Be Jimmy.
Last night, March 13, the Cherry Creek School District voted unanimously to move start times later for middle- and high-school students and earlier for children in elementary schools. The change has broad but not universal support from older students and their folks. However, a group of elementary-school parents were unhappy enough with them to have started a change.org petition that rejected alterations for their kids with extreme prejudice.
A Denver City Council committee met on March 13 to consider a presentation by the Marijuana Industry Group, which made a case for extending the hours of operation for dispensaries in the city. If council approves, dispensaries would be able to stay open until midnight instead of 7 p.m.
Zachary Mueller has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Greeley’s Pedro Adrian Dominguez, whose body was stuffed inside a barrel found floating in a creek at a remote location in Nebraska.
