A little over a year ago, we introduced you to the five richest Coloradans according to their position on the Forbes 400. At first glance, the updated Forbes list is unchanged; the same five people appear on the roster, and in the same order. However, there have been some shifts in…
One significant contributor to the Denver Broncos’s Super Bowl-winning 2015-2016 season had previously announced that he wouldn’t be joining the squad for its visit to the White House, scheduled to take place today: former fill-in quarterback Brock Osweiler, who jumped to the Houston Texans during the off-season. Now, however, another…
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing election coverage, we’re taking a closer look at amendments and propositions that will be on the Colorado ballot in November. Today, we examine Amendment 69 by way of an interview with a spokesman for the campaign. Tomorrow, we’ll feature a Q&A with a…
In July, four doctors were suspended for allegedly recommending cannabis to patients who didn’t need it for health-related reasons after being referred to the Colorado Medical Board by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Now, however, the CDPHE’s referral process has been struck down in Denver District Court…
The Facebook pages of Evergreen resident Katherine “Katie” Barton and her husband, Jason Barton, could hardly look more typical. The posts and photo galleries are dominated by photos of their three adorable children, who look happy in all the shots that appear. But the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office believe…
Among the key elements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, shorthanded as HIPPA, are provisions guarding the privacy of a person’s medical history. And since hospitals are repositories of such information, they are on the front lines when it comes to preventing such data being made public. All…
The most telling aspect of the response to news of Walt Weiss’s resignation as Colorado Rockies manager after three years on the job? How measured most of it was. On social media, a platform made for impassioned reactions (and overreactions), most of those who bothered to weigh in did so…
Over the years, Denver TV stations have waged an ongoing series of weather wars using as weapons the latest forecasting tools — high-tech gear that’s supposedly made on-camera prognosticators better guessers than their rivals. An example: In early 2004, as we reported, CBS4 was touting a system called “Live Doppler 4000,”…
During the first three weeks of the 2016 NFL season, fans of the teams beaten by your Denver Broncos have complained about being screwed by officiating, bad luck and plenty of other earthly factors. After the Broncos’ 27-7 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday, however, Bucs lovers griped to…
The media barrage about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is nowhere close to being over, as witnessed by The Killing of JonBenét: Her Father Speaks, an A&E documentary broadcast last night, in which John Ramsey, the father of the six-year-old Boulder girl murdered on Christmas Day, 1996, blasted a CBS series in which a…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged ex-Denver police officer Hubert Martin “Marty” Vanover on counts of possession with the intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana or marijuana concentrate, possession of marijuana or marijuana concentrate, and possession of a controlled substance — reportedly methamphetamine. Vanover has had plenty of…
Sustainability is a 21st century ideal — a quality to which every city should aspire during a period in which concerns about the environment, and the ways we interact with it, continue to increase. With that in mind, Amsterdam-based Arcadis, which describes itself as “the leading global design and consultancy for…
A woman’s body was discovered amid a suspicious fire in Strasburg over the weekend. Now, the blaze is being investigated as a homicide — and an arrest warrant has been issued for 58-year-old Andrew Ausmus, As for the victim, she has yet to be positively identified owing to the damage…
The exodus of big-name talent from the Denver Post — a major theme of Alan Prendergast’s current feature article about the Post — continues. And after the departures of longtime sports columnist Woody Paige and sports reporter Troy Renck (the fifth Broncos beat writer to split in four years), it’s the politics team’s turn to…
This week on his Facebook page, Darryl Glenn, the Republican candidate for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat, shared the results of a September 23 Gravis poll showing him leading Democratic Senator Michael Bennet by two points. A cause to celebrate? Perhaps — but only if Glenn and his backers ignore a…
Last December, the Colorado Department of Transportation debuted what it dubbed a Peak Period Shoulder Lane — shorthanded as PPSL — constructed along a thirteen-mile stretch of Interstate 70 heading eastbound from Empire to Floyd Hill. The idea was to ease traffic on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays for people returning to Denver…
Just days after we published a three-part series about violence on the 16th Street Mall, including a first-hand account of a violent stabbing that had gotten very little press coverage, Denver officials announced a new safety plan for the mall. The plan, which was scheduled to go into effect this week…
Anti-fracking groups were incensed when the Colorado Secretary of State’s office announced that initiatives 75 and 78, a pair of measures they supported, had failed to qualify for the November ballot. Not that Coloradans will have a shortage of choices to make when they either literally or figuratively step into…
In conversation, Grant Kwiecinski is a lot like the music he creates as GRiZ: fun, funky and relentlessly positive. GRiZ, who headlines Red Rocks on Saturday, October 1 — as well as a just-announced after-party DJ set at the Gothic Theatre — is typically grouped with the producers of EDM and…
Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the federal ban on gun sales to medical marijuana patients was constitutional. But since the court’s jurisdiction doesn’t include Colorado, local patients aren’t effected, right? Not so fast, says marijuana attorney Rob Corry. When asked if the ruling could eventually…
Earlier this month, news outlets such as CBS4 reported that a man had been shot and killed near an RTD light-rail station at 29th and Welton Street in Five Points. And while that was true, this location information doesn’t help much when it comes to accurately measuring the number of…
Arnold Palmer’s death at age 87 has prompted plenty of memories about the golfing legend, who helped bring the game into the modern age through his combination of tremendous skill, aggressive play and a media savvy that today’s athletes emulate whether they realize it or not. But of his 62…
