Over the past couple of years, we’ve shared plenty of stories about drivers who feel they’ve been pot-profiled in other states because their vehicle had Colorado license plates. Most recently, we shared the story of Gabriel Campbell, who was pulled over in Texas for an extremely minor infraction — after which…
If you thought the national and international media’s fascination with Colorado’s marijuana legalization experiment would start to wane by now, you were wrong. Major news organizations continue to crank out stories of widely varying quality about the pot scene here — and based on the sampling below, they don’t seem…
The Fiat 500: Launched as the Nuova (new) 500 in July 1957, it was a cheap and practical town car. Measuring only 2.97 metres (9 feet 9 inches) long, and originally powered by an appropriately sized 479 cc two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, the 500 redefined the term “small car” and is…
As we’ve documented (with help from lots of readers), Denver’s rent prices are rising at a more rapid clip than most renters would like. But while one recent survey put Denver among the twelve U.S. cities where rent has gone up the most, RealtyTrac numbers shared by MainStreet.com places Denver…
Winter is finally getting serious in the Denver area. And that means potholes. Plenty of them. Right now, 7News is encouraging viewers to tweet the locations of the worst potholes they see during their commutes to the appropriate hashtag #ColoradoCrater. Here are the top five to date, featuring tweets and interactive…
The responses continue to come in over our post in which Denver was named one of the ten best cities for single women. Some of those responding agree with the premise. Others aren’t especially impressed by the selection, however. Here’s an example: Christi Tov writes: Denver is great for a…
Denver blogs offer plenty of thumbs-ups. At our Music blog, Drew Ailes offers six reasons he won’t like your band on Facebook. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger address rumors that the Broncos want Peyton Manning to take a pay cut. The Colorado Independent on the “frack task-force fail.” Send your story…
Back in January, we told you about a Colorado Springs bombing that struck a complex that included the local NAACP office. The working theory early on was that the NAACP had been the target of the attack — and as we noted, the organization’s president, Cornell William Brooks, scheduled a…
Dear DPS Community, I would like to apologize for our late notice in closing schools this morning. We know how important these decisions are, and we take them very seriously. The most important factor is the well-being of our students and their families. Whenever possible, DPS tries to keep schools…
Denver has seen more than its share of controversial police shootings, including the one that took the life of seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez last month. The same can be said of Weld County, which has experienced four fatal police shootings over the past eight months. The most recent of these involved…
There are plenty of amazing places to call home in Colorado — but which of them stand above the others? The Movoto blog came up with its list of the top ten. Count down the photo-illustrated top ten below, complete with excerpts from Movoto text and information about methodology. To…
By now, the power and influence of Reddit, which refers to itself as the “front page of the Internet,” is known to just about everyone. Except, apparently, former Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner. He made his most candid comments to date about the botched investigation into the 1996 murder of Boulder’s…
It was one of the most shocking stories of 2014 — one whose details seemed too terrible to be true. But apparently they were. Jena Harman and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, have reportedly pleaded guilty to keeping her seven-year-old child in caged outdoors on their remote Wyoming property — even…
The ten best cities for single women include Denver, according to the NerdWallet website. According to one reader, that’s accurate in terms of quantity. Quality, though, is another matter, she writes. Here’s her take. c.burnett writes: If you can’t get a guy in Menver, then you have issues. Finding a…
Denver blog posts can get pretty freaky. At our Food & Restaurant blog, Jenn Wohletz lists five questionable new foodie products, including (and we’re not kidding) a baby-shaped flask that allows you to drink out of the infant’s head. At Mile High Report, Kyle Montgomery weighs in on the disputed…
The results of the last election resulted in shared power at the Colorado General Assembly. Democrats remain the majority party in the House, but Republicans gained control of the Senate. Will good ideas from one chamber face ignominious defeat in the other one? A new proposal making progress in the…
Last September and October, one of the biggest stories in the Denver metro area involved student protests in Jefferson County against the proposed assembling of a history curriculum committee tasked with emphasizing patriotism and downplaying civil disorder. After large walkouts at schools throughout the district, the Jeffco school board okayed the…
Shortly after posting about the death of CU Boulder student Jacob Kulton at Breckenridge, we learned about another death resulting from an accident on the Colorado ski slopes. The victim was Dr. Meir Wetzler, a nationally known cancer specialist based in Buffalo, New York. Thus far, the circumstances of the…
The latest survey from the folks at WalletHub lists “2015’s Cities with the Most and Least Ethno-Racial and Linguistic Diversity.” Spurred by Black History Month, the site looked at 350 communities across the country as a way of cataloging America’s increasing diversity, as epitomized by the photo above, spotlighting the…
The image most of us have of patients suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s — a brutal malady detailed in Still Alice, for which Julianne Moore just won a well-deserved Academy Award this past Sunday — is of an elderly person sitting in place, lost in his or her own baffling world…
Yesterday, we told you about a skier death near Aspen Mountain; he’s now been identified as John Gancsos, 64. Because Gancsos perished in an avalanche outside the boundaries of a resort, his death won’t be included in the official casualty figures for ski areas. However, an incident on Monday will. On…
Last year, we told you about charges against Hector Diaz related to gun possession and his complicity in allegedly dropping $500,000 in Colombian cash in the Colorado marijuana business. Now, Diaz has pleaded guilty to a couple of counts — fewer than the number he originally faced. In exchange, Diaz is…
