What’s in a name? Plenty, according to the RiNo Art District, which was created more than a dozen years ago to celebrate the gritty warehouse area along the Platte River that has since become the hottest neighborhood in Denver.
Last month, I retired from a fifty-year-long career caring for women in Lakewood as an OBGYN. I’ve seen many changes in the way we practice medicine and in how our country approaches women’s health. But in all my years of practice, I am most terrified now for the future of women’s health care in Colorado and in the United States.
Colorado marijuana sales continue to hit new milestones, surpassing $1 billion in sales two months faster in 2017 than the year before, according to tax revenue data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
On October 11, RTD’s B-line was granted permission to “soon dismiss” its crossing guards—the flaggers, that is, that were hired to make redundant (and assure the effectiveness of) the mechanical gates that normally keep traffic away from the rails. But they’ll still be stationed along the A-line, and that got us thinking: man, that must be an isolating gig. Which led us to wonder what other lonely jobs exist in the Mile-High city?Please note that “lonely” is meant in no way as a pejorative. Chances are pretty good that you’ll read some of these job descriptions as you sit in your cubicle farm and think “actually, that sounds sort of nice.” To each their own, right? So here are the loneliest jobs in Denver—and if you think yours is more lonesome? Come down from your fences, desperado, and tell us about it in the comments.
Around the country, Boulder has a reputation as a youthful, wealthy, lily-white, politically progressive utopia. But the truth turns out to be considerably more complicated. According to “Boulder County Trends,” a fascinating new report from the Community Foundation Boulder County that’s accessible below, the population in the area is growing older and more diverse in ways that are complicating the interactions of the well-off and their less financially secure neighbors. Moreover, the county’s ideology doesn’t always translate into fairness or charity in quite the ways most locals likely imagine.
The Colorado Department of Transportation has announced it is partnering with a nonprofit focused on traffic mitigation on ways to lessen single-occupancy commuter traffic during the Interstate 70 expansion project in northeast Denver.
Marijuana’s path towards overall public acceptance has been measured in baby steps, with most government institutions and authorities slow to recognize its medical and social relevance or ignoring it altogether. However, at least one arm of Colorado’s government has embraced the plant: the public library.
Once upon a time, ratings were pretty much the only way of judging commercial success for local television news. But that’s no longer the case. Witness a new report by TV Spy, a broadcasting-industry website, which grades Denver TV outlets and personalities by social media engagement. Using that measure, 9News is the clear number one, while Kyle Clark, anchor of Next With Kyle Clark, tops the talent chart in part because of the ways he’s used Facebook, Twitter and Instagram beyond simply establishing and extending his brand, as he explains to us in the following Q&A.
A federal jury has awarded Vietnam veteran Mark Smith a $760,000 judgment to be paid by the Town of Kremmling and two members of the community’s four-person police department, including the chief, over a brutality episode with a long and bizarre backstory. Smith’s attorney says the beating Smith took was motivated by what he calls “small-town politics on steroids.”
Twenty years ago today, on October 12, 1997, John Denver died when an experimental aircraft he was flying crashed into Monterey Bay off the coast of California. But even before this benchmark anniversary, the makings of a full-scale JD revival was underway, as exemplified by the prominent role his song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” plays in two major films currently unspooling at a multiplex near you. And speaking as a longtime resident of the city for which the man born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. renamed himself, I find that irritating as fuck.
Blair Stapp got the idea to start Blank House after hosting lots of visitors through Airbnb. Stapp was constantly being asked for suggestions of things to check out, and noticed that a lot of the listings that guests were looking at through websites like Denver.org suggested areas of Denver that Stapp considers blasé or touristy.
Last year, we told you about the tragic death of Jack Splitt, the fifteen-year-old namesake of Jack’s Law, a landmark bill that allowed young medical marijuana patients in Colorado, like him, to take their cannabis-based medication at school. More than a year later, Mark Pedersen, who made MMJ suppositories that helped alleviate the pain suffered by Splitt as a result of a condition associated with his cerebral palsy, faces five felony pot possession and manufacturing charges in Jefferson County that flowed from the investigation into Jack’s passing despite the fact that there’s no evidence the medication harmed him in any way.
Although my push for a scratch ’n’ sniff cover of Smurfette for this week’s paper didn’t pan out, I hope my description does the strain justice. A melody of blueberries, strawberries, candied apples and a bit of piney wood create an unforgettable smell that I’d put right up there with Alien Rock Candy or Tangie.
John Ramsey, father of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on Christmas Day 1996, has filed a $350 million lawsuit against CBS and assorted individuals associated with The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey, a 2016 docuseries in which a panel of experts concluded Burke Ramsey, JonBenét’s brother, killed his sister with a blow to the head. In an interview on view below, Atlanta-based attorney Lin Wood, who also represents Burke in a similar complaint filed late last year, maintains that the suit isn’t specifically intended to prevent news organizations from making such claims in the future, but he’s fine if it has that effect.
A reader wants to know why THC showed up in his drug test, when he was just using CBD.
Now in new digs, Alan Fantin is confident that he can move out of the shadow of probate court at last.
A 2015 survey found that 86 percent of emergency medical services personnel reported critical stress; a job that entails frequent exposure to others’ once-in-a-lifetime tragedies takes a toll. But now programs like Building Warriors are teaching that culture is key to the mental health of these first responders.
Just over two years ago, we told you the shocking story of Desmond Smith, a fourteen year old allegedly murdered over a Cricket cellphone. More than two years later, three men have been sentenced in the case, which began with a particularly senseless act of violence and escalated into family drama in which a son agreed to testify against the father whose crime involved covering up for him and his uncle.
The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally funded law-enforcement group with an admitted anti-marijuana bias, has published the fifth volume in a series of reports about the impact of cannabis legalization on Colorado. Predictably, the new analysis, accessible below, is crammed with shocking statistics, and while many of the claims, including ones pertaining to an alleged spike in youth marijuana use in the state, aren’t supported by other, more reliable studies, expect them to be touted by the roll-back-the-pot-legalization-clock crowd anyway.
An Aurora family has spent most of 2017 trying to prevent city representatives from killing Bandit, a two-year-old dog deemed a hazard after what Animal Law Center attorney Jennifer Edwards describes as a minor bite suffered by a Federal Express deliveryman. But while a lawsuit filed by the owners and accessible below has put their pet’s euthanization on hold, the matter remains in limbo, and Edwards says the effect on Bandit has been devastating.
Shuei Kato, also known as Shuei Pako, has been found safe three days after he was due to return from an effort to summit Mt. Missouri in Chaffee County, and early reports suggest that a fire was key to his survival.
A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man who suffered numerous seizures during a 20-day stay at the Douglas County jail last year claims that jail officials “purposefully destroyed” video evidence in the case.
