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
Women who’ve suffered from postpartum depression, have helped create Alma, a novel peer-mentorship program at Kaiser Permanente designed to help women suffering from perinatal depression.
Lightshade has partnered with Amazing Grace Community Church in Thornton to fully fund the church’s food pantry.
A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers has assembled six bills for the 2018 legislative session that are intended to address the ongoing opioid crisis. Art Way, senior director of national criminal justice reform strategy for the Drug Policy Alliance, and state director for the DPA’s Colorado office, sees most of these efforts as steps in the right direction. However, he emphasizes that more still needs to be done to truly deal with the issue.
We recently shared the most asked Google search questions about not just ten but twenty of Colorado’s biggest celebrities. Of course, plenty of stars from our fair state share information about themselves without being asked, by way of their Twitter accounts, including Von Miller, Ryan Tedder, Lindsey Vonn, The Lumineers and more. With 2017 winding down, we dug into their pages to find their most memorable tweets from the past twelve months. Here are our top ten picks. Count them down below.
CBD is a cannabinoid found in both plants, and the chemical structure doesn’t change between them, but the quality and effectiveness of CBD can differ depending on what strain and plant it’s derived from.
On December 29, 2016, San Antonio mom Kelly Huber was killed and her two daughters, Ashley and Taylor, were seriously injured after a fall from a ski lift at the Granby Ranch ski area. A subsequent investigation determined that Huber’s death, one of fourteen at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was caused by what was deemed an “unprecedented” mechanical error involving the lift’s electronic drive. Now, William Huber, the girls’ father, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Granby Realty Holdings, the ski area’s owner, that reveals the most details to date about the tragic incident.
In our recent post headlined “Why KBPI May Not Be Rocking the Rockies at 106.7 FM for Much Longer,” we reported that while the venerable rock station was still accessible at the 106.7 FM frequency that it’s occupied for more than twenty years, its shift to 107.9 FM, designed to align the signals in Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, meant this could change soon. And it has: At 5 p.m. today, December 18, rock-loving listeners who tune in to the old dial spot will discover that the format has flipped to 106.7 The Bull, a new country outlet.
As promised, Miguel Lopez, founder of the Denver 420 Rally, has filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver after losing his priority event status and being banned from putting on the event during the next three years for allegedly violating his permit by leaving Civic Center Park trashed. Attorney Rob Corry, who represents Lopez, calls Denver’s actions “improper” and maintains that officials manipulated the reaction to the park’s condition following the April 20, 2017 edition as a strategy to violate his client’s rights.
A new poll shows Colorado gubernatorial candidates ahead in hypothetical one-on-one match ups with Republican Tom Tancredo. It also shows Donald Trump’s Colorado approval rating in the mid 30s, and dangerously low among independent voters.
The Colorado Village Collaborative has established a construction timeline in its partnership with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church to build another tiny home village on the church’s campus near downtown – at Glenarm Place and 20th Avenue.
In “What Can Happen If You’re Black, Wear a Hoodie and Buy a Muffin in Aurora,” published in September, we told you about an American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado lawsuit filed on behalf of Omar Hassan, a man of Ethiopian descent who became an alleged victim of racial profiling when police ordered him to leave an Aurora coffee shop, apparently because of his appearance alone. Now, the ACLU is suing two different Aurora police officers for roughing up Dwight Crews, another African American, after he alerted to his pet cat slipping out his front door. And while the stories are separate, ACLU of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein sees unfortunate similarities.
Each year around this time since 2010, we’ve spotlighted the top White Elephant gifts as chosen by the folks at ARC Thrift Stores. And this year, the five selections, pictured below, contain a twist for yours truly. Turns out I already own an item just like the number one choice and consider it to be a treasure than transcends the White Elephant concept.
As we’ve reported, 2017 has been among the worst-ever years for climbing deaths in Colorado, with at least ten casualties on fourteeners in the state, and plenty of tragedies at other natural wonders, including the passing of Henry Gholz in Rocky Mountain National Park during late September. Now, another climbing fatality has occurred just weeks before year’s end in Fremont County, with the victim identified as Andrew Biebuyck, a Virginia geologist.
