Hugh Jackman is reportedly set to play former Colorado Senator Gary Hart in The Frontrunner, a new film by writer-director Jason Reitman. The movie will examine Hart’s 1988 run for the presidency, which imploded after the publication of a photo showing the senator and a model named Donna Rice posing in a friendly manner in front of a boat named the Monkey Business.
Denver’s economy is booming, yet blue-collar and service workers who rent in the Mile High City’s metro area have less money after paying for housing today than they did ten years ago, according to a new study. And the woman who oversaw the report says there’s no indication that the situation will improve anytime soon.
The death yesterday, June 27, of an as-yet-unidentified man during a commercial rafting trip was the second to take place on the Poudre River over a nine-day span. Moreover, the part of the river near where the man died took two lives in 2014 during another especially dangerous period for the Poudre.
Roman Morales originally claimed to have been insane when he fatally strangled two-year-old cousin Donnie Ro’Mello Romero Jr. at a Lakewood apartment in September 2015. But the jury hearing the case ultimately found Morales guilty of first-degree murder under the theory that his bizarre behavior, including claims that he’d somehow been ordered to kill the child, was actually a symptom of psychosis spurred by meth use.
Jamie White is marking her fifth year back on Alice 105.9, the station where she first became one of Denver’s biggest radio stars during the 1990s and early 2000s. But despite all the words she’s spoken, and all the eyebrows she’s raised, during her separate Mile High City stints, she’s seldom gotten the chance to share the complete story of her unusual three-decade broadcasting career. And in the following interview, she tells the tale in her trademark no-holds-barred fashion.
New Mexico author Forrest Fenn considered ending the search for a hidden treasure after the death this month of Grand Junction pastor Paris Wallace, the second Coloradan to perish looking for it over the past eighteen months. But he has now concluded that the hunt should go on in part because of a life he says was saved by the quest.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Denver’s Masterpiece Cakeshop discriminated against a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, by refusing to make them a wedding cake just over a year after the case was rejected by the Colorado Supreme Court. Attorneys for Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips argue that a Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins violated his rights as an artist not to create works that violate his personal beliefs, and they may find a find that Neil Gorsuch, a Coloradan who ruled in favor of religious freedom in an important case prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, has sympathy for this view.
Welcome to Denver, the worst place in these United States for people who drive under the speed limit in the fast lane.
Molly Berkenhoff, who was rescued after a terrifying fall at Boulder Canyon on June 21, remains hospitalized a week later as a result of injuries to her spine. And according to her sister, Eileen Mervish, “Molly will have a long road of rehab and recovery ahead of her.”
Only days after the release of a study saying that collision claim frequencies in Colorado are about 3 percent higher overall than would have been expected without marijuana legalization comes a competing report stating that the crash fatality rates haven’t changed significantly. These seemingly contradictory findings leave one marijuana reformer confused but certain that the sky isn’t falling.
Since longtime 9News sports personality Drew Soicher left the station late last year, many news programs on that outlet and other local network affiliates have been de-emphasizing traditional sports coverage despite Denver being one of the country’s most sports-crazy cities. A veteran anchor who left a net for cable says the reason has everything to do with the rise of online sports media at the same time station budgets are getting tighter and tighter.
Neil Gorsuch, who was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in April, is selling his Boulder County home. The property is described as a “Horse Lovers Paradise,” and if it sells for anything near the asking price of $1.675 million, it should add considerably to the net worth of Gorsuch, who may already be the wealthiest member of the Supreme Court.
Members of the Justice Department’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety have been ordered to “undertake a review of existing policies” regarding federal marijuana law enforcement, among other things. Their report is due on or before July 27, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws believes the document may use as its template a list by a fellow at the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation of eleven ways the administration of President Donald Trump can shut down legal cannabis.
Last night, June 21, Molly Berkenhoff, an expert climber living in Arvada, was rescued following a Boulder Canyon fall that resulted in possible lower spinal fractures, among other injuries.
The City of Denver appears to be continuing its public-relations battle against the Denver 420 Rally, which is appealing a three-year permit ban, by contrasting the trashy condition of Civic Center Park the morning after the April 20 event with the much tidier look of the location following this past weekend’s PrideFest celebration. Meanwhile, an attorney for the rally charges Denver with using a double standard by pointing out that a dispensary was allowed to display its logo at PrideFest, as seen in a video below, even though such businesses have been forbidden to do so at the Denver 420 Rally.
Metro Denver is currently the least affordable market in the country for first-time home buyers, according to newly released statistics. Major factors include millennial newcomers whose willingness to pay more is boosting prices higher and higher and higher.
A fire at the former home of Donthe Lucas, a suspect in the disappearance of Kelsie Schelling more than four years ago, is being investigated as potential arson, raising speculation about a potential link to her case that police are trying to dampen. In the meantime, a fire department spokesperson confirms that the current residents of the house were home at the time the blaze erupted and sprang into action to put it out before more permanent damage was done.
Members of Colorado political groups affiliated with the Indivisible movement are blasting Senator Cory Gardner for linking protests at his office involving coffins and costumed Grim Reapers and the attack on Republican lawmakers at a practice session for the Congressional baseball game that critically wounded Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise last week.
ESPN’s Tony Korhneiser has branded the Colorado Rockies as a “fraud” even though the team is presently holding down first place in the National League West, due in part to the way the team choked in the World Series ten years ago. It’s an indication that the national media doesn’t believe in the squad, which has a history of hot starts and lousy finishes, despite indications that things may be different this year.
Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico author who’s attracted thousands to his state with clues about a $2 million treasure he says he’s hidden in the mountains north of Santa Fe, admits that he’s thinking about stopping the search following the presumed death of Paris Wallace, a Grand Junction pastor. Wallace is the second Coloradan to go missing while searching for the treasure over the past eighteen months.
Forrest Fenn, a New Mexico author who’s lured thousands to his state with clues about a $2 million treasure he says he’s hidden in the mountains north of Santa Fe, is sharing his thoughts about the disappearance of Paris Wallace, a pastor from Grand Junction who vanished while looking for the cache, and reports that a thus-far-unidentified body was found a few miles from where Wallace’s abandoned car was located.
Twenty-five years ago this month, a major national newspaper announced that Adam and Eve’s skeletons had been found in Colorado, with an expert speculating that the Bible’s Garden of Eden had been discovered south of Denver. And so what if that publication was the Weekly World News, which was fake news before fake news was cool?
