Seems like the media itself has been in the news lately as much as everyone else. While the Denver Post continues its fight with its hedge fund owner, TV news is battling ever-shrinking viewership, as we explained in a recent post.
“This announcement, while welcomed, doesn’t eliminate the need for hemp to be formally, federally removed as a Schedule I drug.”
The long-awaited decision from the Winter Games Exploratory Committee came down on Friday, June 1, and was entirely predictable.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Winter Games Exploratory Committee has announced that Denver and Colorado can and should pursue bids for future Olympic and Paralympic events. However, the concept calls for an approach that wouldn’t require direct funding from taxpayers and recommends that any efforts in regard to 2020 and beyond be submitted to a statewide vote in advance.
I’ve shoved joints and blunts into bubblers and bong downstems plenty of times, but it always takes some ghetto-rigged converter to fit them in, and the ashing process is messy.
Did Cary Kennedy break the Clean Campaign Pledge?
One young teacher looking for help with a sleeping disorder is willing to put it all on the line.
The original Dynasty has nothing on the Mile High City soap opera starring the children of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen. But daughter Beth Bowlen Wallace’s self-nomination as heir apparent to oversee the team isn’t campy and entertaining but unseemly and sad, since Pat is being treated like he’s dead even though he’s not.
Average rent prices in Denver right now continue to rise, with no end in sight, and a new report makes it clear that cost increases in the Mile High are among the worst in the country. Of twenty major U.S. cities, it shows that rent in Denver has gone up more in sheer dollars than in all but two of them.
Three months into the petition approval process, and Denver for Psilocybin still hasn’t received approval to circulate its petition. Will Denver get the opportunity this year to become a psychedelic safe haven?
Chris Hinds is a local disabled rights activist. For the past few years, he has been advocating for a change in Colorado’s disabled parking laws. On May 29, a bill bearing his name was signed into law.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has joined chief executives from thirteen other states in signing a letter decrying new restrictions floated by the Trump administration on reproductive healthcare providers that accept funding under the federal Title X program. Opponents refer to the proposal as a “gag rule,” since even so much as the mention of the word “abortion” would be forbidden.
Sixth District Democrat Levi Tillemann’s campaign chief has departed under unknown circumstances. With less than four weeks until the Democratic primaries, it’s probably a bad sign for the progressive underdog.
Here are the two Democrats duking it out for Steve Lebsock’s seat in advance of the November general election.
Denver has rolled out an animated superhero series to prepare residents for a potential invasion of emerald ash borers that stars the city’s forester, Rob Davis.
Chuck Plunkett, who resigned as editorial page editor of the Denver Post four weeks ago today, after an executive for the subsidiary company that runs the paper refused to okay a new editorial critical of Alden Global Capital, its vampiric hedge fund owner, has been named director of CU News Corps at the University of Colorado Boulder.
For the first installment of our new Toke of the Town series, we interview Colorado Harvest’s founder.
The May television ratings period known as “sweeps” has just concluded, and publicists for the top TV stations in the Denver market are boasting about the number of people tuning in. But they’re not mentioning how precipitously the number of traditional viewers they’re attracting has tumbled in recent decades.
Your friend may be ill, but you don’t want to get in trouble with the law.
From 2012 through last month, more than 3,000 pedestrians were hit by cars in Denver, and as we recently noted, several neighborhoods in the city have suffered accidents of this type numbering in the hundreds over that span. In contrast, the ten parts of Mile High spotlighted below experienced the fewest pedestrian-car crashes. But that hardly means they got off scot-free.
The popular cafe and eatery has been defaced by nasty graffiti.
A bad winter coupled with a hot summer may lead to the worst fire season in years for Colorado.
