Last month, the governor-appointed Amendment 64 task force recommended that retailers taking part in the recreational marijuana industry be required to grow 70 percent of their product under a business model known as vertical integration that’s currently imposed on medical marijuana outlets. Yesterday, though, members of the legislature’s A64 joint…
Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, includes provisions that allow growing cannabis at home. But can homeowners associations put rules in place prohibiting such grows even though they’re fine under the Colorado law? That question will be addressed at a…
Colorado is a healthy state; we know this. In 2012, the state ranked eleventh overall, according to America’s Health Rankings, provided by the United Health Foundation. And there’s no doubt Coloradans are supreme weekend warriors. On Saturdays and Sundays, they run and bike anywhere the ground is solid, climb anything…
In recent days, the Denver Post reported that the number of medical marijuana businesses in Colorado has dropped by more than 40 percent since its peak at the end of 2010 — from 1,131 to 675 over the course of fewer than three years. That may seem like a precipitous…
Six years ago, Janny Barizonte, a 24-year-old law student, headed with friends to Club Vinyl looking for fun. What she got instead changed her life, and not for the better: a painful altercation with club security personnel, followed by an arrest, a violent assault by a sheriff’s deputy, a criminal…
In what’s being hailed as a major victory for community groups fighting fracking projects, a Denver federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can no longer keep secret the identity of companies seeking to obtain oil and gas leases on public lands. The landmark ruling reverses…
When Ken Lund decided to move from the private to the public sector, he really didn’t know what was in store. “I describe it this way: It’s thirty years of programs in search of a strategy,” he said. But that strategy was ultimately found, he told attendees at the third…
The director of Colorado’s Bureau of Land Management office seems to be engaged in an elaborate game of chicken over the past few months. On several occasions, Helen Hankins has announced plans to auction off oil and gas leases in environmentally sensitive areas, including tracts near Mesa Verde National Park…
Last month, we shared with you a photo gallery of the five most expensive homes in Denver — and a spectacular batch it was. But don’t forget about Boulder, whose properties, as featured on BoulderHomeSource.com, are just as astonishing and often more unusual — including a three-for-one-price deal that includes…
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s proposed transportation rules have Uber shifting gears for a fight. Uber’s main concern is an amendment to section 6309, which makes it illegal for any luxury limousine carrier to be within 200 feet of a hotel, restaurant or bar without a chartered order, effectively making…
The Bureau of Land Management’s decision late last week to seek additional environmental study of possible impacts of oil and gas exploration on the Roan Plateau has left energy interests fuming and sulking over the continued delays in tapping the area’s rich gas reserves — and enviro activists crunching numbers…
In September 2011, radio Troubleshooter Tom Martino talked to us about filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Months later, Martino sued two creditors he believed had accused him of fraud, and a trial in the first case finally got underway last week, only to be stayed by settlement negotiations. Meanwhile, a man…
Outgrown that studio apartment? Why not think big — really big. Below, take a mini-tour of the five most expensive homes for sale in the Denver area according to The Home Cart, complete with plenty of photos. Appropriately enough, we’re counting up rather than down, with the bargain just a…
Last August, Governor John Hickenlooper joined Blockbuster President Michael Kelly and other dignitaries to celebrate the relocation of the video firm’s headquarters to Douglas County — a move that came with the company’s pledge to bring 150 jobs to Colorado over the next five years. (See photos from that event…
Boulder and Walmart are an unlikely combination. But after months of speculation, rumors and protests, it now appears that one of the nation’s most progressive communities will soon be home to the retailer most liberals love to hate. And judging by early reaction to reports that a Walmart will be…
When Denver craftsman Corbin Clay launched his own custom furniture company a few years back, he saw an opportunity to make stylish, affordable pieces out of an abundant resource: the vast stands of dead lodgepole pines left by Colorado’s raging beetle epidemic. It was a shrewd move; among thousands of…
If it’s too good to be true, then it’s probably too good to be true. And even if it’s not, you still need to be careful. That’s the advice of the Better Business Bureau, which released its annual Denver/Boulder “Top 10 Complaints of 2012” list on Monday. Among the “thousands…
In the wake of the Amendment 64’s passage, Democratic and Republican officials have proposed a bill that would exempt Colorado from federal laws prohibiting marijuana use. Now, a coalition of business organizations opposed to A64 are urging the feds to do the opposite: enforce federal law, even if it contradicts…
Since Colorado voted to legalize recreational use of marijuana, there have been concerns about contradictions that now exist between state and federal laws — including a contentious debate about workplace regulation. One Denver CEO told us that legal pot will make it hard for him to hire people, because he…
Gayle Jetchick of the Havana Business Improvement District has waited years for Aurora’s old Fan Fair building to turn into something — anything! — else. Last night, her wish came one step closer to reality, when the Aurora Urban Renewal Authority (which is made up of city council members) voted…
Secretary of State Scott Gessler told us last week that he supported Mitt Romney because he is very worried about the state of the economy. But a quarterly report released this morning by his office shows that at least in Colorado, there has been slow but positive improvement in several…
The economic development news out of Aurora this year hasn’t been great. The high-profile deal to build a 1,500-room hotel hit a big snag when developer Gaylord Entertainment restructured its company. But Yuriy Gorlov of the Aurora Economic Development Council says that while blockbuster deals are welcome, it’s smaller-scale projects…
