The marijuana business is booming in Colorado, with pot sales topping $100 million for the first time in August. But should investors put their money into the cannabis industry? The State of Colorado doesn’t quite say “no,” but it comes close. Colorado’s Division of Securities has issued an “investor alert”…
We recently told you about the ten most expensive Colorado cities to rent a two-bedroom apartment, based on new data from ApartmentList.com. The site also crunched the numbers to determine where in Colorado rent costs are going up the fastest on a year-to-year basis — and there are definite differences…
In May, we posted about the airlines with the least and most consumer complaints according to the Air Travel Consumer Report, a document published semi-annually by the Department of Transportation. And Frontier, Denver’s hometown airline, had an awful performance, finishing dead last. Now, the Transportation Department has published its latest installment…
Earlier this month, we told you about the ten most expensive Colorado cities to rent a two-bedroom apartment. We knew prices from the list of Colorado cities with the most expensive house prices would be considerably higher — but we were still surprised by the eye-popping nature of the digits…
Celebrity-endorsed pot products are the wave of the future, with Tommy Chong backing a strain dubbed Chongstar and Willie Nelson lining up private equity funding for a brand to be called Willie’s Reserve. But they’ve got nothing on Tha Doggfather. Last night at a launch party in Denver, rapper Snoop…
ApartmentList.com has just released the latest data about rental prices in Colorado, based on October 2015 figures. And for those accustomed to sticker shock owing to high prices (not to mention assorted horror stories), the news isn’t all bad. In some communities, month-to-month rents have actually gone down at least…
We are entering the exciting season of I-70 traffic jams and borderline road-rage psychopathy. In heated debates, we discuss the possible culprits: the government, Californians or that ever-popular scapegoat, idiots. Leaving the house at 5 a.m. go-time, dead-eyed, over-caffeinated and mostly still drunk, dreading the impending hangover, we crawl along in…
Golden Globe-winning actress and part-time Colorado resident Melanie Griffith wants you to stay at her spectacular Aspen abode — either temporarily or permanently. And she’s invested enough in the process that she actually appears in a video about the $9 million property. That’s a first for a celebrity according to…
In recent years, we’ve grown accustomed to discovering that rent prices in Denver are rising faster than anywhere else in the country. But a new survey by RentRange suggests that the situation is finally starting to moderate, at least in one particular area. The site looked at the average rental rate…
Is it illegal in Boulder for marijuana businesses to sponsor booths that prominently display their names at public events? Boulder’s City Attorney suggests that it is, while the man in charge of a local dispensary accused of violating the law by way of a booth at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration…
In 2009, Colorado business leaders came up with an idea to boost the state’s then-sagging economy: help cities and counties build new tourist attractions by allowing some of the state sales-tax revenue that would be generated by those attractions to be rebated to the developers to pay off construction costs…
In recent months, there have been a slew of violent incidents on the 16th Street Mall, many of which were ignored or underplayed by many mainstream media outlets. Nonetheless, the assorted crimes got the attention of Westword readers, as well as the Downtown Denver Partnership, which held a meeting on these…
We enjoy checking out the lists on the Ranker website, in part because of their eccentricity. Note that its roster of the most famous people from Denver includes a porn star. Ranker’s choices for the ten most famous buildings and structures in Denver is similarly idiosyncratic. Did the Brown Palace…
Glendale, a pint-sized city surrounded on all sides by southeast Denver, has always had outsized ideas. A municipal rugby complex? Yes! The only King Soopers in the state that sells booze, just blocks from the only Target in the state that sells booze? Sure! A big new marijuana store next…
It’s been a rough few months for Frontier — and the changes the carrier is making in an attempt to right its operation stand a good chance of undermining its longstanding claim to be Denver’s hometown airline. Example: Frontier is giving back six of the gates assigned to it at Denver…
Thumbtack’s list of the top ten cities for millennial entrepreneurs includes a Colorado community — one that finishes very near the top. But that’s no surprise. The site small-business-friendliness survey of the U.S. as a whole gives Colorado an overall mark of A, making it one of just twelve states to…
We’ve been reporting about the marijuana policies of presidential candidates, some of whom would like to turn back the clock on legal recreational sales in Colorado and a handful of other states. But there are plenty of reasons to let Colorado’s experiment go forward. Millions of them, in fact. In…
The Boulder City Council has decided to loosen up some of its restrictions on the town’s marijuana industry. During a meeting that went late Tuesday night, councilmembers unanimously approved an ordinance that will update Boulder’s medical and recreational codes after numerous marijuana-industry stakeholders and community members voiced their displeasure with…
Denver is a good place to start a business and Denver Startup Week has been living proof of that. The city’s annual celebration of entrepreneurs, which started in 2012, has already attracted 10,000 people to this year’s edition, which features 250 events over the course of five days and runs…
The Denver Police Department has revealed that seven pot shops were caught selling marijuana to a person under age 21 in a recent compliance sweep; we’ve got the details below. The DPD was clearly aiming to make a big splash with the announcement, and it’s succeeded, with news operations throughout…
In recent months, Denver’s housing market has been among the hottest in the country. But is it finally beginning to cool down? Hardly, according to two national surveys. But a local report maintains that the answer is “yes.” First, let’s take a look at July numbers from Weiss Residential Research. Nationwide,…
Colorado’s tax holiday on retail marijuana provided full waiting rooms and plenty of customers, but most of the action was taking place in growing operations months before. The one-day tax break, a product of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, saved customers the cost of the 10 percent state sales tax…
