This week’s cover story, “Idea Man,” deals with University of Colorado Denver undergrad Caleb Carr’s quest to help other student inventors control the rights to scientific discoveries and other intellectual property they may develop while still in school. Carr believes that university policies that assign most (and sometimes all) of…
Marijuana legalization has been in full motion for a while now, and dispensaries are finally starting to gather and comprehend retail data like other big-money industries. Cannabis industry data collection firm BDS Analytics recently released its first study on Colorado and Washington marijuana dispensaries, surveying the purchase rates of marijuana…
The Federal Highway Administration’s national bridge inventory data is out for 2015, and the news isn’t good for Colorado — and neither has it improved much since 2014, when we last updated you on the looming infrastructure crisis in Denver. According to stats shared by the American Road & Transportation…
Love and real estate don’t necessarily go together. But when they do, what are the best places in America to find them? According to a new study by Realtor.com, the following cities — including Denver. The top ten made the grade based on several factors, including 20-50 percent more single-owned…
At first the problem seemed like a mechanical issue. A piece of machinery failed to operate properly. A rescue mission had to be aborted. Someone died. Caleb Carr was there when it happened, a wide-eyed, fifteen-year-old member of the Explorers, a volunteer group in Oregon that assisted the Multnomah County…
Earlier this month, we told you about the latest acquisition by Nuggets and Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke — the W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch in Texas. The largest ranch within one fence in the country, the Waggonner measures at 800 square miles — a size that, as we noted, is larger…
In the days after your Denver Broncos won Super Bowl 50, the Sports Authority Sports Castle, at 10th and Broadway, was absolutely mobbed with fans being keepsakes and collectibles. We know — because the Sports Castle is across the street from Westword’s offices. But just over a week later comes…
After leading the Denver Broncos to victory in Super Bowl 50, Peyton Manning should have been able to rest on his laurels in advance of a retirement announcement that would bring to an end one of the greatest careers in NFL history. Instead, a scandal over a 1996 incident with…
Facebook has been shutting down the pages of marijuana businesses around the country recently, and Colorado’s cannabis outfits are no exception. Earlier this month High Times reported that three of New Jersey’s five state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries found their Facebook pages deleted, and the shutdowns quickly spread to other legal marijuana states,…
Sometimes it seems that fares at Denver International Airport will climb as high as the planes that regularly depart from the facility. But now is not one of those times. New figures from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department) reveals the best average fares at…
Tonight, the Emily Griffith Foundation will host what it’s calling the Party of the Century in honor of legendary educator Emily Griffith, who founded Denver’s Opportunity School in 1916. That school is still going strong, offering an array of high-school and continuing-education courses that dwarf the three classes Griffith offered…
Rich Wyatt’s reversal of fortune has taken place in slow motion. Five years ago, he was a reality TV star thanks to American Guns, a popular Discovery Channel program that showcased him, his telegenic family and his business, Gunsmoke Guns in Wheat Ridge. But American Guns was canceled in December 2012,…
Want to make some extra cash and get better cell service? Maybe one of your favorite cell providers can install a tower in your back yard — just what the Kirk of Bonnie Brae church, at 1201 South Steele Street, is considering, much to the dismay of many Cory-Merrill neighborhood residents. Marti…
Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and lots of other stuff, clearly has a thing for ranches. Until recently, he reportedly owned eleven of them in Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and British Columbia. Now, make it a dozen — and number twelve is a whopper. The W.T. Waggoner…
The only remaining plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a high-rise development across the street from Sloan’s Lake have withdrawn from the case — a move that a frustrated neighborhood group claims is the result of “improper influence” on the part of the developer, which allegedly offered to buy the plaintiffs’…
Proposed regulations for Denver’s sharing economy will force some short-term-rental hosts out of business — or they’ll face strict fines if they continue to operate outside the law. While the proposed ordinance would legalize STRs, a primary-residence provision would require that owners live on site — a suggestion that is…
ApartmentList.com has just released its latest analysis of rents in Colorado. This time, the focus is on prices during January 2016. And while the prices in many areas have leveled off to some degree, the rate of growth over a twelve-month period beginning in January 2015 remains almost double the…
The annual 4/20 rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park seems to get bigger every year. And now, the longtime promoters of the event, including Miguel Lopez and attorney Rob Corry, are looking for help putting it on. The group has issued an open invitation for proposals in regard to the 2016…
Most people who move to Colorado are interested in an active lifestyle. And that includes those who come to our fair state to retire. No wonder Colorado did so well in a WalletHub study that names the best and worst states in which to retire. A key factor used to…
It’s a change that neatly symbolizes how times have changed in Colorado. Two Pueblo companies are in the process of opening what’s described as the “first hemp/CBD dispensary” in the community. And the site’s operation was once home to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. The companies in question are CBDRx,…
Denver rent isn’t cheap — but at least the prices are beginning to level off. That’s the overall message delivered in the Apartment Association of Metro Denver’s report about apartment and rental rates in the Mile High City during the fourth quarter of 2015. According to a massive survey shared…
Jeff Popp and Casey Lorenzen will unpack their Denver-based CO.ALITION line of backpacks on tonight’s episode of ABC’s popular Shark Tank, and Mile High Spirits is hosting a free “Get Shark Tanked” viewing party for the business partners — and the public — from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. CO.ALITION…
