Hollie Presley sits at the kitchen table in her tidy southwest Denver home, surrounded by paperwork. Her four-year-old, Isabella, watches a cartoon in the living room, while her infant son, Parker, reclines in a bouncy chair within arm’s reach, his belly full from his last bottle. The paperwork chronicles Presley’s…
Either the economy’s finally improving or folks selling homes think it is — because the number of eight-figure Colorado homes for sale is definitely on the rise. Whereas the priciest property on our winter roster of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver was going for a mere $9.2…
The U.S. Justice Department has decided to join in a federal lawsuit filed by two Colorado whistleblowers; it alleges that a national palliative care provider improperly billed Medicare millions of dollars for hospice services provided to patients who weren’t terminally ill. The suit against Optum Palliative and Hospice Care claims…
When one train pulls out of the station, another pulls in. That’s how it seems to be working out for Stephanie Shearer and Chris Bacorn — with a little help from “What Does LoDo Need,” a contest we told you about earlier this year. The two have figured out what…
Plenty of folks in these parts continue to complain about the rough economy — but according to MSN Money, such gripes have reached their expiration date. The site has just ranked the fifty state economies from worst to first, and Colorado is solidly ensconced in the top ten. But where…
Breckenridge has a well-founded reputation for progressive marijuana policy. The town’s voters decriminalized pot in 2009, years before the passage of Amendment 64. Nonetheless, officials passed a law banning new pot shops from opening on Main Street, and a grandfather clause for the Breckenridge Cannabis Club, which was already located…
A women’s correctional facility in Brush closed in 2010. But it could reopen soon — as a retail marijuana grow, shorthanded by the media as a “pot factory.” Problem: Brush currently has a moratorium on marijuana businesses. But the city council could lift that ban after a town hall meeting…
Colorado hasn’t been immune from the economic challenges of recent years — but what communities are doing the best when it comes to shaking off the doldrums? “Cities on the Rise in Colorado,” a post on the website NerdWallet, attempts to answer that question — and many of the communities…
There’s plenty of back-patting going on today in the smoke-free back rooms where politics thrives like spores in agar, after an eleventh-hour deal was forged by Governor John Hickenlooper, Representative Jared Polis and others to remove four initiatives dealing with oil and gas development from the November ballot. The move…
A single injection well in Weld County, used to dispose of millions of gallons of produced water from fracking operations, has been linked to 500 minor earthquakes in the area over a seven-week period since early June, according to University of Colorado researchers who’ve been monitoring seismic activity around the…
Tomorrow, two top-flight European football clubs — AS Roma (Serie A, Italy) and Manchester United (Premiere League, England) — square off at Mile High Stadium in the 2014 International Champions Cup. How would the hometown Colorado Rapids stack up against either of these touring powerhouses? Salary-wise, we know the answer:…
Backers of a proposed “healthy living park” in Alamosa, who saw their efforts last year to acquire former school property in a prime location frustrated by a controversial deal that put the property in the hands of an RV park developer for substantially less than its appraised value, have settled…
The Denver Department of Environmental Health ordered the recall of products made by a local hash-infused edibles manufacturer last week after “possible contamination from unsanitary equipment” and using equipment “not intended for food manufacturing,” according to a statement by the DDEH’s Public Health Inspections Division. The equipment in question: a…
The Denver Broncos finished 25th on Forbes’s list of the world’s fifty most valuable sports teams, down two spots from last year. The rankings were based on each team’s enterprise value (total equity plus debt) and their current or pending stadium deals. The Broncos are valued at $1.161 billion. Of…
Lakewood has become the latest city in Colorado to ban cannabis businesses. But voters will decide in November if retail marijuana shops should be allowed. See also: Marijuana: Littleton City Council takes step toward banning retail pot businesses…
The demand for cannabis in Colorado this year has been stronger than anticipated, according to a recent state study on the industry. See also: Marijuana: State-approved labs can’t test private pot samples…
Between June 1 and July 1, the State of Colorado has issued six new retail-marijuana licenses, three of them in municipalities that (until now) were strangers to recreational pot. Moffat, Edwards and Manitou Springs will all be offering recreational marijuana in the near future — or sooner. See also: Marijuana:…
On Friday, June 27, several Denver police officers entered Maryjane’s 420 Shop and Social Club, at 539 West 43rd Avenue, and issued citations to some of its members. The club has been closed ever since and comments from his spokesperson suggest that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock would like it to…
This week’s cover story, “Frack Attack!,” explores the increasingly ambitious anti-fracking movement in Colorado, a state with plenty of oil and gas wells and plenty of people who want to shut ’em down. One sign of the movement’s increasing sophistication is the production of a contentious new documentary, Dear Governor…
Update: Ex-Dollar Store CEO Cal Turner Jr.’s spectacular Parker home is being sold with no reserve on September 27. Get details at the end of the original post. Those dollars really add up. Former Dollar Store CEO Cal Turner Jr. is reportedly selling his unfathomably gorgeous Parker home, with the…
While Washington has yet to open a single retail marijuana store, Colorado marked its its six-month anniversary with recreational cannabis last week. And as with many committed relationships, there’s more trust going forward. See also: See the 88 recreational shops that have opened in Denver since January 1…
UPDATE: Music fans who couldn’t quite afford Caribou Ranch’s multi-million-dollar price tag got a chance to bid on memorabilia from the legendary studio at an auction at the Denver Design Center. Items went for prices ranging from the hundreds to the hundreds of thousands; a Steinway piano featured on”Don’t Let…
