Alex Landau, co-founder of the Denver Justice Project and survivor of a shocking 2009 beating byDenver police officers, has strong ideas about where outgoing police chief Robert White went right and wrong during his nearly seven years in the post and what he’d like to see from his successor.
This week, Elisabeth Epps, co-lead of the Denver Justice Project, is raising funds for what she’s dubbed the Juneteenth/Father’s Day Bail Out, an initiative that aims to pay bonds for low-level male offenders who can’t afford to do so in time for them to spend the upcoming holidays with their families or loved ones.
Given the move away from brick-and-mortar retail outlets, particularly enormous ones, and the growing popularity of online shopping, will vacant box stores in metro Denver ever be filled?
A new lawsuit claims that two Commerce City Police officers rousted Joshua Condiotti-Wade for legally protesting while carrying signs that read “Fuck Bad Cops” and “Blue Lives Murder.” The problem was compounded, the suit maintains, when one of the law enforcers chased and tased Condiotti-Wade out of apparent frustration that he’d tripped and fallen down without help from anyone.
If whimsical racist and Peter Dinklage stunt double Jeff Sessions is surprised that he’s still the U.S. Attorney General given the number of times his boss, President Donald Trump, has said he wishes he’d never given him the job, he didn’t let on during a peppery address at the Western Conservative Summit this afternoon.
A short time ago, President Donald Trump said he would “probably” support the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act, a bill introduced yesterday by the political odd couple of Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner that gives states the right to determine their own marijuana policies without federal interference.
Frontier’s pilots are the most underpaid in the industry by a wide margin. After years of fruitless negotiations, they’re ready to strike right now, on the cusp of the busy summer travel season.
Sources who’ve spoken to Westword think odds are good Channel 2’s local news operation will be eliminated, possibly as soon as year’s end, in favor of right-wing news programming produced nationally by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group.
An expert from Colorado, where sponsoring highways is among the only promotional platforms open to marijuana dispensaries, worries that some limits put in place via the National Advertising Standard offered by the National Association of Cannabis Businesses are overly severe.
At a press conference that concluded moments ago, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner, a political odd couple if ever there was one, explained why they’ve teamed up to introduce a marijuana-related bill called the Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States Act.
The Colorado River has already reached its peak flow for the season, and that’s lousy news when it comes to fire danger, water supply for farmers and residential users, recreational opportunities and the health of numerous fish species, among other things. And while Victor Lee, an engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation, isn’t ready to hit the panic button yet, he concedes that bad can still turn worse.
House flipping, as its known, is commonplace in today’s red hot Denver housing market, as shown in new numbers that reveal the metro-area zip codes where it’s happening most frequently and the often huge windfalls that can result.
Of the 287 miles of Colorado roadway that are currently part of the state’s Sponsor a Highway program, 140 of them, or just under half, are being paid for by marijuana businesses. See where they are and what shops are participating here.
“It’s an absolutely amazing story,” says KNUS radio host Steffan Tubbs about the subject of 25 Steps, his latest documentary film, which debuts on June 6. “And I had to tell it.”
While officials work to implement Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s mobility action plan, whose goals include 30 percent of commuters walking, biking or taking public transit to work by 2030, traffic engineering manager Michael Finochio and his staff are trying to at least incrementally improve the current traffic situation, especially in Denver’s Central Business District, where what is known as the 2018 Downtown Signal Retiming Project is underway.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law’s political action committee has endorsed Representative Jared Polis’s 2018 campaign for governor of Colorado. And NORML executive director Erik Altieri is psyched that Polis, a Democrat, is as enthusiastic about this backing as the venerable cannabis advocacy group is in regard to his candidacy.
The story of the FBI agent who accidentally shot someone while executing a back flip at Mile High Spirits Distillery over the weekend went national with the speed of social media, and plenty of folks on Twitter quickly made sport of the bizarre situation. But now, as witnessed by a hilarious segment on last night’s edition of The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, the professionals are getting involved.
Attorney Paula Greisen is no fan of the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phililps and fears negative repercussions. But she sees positives in some of the language used in the majority opinion, as well as the lack of sweeping pronouncements that might have turned back the clock on LGBTQ rights.
Jeff Hunt, among the main coordinators of the Western Conservative Summit at Colorado Christian University, says comic Samantha Bee’s recent description of First Daughter Ivanka Trump as a “feckless cunt” isn’t the only reason representatives of Full Frontal, her take-no-prisoners TBS show, have been denied press credentials for this year’s event, which gets underway on Friday, June 8.
On May 30, about two hours after the publication of the Westword post “Fit Cannabis Girl v. Wheat Ridge’s Bid to Shut Down Her Pot-Friendly Gym,” a detective knocked on the door of Break the Stigma Fitness and handed owner Jennessa Lea a final order to vacate the premises by June 4. When she spoke to Westword yesterday, mere hours before leaving both the facility and the State of Colorado, she was understandably emotional.
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, owner of Denver’s Masterpiece Cakeshop, who objected to baking a wedding cake for a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, back in 2012 because of his Christian views. And while the decision isn’t as sweeping as some critics feared, it’s expected to cause repercussions that could be felt for years to come.
The story of an FBI agent whose gun accidentally discharged while he was backflipping at a Denver nightclub is continuing to spread today. But as amusing as it is to watch network anchors grapple with this material, the reactions of Twitter users are even more interesting.
