Early on March 6, North Korea launched four missiles off the country’s west coast, and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner is calling for a strong U.S. response, including new sanctions and a speed up in deploying a system designed to shoot down such projectiles before they can reach their destinations.
Team America PAC, an organization backed by Tom Tancredo, a former Colorado congressman and two-time gubernatorial candidate who ran for President in 2008, has been dubbed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Since Tancredo, a longtime conservative, considers SPLC to be a dubious organization whose left-wing agenda is designed to collect as much cash as possible, he isn’t especially upset by this designation. But he’s admittedly irritated by a 7News report on the subject that he sees as having essentially endorsed the hate-group tag.
In honor of President Donald Trump’s joint session address, here are others that didn’t just blow smoke.
In recent years, we’ve reported about concerns over heroin use in Denver, and statistics from over the past decade-plus, including provisional data for 2016, demonstrate that there’s definitely reason for worry. According to numbers assembled by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, heroin-related fatalities in Denver have increased a staggering 933 percent since 2002.
President Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration has sent immigrants, their attorneys and sanctuary cities like Denver into a tizzy. Rumors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and checkpoints are running rampant, and local attorneys are scrambling to provide accurate information to concerned, often frightened immigrants. Keep reading for ten…
A grouchy, longtime Denver resident has an answer for newcomers who tell him to “just deal with it.”
On Sunday, March 5, relatives of Holly Lynn Moore will join friends and supporters in a procession, on foot and motorcyles, around the perimeter of the Outlets at Castle Rock shopping mall, marking the second anniversary of the nineteen-year-old’s death. It sounds like a strange way to commemorate what local…
Surely you’ve heard about the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. There’s an entire website dedicated to the rare and endangered species, complete with news articles, FAQs, tree octopus sightings, even a store. According to the site: The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of…
After Attorney General Jeff Sessions told an assembly of the country’s attorneys general that state marijuana laws are in violation of federal law, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman came out fighting. Governor John Hickenlooper also said the state is prepared to fight any attempt by the Trump administration to cut back on this state’s rights.
Grayeson Hawkins-Fishman, 21, has been arrested twice in Colorado during the past year or so, but on neither occasion did he appear to believe it was his fault. After being busted for smashing his ex-girlfriend’s laptop, he portrayed the incident as a simple oops, and he blamed “stupid” pals for his recent cuffing over a fight and his subsequent acknowledgment that he was in possession of cocaine.
Last August, the Regional Transportation District staged an early morning press event to ballyhoo new shuttles coming to the 16th Street Mall. But while 36 of the vehicles were supposed to be moving passengers along this iconic stretch more than a month ago, only five have been delivered thus far, and and an RTD spokesman confirms that there’s no definitive date when the other 31 will be on the road.
Colorado was the first state in the country to allow the purchase of recreational cannabis. Now it could be the first to allow consumption in “pot clubs.” Senate Bill 184, titled Private Marijuana Clubs Open and Public Use, would allow local municipalities to authorize privately owned marijuana clubs, and the proposal…
John Orlando Sanchez, who goes by his middle name, has been sentenced to life in prison plus an incredible 108 years for the 2015 murder of 41-year-old Eric Schnaare. And a newly unsealed arrest affidavit shared below paints a brutal portrait of the slaying. Afterward, Andrew Gutierrez, who was sentenced to life plus sixteen years over the incident, is quoted as saying, “Wasn’t that awesome? That almost made me cum in my pants.”
When asked about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject the Independence Institute’s appeal of a decision involving issue ads mentioning Senator Michael Bennet and ex-Senator Mark Udall, Jon Caldara, the think tank’s president, says, “I blame all the people who murdered Antonin Scalia.”
“How many of you have heard rumors or have fears about immigration enforcement?” asks Julie Gonzales in Spanish before a packed room. Multiple hands shoot up into the air. “I’m concerned that immigration will come to my house and knock on the door,” one man says. “There are rumors about…
The first person Brad Allen came out to was his brother. Growing up in a conservative Christian family in the South, Allen was convinced his homosexuality was a sin, and he wanted to change it. “I told my brother, and we did research to find out what we could do…
Senator Cory Gardner isn’t alone when it comes to a lack of in-person town halls, given that Senator Michael Bennet hasn’t held one since 2014, as we reported earlier today. But while Bennet is able to bash President Donald Trump for conflicts of interest, among other things, Gardner, as the National Republican Senatorial Committee chair, finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to maintain loyalty to the chief executive even as evidence of alleged improprieties among his cabinet appointees continues to mount, as demonstrated by the grilling he received on National Public Radio this morning in regard to serious questions about Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
#ClawAndOrder, a hot, hot, hot Twitter hashtag created by HBO’s John Oliver and his staff at Last Week Tonight, is connected to a contest involving Neil Gorsuch, the Colorado-born judge nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court by President Donald Trump, and three lobsters named Cindy Clawford, Pinchers Von Shellington III and Mike. Yes, just Mike.
Four months after opening up the application process, the Aurora Marijuana Enforcement Division awarded the city’s 24th and last retail store license to the Green Solution. “The Green Solution is a professional corporate organization that is focused on security, compliance and interested in being a partner with the City of Aurora…
New cannabis consumers are often attracted to edibles, but wonder how much is too much. To help both Colorado native newbies and the many tourists who visit Colorado and have questions about edible potency, industry officials and state regulators have worked to educate people on the edible consumption limits. Some…
March is a tricky bitch, especially here in Denver. Sure, other parts of the country will see significant swings in weather in the month of March, and Colorado is known for a seriously random weather element almost any time of the year — but March is notorious for alternating between snow, springtime and snow again. Rain, snow, ice, sun, shorts weather one day, parkas and plows the next. Anything goes in Denver in March.
Congress is back in session, and political pundits in the Beltway are still digesting President Donald Trump’s address. But outside Washington, D.C., the activism continues. Here are more political education and advocacy events in metro Denver this week.
