The world’s powerlifting championship is coming to Aurora next year. But this once scrawny suburb has been doing plenty of powerlifting of its own this year, muscling in on the turf of its big brother, Denver. Aurora’s most recent trophy? Becoming part of just one congressional district, rather than two…
Honk if you’re interested in what will happen in court today when David Lane pushes for an injunction against enforcement of ordinances he feels restrict Occupy Denver’s free speech rights. Lane charges that the City and County of Denver has used these ordinances against the protesters unfairly — when others…
Metro State students are getting an unexpected lesson in just how hard it is to rebrand a beloved institution. Yesterday, the school’s board voted to postpone by at least a month a final decision on a new name for Metropolitan State College…
In a repeat of a trip he made with then-governor Bill Owens back in 2003, Governor John Hickenlooper is now winging his way to California. He and new Denver mayor Michael Hancock are officially trying to encourage businesses there to expand to Colorado — and, unofficially, to maybe ditch the…
With temperatures predicted to plummet to just above zero later this week, Occupy Denver is looking increasingly like Occupy Iceberg. But protesters in a small Colorado city a few hours to the south — Occupy Trinidad — have figured out how to keep themselves occupied in the cold winter months…
The Good Food Awards has announced the finalists in its second annual national celebration of products that are “tasty, authentic, responsible.” And the list includes not just several local brewers and spirit makers, but Dagstani & Sons, “A Very Fine Fruit Company” that makes small-batch fine fruit preserves, marmalades and…
Governor John Hickenlooper announced yesterday that he’d created the Colorado Innovation Network, “a roadmap for making Colorado the best state for innovation,” he explains, “and where every road must lead to new jobs.” And when those jobs arrive, there will be plenty of young workers to take them, because despite…
Dear Mexican: Having been called a “gabacho” by “Mexicans” much lighter than I and “wetback” by those whose parents (or who themselves) crossed several rivers as they migrated to California, I’m curious as to which group you believe I should hold in the greatest disdain. While Anglo wetbacks are much…
Local bar owners breathed a sigh of relief when Steve Horner left town taking the discrimination charges he’d filed against them for offering ladies’ night deals with him. Denver’s gain is Las Vegas’s loss: Sin City is the current focus of Horner’s campaign. But rather than earning him a pair…
When the Squeaky Bean abruptly left its spot at 3301 Tejon Street in June, it left a hole in fans’ hearts — and also in the hot, hot restaurant neighborhood of Highland. But now the corner space next to Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe has a new tenant: Jezebel’s, the next…
Newt Gingrich is taking heat for the comment he made during this week’s Republican debate on a possible path to citizenship for some illegal aliens. And that path starts at a foundation based at a horse ranch in Parker and run by Helen Krieble, profiled in our 2006 cover story,…
Scene and herd: “Most women would rather be photographed as works of art than pinups,” says Sherry Whitney, explaining the origins of BodyPhotage, the company she started with husband Darrell Pierson eighteen years ago. And what works of art: For Colorado Uncovered, the new book of Pierson’s photographs, models stripped…
Like the Little Engine that Could, the come-from-behind proposal by the Union Station Alliance to redevelop Union Station just keeps chugging along. And at yesterday’s executive session of the RTD board, it pulled ahead of its competitor, Union Station Neighborhood Co., which had been out in front early. The race…
Molly Midyette seemed to have everything: a law degree, a husband who was part of a very prominent Boulder family, a new baby. But one day in 2006, when husband Alex was watching him, baby Jason fell ill. He died in a hospital days later. Today Molly has no child,…
Dear Mexican: GOP senator Mel Martinez authored a decent compromise bill to resolve the growing illegal-immigration problem in the United States. He broke up the group of eleven million illegals into three classes, depending on the amount of time that they were in the country. Those in the United States…
Denver has narrowly escaped destruction numerous times. When the railroads crossing the country in the 1860s threatened to skip the infant city altogether, leaving it high and dry on the plains, boosters worked fast to secure a line — and a future for Denver (and a fortune for themselves). A…
The e-mails were flying before last Wednesday’s Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs meeting, which had one agenda item: the dismissal of executive secretary Carol Harvey, who’d been on the job since March 2010 and was let go in early November. But during that conference-call meeting, two Colorado tribal leaders agreed…
Yesterday was not a good time to tour downtown. As city officials jumped in pedicabs to check out the newly refurbished 14th Street, which runs along the edge of downtown starting at Market Street, quite a welcoming committee was waiting at the other end of what’s also oddly dubbed “Ambassador…
When you think of Colorado Springs, what do you think of? Pikes Peak? The Garden of the Gods? The Broadmoor? The Air Force Academy? Ted Haggard? Yesterday, while Visit Denver’s annual meeting was learning that National Geographic Traveler will feature Denver next year as soon as the magazine can find…
Update: The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs conference-call meeting this morning was crowded, despite the fact that there was only one item on the agenda. But since that item was the dismissal of commission executive secretary Carol Harvey, there was plenty of interest in how Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia, who…
If Thanksgiving is approaching, it must be time for another controversy at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, which is overseen by the state’s lieutenant governor. Back in 1988, then-lite guv Mike Callihan created a ruckus with his plans for a feast in a Mayflower moving van. And now Carol…
Dear Mexican: Why is Mexico such a dump? Just to name a few of the problems: stray dogs running all over the place, piles of trash burning in the street, blown-out tires hanging from cactus by the side of the road, shredded plastic shopping bags plastering every fence in sight,…
