“A rather bizarre incident from over the weekend,” Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith wrote in a Facebook post about the arrest of Broomfield’s Meagan Osgood. And that’s as succinct a description as any about what went down. Osgood is accused of getting into a drunken fight, stealing an Uber driver’s car and being so obstinate to law enforcers that they eventually had to pepperball her.
Senator Cory Gardner is among Republican lawmakers who thus far in 2017 haven’t scheduled any town hall meetings of the sort called for by his critics, who portray him as a virtual rubber stamp for President Trump even though he announced that he wouldn’t vote for The Donald last October. But Indivisible Front Range Resistance is among the groups that is staging a Gardner town hall in Denver tonight anyway (get details below), and Katie Farnan, one of the main organizers, says the event will go on whether the senator shows up or not.
Actor David Cassidy, who’s best known for portraying heartthrob Keith Partridge on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, has revealed that he is battling dementia. Most fans of Cassidy and the show have responded to this news with sadness about his condition and admiration for his bravery in sharing his struggles. But the most unusual reaction to date comes from Shaun Partridge, co-founder of the Partridge Family Temple, a highly unusual religious organization that worships Cassidy as the human incarnation of a god.
Within minutes of press secretary Sean Spicer’s comment on February 23 that we can expect “greater enforcement” of marijuana laws by the Trump administration, outcries resounded throughout the marijuana industry.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer just gave one of the most direct comments we’ve gotten from the Trump administration regarding marijuana policy. In response to a reporter’s question at a February 23 press briefing, Spicer said he believes we will see “greater enforcement” of federal marijuana laws. His comment…
In September 2016, when the City of Denver announced a temporary directive that would allow for ninety day expulsions of drug users — proven or suspected — from Denver’s parks, the ACLU of Colorado immediately called the directive “unconstitutional.”
Over a hundred people gathered at the Broomfield Community Center on February 22 for the third in a series of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service meetings on plans for what’s now the 5,000-acre Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
A medical patient n probation for a DWAI (beer) wants to know if he can use marijuana. Our stoner has the answer.
Donald Trump certainly didn’t invent racism. But since Trump’s election this past November, verbally racist attacks hurled at Denver kids of color are on the rise, sources tell Westword. Even before this week’s release of executive orders calling for tougher immigration enforcement, local children of Latino or African descent riding on buses, gathering in public spaces or even playing against white opponents in school-sanctioned sporting events were hearing hateful comments about deportation and more whether they’re U.S. citizens or not. Such remarks, from young and old alike, may have been whispered in the past, but now, they’re increasingly being announced loud and proud, as if the speakers feel empowered by the assumption that the nation’s president feels the same way they do.
Breitbart News, the online spawning ground of Steve Bannon, a powerful adviser for President Donald Trump, is an alt-right outlet pilloried by critics for what they see as racism, sexism and the sort of vile invective spewed by Milo Yiannopoulos, who resigned from his gig as editor of Breitbart Tech yesterday after video surfaced of him defending sexual relationships between adult men and thirteen-year-old boys. It’s also the target of a Twitter campaign intended to convince advertisers not to support the site. But while the University of Colorado Denver and Winter Park ski area are among several Colorado enterprises to have removed Breitbart from their media plans, representatives of both say they’re not trying to make a political statement.
Since 2015, an organization now called Free the Nipple Fort Collins has fought to remove the words “the breast or breasts of a female” from the community’s public-indecency ordinance. Now, a federal judge has issued an injunction against the city over the rule on Constitutional grounds, essentially killing it.
When people first consider cannabis as a pain remedy, they often don’t know where to start — and they have lots of questions. Fortunately, Lynn Honderd, the CEO of Mary’s Medicinals who co-founded the company in 2013, has lots of answers. We recently sat down with Honderd to talk about Mary’s Medicinals and why cannabis is helpful for so many medical patients.
Recent protests over Donald Trump’s policies point up a problem: There is no easy or guaranteed way to obtain a permit for demonstrating in Denver within 24 hours of major news breaking.
Today, immigrants rights activists from the American Friends Service Committee, Mojados Unidos, DU’s Sturm College of Law and others will gather at the State Capitol to decry a bill that they consider one of the most anti-immigrant in decades.
Every startup has its challenges, but a cannabis startup comes with additional challenges. Entrepreneurs who want to get in the business face a unique set of hurdles, including ever-changing regulations, legal issues and struggles to set up the right team. Here are ten things every budding ganjapreneur needs to know.
Former Berthoud police officer Jeremy Yachik has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for two counts of child-sex abuse. He will serve sixteen years for each offense. His victims in these crimes have not been publicly identified, but Yachik made a statement in court that he is “very open to treatment, and very remorseful of past decisions that have affected my family…. I’m definitely not a threat to anyone.”
I was introduced to Pineapple Express as a movie, not a strain (that’s how young I am). Not one to buy into commercial hype, I stayed away from the strain in my early years of toking, always thinking it was a ploy to sell some less-than-stellar herb. But nearly nine years after the stoner-action flick came out, I thought it was safe to give it a try.
The featured Colorado property overlooks Rocky Mountain National Park, making its environs spectacular even by the extremely high standards of our fair state. But the other homes on the roster are amazing in their own right.
After Bec Koop, a Denver-based florist, saw a need for green at some Colorado weddings, she wound up hosting Colorado Cannabis Wedding Expo events. Being able to bring together cannabis-friendly businesses to help couples plan their weddings was a dream come true, she says, standing in the mock-bridal suite of a showcase in Littleton on February 19. Still, she adds, there were some barriers to the business.
Beneath the gorgeous and glamorous public image of Gabriella and Emmanuel Sanders roiled a marriage in deep trouble. This past October, Gabriella filed for divorce, and now, in court documents obtained by TMZ, she accuses Emmanuel of cheating on her multiple times, spending big on his conquests and lying to the Broncos about attending the birth of his child so that he could party instead of practice.
A court document expected to be filed today seeks to add several Denver residents to a lawsuit against the city, challenging its plans to convert City Park Golf Course into a “detention area” for stormwater runoff — including Denver City Council maverick Rafael Espinoza, who’s raised several questions about the city’s $300 million drainage project.
After close to ninety years, the art deco building that held Smiley’s Laundromat is being hung out to dry.
