This story ends with me being offered $300,000. But here’s what came first: Back in April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyeur’s Motel,” Gay Talese’s article detailing how Gerald Foos had spied on guests having sex in his East Colfax Avenue motel for decades through special ventilation screens he’d…
In July, we told you about the death of 23-month-old Jayvion Johnson, as well as the arrest of his mother, Candice Lampley, and her boyfriend, Delonta Crank, in the tragic incident. Early word suggest that the child had suffered serious burns, and a just-released autopsy report has confirmed it. Jayvion…
It’s hitching season for pro football players with Colorado connections. Last week, we shared wedding and honeymoon photos of Broncos receiver Eric Decker and singer Jessie James. Now we’ve got images, a wacky wedding video and more from the Colorado nuptials of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Rebecca…
Earlier this year, Realtor.com named Denver one of the ten best U.S. cities for singles wanting to buy a home. But according to a new study by Zumper, a website focusing on housing and rentals, plenty of them won’t be able to afford such a purchase once they arrive here…
In 1994, Colorado enacted the toughest and most far-reaching statutes to combat domestic violence to be found anywhere in the country. While many states have since increased penalties for various forms of spousal abuse, none have modeled their laws on the Centennial State’s particular scheme, which requires arrest and prosecution…
At first blush, a proposed amendment to the Denver city charter seems unlikely to stir passions. But including Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor in that document is important to the Denver Justice Project, which is planning a rally in favor of such a proposal at 4:30 p.m. today at the…
There’s a new marijuana competition in town that aims to crown the best cultivator in Colorado. “We hope you guys are ready to grow some really fire weed,” says Sohum Shah, co-founder of The Grow Off, the self-proclaimed “quantitative quest for the best.” The Grow Off is designed as a…
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that, if elected, he will institute an ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the United States — or, in his words, “extreme, extreme vetting.” The uproar that followed was undoubtedly familiar to former Congressman Tom Tancredo, who previously ran for president, as…
The folks at O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, were disappointed when the Denver Broncos declined to consider their proposal to purchase naming rights for Mile High Stadium. But that doesn’t mean representatives of the firm are putting distance between them and the NFL —…
Ever since the March 8 and 9 sweeps of homeless encampments near the Denver Rescue Mission, the city has engaged in a sustained crackdown on uprooted and displaced individuals throughout the city. These actions have been documented by “camping ban” statistics kept by the Denver Police Department, as well as…
On July 29, we reported that sports columnist Woody Paige was leaving the Denver Post, his newspaper home for the lion’s share of 35 years. In the subsequent Sunday edition, the paper published Paige’s goodbye column, in which he cited memorable pieces (including one in which he revealed that he’d once…
The circumstances of the sexual assault committed by former University of Colorado Boulder student Austin Wilkerson are unique (and distressing). But the outcome — Wilkerson will spend no time in prison for his crime — was all too familiar. An example: In speaking about the sex assault case against Air…
Colorado celebrated its 140th birthday on August 1. Because it was admitted to the Union on the hundredth anniversary of this country’s declaration of independence, it was quickly nicknamed the Centennial State. But to us, it’s always been Coolorado, the coolest state around, and the thousands of people moving here…
When you’re a solid six out of ten in the looks department, you have to break outside the box to get a pretty, popular girl’s attention. I’ve tried acting like the funny guy or Mr. Sensitive, to little avail. And, of course, I’ve played the “Everyone thinks you’re hot but…
George Brauchler, DA for the 18th Judicial District, is frustrated that Doyle Carmack got no jail time for his sixth DUI conviction — an outcome he associates with a 2015 felony DUI law that has no mandatory minimum provision and is, in his view, inconsistent “with the other sentencing portions…
The varied responses to the death of cyclist Michelle Walters during the recent Ironman Boulder race, as well as Mark Shelton’s vivid recounting of what he describes as an intentional hit-and-run in Denver, indicate that the tension between many drivers and cyclists in the area remains at a very high level. That’s no…
We had a big response to our post revealing the top 29 places people left on their way to becoming transplants to Denver. Ditto for one reader’s essay urging Denverites old and new to get along. One of the comments had a different take. This former Nashville resident is now part of…
In April, as we’ve reported, a Denver police officer, Technician Jeffrey Motz, shot and killed Dion Damon, a man wanted for bank robbery, as he sat in his car near the Denver Art Museum. Damon was unarmed at the time of his death, but Motz said the suspect made a “threatening-type…
Baker started out like most startups: with an idea. Roger Obando had already been in the startup world for nearly twenty years when he started thinking about marijuana and how new technology could improve the industry. He was living in New York in 2014 when a medical marijuana law passed in that…
It’s an indication of Denver’s Broncos-craziness that on a day when Patrick Roy blindsided hockey fans everywhere by abruptly resigning as the coach of the Colorado Avalanche and local heroine Missy Franklin continued her Olympics swoon in Rio, the Super Bowl champs’ preseason opener against the Chicago Bears was easily…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has denied petitions filed by two former governors and a New Mexico psychiatric nurse practitioner five years ago requesting that the DEA reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I substance, according to documents filed with the Federal Register today, August 11 — but the agency did decide…
Colorado public school kids might not have traipse down to the 7-Eleven for their daily Diet Mountain Dew fix. Diet sodas will likely be allowed back in the vending machines at Colorado’s public schools, thanks to the state Board of Education, which voted 4-3 Wednesday to change Colorado’s “Healthy Beverages…
