At a meeting on Monday, December 4, the Douglas County School Board killed the district’s controversial voucher program, ending years of conflict. The fight has waged for years in the court system, but in the end, victory was achieved at the ballot box thanks to the electoral success of anti-voucher candidates last month.
The Beloved Community Village will relocate across an alleyway to an adjacent Urban Land Conservancy-owned lot at 1420 East 38th Street.
This morning, Monday, December 5, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, with the nine jurists charged with considering whether Denver-based Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips discriminated against a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, by refusing to make them a wedding cake because their union contradicts his fundamentalist Christian views. Given the current ideological makeup of the court and the ultra-conservative proclivities of the newest justice, Colorado native Neil Gorsuch, many observers expect the court to side with Phillips in a ruling that critics say would preference one group of Christians over all others. But an expert thinks there’s still a chance the Supremes will reject the Masterpiece claim and suggests arguments that may sway the court’s potential swing justices.
Steffan Tubbs will not be rehired by KOA radio, which fired the longtime Colorado Morning News host in August after he was arrested and accused of domestic violence by telephone. This decision was made even though the charge against Tubbs was subsequently dismissed and his accuser was herself busted on November 17 for allegedly stalking him and violating a protection order that forbade her from making contact.
Once upon a time, the average person thought of $1 million as an enormous sum on which members of a family could live in luxury for the rest of their lives if only such an amount was within their reach, which it wasn’t. But times have changed. A new study suggests that $1 million is now a reasonable total to set aside for retirement, and even those who manage to do so may eventually run out of cash. That includes people who settle in Denver, which is ranked in the lower half of major cities when it comes to stretching these seven figures.
You don’t start your dinner with dessert, do you? Apply that strategy to your sesh or your appetite will be ruined.
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office warned that it would level attorney Jason Flores-Williams and his law office with financial penalties — and even the possibility of Flores-Williams’s disbarment — on the grounds that his “rights of nature” case was unlawful and frivolous.
Michael Ortiz, who last week snagged the permit for a 4/20 event at Civic Center Park in April 2018, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of the Euflora dispensary chain through his lawyer.
Denver didn’t see any snow in November. What does that mean for the rest of our winter?
Barely two weeks after Pueblo’s Donthe Lucas was arrested on robbery charges, the former Northeastern Junior College basketball star was served with an arrest warrant in the February 2013 disappearance of Kelsie Schelling, a Denver resident who vanished after heading south to tell her boyfriend, Lucas, that she was pregnant. The bust took place on the same day his mom, Sara Lucas, was taken into custody in regard to the aforementioned robbery, suggesting that authorities are trying to ratchet up the pressure on mother and son to reveal the whereabouts of Schelling’s body, which has not been found as of this writing.
Denver Broncos quarterback legend turned team executive John Elway received a plus-size amount of credit for the squad’s success during the Peyton Manning era, including two Super Bowl appearances and one victory. This goodwill largely protected him from criticism during the team’s slide the past two seasons. But no more. Twitter users absolutely roasted Elway during and after the Broncos’ completely humiliating 35-9 loss to the lowly Miami Dolphins on Sunday, December 3.
Collin Zak, a 23-year-old U.S. Armed Forces member from Ohio, appears to be the first person to die at a Colorado ski area during the 2017-2018 ski season. He suffered a fatal crash while snowboarding at Monarch, a resort in Chaffee County, on Saturday, December 2.
The city has issued a permit for Civic Center Park for April 20, so it looks like the show will go on in 2018. But what kind of show will it be?
A Colorado case is heading to the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 5, when Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, will argue that he has a right to refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple back in 2012. Our readers aren’t waiting for the decision.
Colorado gubernatorial candidate and current U.S. Representative Jared Polis believes the end of net neutrality would be bad for the internet and devastating for Colorado.
Thanks to cannabis edibles, gingerbread men aren’t the only ones getting baked on cold winter nights anymore.
One of Denver’s longstanding dispensary brands has expanded. Good Chemistry, known for its East Colfax Avenue pot shop since 2009, has opened a new location on South Broadway.
Pod Save America, currently the country’s hottest political podcast, is bringing its live tour to Denver in early 2018 in a double bill with its Crooked Media sister program, Lovett or Leave It. The shows will take place back to back at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2018, at the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre.
At 2:30 p.m. Saturday, December 2, teams representing Pomona and Eaglecrest will face off at Mile High Stadium in the Class 5A championship game. But even as excitement builds for the contest, plenty of observers are wondering about something more fundamental: How much longer will good parents let their kids play high school football? This question is being asked more frequently in an age when worries about potentially fatal consequences from repeated blows to the head are growing. Now, research by a University of Colorado Boulder professor shows that 25,000 fewer boys played high school football across the country last season than the year before, continuing a trend that shows no signs of slowing.
Since shortly after the 2012 passage of Amendment 64, which permitted limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we’ve reported about alleged pot profiling. Over the years, multiple drivers have said they were pulled over for little or no reason while driving a car with Colorado license plates by state troopers in bordering states on the lookout for cannabis, with Kansas among the most frequently mentioned problem jurisdictions. Now, just over a year since a federal court ordered that pot profiling in Kansas end, a Denver-area resident tells us she’s recently been stopped three times in the state by law enforcers who apparently became interested in her the second she saw that her plate represented a legal-pot state.
Given the lack of impairment research, marijuana’s effects on drivers aren’t as documented as the effects of alcohol, but according to a new poll, Americans already know what to worry about: our addiction to cell phones.
In recent years, people have been moving to Denver in droves, lighting an even larger fire under the already red hot housing housing market in the Mile High City. And even though local home prices have moderated to some degree in recent months, a new analysis suggests that Colorado Springs and Boulder are currently more appealing to potential buyers than is Denver.
