When Joshua Dorkin caught the real estate bug, he found out that being smart wasn’t enough — you have to know the business. But the resources he found were expensive or out of reach, so he decided to “democratize” the real estate business by starting BiggerPockets, an online community that…
How easy is it to find a job in three major Colorado cities? Tougher than it was last year, according to a new study by WalletHub. Denver, Colorado Springs and Aurora are included in the survey, and all three have slid considerably since the previous story. Continue to see the…
Eight-year-old Darrell Anderson should be asleep in his bed, but instead he’s sneaked a block north in his jammies to the corner of 27th and Welton streets, where he’s now hiding out behind liquor boxes, waiting patiently for the wooden door to swing open, waiting for a glimpse into the…
Denver is growing, with new office, retail and housing projects going up all the time. You don’t do more than look around the city to realize that, but according to the Denver Office of Community Planning and Development, 2014 saw 20 percent more development projects within Denver city limits than…
The Colorado constitution mandates that the minimum wage within the state be adjusted annually for inflation. On January 1, Colorado’s minimum wage officially went up to $8.23 — 23 cents more than last year’s $8 an hour minimum. But that $1.84 a day can add up to a major expense…
The battle over fracking in Colorado continued to attract national media attention in 2014, and with good reason. The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas, and the attendant debate over economic benefits versus possible health and environmental risks, has been playing out here with more twists and…
A few weeks ago a 56-year-old hunting guide on the Western Slope was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for violations of the Lacey Act. Christopher Loncarich’s crime consisted of going to absurd lengths to insure that the slaughter of mountain lions and bobcats in Utah and Colorado would…
If you thought you were getting screwed on ATM fees, you were right. Bankrate has crunched the numbers for the cities with the lowest and highest ATM fees, and Denver’s on the latter roster, with plenty of places that would seem to have higher costs of living offering better deals…
Although the Denver District Attorney’s Office only has the power to prosecute local and state laws, its employees are held to a higher standard when it comes to marijuana. Specifically, they aren’t allowed to possess, grow or sell pot, since all of those things are illegal under federal law. But…
As posts like this one prove, we have a soft spot for items that display Colorado pride — and the I Heart Denver Store, located at 500 16th Street, Suite 264, just happens to specialize in them. With the holiday gift-giving season upon us, we picked out twenty favorites from…
Last month, we featured Trulia’s list of the least affordable cities for middle class and millennial home buyers — a roster that included Denver. But Colorado fares even worse in a new analysis by RealtyTrac. Among other things, the site looked at counties in which housing prices of less affordable…
One of the most unusual retail outlets in Denver is the Denver Dog House. Located at 2547 Sheridan Boulevard in Edgewater, the shop is devoted to Duane “Dog” Chapman, his wife Beth and the rest of the Dog the Bounty Hunter family currently keeping their reality-TV tradition alive on CMT…
As William Breathes’s lists featuring the best marijuana gifts of 2012 and 2013 demonstrate, Colorado pot shops have embraced the holidays for a while now. But 2014 promises more deals than ever, with a number specifically pegged to Black Friday. See also: Photos: Top Fifteen Marijuana Gifts of 2013…
Denver’s typically on plenty of positive city lists — but this one’s not among them. Trulia has put together a report entitled “Where Is Homeownership Within Reach of the Middle Class and Millennials?,” and according to data compiled by the site, Denver’s among the least affordable in the country. Where…
It’s been more than a year since we checked in on the most expensive properties for sale in Aspen, and a lot’s changed since then. Of our top five from last year listed on the indispensable GaryFeldman.com website, only one remains on the market, and its price has dropped by…
For years, a large section of South Broadway has been known as Antique Row. Now, however, representatives of some marijuana businesses that are now located along that stretch have floated the idea of re-branding the area as “The Green Mile” — and, to put it mildly, veteran antique-shop entrepreneurs haven’t…
According to the Denver Post, the summer of 2014 will set all-time tourism records — and stats suggest the year as a whole will do so, as well. However, the Post article makes no mention of the possible part the legalization of limited marijuana sales has played when it comes…
Update below: Late last Friday afternoon, a Denver jury returned a $695,000 verdict against the University of Denver in a long, involved dispute with the local chapter of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. On the surface, the five-day trial was mostly about how property is valued in an area of…
As any comic-book fan knows, superheroes that seem dead can later come back to life — and something similar has happened with a superhero-centric lawsuit filed by Colorado-based Stan Lee Media, Incorporated (SLMI). The complaint seemingly died last year, but an appeal revived it, leading to a hearing held in…
You can’t possess pot inside Denver International Airport. You can’t eat it, smoke it, grow it or give it to a friend, and soon, vendors there may not be able to sell pot-themed merchandise, either. “We have started the process to restrict marijuana promotional merchandise at Denver International Airport and…
It’s yet another day bringing contradictions in previous reports about Ebola patient Amber Joy Vinson and her flights on Denver-based Frontier Airlines; see our earlier coverage below. At first, we were told she wasn’t symptomatic on a return flight she took from Cleveland to Texas; then, after the aircraft on…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bullish on the idea of increasing water storage at Chatfield Reservoir, plunging ahead with a reallocation project that its planners believe will help meet future water needs across the metro area without diverting more supplies from the Western Slope. But a lawsuit filed…
