Yesterday, with as little fanfare as possible, Governor Bill Ritter signed two bills, HB 1284 and SB 109, designed to regulate Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. MMJ advocates like Matt Brown hail the legislation. But Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente sees them as flawed landmarks that will likely doom 40 percent of…
After watching HD television for a while, viewers tend to consider standard channels to be hopelessly fuzzy. It’s like looking at the world through the bottom of a Coke bottle. So local Comcast spokewoman Cindy Parsons has good news for every subscriber who wishes The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart looked…
The spring runoff in Colorado has made recreation dangerous, with multiple drownings on the Western Slope in recent days. No fatalities in Golden yet due to fast water. But fire fighters there responded to multiple rapids-related emergency calls yesterday, including one that cost a kayaker a finger…
The horrible story of Stephanie Rochester, the apparently perfect Superior mom arrested on suspicion that she killed her infant son, Rylan, just got worse. A newly released affidavit (check it out below) details her ultimately successful efforts to smother the boy, motivated by her fears that he was autistic…
The gay-hating, anti-Semitic horror show that is Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church doesn’t always show up for its promised ignorance fests. But back in April, the Fred Phelps-led troglodytes staged a slew of protests like this one in Colorado. And now, they’re promising another series of vileness parades aimed at Denver…
The announcements kept coming from the governor’s office yesterday: Bill Ritter would be signing this bill in front of this group, that bill in front of that group, with his eye on hitting constituencies across the state — and also hitting the June 11 deadline for action on all bills…
Update, 4:40 p.m.: David Hesch appeared in court this afternoon. Get the details of what happened below. A fifty-year-old Loveland man has been arrested for mailing a nutso letter written by his (apparently) nutso father to Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak. It threatens to paint a local bridge red with his…
The last time I saw Kristen Des Marais, she was trying to track dozens of feral cats that had set up a fast-breeding colony in the crawl spaces under a Denver apartment complex. Des Marais and volunteer Carol Tudor were trapping the cats so they could be neutered and adopted…
People who drive cars are morons. Just ask the Colorado Department of Transportation…
Join us for another dip into three Denver blogs. In a Mile High Report fan post, jonmark93 disputes Post columnist Mark Kiszla’s contention that character doesn’t count, noting that Jay Cutler’s never won an NFL playoff game. Can Tim Tebow achieve that goal and be a parent’s dream at the…
On May 25, we told you about the shooting of Marcus Duran, seventeen, allegedly by a homeowner while Duran and two others tried to break into his 3150 Gaylord Street residence. Justifiable homicide by way of Colorado’s “Make My Day” law? The Denver DA still hasn’t come to a conclusion,…
Last month, a representative from Americans For Legal Immigration blasted ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo for pledging to participate in a June 5 rally in Phoenix whose organizer allegedly had ties to neo-Nazi groups. Tancredo refuted these accusations, and he says his opinions were borne out by the rally, where no white…
That old maxim about never bringing a knife to a gunfight seemingly pertains to an incident on Friday in which Leon Barrett, 54, has been arrested. According to the Denver Police Department, the still-unnamed victim hit Barrett with a blunt object — after which Barrett allegedly shot him in the…
Governor Bill Ritter has finally signed HB 1284 and SB 109, the two medical marijuana bills that wended their way through the Colorado legislature this year. How did this former district attorney explain his reasons for backing legislation that many law-enforcement officials around the state absolutely loathe? By arguing that…
Our weekend started with dueling pianos, ended with a guy with a bra tatted on his chest, and was plenty busy in between, including a trip to Beta and the La Roux show at the Ogden. See photos of the mayhem at westword.com/slideshow…
Last Thursday, a trio of suspects in Federal Heights robbed one person at his car and then shot and killed a second man inside an apartment. Authorities have now identified the victim as Brandon Putnam, 24, whose MySpace page describes his profession as “Super Roofer.” As for his most recent…
According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there’s a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in which Romanoff can defeat Bennet in the Democratic…
Ted Haggard announced the launch of a new church last week with the help of a Los Angeles PR firm that’s gotten him some high profile platforms from which to pitch the project. Included among them was his appearance alongside long-suffering wife Gayle on Headline News’ The Joy Behar Show;…
National Public Radio doesn’t do advertising — not unless you count all those support announcements, which pretty much add up to the same thing. But a piece heard this morning pretty much adds up to a commercial for Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood. The package examines research that contrasts the amount of…
Brandon Marshall undoubtedly hoped the drama that preceded his exit from Denver would be forgotten once he landed in Miami. But no such luck. Overnight on ESPN Radio, host Mike Salk was looking for an example to demonstrate that the NFL is tougher on prima donnas than is the NBA…
Andrew Romanoff’s confirmation that the White House floated three jobs past him after he announced his intention to challenge Senator Michael Bennet in the 2010 Democratic primary isn’t his favorite subject, and he admits that he tried to avoid talking about it for as long as possible. “I declined to…
On the eve of going to court in its effort to protect internal investigations records of police officers from public scrutiny, the City of Denver has agreed to settle a lawsuit by forking over many of the documents sought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado…
