Parking at Smart meters can be stupid. After encountering two dumb problems in the space of a few hours downtown, we asked people to submit their most stupid parking story — for the chance of winning a $50 Smart card to the city’s meters. But anyone looking for parking on…
This is National Small Business Week, but local entrepreneurs should think big. “Better cities, better entrepreneurs…and vice versa,” proclaims [i4c], and the venture is putting its money where its mouth is, with a contest that will give three ventures not just investment money, but support that will galvanize the businesses…
The 500-space, three-month parking pilot project that’s installed sensors under many of the meters downtown may enable Denver to teach its Smart meters new tricks — including zeroing out any time left on a meter when a car pulls out. But those sensors weren’t smart enough to fix two dumb…
With the city facing a $94 million shortfall in its 2013 budget, every penny counts. As part of the pilot project that recently installed sensors in 500 parking places downtown, Denver is now zeroing out its Smart meter the moment a car pulls out. And keeping the change…
I’m coming to Denver! Gentle cabrones, my much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America has finally hit bookstores, and I’ll be in town at the end of this month to talk tacos. Mark your calendars for 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, when the real fiesta comes down at Su…
Aurora’s tourism efforts got a big boost Friday, when the state’s Economic Development Commission approved $81 million in Regional Tourism Act incentives for the hotel/resort/convention complex planned by Gaylord Entertainment Co. The project could open by 2016 — which means Aurora has a few years to roll out a real…
Today, the state’s Economic Development Commission will choose which, if any, of six projects that applied will get subsidies under the Regional Tourism Act. Eco devo chief Ken Lund has recommended that just one be granted incentives: Gaylord, which wants to build an Aurora hotel/resort complex…
While protesters gathered in front of City Hall Monday to protest the upcoming ban on urban camping, another group was gathering by the tiny triangular space at 23rd and Lawrence streets, a spot officially known as Eddie Maestas Park, but most often called the Bumuda Triangle…
The controversy that broke last fall over Rick Perry’s “Niggerhead” sign at a family hunting camp got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in 2011 that was still the official name…
Dear Readers: I usually don’t allow anyone to hijack this columna, but an exception must be made for California State Assembly member Gil Cedillo. He’s been fighting the good fight for decades, recently trying to get driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and ceaselessly supporting DREAMers. Cedillo was so moved by…
The controversy over “Niggerhead,” the hand-painted label on a rock at the hunting camp leased by Texas governor Rick Perry’s family for decades, got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in…
Always begin right where you are And work out from here: If adrift, feel the feel of the oar in the oarlock first, If saddling a horse let your right knee slug The belly of the horse like an uppercut, Then cinch his suck, Then mount and ride away To…
It’s 2006 all over again. That was the year that Coloradans passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. It was also the year when lieutenant governor candidate Janet Rowland, when discussing same-sex marriage, uttered this: “Do we allow a man to marry a…
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it…really fast. Today’s Denver Post has a fascinating — if redundant — Associated Press story about a Houston lawyer who’s tracking down missing moon rocks. At least 180 are unaccounted for — but not Colorado’s…
Like colorful spring flowers, red-bagged meters are popping up all over downtown. They’re part of a pilot program testing just how smart Denver’s Smart meters really are. Are they smart enough to know when you attempt to plug a meter? Are they smart enough to rat you out?…
My nephew in Chicago has a sudden interest in Colorado politics, and he’s been closely following the progress of the civil union bill at the legislature — a proposal resurrected yesterday when Governor John Hickenlooper said he would call a special session to debate the issue…
Yee-haw! The National Western Stock Show has saddled up for the future. Although NWSS chairman Jerry McMorris passed away yesterday, leaders went through with the announcement of a deal that will help steer the direction of the Stock Show, expanding it beyond an every-January event into more of a year-round…
Dear Mexican: I’m getting sick and tired of all these dirty, stupid Mexicans running around. The first part is easy: As Mr. Dicks says in David Copperfield when asked what to do with David, “Why, bathe him.” The second part could be just as easy: Pay them to learn English…
On January 29, 2009, Alex Landau was brutally beaten by Denver cops after they pulled him over for what they said was an illegal left turn — but he charged was racial profiling. And the City of Denver agreed — or at least was worried enough about the federal lawsuit…
My favorite artifact on display at the new History Colorado Center is an old “Colorful Colorado” sign right by the fabulous floor map of Colorado, riddled with bullet holes and sporting colored-in lettering — vandalism, according to the highway workers who took down the sign. History, according to History Colorado…
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.” So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking…
Eric Holder called it the most serious terror threat to the United States since 9/11. And the bombs that could have blown up New York’s subway system got their start in Denver beauty-supply stores, where Najibullah Zazi bought the ingredients to make homemade detonators. But that plot exploded, and Zazi’s…
