See editor’s note below: Online conversations can morph in unexpected ways. A case in point can be found among the comments on a post that asked the question, “Would Higher Beer Taxes and Legalizing Pot Cut Down on Campus Rapes?” Before long, readers began debating whether the way young women…
Denver blog posts are full of surprises. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies shares ten things you didn’t know about Lakeside Amusement Park. Coyote Gulch updates Colorado’s spot on the U.S. Drought Monitor. At Denver Urbanism, Peter Bird asks: “Bikes on the 16th Street Mall?” See also: New…
Nederland’s Cody Cox was already known to local law enforcement when a Clear Creek County Deputy tried to pull him over just under a year ago — and Cox ultimately led him and a colleague on a mini-chase of sorts. But did that mean his subsequent shooting, which left him…
In recent weeks, an aide for the Obama administration said the president plans to do nothing new about marijuana policy during his final two years in office — a stance that frustrated a national cannabis advocate, the Marijuana Majority’s Tom Angell. But Angell is pleased by Obama’s prediction, included in…
Would you die for your cellphone? Jordan Hough nearly did. Two men stole Hough’s phone while he was on an RTD bus, and rather than letting them get away with it, he gave chase — and he found out why police warn against taking the law into your own hands…
There’s still more than a week of hype to go before Super Bowl XLIX, and that means more blanket coverage of Deflategate (eeesh), as well as more pain for Denver fans who can’t decide which team they despise more — the Seattle Seahawks, who humiliated the Broncos in last year’s…
The Colorado Springs Gazette recently looked at the state’s counties from the perspective of median income, and the ten that topped the list contained some surprises. For instance, Denver didn’t make the cut — or even come close. Continue to count down the photo-illustrated top ten, featuring Gazette numbers and…
Our post about a proposed grant program to help Colorado counties offset the cost of legal marijuana’s impact inspired a big response from our readers. The majority strongly opposed the idea, with this post laying out many of the arguments against giving such funding to places that have outlawed retail…
Denver blog posts don’t think 36 hours is enough. At our Show and Tell blog, Patricia Calhoun reveals where the New York Times would eat during 36 hours in Denver. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek on the civil-unions cleanup bill on the way to the chopping block. South Stands Denver’s…
Update: Last week, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of a man who’d allegedly robbed a Fast-N-Friendly outlet in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the person killed as 39-year-old Kavonda Earl Payton — and there’s a very large difference between his…
Last month, we told you about Granby’s extraordinary efforts to block a pot shop wanting to operate near town — by annexing the land in an “emergency” action. The law firm representing the ganjapreneurs had suggested that this action would be challenged in court, but its clients have now decided…
Scripps News recently crunched numbers on unsolved U.S. murders and discovered that the total of 200,000-plus since 1980 actually exceeds the population of Des Moines, Iowa. The data also reveals which states do the best job of solving homicides, and Colorado’s ranking is mediocre, with 26 states cracking a higher…
In 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, an organization that sent hot women into bars wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the company’s name — and they told customers to whom they sold branded merchandise that the money they collected would go toward fighting breast cancer. But Colorado’s Attorney General branded…
On a chilly morning like this one, a lot of us are tempted to start a car parked on the street and leave it running for a few minutes while we finish up inside. Here’s a story demonstrating why that’s a bad idea: A puffer car that was stolen yesterday…
In response to a recent post about Colorado’s high divorce rate (it’s in the national top ten), one reader offered some reasons why matches in the state’s capitol may not last. And sorry, dudes, but according to her, it’s your fault. See also: Photos: Top Ten States for Divorce –…
Denver blog posts are always hatching good ideas. At our Cafe Society blog, Lauren Monitz serves up a list of Denver’s ten best eggs Benedict dishes. Colorado Peak Politics wasn’t exactly wowed by President Obama’s State of the Union address…. …while Colorado Pols offers this headline: “GOP Talks Immigration, but…
Last Friday, comedian Ralphie May’s show in Grand Junction included some special guests — members of the Grand Junction Police Department, who responded to a row involving attendees reportedly pissed at May’s apparent intoxication. Afterward, May’s manager called his client the “first victim of legalized marijuana,” suggesting that he’d overindulged…
As we’ve reported, Denver police Officer John Adsit was critically injured in a crash that took place while he was on crowd-control duty during a December 3 East High School student walk-out prompted by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s no-indictment decision in the shooting death of Michael Brown. He remains…
A website called TheBlackVault.com has just published what it’s calling Project Blue Book, which consists of a reported 130,000 pages worth of declassified Air Force documents related to investigations of UFO sightings. The majority of the material is from the 1940, 1950s and 1960s, and there are dozens upon dozens…
You may recall Condomania as the company that ranks states by penis size — and Colorado rose much higher in the most recent survey. But the site also has a blog that recently introduced a new feature — the “Stop Having Loud Sex” note of the day — and the…
Last month, the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a complaint asking the U.S. Supreme Court to void Colorado’s marijuana laws because of the negative impacts legal pot was having across the border. Colorado Representative Tim Dore’s new bill doesn’t go quite that far. But the proposal, on view below,…
As we’ve discussed in previous coverage of skiing deaths, determining whether an accident is included in the official resort-fatality total depends on numerous factors, including whether the incident took place in-bounds or out-of-bounds. But the case of Suzann Pennington, 55, is even trickier, if no less tragic. Pennington died days…
