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Aaron Thompson’s Appeal of Bizarre Child Death Case Fails — but Is It Over?

By Michael Roberts

Aaron Thompson, who was convicted in 2009 of child abuse resulting in death and more in regard to his daughter, Aaroné, despite the fact that her body was never found, has lost his latest attempt to gain his freedom. The Colorado Court of Appeals narrowly rejected his argument that he’d been unconstitutionally prevented from using the lawyer of his choice.

Colorado’s Healthiest and Least Healthy Counties: Losers Include Denver

By Michael Roberts

The 2017 County Health Rankings for Colorado vividly show the relationship between health and money. The Colorado counties that scored best in the report tend to be the most affluent, while the ones that finished toward the bottom of the roster are typically poorer. But there are exceptions to this rule, as witnessed by Denver winding up near the back of the pack when it comes to the CHR’s two main metrics.

Claim: Frontier Told Flight Attendant to Wait Ten Hours to Pump Breast Milk

By Michael Roberts

Stacy Rewitzer and Jo Roby, a pair of flight attendants for Frontier Airlines, are at the center of a federal complaint that accuses the carrier of discriminating against them and their colleagues by not providing adequate accommodations related to pregnancy and breastfeeding, with one plaintiff maintaining that a representative of the carrier told her she’d have to wait approximately ten hours in order to express breast milk. The charges arrive one year after the filing of a similar lawsuit on behalf of four Frontier pilots.

Op Ed: Mr. Mayor, Please Zone Denver’s Parks!

By Tom Morris

Control of Denver’s parks and rules for events there are currently under the director of Parks and Recreation. Civic activist Tom Morris argues that it’s time they fall under they fall under zoning regulations.

Denver Fines 420 Rally Organizer and Prohibits Park Permits for Three Years

By Patricia Calhoun

This year’s annual 420 Rally left behind everything from trash to complaints about long lines. Four days after the gathering in Civic Center Park, Mayor Michael Hancock called for a review of the annual event. The results were just announced: an almost $12,000 fine for the organizer, who’s banned from applying for event permits for three years.

Teammates Hunter Donnelly, Braylin Scott Try to Out-Douchebag Each Other

By Westword Staff

Hunter Donnelly, a now former member of the Colorado State Rams, has been both an accused perpetrator of crime and a victim of one in recent weeks. He was dismissed from school after an arrest for allegedly violating a protection order involving a former girlfriend. But he also had thousands in bling stolen from him, reportedly by a teammate, Braylin Scott, who, according to law enforcers, tried to sell the stuff on Craigslist.

Ten Marijuana Edibles for a Real Rocky Mountain High This Summer

By Kate McKee Simmons

As spring heads into summer, there’s nothing Coloradans love more than getting outside and exploring the great outdoors…often with cannabis for a real Rocky Mountain high. But it’s illegal to smoke in federal parks, which is why edibles are an ideal item to pack. Whether you’re heading to the mountains for the weekend or just hanging out in your back yard, here are ten of the best edibles to bite into this summer.

Fifteen Denver TV News Stars Who Could Fall Victim to Cost Cuts

By Michael Roberts

Today’s departure of Tom Green from the CW2 morning show Daybreak and the hubbub over the awkward nature of CBS4 weather man Ed Greene’s slow retirement announcement are the latest reminders that longtime personalities at news stations in Denver and across the country are increasingly considered to be expendable. Falling revenues and shrinking audiences have resulted in cost-cutting that regularly leads to the vanishing of big local stars, as exemplified by news of 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher’s disappearance late last year and station anchor Adele Arakawa’s impending exit in June. Which leads to the inevitable question: Who’s next?

Denver Post Kills, Rebrands TV Experiment, Anchor Molly Hughes Out

By Michael Roberts

Shortly after the Denver Post revealed plans to move its newsroom out of Denver to Adams County, the newspaper is ending and rebranding Denver Post TV, an ambitious effort to regularly create television-news style segments intended to compliment and enhance its reporting. The Post has also parted company with Molly Hughes, a former CBS4 anchor hired in 2014 as the public face of the project. But editor Lee Ann Colacioppo stresses that the move shouldn’t be interpreted as the Post abandoning the visual side of news.

The Division of Indivisible Denver

By Michael Roberts

Indivisible Denver, a collective formed to oppose the agenda of President Donald Trump and hold local officials accountable, has undergone a division of its own. Co-founder Eric Shumake, who recently told us about weekly protests against Senator Cory Gardner dubbed the Sunday Gardner, has split off from numerous ID members who are now part of a separate outfit.

Cannabis Consumers Coalition Study Finds People Still Buy on Black Market

By Thomas Mitchell

When Colorado legalized cannabis, people had a lot of questions. More than three years after recreational dispensaries first opened their doors in this state, researchers are starting to answer some of those questions. While many marijuana studies focus on the general public, most of the people surveyed for a just-released report by the Cannabis Consumers Coalition were regular users who consume cannabis at least once a day.