Denver Relief Consulting’s announcement of a new partnership with Laura Harris, former head of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, instantly stirred controversy, with some members of the local cannabis community crying foul and at least one good-government activist citing potential ethical concerns. But DRC co-founders Ean Seeb and Kayvan Khalatbari…
The Boulder home where six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 has been a tough sell. In 2011, as we reported at the time, the property was put on the market for a sale price of $2.3 million — but no one bought it. Three years later, the same owners…
It was a Happy Halloween at Lightshade Labs, judging by this photo from the store’s Facebook page. But it’s probably an even happier March, since two Lightshade branches are among the latest shops licensed by the City of Denver to sell recreational marijuana. In the two-plus weeks since our last…
The battle over the sale of a former school property in Alamosa — which deeply divided the town last summer, pitting advocates for a “healthy living park” against backers of a private, high-end RV resort — appears to have reached an unexpected resolution. A settlement in a lawsuit over the…
Last year, CardHub.com declared Denver to be the best city in which to start a small business. Now, NerdWallet.com has taken a different angle, assembling a roster of the communities friendliest to female entrepreneurs — and once again, Denver made the cut. Continue to count down the complete top ten,…
This week’s cover story, “High-Rise Anxiety,” looks into the uproar over redevelopment of the old St. Anthony Hospital site — which is being welcomed by some residents as a long-awaited economic revival of the West Colfax business district, while others are concerned about the impact of the project on the…
Earlier this week, we posted about criticism of the public-private Boulder Turnpike project from the Drive SunShine Institute, which hoped a lawsuit would stop final contracts from being signed. That seems unlikely, however. Last night, a Colorado Department of Transportation board unanimously voted to move forward with the pact, and…
If Denver has seemed a little more crowded over the past year or so, there’s a reason. Forbes has just released its list of America’s fastest growing cities, and Denver made the top ten. It’s your call whether that qualifies as good news or not. Where did the Mile High…
On January 1, eighteen recreational marijuana stores opened in Denver — and that number has more than doubled in the weeks since then. But in Boulder, which may have the weediest reputation of any Colorado community, not a single non-medical pot shop was open until 12:36 p.m. yesterday, when Terrapin…
Last July, we detailed a plan to privatize the Boulder Turnpike — a deal the Colorado Department of Transportation supports under the theory that it will help finance U.S. 36 improvements much more quickly than if only public funds are used. The folks with Boulder’s Drive SunShine Institute couldn’t disagree…
Last week, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Westword and High Times magazine related to the State of Colorado’s rules for recreational marijuana advertising. The complaint called for a preliminary injunction against the regulations. But while a U.S. District Court judge has rejected that request, the case remains…
According to a solar jobs census conducted under the auspices of The Solar Foundation, Colorado ranked ninth in the U.S. for solar jobs, with 3,600 people employed by the industry here during 2013. See an infographic about the findings below. A cause to celebrate? Not according to Margaret McCall, an…
Last week, the Houston-based company that plans to develop an 85-acre, 1,500-room hotel and convention center in Aurora, near Denver International Airport, revealed that it would like to add a gigantic, $25 million indoor-outdoor water park to the project. RIDA Development Corporation, which took the project over from Gaylord Entertainment…
A lot’s changed since July 2013, when we published our previous post highlighting the six most expensive homes for sale in Denver, as featured on The Home Cart website. Of that half-dozen properties, four are now gone, and one that remains has had its price reduced by nearly half-a-million clams…
As of January 1, when recreational marijuana sales officially began, the City of Denver had licensed eighteen shops. The numbers have grown steadily since then. By our January 21 update, fifteen more shops had gotten the city’s blessing, and in the couple of weeks since then, another four have won…
A new study on the health risks of fracking has found an increased risk of birth defects — including a startling 30 percent hike in the risk of congenital heart defects — among families living near oil and gas wells in rural Colorado. The report has been embraced by environmental…
In 2011, a listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado’s Jensen Farms caused 33 deaths and 147 hospitalizations. Now, the better part of three years later, Jensen Farm operators Eric and Ryan Jensen have been sentenced to five years’ probation and six-months home detention following the sort of prosecution…
As soon as smart asses realized this year’s Super Bowl would feature teams from the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana sales, the jokes started flying, with participants including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the nation’s meme makers and entrepreneurs hoping to generate a little cash along…
Joe Hodas is used to living the high life: The longtime PR guy spent five years as spokesman for Frontier Airlines in the mid-2000s, went on to a VP role with Smashburger, and then became an executive vice president with Vladimir Jones, a high-powered ad and PR firm, representing clients…
The national debate over fracking may be unfolding in the halls of Congress, but the battle over where oil and gas drilling takes place is being waged at the grassroots level — which is why the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org has announced plans to funnel money, training and “strategic support”…
It was a single act of vandalism that was the last straw for Fistell’s Electronics. “We had an RCA sign on the building and it was stolen last year — my dad just gave up,” says Howard Fistell, whose family has owned Fistell’s Electronics since 1936 in some incarnation or…
When it comes to getting top dollar for the taxpayer from energy and mineral resources on public lands, the federal government’s approach is a lot like that of the morbidly obese relative you see scarfing down a third helping of pumpkin pie at Christmas. Every year there’s a promise to…
