More often that not, those of us who live in Denver and other sizable communities in Colorado and beyond are being watched by cameras maintained by each municipality and mounted in busy public areas. Now, cops in one Front Range community want to expand the network by supplementing their own surveillance gadgets with privately owned ones.
“Denver is becoming more diverse, but that is not reflected on TV and in our TV news departments in front of the camera — and perception is reality.”
David Reid Ross became the official Republican nominee for state representative in House District 12 after winning the primary in June. But after Westword revealed racist and homophobic content from Ross’s personal blog, The House of David, the Colorado Republican Party has tried to distance the organization from him. That’s left Ross with intestinal distress.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that the fourteen-year-old suspect in the August 28 shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with felony first-degree assault and a misdemeanor gun-possession count in juvenile court. But with the victim still in critical condition more than a week after the incident, a spokesperson for Denver DA Beth McCann is non-committal about a possible transfer to adult court should the situation change.
A new study ranks Colorado as the top state in the country for high earners and affluent families, also known as rich people.
The Colorado Republican Party now wants nothing to do with House District 12 candidate David Reid Ross after being informed by Westword about The House of David, a personal blog populated by well over a decade’s worth of posts that include rants and musings most sentient humans would regard as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and more, more, more.
The first shot has been fired by the folks backing Representative Jared Polis, the Democratic Party nominee, who’ve launched Where Is Walker, a site that needles Republican Party selection Walker Stapleton for his dubious attendance record during his stint as Colorado Treasurer.
Over the summer, Identity Evropa and Patriot Front, a pair of fascist groups aligned with the white supremacist movement, have been waging a propaganda war in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and other urban-corridor locations by way of stickers, banners and photos shared on Twitter accounts affiliated with their national organizations.
William Norris has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was a student and member of the Air Force ROTC program before being suspended in the wake of sexual assault allegations that were later rejected by a jury. He claims that CU Boulder administrators violated Title IX and his right to due process, among other things, by way of what his legal team calls “a profoundly flawed and intentionally biased sexual misconduct investigation.”
Yesterday, September 3, George Roloff and fellow inmate Luke Tanner escaped from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, prompting a statewide alert. But Tanner was soon recaptured, followed a short time later by Roloff, who’d earned a sentence of more than 150 years for a bizarre crime spree he said was prompted in part by a fear of witchcraft.
It’s not often that you can confirm the accuracy of a news story in real time. But that’s what happened during recent days in regard to a report about delays at Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles offices in regard to the issuing of permanent license plates.
The percentage increase of one-bedroom rent in Denver is greater on a year-to-year basis than in the U.S. of A.’s 25 priciest markets.
Westword and Lyle Lovett, who headlines at Red Rocks on Tuesday, September 4, with support from Margo Price and his own Large Band, go back a long way.
More than four years after Clear Creek County Deputy Don Wilson shot Cody Cox in the neck after a car chase on Interstate 70 near Georgetown, leaving him paralyzed, a jury has found that his actions were justified.
Joe Neguse is in a tricky position. As the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2nd District, which includes Boulder and is currently represented by gubernatorial hopeful Jared Polis, pretty much the only way he can lose is if a bizarrely specific virus kills every progressive voter before November.
Recent Colorado Department of Transportation figures show that stoned driving fatalities went down from 2016 to 2017 for those over the legal intoxication limit but up in fatal crashes involving drivers who tested positive for any marijuana in their system, whether above the line or under it. Such mixed results are typical according to a new report, which acknowledges that getting firm answers about the risks involved with driving high remains an enormous challenge.
Former Parker mayor Lopez finished behind Colorado GOP gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton and entrepreneur Victor Mitchell, both of whom had being war chests and dipped into them with abandon. But he still feels that “you don’t need a lot of money. You just have to have the right candidate with the right message and the right ability — the ability to connect and make people understand that you’re there not for yourself, but to help the state and make things better.”
Dr. Christina Boucher’s ogling lawsuit against Colorado State University was superpowered by the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, a project launched in the wake of sexual-harassment horror stories linked to disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein and others. But despite the increased attention being paid to complaints like hers across the country, a jury has ruled against her, finding that CSU’s actions didn’t qualify as improper retaliation.
The price list from Biological Resource Center Inc. offered a variety of options for the connoisseur of human body parts. A customer wanted an elbow? That would be $200. A whole arm and shoulder cost just $400 more. For those with more money to spend, a torso with head (referred to as a “cephalus”) went for $3,300. And an entire cadaver was available for the bargain price of $5,000.
The prof who heads the American Academy of University Professors’ University of Denver chapter says he’s been informed about complaints from fourteen past and current professors at the distinguished, nationally acclaimed Daniels College of Business about how they’ve been treated on the job.
Moments ago, the Denver Police Department tweeted that a juvenile male had been arrested in the shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School campus on August 28, during the second week of the new academic year. The student who was shot in the incident remains in critical condition.
The number of fatalities involving at least one driver over the legal limit for marijuana impairment in Colorado went down from 2016 to 2017. However, such fatalities are up during the same period for those testing positive for cannabis use at levels either above or below that limit. And the inconsistencies in regard to the collection of the information makes the scope of the issue unclear.
