We’re in the last lap of voting season, which means the fliers, robocalls and door-to-door canvassers are piling up faster than heaps of dead leaves. But some of the biggest spenders in this off-year election aren’t your usual crowd of school board hopefuls, tax hikers and pot crusaders: They’re the…
What do condoms and bicycles have in common, beyond the fact that cyclists have been known to have sex every now and then — usually after parking? According to the folks at Boulder B-cycle, they’re all about safety — and so is Boulder’s homegrown love-glove specialist, Sir Richard’s Condom Company…
Last week, we reported that the oil and gas industry has already donated enough cash in opposition to a proposed five-year moratorium on new drilling in Boulder to outspend backers of the measure 30-1. As the November election draws nearer and more campaign finance reports trickle in, it turns out…
When the League of Women Voters recently made an analysis of issues on the November ballot, it couldn’t find a group to make the case against 2H, a proposal to extend the City of Boulder’s moratorium on new oil and gas drilling for another five years. “There is no organized…
When you’ve dropped two or five or ten million on that second or third home in one of the more desirable Colorado mountain resorts, there are a few items that you take for granted will not be next door. Walmarts, trailer parks and rendering plants are probably high on the…
Yesterday, a Los Angeles jury determined that AEG Live, owned by local gazillionaire Phil Anschutz, was not responsible for singer Michael Jackson’s June 2009 death despite having hired Dr. Conrad Murray, currently serving time for his role in the tragedy. The result is another win for Anschutz, who initially seemed…
Legal marijuana is big business — or at least that’s what investors are banking on. On Tuesday, 22 cannabis entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to more than sixty investors gathered at the Denver Athletic Club in the second Mile High confab hosted by the California-based ArcView Group, which connects investors…
We all know folks from around the country who graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder and then never leave town — and it turns out this decision’s a mighty good one according to Kiplinger, whose list of the ten best cities for grads prominently features the People’s Republic…
After watching the Broncos dismantle on the Raiders on Monday Night Football, Denver fans were left with questions like, “Should I book my Super Bowl tickets yet?” But Travis Sawrie of the real-estate blog Movoto wondered something entirely different: How long would it take Peyton to pay off my mortgage?…
Here’s another thing to love about Denver: It’s a big city, but not so big that dignitaries would scoff at attending the grand opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts. Earlier today, as reported on our Cafe Society blog, DIA’s new waiting area, Final Approach, debuted, as did one of the metro…
Last week, a Justice Department rep told a Senate committee the federal government was working on a solution that would allow marijuana businesses in Colorado to legally use the banking system — something that’s been officially forbidden up until now. Among the Colorado agencies lobbying for such a fix is…
Our recent cover story, “Design Flaw,” contains some startlingly lopsided statistics: As of July, there were a whopping 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, while the number of condos being built was a meager 145 units. There are several theories as to…
This week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” delves into the drop-off in metro Denver condo development, a phenomenon some blame on construction defect lawsuits. The latest estimates show there are 15,000 apartment units under construction in the seven-county metro area, but just 371 condo units. Which has led those close to…
As noted in this week’s cover story, “Design Flaw,” there were 7,148 apartments planned or under construction in Denver as of July, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership, and just 145 for-sale units. Why the lopsidedness? Some blame the recession, while others point to lawsuits filed against condo builders alleging…
We’ve recently shared posts featuring the most expensive homes for sale in Denver and Boulder. But while many of them are amazing, the priciest residential properties in Vail are in another class. The following five, culled from the impressive Hoffman-West real estate site, feature plenty of unusual images, including a…
Among the biggest hits of the just-wrapped Colorado Innovation Network Summit was a ten-year-old boy from East L.A. Caine Monroy is the star of the short film Caine’s Arcade (watch it below), which tells of how he built an arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s used auto parts…
Last year, the tradition of camping out at the Sports Castle on Broadway before Sniagrab, the annual pre-skiing-season sale at Sports Authority, seemed in danger of extinction due to the urban-camping ban. Sports Authority had to get a special permit from the city to make it happen, albeit for a…
Visitors to shopping centers across the country have no doubt noticed the distinctive look of Hollister stores. They’re designed to recall a Cali surf shack, with hundreds of them nationwide, including the one at Park Meadows Mall, featuring a faux-porch with a couple steps most shoppers must scale in order…
Last week, we posted graphics and more about Hyperloop, a proposed high-tech transportation apparatus developed by Daryl Oster, an inventor in Louisville. But while the first Hyperloop Mark I is being proposed for California, another system, a magnetic-pod monorail called SkyTran, is being pitched for these parts: It would connect…
The saga of the Gaylord hotel in Aurora continues — this time with good news for the folks behind the proposed 1,500-room hotel and convention center. In a letter on view below, the state attorney general’s office has denied a request by a group of Colorado hotels that the Colorado…
Not since the grand opening of an IKEA in Centennial two years ago have consumers in the Denver metro area gone as ape for the debut of a new business as for yesterday’s twin bows of Cabela’s outlets in Thornton and Lone Tree. The crowds were huge and surprisingly diverse:…
The tech world is abuzz in regard to a just-introduced and mighty bold transportation concept: Hyperloop, a large-scale variation on pneumatic tubes used at banks said to hold the potential of transporting people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in thirty minutes. The notion’s booster is Elon Musk, the man…
