An attempt to recall controversial Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida appears to have failed. The three southwest Denver voters who asked for the recall had until Monday to submit a petition complete with the signatures of 4,342 voters in Merida’s district. According to Nancy Reubert of the Denver…
Azimdzhon Mazhidov is accused of getting rich with a little help from his friends. He’s among sixteen defendants from Russia and Tajikistan charged with stealing more than $300,000 from assorted banks. But they didn’t use guns. Instead, according to an indictment on view below, they allegedly collected cash one bad…
It’s two o’clock, so it must be our Denver blog post triptych. Purple Row’s Andrew T. Fisher writes that the Rockies’ $157 million contract with Troy Tulowitzki is the eighth largest in MLB history — and it’s mostly Yankees in front of him. Face the State’s Greg Campbell argues that…
It’s been a big month for AM 760 host David Sirota. First, his first child, Isaac, was born. Now, he’s been named one of thirty “media heroes” by The Nation, placing 21st on a roster topped by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. And, as a bonus, he’s also completed his latest book,…
Earlier this month, Broncos sources told writer Alan Prendergast that owner Pat Bowlen is no longer the team’s major decision-maker on key financial and management questions. Presumably, a Monday interview — Bowlen’s first since early this year — was intended to disprove this claim. But the completely different tone of…
The color scheme of the Harvey Park logo shown above pays homage to the colorful, nationally renowned jazz-age orchestra leader and his sprawling Black and White Ranch, on which the southwest Denver neighborhood was built…..
At 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, the special-issues committee of the Denver City Council will assemble — and its goals include massaging the city’s medical marijuana code to bring it more in line with the state’s MMJ law, signed in June. But while Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation executive director Betty Aldworth…
“TSA machines may irradiate your junk unless you’ve got Rocky Flats Gear,” a Thanksgiving-week post about new briefs, panties and bras fitted with shields intended to protect your special places from airport radiation machines, prompted a comment from an informed source: Jeff Buske, the man behind Rocky Flats Gear…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man stabbed to death on the 1800 block of Grove Street as Joey Fuller, a 26-year-old white male. Look below to see the release that ID’d Fuller, as well as our previous coverage of this brutal crime, for which Darold Hinojos has…
In yesterday’s preview of an immigration summit organized by the Republican Study Committee, Senator Kevin Lundberg, the committee’s chairman, insisted that he was more interested in finding solutions to a big problem than playing partisan games. But Representative Sal Pace, leader of the Democratic minority in the Colorado House, isn’t…
Clumsy, caffeine-crazed travelers who love carry-on luggage, rejoice. A Denver psychiatric nurse named Karen Porte has solved all of your problems. Porte is the inventor of the tugo, “a cup holder that keeps your drink suspended between the upright handles of your rolling bag,” according to the tugo website. So…
Broncos owner Pat Bowlen’s lukewarm statement about Josh McDaniels’s future as the team’s coach has done nothing to temper the calls for McD’s firing. What with embarrassing losses and video scandals, Broncos boosters are flat-out angry, and it’s hard to believe a random win or two as the season dribbles…
Andrew Kubicek was arrested on child-pornography charges after a search warrant was executed for Remedy Care Center Medical Marijuana Dispensary, where he worked — and if the center’s name rings a bell, it should. Elizabeth “Libby” Santaguida, allegedly murdered by her brother in April, also worked at Remedy Care, as…
The Transportation Security Administration might be able to see through your clothes when scanning for explosives or weapons (not that it’s easy to make heads or, uh, tails of anything on those images), but at Denver International Airport, you can reclaim your dignity by wearing a bathing suit. At least,…
Abdi Dhuubow sits in his bright-orange cab, idling in a lot just off Speer Boulevard, waiting for his first fare of the night. As the dashboard clock ticks past 6 p.m., he sips from a mug filled with Somali chai and says he’s optimistic that this Friday will be busy…
“Checking In,” Westword staff, November 18 My Old Kentucky Home Foursquare geeks is a vague-enough subject without much swagger, yet this Kentucky transplant to Arvada felt compelled to play along, absorb and then move on to more sophisticated reading (Savage Love, massage ads, live shows…). This is my point: “If…
More evidence that marijuana legalization could give a boost to Colorado’s economy: a comment that popped up on a blog post from back in April about a Breckenridge club that allowed marijuana to be smoked for recreational purposes. Here’s what Nathan had to say:…
We realize that the average consumer of methamphetamine is ill-suited to traveling Colorado’s mountain roads. If said motorist had half a brain left, he or she wouldn’t be smoking meth. Yet a recent bust of one dope-toting couple on I-70 was so ridiculously easy that it should be studied by…
Denver, it’s time for your extreme urban makeover, courtesy of the city’s dean of development, Ken Schroeppel. Schroeppel has long been chronicling Denver’s shifting downtown on his website and blog DenverInfill.com, and now he’s gone one step further with the launch DenverUrbanism.com — an exploration of local city-building in general…
Welcome to this week’s initial array of Denver blog posts. 5280’s A.J. Vicens recaps last night’s nearly Carmelo Anthony-free Nuggets win over the Suns and links to a New York mag piece arguing against the Knicks trading for Melo. Colorado Independent: Senator Morgan Carroll wants political-donation disclosure from social-welfare nonprofits…
It was just a few short weeks ago that Boulder’s Aron Ralston introduced 127 Hours — the story of his self-amputation — for the Big Night showcase of the Starz Denver Film Festival. And while James Franco’s performance as Ralston caused one man to pass out, the rest of the…
Does RTD feel the need for weed? Apparently so, since Denver buses now feature ads for KushConII, taking place December 17-19 at the Colorado Convention Center. Organizers are so happy at this example of this institutional acceptance that they’re formally thanking the folks at RTD for taking their money…
