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Why So Many of the Mentally Ill End Up in Jail Instead of a Hospital

By Michael RobertsFebruary 6, 2017

If you’re mentally ill and in crisis in Colorado, you can be legally put in jail for 24 hours even if you haven’t committed a crime. Moreover, an attempt to change this rule last year was driven by law enforcers who wanted the hold time for innocent sufferers to be extended, not eliminated. A task force assembled at the behest of Governor John Hickenlooper came to a very different conclusion. In a report on view below, the group called for so-called M-1 holds to end and provided some ideas about how to make it happen.

Restoration of Historic Emerson School Nears Completion

By Margaret JacksonFebruary 6, 2017

The final phase of a $3.3 million renovation to the former Emerson School is wrapping up. Now known as the Frank B. McGlone Center, the 20,000-square-foot building at 1420 Ogden Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2010 by Capitol Hill…

Will Joe Tumpkin Domestic Abuse Case Become Next CU Football Scandal?

By Michael RobertsFebruary 6, 2017

On February 9, former University of Colorado Boulder defensive coach Joe Tumpkin is scheduled to appear in Adams County court for a preliminary hearing related to multiple counts of assault related to domestic violence accusations. But thanks to an exposé in Sports Illustrated, CU Boulder is already on trial in the court of public opinion over its handling of the Tumpkin matter, and the fallout is capable of undermining a program that took more than a decade to recover from a recruiting scandal whose ripples recently revealed a past sex assault investigation targeting new Broncos head football coach (and former CU Boulder assistant) Vance Joseph.

I-70, RTD Shooting, Sanctuary Cities: The Biggest Stories in Denver

By Westword StaffFebruary 5, 2017

This past week was a busy one in Denver, to be sure. Mayor Michael Hancock found himself in the crosshairs of a national debate raging about sanctuary cities and whether President Donald Trump would punish municipalities that are outspoken advocates of undocumented immigrants. Neil Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge in…

Reader: If You Care About the Homeless, Let Them Stay in Encampments

By Westword StaffFebruary 4, 2017

While Denver officials grapple with Trump administration orders about refugees and immigration, they also have homegrown problems. At the end of January, the city conducted another sweep of a homeless encampment — but having apparently learned some lessons from the snafus of last spring, this time the city had much…

Denver Officials “Ready to Fight” Trump on Immigration Orders

By Chris WalkerFebruary 3, 2017

“We are going to protect the people of Denver. Period.” That’s what Alan Salazar, chief of staff for Mayor Michael Hancock, told a standing-room-only crowd at North High School last night. For two hours on February 2, hundreds of community members heard from city officials, state representatives and immigration advocates…

Reasons That You Should Pay for a Newspaper

By Michael RobertsFebruary 3, 2017

Is subscribing to a newspaper an essential part of good citizenship, particularly during a period when we are inundated by fake news? In a recent column, Chuck Plunkett, editorial page editor for the Denver Post, argues yes.

Leah Heise on the Power of Women — and Men — in Cannabis

By Kate McKee SimmonsFebruary 3, 2017

Women Grow, founded in Denver in 2014, was created to connect entrepreneurs in cannabis with other thought leaders and empower the next generation of cannabis businesswomen.  The organization is hosting its annual Leadership Summit in Denver right now; women and men from all over the country came to share their stories, network and learn more about what it means to be an entrepreneur in cannabis. We sat down Women Grow CEO Leah Heise to learn more about the organization and her plans for 2017.

NCIA Director Discusses National Cannabis Priorities at Seed to Sale Show in Denver

By Kate McKee SimmonsFebruary 2, 2017

Advocacy for cannabis at the national level is more important now than ever before, said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, as he opened NCIA’s Seed to Sale show on January 31. NCIA ensures that cannabis-industry professionals have a voice and a seat at the table in Washington D.C., Smith noted as he explained not only how NCIA represents the cannabis industry in D.C., but how the organization plans to protect cannabis at the national level — and how the industry in Colorado can help.

Six Things We Learned From the Mowgli Holmes Keynote at Seed to Sale

By Kate McKee SimmonsFebruary 2, 2017

Mowgli Holmes gave the keynote at the Seed to Sale Show in Denver on February 1, and he taught the crowd a thing or two — or six — about cannabis. Holmes is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Phylos Bioscience, which has created a web of over a thousand cannabis strains. The web links strains that are in the same family and provide growers and consumers with scientific knowledge about the plant that has never been documented in one place before.

Joshua Cummings: Was Alleged Killer of RTD Officer Committing Terrorism?

By Michael RobertsFebruary 2, 2017

Much more information has emerged about Joshua Cummings, the 37-year-old man who is suspected in the execution-style murder of RTD security officer Scott Von Lanken late on Tuesday, January 31. The former head of a Texas Jiu-Jitsuka academy who had recently moved to Colorado, Cummings expressed antipathy for police in multiple posts that remained online even as reports surfaced that he reportedly had “Muslim documents” on his person when he was taken into custody and spoke in what sources described as “an Arabic language.”

Holly Moore: Family Suspects Murder in Teen’s Death Ruled Suicide

By Alan PrendergastFebruary 1, 2017

The mystery surrounding the death of Holly Lynn Moore, a 19-year-old college student found hanging in a closet in her Castle Rock apartment in 2015, just keeps getting deeper. Family members have spent months and thousands of dollars uncovering evidence that suggests Moore’s death wasn’t the suicide that it appears to be.