On December 20, a mistrial was declared in the Nevada Bundy case. One of the self-proclaimed judges who advised the Bundys, Bruce Doucette, is among the eight individuals who were arrested in March in Colorado; he’s sentenced for trial on February 26.
Members of Denver’s cannabis community are banding together to hold fundraisers in support of Sweet Leaf employees affected by the company’s swift indefinite shutdown by the Denver Police Department, Marijuana Enforcement Divisions and other enforcement agencies on December 14.
Short-term rentals are a big business in Denver. But a new audit shows room for improvement in the city’s program.
Pillars like Afghani, Durban Poison and Sour Diesel always deserve a spot on the shelves, but as with any other indulgence, it’s nice to try some new varieties.
Kyle Clark, host of the 9News’ weeknightly program Next With Kyle Clark, is Denver TV’s current king of social media, as well as our pick for best local media figure to follow on Twitter in the 2017 Best of Denver issue. And our pick was more than justified by Clark tweets over the course of the year. Take a look at our ten favorites below.
In a day and age when ethics in government appears to be in short supply, Colorado Ethics Watch has announced that the organization will be shutting its doors for good at year’s end for budgetary reasons. But CEW director Luis Toro is hopeful that ethics oversight in the state won’t suffer too much as a result.
A Resolution of Disapproval is a legislative procedure used to reverse rulings made by the executive branch.
Four states legalized recreational marijuana in the 2016 election, following in the footsteps of Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. But in the year since, only Nevada made retail pot sales a reality.
After more than forty years with Colorado Public Radio, the majority of it as the organization’s president, Max Wycisk has announced that he’ll step down as CPR’s boss at the end of June 2018. But he stresses that his move shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign of turmoil within the state’s largest and most powerful public-radio network.
As we’ve reported, a December 15 hearing that could have given additional freedoms to Bruco Eastwood, who’s lived at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo since being found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2010 shooting at Deer Creek Middle School, was canceled at the last minute. Among those relieved by this turn of events was Eastwood’s prosecutor, Steve Jensen, who channeled his frustration over a judge’s refusal to allow his psychiatric expert to interview the gunman into legislation requiring that court-ordered mental health examinations be recorded on audio and video. Believe it or not, doing so wasn’t mandated until the bill became law nearly seven years after the shooting. Here’s the story of Jensen’s quest and Eastwood’s role in it.
A Boulder potrepreneur wants to share both his wealth and his interest in cannabis: Matt Kind, host of the podcast CannaInsider, is starting a scholarship fund to encourage students to consider a job in legal pot.
Both are easy – and illegal.
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain more information about how a 64-year-old Iranian man, Kamyar Samimi, died while being held at ICE’s detention center in Aurora on December 2.
Denver has had its share of eras — but every year seems to mark the coming and going of some element of local culture, and 2017 was no different. Sure, we had the restaurants that opened and closed, the sports seasons that are, frankly, better left to the dustbin of history, and news that confused and concerned us and then faded out of our attention span to make room for more news.
The Colorado Real Estate Alliance, whose members includes many businesses that campaigned against I-300, sent Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver City Council a letter on December 5 asking for a six-month stay of implementation of the ordinance.
Infused with 160 milligrams of hemp extract and CBD, the spray isn’t just targeted toward the dating community. H. Hemp believes it’s a pocket-sized remedy that helps lessen daily stressors when you need a quick, accessible fix without any mind-altering effects.
The just-announced grand marshal for the 2018 National Western Stock Show parade, scheduled for January 4, 2018, is a horse. Yes, a horse: Thunder, the mascot of the Denver Broncos. Surprisingly, though, it’s neither the stupidest choice to fill the role nor the first animal to do so.
Mark Wray, who was arrested this week for alleged sexual assault against a woman at a Boulder gas station, has been in trouble with the law before. We first wrote about Wray seven years ago, when he was busted for, among other things, pissing on his wife’s head.
As we’ve reported, two people, Collin Zak and Nathan Enright, have died as a result of injuries sustained at Colorado ski resorts during the 2017-2018 season to date. Their fatal accidents occurred weeks earlier than the first and second Colorado ski area deaths last year, when fourteen skiers or snowboarders died, despite a lack of snow that has resulted in numerous resorts in the state delaying their openings or keeping some runs off-limits. That doesn’t surprise a national expert on resort safety, who believes snow shortages or surpluses can increase the danger for those who hit the slopes under such circumstances.
While this local delicacy won’t rival the sap of Vermont anytime soon, it’s still a fitting Denver take, sort of like Moonshine Haze from Rare Dankness, another Denver breeder.
Last December, when hometown Denver hero T.J. Miller was arrested in Los Angeles for allegedly slapping an Uber driver after an argument about Donald Trump, the tenor of the coverage was mild bemusement. Not this time, though. Miller is the latest high-profile star to be accused of abuse in the post-Harvey Weinstein era, with a woman coming forward anonymously to say that he sexually assaulted and punched her during his college years. But rather than issuing a vague apology for past behavior, Miller has responded with harsh words for his anonymous accuser.
The new initiative, “High Costs,” was funded by revenue from the city’s sales tax on retail cannabis and was created with the help of a city-organized youth commission and youth surveying and focus groups
