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.
The DOC has 1052 immigrant inmates with ICE detainers, costing the prison system approximately $37 million a year. Of those, 410 are past their parole eligibility date.
Last night, during his first prime-time address before members of Congress, President Donald Trump touted his agenda, including a series of controversial immigration policies. Afterward, Astrid Silver, an undocumented immigrant, offered a Spanish-language rebuttal on behalf of the Democratic Party, and her comments about the millions “who are an integral part of this country and who constitute the values and the promise of the United States” are perfectly symbolized by Denver’s Marco Dorado. After all, his entire life is a refutation of the idea that every undocumented immigrant should immediately be shipped back to his or her native country.
When you walk into a dispensary and ask a budtender to recommend a strain, you’re basically asking this: “What is your strongest?” Although the recommended strains will vary from shop to shop, many budtenders will pull out their version of the THC titan known as Ghost Train Haze. Ghost Train…
Last month, U.S. News & World Report said that Denver was the second-best place to live in the country, behind only Austin, Texas. Now, the publication has come out with its rankings of best states, and Colorado as a whole did nearly as well, finishing ninth overall.
What was Sean Spicer smoking when he linked marijuana with opioid addiction? And why did Jeff Sessions repeat the false claims?
A Denver Craigslist ad touted an impressive-sounding apartment at what for Mile High City is a fairly reasonable price, $1,495. But there was only one problem. As seen in the photo above, which effectively satirizes the high cost of rent in Denver, the abode was actually a series of lashed-together cardboard boxes.
In this op-ed, retired Denver County Court Judge Mary Celeste details why the Trump adminstration is clueless about marijuana and opioids.
On Friday, February 24, Denver dignitaries including Mayor Michael Hancock and Regional Transportation Department general manager and CEO Dave Genova gathered at the Iliff Station for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of the R Line. But not everyone was there to celebrate: Low-income residents are demanding a better deal.
“There’s been frustration, there’s been some angst,” Erik Soliván acknowledged before Denver’s 45-member Commission to End Homelessness. That includes commission members struggling with “finding a reason to come to these meetings and finding a direction,” he added. “I hear you. I want to begin a new dialogue and ask all…
Teen Jalecc Taylor has been sentenced to two years of intensive supervised probation under the juvenile system for negligent child abuse resulting in the death of Anthony Hemmings, his ten-year-old brother, last year.
Can you have a pot party at your workplace? In your company’s parking lot? Our Stoner has the answers.
When Colorado Representative Susan Lontine proposed legislation to eliminate the state tax on tampons and other feminine hygiene products, she saw it as a matter of basic fairness. But she says the debate over the bill has devolved into a partisan issue whose opponents seem flat-out angry about the idea.
Ever since Donald Trump nominated Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as attorney general, industry advocates have worried that Sessions might use his new position to crack down on marijuana. At his confirmation hearing last month, Sessions was evasive when asked what he would do as attorney general now that 60 percent…
In a jailhouse interview, Joshua Cummings, who has been charged with the slaying of RTD security officer Scott Van Lanken in late January, calls himself a “soldier of the Islamic state” and maintains that his actions were done for the “pleasure of Allah.”
The Colorado Muslim Society has released surveillance images showing a man who hurled a rock through the window of the mosque at 2017 South Parker Road. The case is under investigation by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, and the Aurora Police Department is also involved.
