Despite blustery comments from President Donald Trump on Twitter, it’s now difficult to refute that Russia influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The 37-page indictment that emerged from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation on Friday, February 16, was a political bombshell; the stunning document charges that three…
This October, former CU Buffaloes and Carolina Panthers star Rae Carruth is scheduled to be freed from the prison where he was sent after being convicted of conspiring to murder Cherica Adams in 1999, when she was eight-months pregnant. Cherica’s child, Chancellor Adams, survived the ordeal but suffers from cerebral palsy linked to his traumatic birth, and Carruth wants to have a relationship with the now-eighteen year old upon his release, as he makes clear in an open letter. But while Carruth praises Saundra Adams, Chancellor’s grandmother, for how she’s raised him under incredible circumstances, he also lambastes her for supposedly lying about his motivation for taking part in the crime and his relationship with Cherica. Read the remarkable and disturbing text in its entirety below.
Although the Colorado Department of Transportation has its eyes on the future, as seen in its advocacy of the Rocky Mountain Hyperloop project that recently won a global challenge, the agency is also trying to innovate when it comes to current highways. Hence the planned installation of variable speed limit signs in Glenwood Canyon that can either speed up or slow down traffic in response to weather and traffic conditions. VSL has already gotten a tryout near Boulder, and if the system works in Glenwood, among the trickiest sections along the Interstate 70 corridor, after installation set to begin during the coming months, it could be expanded to more roadways across the state.
On November 20, 2017, Denver Environmental Health prohibited the sale of kratom for human consumption in the city and began raiding local shops selling the popular herbal pain reliever as part of what DEH’s own board later concluded was a flawed process. In the meantime, Clean Kratom Wellness Center in Lakewood, a community that has not enacted a ban, is being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration even though the federal government’s current position on the substance consists only of warning about its use.
Sifting through the buds of hemp plants would obviously produce some CBD-rich kief, but you’d also be collecting THC and any other cannabinoids present on the plant.
One of Denver’s largest dispensary chains has issued a voluntary recall for medical and recreational cannabis products over concerns from possible contamination.
Community Reach Center, a behavioral health provider with seven outpatient offices and 100 community outposts around the state, has purchased the former Arapahoe House facility in Thornton, at 8801 Lipan Street.
The Republican donors expressed a statement condoning the overturn of the Cole memo, potentially giving Colorado Republicans an ‘out’ if they choose to criticize the Trump administration on legal marijuana.
You’re forgiven if you can’t keep track of all of the elections taking place in Colorado this year. Here’s a guide on what you’re voting for and how to do it – and how to get politically involved.
The Colorado Springs Gazette, owned by conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz, has earned a reputation as the most overtly anti-marijuana major newspaper in the state. And while the first entry in a new series presented beneath the banner “Is Colorado better off five years after legalizing marijuana?” is an improvement over an anti-pot screed from nearly three years ago that was partially penned by a prominent and devoted cannabis hater, it still focuses almost entirely on bad news.
Our recent list of school shootings from Columbine to Parkland noted how frequently connections have been made between the killings at the former in 1999 and last week’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. This link is now being made even more explicit by way of plans to stage a “National High School Walk-Out for Anti-Gun Violence” on April 20, Columbine’s anniversary, in the wake of a March 24 rally in Washington being organized in association with organizers of the hugely successful Women’s March.
Last week, the body of Jeanna Leslie was found in her downtown Denver apartment. The former San Antonio, Texas schoolteacher, who’d moved to Colorado mere months earlier and quickly fallen in love with the Mile High City, had been stabbed to death. Now, Terry Dunford, described as a homeless man she’d been trying to help, has been arrested for her slaying, and according to an arrest affidavit accessible below, he made investigators’ job easy by leaving behind a staggering number of clues to his identity.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has now been commemorated with a strain: Jeff Sesh-ons. What’s Next?
After Nikolas Cruz shot and killed seventeen people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, the country quickly turned from mourning to debating gun rights.
Denver’s Environmental Health department set off a firestorm in November after it banned kratom, a plant that champions laud as a safe pain-relief alternative to opioids.
Sunshine Home Share Colorado is a nonprofit that connects the 55-year-and-older set who have extra space in their homes with renters. And if it doesn’t find government funding or private donors soon, it will close.
The proposal sped through the Colorado legislature in less than a month and is headed for Governor John Hickenlooper’s desk for his signature.
Dave Byrd, director of risk and regulatory affairs for the Colorado-based National Ski Areas Association, thinks the ski industry gets unfairly criticized for a lack of transparency when it comes to fatalities and accidents at resorts across the country. Each year, he points out, the NSAA publishes statistics about fatalities and catastrophic injuries on its website, with fact sheets linked below revealing that 44 people died and 33 others suffered paralysis, broken necks, broken backs and severe, life-altering head injuries while skiing or snowboarding at U.S. ski areas during the 2016-2017 season.
As we’ve reported, the Colfax branch of Myxed Up Creations was raided shortly after Denver Environmental Health banned the sale of kratom for human consumption, only to be allowed to transfer its supply of the popular herbal pain reliever to locations outside the city limits rather than being forced to destroy it after DEH’s own board called its process flawed. But while Myxed Up founder Phil Guerin is pleased by this turn of events, his battles with Denver aren’t over, thanks to an upcoming court case involving CBDs.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but in 2018, imitation can also be simple mockery.
Jeanna Leslie, 49, was a vibrant free spirit who recently moved from Texas to Denver and quickly fell in love with the community, as she documented in words and photos on her Facebook page. But her obvious joy and excitement over moving into a downtown apartment and starting a new adventure now echoes with poignancy. The page has become a heartbreaking memorial to Leslie, who was stabbed to death in her Mile High City home.
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner had been assured by Jeff Sessions that Justice wouldn’t interfere with state-compliant cannabis businesses and users.
