As President Trump reportedly considers ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Mayor Michael Hancock had a message for the White House on Thursday, August 31: “Mr. President, leave our DACA children alone.”
The CBD fad is growing fast in America, with everything from hemp-derived CBD vaporizers to high-CBD strains like AC/DC and Harlequin becoming more and more popular for medication. The mid-year report from the Hemp Business Journal, one of the more trusted sources in the industry, shows a rapidly growing field of CBD products that still has plenty of room to grow. But will big pharma take over?
As demonstrated by a racially charged protest gone fatally wrong in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month, white supremacists have no shame. But if they did, they’d probably be humiliated by even the slightest association with Colorado’s own Joshua Witt, who claimed to have been stabbed because of his resemblance to a neo-Nazi, only to later admit that the wound was self-inflicted.
Dan Haley implied that Coloradans have intentionally monkey-wrenched pipelines and flowlines — and further, the problem would grow if citizens are given full information about their locations on the Front Range. But is monkey-wrenching really taking place?
After Colorado legislators passed House Bill 15-1170, which changed the measurement for high school success to include any post-secondary schooling, districts around the state began laying the groundwork to make big changes. Many are now shifting from a college-preparation model to a career-preparation model, asking individual students what they’d eventually like to do and then tailoring their courseloads to those goals.
As you get ready for the long weekend, remember that traveling through Colorado is like traveling in no other state. Where else would you make a twelve-hour roundtrip for a two-mile hike? Or take a spur-of-the-moment drive along a scenic byway? Stopping at small towns, talking with the residents and trying out local coffee shops is part of the fun. So is popping in at the local dispensary.
Alfred Williams, who teams with recent Westword interview subject Darren “D-Mac” McKee weekday afternoons on 104.3 The Fan’s The Drive with Big Al & D-Mac, isn’t just one of the metro area’s most popular radio hosts. He’s also a local sports legend thanks to a stint anchoring the defensive line for the University of Colorado Boulder, which earned him a national championship and membership into the College Football Hall of Fame, and a three-year run with the Denver Broncos that included not one but two Super Bowl victories. And in the following interview, he tells his story to date in the sort of straight-forward, no-bull manner that’s long been his trademark.
Because of the fifth death on the Aspen area’s Capitol Peak in just over six weeks, Colorado’s fourteeners have been in the news for tragic reasons lately. But a new survey reveals that these majestic attractions are more popular than ever, with the number of hiker-use days during 2016 exceeding the 2015 total by more than 50,000. The data also identifies the ten most popular fourteeners in the state, as well as those where hikers are less likely to encounter a crowd.
Is Labor Day a big holiday for stoners? We asked our own to find out, and the answer might surprise you.
More than eighteen years after 18th Judicial District deputy DA Rebecca Bartee’s June 7, 1999 murder, authorities have made an arrest, booking Robert Lee Williams, a seventy-year-old who was still living in the apartment building where the slaying took place. The case was broken thanks to a tip received by CBS4 reporter Brian Maass earlier this year, yet multiple news agencies in Colorado aren’t giving credit where credit’s due.
Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a group dedicated to fighting marijuana commercialization, published a report calling for federal resources to crackdown on the industry’s big players.
Standing behind a podium at a welcoming ceremony on August 23, Araceli Velasquez, a young mother of three U.S.-born children, holds back tears as she surveys a crowd gathered on her behalf in a large worship hall. The building, and many of the faces, are still unfamiliar to her, but they won’t remain so for long.
Five oil and gas companies lent staff, resources, and donated educational materials for use in the classroom in a partnership with the Poudre Learning Center, which builds workshops for students and teachers in northern Colorado. Among the companies were Noble Energy, the second largest producer of oil and natural gas in the state, as well as Anadarko Petroleum — the company responsible for the home explosion that killed two in Firestone last May.
Victor Mitchell, a successful entrepreneur and onetime state legislator, is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of Colorado in 2018. In the following in-depth interview, Mitchell details his unexpected personal story, his rise to business success and proposals that he sees as differentiating him from other candidates.
The recreational-only Fort Collins location is slated to have a soft opening in September, with a grand opening on Saturday, October 7.
Steven Chester’s day job is as a Denver city planner. But when he’s off the clock, he still celebrates the Mile High City, albeit in a completely different way. For his Flags of Denver project, he’s set out to create a flag for all 78 officially designated Denver neighborhoods. And as indicated by the twenty he’s produced so far (see all of them here), his love of design and fascination with the history of each area have come together in a way that’s well worth saluting.
Denver City Council has announced a plan to purchase PT’s All Nude II, a defunct strip club at 8315 East Colfax, for $1.3 million, in an effort to spur an economic revival in the area. The building was shuttered in 2016 because of numerous public-safety issues, with the most prominent among them being a September 2015 murder on an evening promoted as #SelfieSaturday.
Made from Afghani and Kashmir strains instead of milk and cream, Vanilla Kush was developed by Amsterdam breeder Barney’s Farm, which introduced it to the world at the 2009 High Times Cannabis Cup. I’ve been chasing it ever since.
With the support of Mayor Hancock and a majority of Denver City Council already secured, the bill, called the “Public Safety Enforcement Priorities Act,” went to a vote before Denver City Council on Monday night, August 28.
Erica Chenoweth can tell you that the average nonviolent protest movement achieves its goal in just three years, three to four times shorter than violent campaigns. The University of Denver professor is also quick to cite her finding that nonviolent campaigns have double the rate of success of their bloody counterparts.
The students at ACRES aren’t just growing vegetables; they’re growing their career portfolios and reaping college credit in the process. And at the same time, Jefferson County is cultivating a model for future high school programs across the state.
Evolab has new leadership with a familiar face to the cannabis industry. The CO2 extraction company announced the hiring of former Mary’s Medicinals CEO Nicole Smith to the same position on Monday, August 28.
